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
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: &#595;, &#599; and &#409;.

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...