User:Lemurbaby
Welcome! And thank you for dropping by my user page. I've been a regular editor since 2010 (and edited intermittently from 2007-2010), mainly writing articles about the culture and history of Madagascar, as well as Rwandan topics and the musical traditions of the world. I help to translate some of the content from the French-language Wikipedia and also review Good Article nominations .
Madagascar culture and history articles remain my top priority. I'm currently residing in Madagascar, have Malagasy family in Tana and visited/lived here six times between 1999-2015. It's a great country with wonderful people that seem to always get overlooked, perhaps because it's an island, perhaps because it's culturally more Asian despite its proximity to Africa, or maybe because Madagascar's wildlife and scenery are so spectacular that they end up hogging the spotlight. Whatever the reason, it's been my project for a while now to plug information gaps about the people of Madagascar - both on Wikipedia through a series of articles, and on Youtube at my channel on Malagasy cuisine . Go visit and try some of the recipes to discover the cuisine for yourself!
As a note to myself more than anything, here are the articles I am currently working on.
Improving coverage of Rwandan people .
World music articles are also high on my list of priorities. I'd like to help improve Palm wine music .
I'd also like to help develop the articles on the region where I'm from - the Pacific Northwest - and particularly those relating to the Native American peoples of the area. Coverage on those nations is woefully lacking on WP. On my radar are Les Guignols de l'info, Trail of Tears, Alexander the Great, Avicenna, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Antoni Gaudí , for a start.
Finally, I'm a supporter of the effort to improve the quality of Wikipedia's most popular pages, including vital articles . This means more visitors to the site will find that more of the articles they look for are of high quality. In the past three or four years, I've seen innumerable articles on mushrooms, American TV show episodes, English-language songs/albums/artists, pre-Norman English kings, and random hurricanes all grace the main page. In the meantime, articles on basics like "food" are ranked as little better than stubs. I mean, even the article on the United Nations is only at a C right now. So I'm going to try to do my part by getting at least five of the below up to GA in 2017:Top priority:
High priority:
Mid priority A:
Mid priority B:
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Some of the articles I significantly developed
Some of the articles I startedCulture of Madagascar
History of Madagascar Ethnic groups of Madagascar
Music of Madagascar
Rwanda topics (including pages to be developed)
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Congrats on the Music of Madagascar GA! --BelovedFreak 16:51, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
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