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Revision as of 16:15, 21 June 2006

I am Steinbach, formerly Caesarion. I am more or less active on several Wikipedias and some test-Wikipedias here. I am a sysop on the Dutch, Limburgic and West Frisian Wikipedias. Typically I am known under different aliases on various Wikipedias, though I am currently diminishing their number (see below).

I'm here on meta just because I have a child-like adoration of languages and multilingualism. I used to frequent, almost inhabit, the Requests for new languages page. I am an Aspergerian and I am Dutch. These are my chief abberations. I am neither able nor willing to change either ;-).

I'm much involved in creating Wikipedias for lesser languages, especially the West Germanic ones. To see how bad it is, just take a look here, or here.

If you have some time to spare and are unexpectedly interested in me, you can read my user pages at several wikis (warning: Not all user pages contain much valuable information).

Accounts at Wikipedias
Alemannic ? Steinbach
Afrikaans ? Steinbach
Breton ? Caesarion
German ? Steinbach
English ? Steinbach
Esperanto ? Steinbach
Spanish ? Steinbach
French ? Steinbach
Francoprovençal ? Steinbach
West Frisian ? Steinbach
Hawaiian ? HaoleCaesarion
Indonesian ? Steinbach
Ido ? Caesarion
Icelandic ? Steinbach
Italian ? Steinbach
Ripuarian ? Steinbach
Latin ? Steinbach
Limburgish ? Steinbach
Low Saxon ? Boerzökwark
Low Saxon, Dutch varieties ? Steinbach
Dutch ? Steinbach
Norman ? Steinbach
Occitan ? Steinbach
Papiementu ? Steinbach
Pennsylvania German ? Steinbach
Portuguese ? Caesarion
Russian ? Steinbach
Scots ? Caesarion
Swedish ? Caesarion
West Flemish ? Steinbach
Volapük ? Caesarion
Walloon ? Caesarion
Accounts on other wikis
Dutch Wikimedia HaafLimbo
Wikimedia Commons Caesarion
German Wikisource Steinbach
Uncyclopedia NoiraseaC

Or otherwise take a look at my personal hobby horse: a List of languages most in need of a Wikipedia.

In ten years or less...

  • All languages with over half a million speakers will have their own wikis and possibly all with more than 100,000 speakers as well.
  • All languages in Europe, however small or endangered, will have their own Wikipedias, and most of them will be large enough to serve as real encyclopedias.
  • All of the wikis in the major languages of India will have reached the size of big (>100,000) Wikipedias.
  • The major African languages will, due to increased prosperity, finally have picked up their Wikipedias.
  • Native American emancipation will have caused the NA language Wikipedias to grow.
  • A few Indigenous Australian languages will also have their own Wikipedias.
  • There will be no official languages without Wikipedias.
  • The English Wikipedia, however, will be a highly unpleasant environment by then, and its success will have passed the top by long.