User:Interlingua

My Babel Box

The level indicated corresponds most closely to my reading ability not to my spoken ability. Although Wikipedia makes the default level that of one's mastery of the spoken language that, to me, seems misguided for a project like Wikipedia. Reading and writing are far more important here than speaking. For example, my reading Spanish is at Level 4 (near-native speaker) although my speaking is probably a high 3. For French, I read at a high 3 (or low 4) but my speaking level is a 2 and my listening a high 2 (or low 3). No one, except me of course, is interested in so much information, so I've chosen to rate myself on, primarily, reading and writing, the two skill levels I think are most relevant for Wikipedia.

The languages in Level 1 are all for which, currently, I have a reading ability comparable to that of someone who's finished a first-year college course. This does not mean that I am at a low level as low as that of just knowing a few words nor, on the other hand, does it mean that I'm at a high level as high as that of being able to understand books written for native speakers in primary education. Some of these Level 1 languages (Korean, Tamil, and Turkish) used to be Level 4 for reading and Level 3 for speaking but, through disuse, have slipped further and further down.

I don't bother to list languages for which I know fewer than, say, 1,000 words nor for which I haven't completed the equivalent of a first-year college course for reading.

This user enjoys reading anything.

This user is a proud cyclist.

This user is car-free.‡

The English Wikipedia has 6,818,709 articles and 916,395 files.

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Editing Resources

• Wikipedia:Maintenance
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:Featured pictures
• Wikipedia:Cheatsheet
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To Do List

• Philip Hoffer
• European Journal of Sociology
• Ed Rosewell
• Selig Harrison

Articles Started

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Africa and African Diaspora

• A Girl Like Me / Urban Academy (disambiguation) / Zeinat Olwi‎

• Tokyo Hotel (Chicago) / Alex Anmahian / Handlin, Garrahan, Zachos & Associates / Impossible Cities: A Utopian Experiment / Clarion, Utah / Ether Monument

• Neon Boneyard actually just a redirect / Zeinat Olwi‎ / Joseph Somers / Ether Monument / Positive Noise / Eilif Peterssen

• Katherine Lane Weems / Lou Miami / Ether Monument

• Kogi Korean BBQ

Chicago

• Tokyo Hotel (Chicago) / John Kearney / Roger Brown (artist) / Impossible Cities: A Utopian Experiment / Colin Masica / Norman Zide / Crossroads Fund / Ronald Inden / Chicago Palestine Film Festival / Brood XIII / Arthur Mole / Virginio Ferrari (artist) / Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps / Kali Charan Bahl

• Horaisan / Uchimizu / Mochitsura Hashimoto

Europe-Medieval

• Sidrak and Bokkus / T. L. Burton / Robert Sonkowsky / Charles H. Beeson

• Justus Van Maurik / Aspirated h / Eilif Peterssen
  • Basque Literature
  • Telesforo Monzón / Salbatore Mitxelena / Nikolas Ormaetxea / Txillardegi / Positive Noise

Harvard University

• Katherine Lane Weems

Iowa

• Pekin, Iowa

Islam see also Southwest Asia and Northwest Africa

• In the Hearts of Green Birds / In the Belly of the Green Bird / Nir Rosen

Latin America

• Johnny Payne (writer)

Literature

• Justus Van Maurik

Miscellaneous

• Dickipedia

Music

• Gerhana Skacinta / Surviving the Nian / Jeffrey Pelehac / Zeinat Olwi‎ / Positive Noise

Native America

• Johnny Payne (writer)

Queer

• Miguel Barnet / The Theater Offensive / Surviving the Nian / Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps / Queens (novel)

• Dasabodhisattuppattikatha / Kali Charan Bahl

• Zeinat Olwi‎

USA Academics and Writers

• Johnny Payne (writer) / Kali Charan Bahl