User:Stevey7788



 Ongoing projects: WikiVocab &mdash; Swadesh lists 

Hello, this is ! But you can just call me "Steve". I am a scientist, naturalist, linguist, and Wikipediholic who is eager to document Earth's astounding diversity on Wikipedia as we strive to build the world's largest free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Most of Wikipedia's articles on languages and linguistics were created, expanded, cleaned up, and maintained by me and former admin. We are to languages as is to living species.

I'm expanding and improving Wikipedia whenever I can, and have a variety of interests here. Currently, I am particularly interested in the languages of Southeast Asia and Mesoamerica.

Wikipedia is not just one of the best reference tools ever created &mdash; it's a great place where everybody can get together, form a community, and write an online encyclopedia together. Although Wikipedia is a great place on the Internet, it's not 100% perfect. But let the encyclopedia writing go on.


 * Some of Wikipedia's pillars
 * WP:5P4 - includes WP:AGF and more
 * WP:5P5 - We are here to build an encyclopedia, not to enforce petty rules or engage in silly internal politics.

Some of my current tasks on Wikipedia include: 
 * The usual task of reading, writing, and rewriting articles. I do mainly the cleanup, grammar fixes, section moving, racist tone check/cleanup, and other work.
 * RC patroling, sometimes new page patroling
 * Creating redirects and disambiguation pages. Currently, I mainly split or merge pages.
 * Patroling the Sandbox -- raking out content, putting headers back, fishing out offensive content, checking for vandalism
 * Dealing with vandals and warning them
 * Welcoming new users and being part of the Kindness Campaign

Anyways, please feel free to edit or improve my page any way you'd like. I'd really be pleased if someone would help re-organize my page for me. :)

 Portal 

(Excited about Wikimania 2019 in Sweden? Me too. See you there soon!)

Stats
As of August 2005, my total edits amounted to approximately 4500 edits. 
 * End of September 2010 - around 6,000.
 * End of October 2010 - around 7,000.
 * End of December 2010 - around 8,000.
 * End of April 2011 - around 9,000.
 * End of April 2012 - around 10,000.
 * End of September 2012 - around 11,000.
 * End of October 2012 - around 13,000.

I am an early Wikipedian. My first edit was on 07:17 UTC, 13 February 2005. As of 15 October 2005, I was ranked #709 in terms of total number of edits.

May 2019:
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits: #2404, 34,218 edits

June 2018:
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits: #2976, 27,322 edits; AP, ECo, Rv
 * List of Wikipedians by article count: #1024, 547 articles; 1,595 total

February 2018:
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits: #3335. 24,421 edits

December 2017:
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits: #3514. 23,000 edits

January 2017:
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits: #3989, 19,283 edits; AP, ECo, Rv
 * List of Wikipedians by article count: #1282, 309 articles

What I've done on Wikipedia
A lot to do, and more to do. All voluntary and often when I'm bored.

Contributions list
Used to be mainly minor edits and tedious work. Due to the images I have uploaded recently, you may see my contributions list clogged up with uploaded images.

Before April 2005, redirects were marked as minor edits.


 * Stevey7788's contributions to Wikipedia
 * Stevey7788's contributions to Wikipedia - BIG LIST
 * Article contributions
 * Sandbox raking
 * All the images I have uploaded

A few examples of the work I've done on Wikipedia
As of now I'm doing lots of work on linguistics and languages.


 * Started:
 * Austro-Tai peoples (archived)
 * Sino-Austronesian languages
 * List of proto-languages
 * Proto-Mon-Khmer language
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman language (archived)
 * Proto-Hmong-Mien language
 * Proto-Kra language
 * Proto-Hlai language
 * Intercontinental Dictionary Series
 * Classification schemes for Southeast Asian languages (archived)
 * Austronesian personal pronouns
 * Fossilized affixes in Austronesian languages
 * Writing systems of Southeast Asia
 * Classification of Mixtec dialects
 * List of archaeological sites in Veracruz
 * Linguistic areas of the Americas
 * Huehuetla Tepehua
 * Zhuang customs and culture
 * List of unclassified languages of South America
 * List of unrecognized ethnic groups of Guizhou
 * Yang people
 * List of lesser-known Loloish languages


