User:Babbage/Archive

archived junk i can't bring myself to delete

Sudan stuff

Lately I've been reading rather obsessively about Sudan, and I'm hoping to learn enough to add a few articles. I've started (barely) one on the Beja. I'm trying to get a Wikiproject on Sudan going.

Going to wikify Sadiq_al-Mahdi as time permits.

Things I'd Like to Know

What happens when there is a name collision? For instance:

Dave Evans is now redirected to The Edge. But there must be a computer scientist Dave Evans, since one is listed on List of computer scientists. As things stand, if someone follows the link they might think The Edge is a programmer.

Okay maybe not. But what to do? Create a disambig page Dave Evans, I guess, even though the c.s. guy has no actual article. Then, should the title be Dave Evans (computer scientist)?

There is some discussion of standardizing these titles, but right now theyre not standard. If you know their middle names, you can use that to disambiguate [dab]. It's usually NAME (obvious clarifier). If you've got one scientist and one musician, you can use profession. If you've got lots of random bios, you can use (birth-death) dates. +sj.+

Or what?

To Translate

Stuff I'll get around to translating...

es:Andrés A. Cáceres Dorregaray... oops, that looks like a copyvio.

Hey look...

pt:Categoria:!Artigos em tradução

en has:

en:Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English

Information extraction is currently awful... de:Informationsextraktion looks much better. Now all I have to do is learn German.

Procrastinated Bunnyman thing.

I was PLANNING to do this... but...

Next project will be a sort of trivial but amusing thing...

There is mention in Rock Creek Park of an urban legend about a "Bunnyman," said to be a guy in a bunny suit, who went around killing people with an ax.

O.o

Well, I found this interesting article (researched by a librarian) about the tale, and he dug up some great stuff:

"The Bunny Man Unmasked: The Real Life Origins of an Urban Legend" http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/bunny/bunnyprint.htm

I think the story, at least, deserves a page of its own as an urban legend, but not without some evidence that it really _is_ an urban legend, still. User:Babbage/BunnymanScratch

to remember

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting I am an admitted stuboholic, so I should at least observe the conventions on specifying stubs somewhat...

I squished together a bunch of examples of how to format linguistic examples: User:Babbage/Formatting Syntax

alphabets

At the moment I'm working on getting alphabets added to various languages. I assume this is considered an "encyclopedic" thing to do... the current situation is that in many languages you see comments such as:

Hausa has had a written form for more than 200 years, at first with a variant of Arabic script called Ajami, but this has largely been superseded by a Latin alphabet which was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. There are three additional consonants which are added to the basic Latin alphabet: ɓ, ɗ and ƙ.

Except that's not very good, because we still don't know _which_ Latin letters are used. So it makes sense to me to include the whole alphabet.

It looks like this page will be a good starting point.

Check out Icelandic language for a good example of full alphabet coverage.

Intend to check these and post them:

Hausa Boko

http://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/hausa_boko.gif

’ A B Ɓ C D Ɗ A F G H I J K Ƙ L M N O R S SH T TS U W Y ‘Y Ƴ Z ’ a b ɓ c d ɗ a f g h i j k ƙ l m n o r s sh t ts u w y ‘y ƴ z

Yorùbá

A B D E Ẹ F G Gb H I J K L M N O Ọ P R S Ṣ T U W Y a b d e ẹ f g gb h i j k l m n o ọ p r s ṣ t u w y

Igbo

A B C D E F G GB GH H I Ị J K L M Ṁ N Ṅ O Ọ P Kp R S Sh T U Ụ V W Y Z Ch Gw Kw Nw Ny a b c d e f g gb gh h i ị j k l m ṁ n ṅ o ọ p kp r s sh t u ụ v w y z ch gw kw nw ny

scratch

User:Babbage/Kelly's Recursive Devices

User:Babbage/Names for the Colors of the Rainbow

still more junk

My todo list

I've been perplexed by the Template:Infobox Biography...