User:Babbage

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Contents 1 translations i've done 2 my translations from Portuguese 3 my translations from Spanish 4 articles i started 5 stubs i started 6 articles of which i am fond to an extreme degree 7 categories i started 8 maps 9 language stuff 10 useful 11 critical trivia 12 old stuff

[edit] translations i've done

Lately I've been doing a lot of translation from the Portuguese Wikipedia to the English Wikipedia. I'm not a professional translator; some of the translations kind of suck. But it's better than not having an article, and I'll work on them. Here are some, in increasing recency:

[edit] my translations from Portuguese

• IBOPE
• Teresina
• Enéas Carneiro
• Padre Anchieta Foundation
• Luís da Câmara Cascudo
• Seu Creysson
• Sousas
• Camelô
• Lia Wyler
• António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro
• Palácio da Regaleira
• Casas Bahia
• Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro
• São Domingos do Capim
• Piracema
• Tião Viana
• Itautec
• Giovanni Gazzinelli
• Giuseppe Cilento
• Elon Lages Lima‎
• Grupo de Operações Especiais (Brazil)
• ABNT
• Guaíra (São Paulo)

[edit] my translations from Spanish

• Ferdinand Eisenstein
• Hernán Rivera Letelier

[edit] articles i started

I keep this list so I can occasionally see if someone has made an improvement to an article I started.

• Seger Ellis jazz pianist
• Naked Eyes bad 80s band
• Takako Minekawa musician
• Kawaiisu language
• Mary Haas linguist
• LaVerne Jeanne linguist
• Hassan al-Turabi politico
• William Strachey mr tempest
• W. O. Ayres fish aficionado (an afishanado?)
• Birds of America (book) big expensive bird book
• Zubizuri a little bridge in Bilbao
• Language Bank
• Building 20
• Elizabeth Blair Lee
• Glosas Emilianenses
• Utendi wa Tambuka

[edit] stubs i started

• Tunica (language)
• Peter Tetteroo
• Desmond C. Derbyshire
• Birds of America (book)
• Rui Costa Pimenta
• John Ohala
• Petty Harbour
• Hassan Kazemi Qumi
• Lake Fianga

[edit] articles of which i am fond to an extreme degree

• Acorn Park

[edit] categories i started

Category:Earliest_known_manuscripts_by_language

Category:Writing systems without Word Boundaries

[edit] maps

I just started messing around with maps, it's fun. So far I've uploaded just two:

Still learning about the process of getting fonts and SVG to play nice -- meta:Talk:SVG_fonts has some more info. It seems to me that it would be sensible for Wikimedia to try to have at least one serif and one sans-serif font to cover every script in Unicode; that would alleviate the problems involved with converting text to paths for rsvg to do its SVG → PNG thing.

[edit] language stuff

• Portal:Language
• The Spanish Translation of the Week
• meta:Translation of the week
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Endangered_languages whoa, cool
• Category:Translation_requests not specified by language, hmm. still, simpler than the request board...

[edit] useful

Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia

[edit] critical trivia

The first edit I made was adding an and. ☺

[edit] old stuff

• User:Babbage/Archive

Picture of the day
	A Common Brown Robber fly (Zosteria sp.), one of the 7,100 described species of robber flies, shown here feeding on a hoverfly. Adult robber flies attack other flies, beetles, butterflies and moths, various bees, dragon and damselflies, ichneumon wasps, grasshoppers, and some spiders. Photo credit: Fir0002 Archive – More featured pictures...