 * Expanded:
 * List of administrative divisions of Yunnan
 * Languages of China
 * Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County
 * Hezhou, Ziyuan County, Quanzhou County, Guanyang County, Lingchuan County, Guangxi
 * Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Congjiang County
 * Longlin Various Nationalities Autonomous County
 * Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
 * Funing County, Yunnan, Guangnan County, Malipo County, Napo County
 * Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County
 * Pakanic languages, Palaungic languages
 * Bugan language, Bolyu language (started)
 * Wa language
 * Tai-Kadai languages
 * Kra languages
 * Kam-Sui languages
 * Hlai languages
 * Gelao language
 * Zhuang language
 * Dong people, Sui people, Maonan people, Shan people, Tai peoples
 * Yao people, Phù Lá people, Lahu people, Qixingmin people, Thổ people
 * Demographics of Taiwan
 * Formosan languages
 * Bunun language, Tsou language, Seediq language, Saisiyat language
 * Siraya language, Pazeh language, Rukai language, Atayal language
 * Paiwan language, Puyuma language, Thao language, Kavalan language
 * Proto-Tai language (almost all content)
 * Proto-Austronesian language (almost all content)
 * Malayo-Polynesian languages
 * Malayic languages
 * Chamic languages
 * Philippine languages
 * Central Philippine languages
 * Bikol languages
 * Bikol language
 * Visayan languages
 * Oceanic languages
 * Hmongic languages, Mienic languages
 * Loloish languages
 * List of ethnic groups in Laos
 * Indigenous languages of the Americas
 * Tongva language
 * Mam language
 * Xincan languages, Lencan languages, Jicaquean languages, Paya language
 * Uto-Aztecan languages
 * Kiliwa language
 * Amerind languages
 * Dené-Yeniseian languages
 * Totonacapan (archived)
 * Chinatown, Mexicali


 * Created the following new templates:
 * Template:Formosan languages
 * Template:Bikol languages
 * Template:Visayan languages
 * Template:Tai-Kadai languages
 * Template:Tk-lang-stub
 * Template:Hmong-Mien languages
 * Template:Mesoamerican families
 * Template:Qiangic languages
 * Template:Lolo-Burmese languages
 * Template:Austroasiatic languages
 * Template:Sino-Tibetan branches


 * List of administrative divisions of Yunnan
 * Eshan Yi Autonomous County
 * Fengqing County
 * Changning County, Yunnan
 * Yun County, Yunnan
 * Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu Autonomous County
 * Jingdong Yi Autonomous County
 * Shuangbai County
 * Yongde County
 * Xiangyun County
 * Mojiang Hani Autonomous County
 * Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County
 * Yuanjiang Hani, Yi and Dai Autonomous County
 * Yuanyang County, Yunnan
 * Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County
 * Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
 * Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County
 * Wuding County
 * Nanjian Yi Autonomous County
 * Shidian County
 * Jinning County


 * Cleaned up:
 * Music of Mexico
 * 50 Cent
 * King and Story
 * Sandro Rosa do Nascimento
 * Santa Rosa, California
 * East Oakland
 * Indigenous languages of the Americas

Redirects are cheap, fun, and easier than votes for deletion!


 * Did a bunch of redirects on:
 * eBay
 * Amazon.com
 * 50 Cent
 * Voodoo
 * McDonald's Corporation
 * Advance fee fraud
 * Zahle
 * Encyclopaedia Britannica
 * Hong Kong
 * The maps
 * Encyclopedia
 * Norteño (gang)
 * California
 * Pope Benedict XVI
 * Igbo mythology
 * Hilary Duff
 * What's up
 * Button mushroom
 * Merged:
 * Norteño (music) and Norteña
 * Advance fee fraud and 419 guestbook spam
 * Gospel of Phillip and Gospel of Philip
 * Sidestroke and Side stroke
 * Spliting/disambiguation:
 * Afa
 * Stuff
 * Air Force One

Other stuff I had done:
 * Massive stub-sorting
 * Patroling the Sandbox
 * Welcoming new users
 * Warning vandals
 * The map project


 * Click here for more.

Stevey7788's map project
The big map project some of you noticed I have launched on Wikipedia:


 * The maps
 * About the maps

Awards


I, FP, in my official capacity as nobody-in-particular, hereby bestow upon you, Stevey7788, the mighty and presigious Atlas Award for your dedicated and ongoing work to ensure that one of Wikipedia's most visible pages &mdash; the Sandbox &mdash; is sanitary, inoffensive, tidy and welcoming to new Wikipedians.

"The Atlas Award For Raking the Sandbox Clean may be awarded to those who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in fishing disgusting and unwanted items from the Wikipedia sandbox. The Atlas award is named after Charles Atlas and is taken from his 'they kicked sand in my face' advertisement, and is in no way merely a masculine image. It is a symbol of self-empowerment. Charles Atlas was once a self-styled 98-pound weakling, and through his own diligence and effort, became a very succesful businessman and body builder. And his business empire began with the ad that this image is from."

Well done. -- FP 06:44, May 12, 2005 (UTC)

My beginnings on Wikipedia
Even though I wasn't ever welcomed, I was welcoming others later!

As a newbie on Wiki, I was amused when somebody wrote a short autobiography on my user page: All about Steve the Vandal

Stevey7788 on Wiktionary
I am also a very active Wiktionarian. Lexical companions to online encyclopedias can really be quite fun.


 * My user page
 * Contributions on Wiktionary

Toolbox
This is a toolbox containing various resources and links. Please improve and expand it for me if you'd like to &mdash; this is not a "no-edit" zone.

Useful links:


 * Utilities
 * Policies and guidelines
 * Vandalism in progress
 * Category:Wikipedia official policy
 * Category:Wikipedia guidelines
 * Kate's tool
 * Wikipedia Signpost

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Odds and ends
 Proposed Wikipedia mascot: 

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