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May 9: I'm back! I'm back from my graduation ceremony thing (after much bowing and wearing of strange gowns with furry hoods and mortarboards and things - very bizarre!) and ready to edit...
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May 6: I'm away! Please note that I am away from May 6 to May 8 (UTC) because I have a graduation ceremony (a year after finishing - I clearly went to a strange uni) so I may not be able to respond to any messages until Sunday evening.
May 3: 1000 edits! Wow! 1000 edits in 2 months (and a day). How productive am I?! (Well, I'm impressed). Actually, I only made about 20 edits in March, so that's around 800 in April (even more impressive). Clear signs of
April 26: Hurrah! A week after computer death (see below - marked AAAARGH) my computer is now working so I could work on Wikipedia for the next 24 hours straight! (I might not though, but I'll be around more than I have been.) I no longer have to steal (my Mum's computer whenever she's away from her desk for more than 5 seconds) to feed my
April 20: AAAARGH! Right, one of the questions on the
Hi, my name's Steve and I'm a brand new Wikipedian (since
). Not bad, huh?Boring bio
I'm currently living near Middlesbrough in the north-east of England and am on a gap year after finishing my degree in French and German at Keble College, Oxford. Next year I will be studying for an MA in Translation studies at the University of Manchester.
Current projects
I've joined the
I keep meaning to work on meaningful articles, but get distracted by combatting vandalism while I decide what to do and just carrying on with that for hours. It's sad really that so many people seem to have so little to do. By the way: Meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles - this amuses me.
Articles
I've created a Works in progress page to note down things that want doing on these pages.
Great Ayton
Boyhood home of Captain Cook. Status: um, just started. Check Works in progress for the growing todo list...
Ionesco
I'm currently working on Eugène Ionesco (Romanian-born French playwright) and his works.
- Eugène Ionesco - bio expanded
- La Leçon- To do
- Les Chaises- To do
- Create a page for less known works which don't merit a full article? "Ionesco_-_Other works" perhaps? - To do
Firefly
I've created the following articles relating to
- Jayne Cobb (Firefly character)
Others
- Gulf Rupee- follow on from Kuwati dinar translation - why did Kuwait use the Indian Rupee as its currency? (Status: To do - researching)
- Palmstruch: Johan Palmstruch, Stockholms Banco - done!
- William Hearst (Ontario Premier)), the other was POV duplicate of information already on William Randolph Hearst.
- Same POV text was pasted with redirs all over the place into New York Journal American- think I've got all that sorted now.
- Same POV text was pasted with redirs all over the place into
- Separate Representation of Voters Act- the original text of half a dozen words didn't even mention which country it related to!
Significant cleanups and stub expansions
Translations
- de:Hammamet to Hammamet - status: complete
- de:Else Lasker-Schüler to Else Lasker-Schüler - status: complete
- de:Bobath-Konzept to Bobath concept - status: complete
- de:Christo und Jeanne-Claude to Christo and Jeanne-Claude - incorrect translations, needed cleanup - status: complete
- de:Liptauer to Liptauer - Slovak cheese - status: complete
- de:Brimsen to Bryndza - more Slovak cheese, translate and merge - status: complete
- de:Antoni Grabowski to Antoni Grabowski - an untranslated text dump - status: complete
- Cleanup Taskforce: the English article was an incomprehensible machine translation of the German original - status: complete
- de:Kurt Tucholsky to Kurt Tucholsky - status: in progress
- fr:Gilles Thomas to Gilles Thomas - status: complete
- La.Meko Filmfestival Landau - rewrite based on de:La.Meko Filmfestival Landau - status: complete
- de:Kuwait-Dinar to Kuwaiti dinar - status: translation complete, awaiting images
General things waiting to be done...
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