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Intro in a nutshell
editHi,
I'm a Hungarian Wikipedian, born in 1978. I'm interested in languages, informatics, literature, sciences, mathematics, social sciences, psychology, music and many other things.
Announcement & request
editPlease only ask me questions if you have sufficient grounds to believe that I may be the best person around to answer them. Please don't ask me to write or expand articles about this or that topic. Recently, I have little time for Wikipedia and I prefer to spend it spontaneously. Sorry everybody!
Some pages I like (or I find useful/significant)
edit- Wikipedia:Unusual articles (caution: it's a lot in itself!)
- Contronym
- Autistic savant, including the late Kim Peek and Daniel Tammet
- Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
- Anglish
- Proto-Indo-European roots
- Transcontinental nation
- Island of stability (not a resort: chemistry!)
- List of revived languages
- Ring species – compare: Dialect continuum (languages and living organisms show sometimes surprising similarities)
- 0.999... – it equals to 1, whether or not you believe it ;-)
- Scunthorpe Problem
- Ubuntu
- Latin alphabet: a lot of interesting titbits
- Vulgar Latin (not so vulgar, in fact) :-)
- Latin influence in English
- Mutually intelligible languages
- Untranslatability (formerly: "Words hardest to translate")
- List of names in English with non-intuitive pronunciations
- Fourth dimension and Tesseract
- Fractal and Mandelbrot set
- Category:Open problems
- Allophilia
- List of tallest churches in the world
- List of megaprojects, List of architectural design competitions
- List of countries by spoken languages
- Template:Discrimination sidebar (who'd have thought it can appear in so many forms?)
- The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written
- List of literary works by number of languages translated into
- List of best-selling books
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and the abundance mindset described within
- DIALANG
- List of linguistic example sentences
- Twist ending
- Unreliable narrator
- Propaedeutic value of Esperanto
- Sniglet
- Films considered the greatest ever
- Philosophical zombie, Mary's room, Map–territory relation
- Baarle-Hertog, Jungholz – where countries intertwine
- World Values Survey and Intercultural competence
- Happiness and Happiness economics, Satisfaction with Life Index, Happy Planet Index, Gross national happiness, as well as Paradox of hedonism and Hedonic treadmill
- Stroke order with great explanation and animated gif :)
- Kyōiku kanji the 1,006 Japanese kanji to be learnt, ordered by school years, probably related to frequency as well, as well as Kanji kentei, the competition in the knowledge of a huge treasury of characters
- Remembering the Kanji, a great book (see a link to the first 200 pages at the end of the article)
- Unitarian Universalism, a common denominator of religions? (see also Universalism with its quotes)
- Simple Gifts, a nice approach to life by the Shakers, based on the principle of Simple living
- Altered level of consciousness
- List of French words and phrases used by English speakers, or how to be snobbish ;-)
- List of minimum wages by country
- Mononymous person: don't look for their given names…
- Gestalt prayer
- SWOT analysis, as well as Porter five forces analysis and VRIO
- Gary Chapman's ideas about maintaining a relationship
- Praise
- Unaccusative verb: when you don't do what you “do”
- Mathematical beauty
- List of countries by Human Development Index
- Window of the World, Beijing World Park – notable sights of the world together
- The Garden of Forking Paths
- Dream incubation
- List of common misconceptions
- Counterintuitive
- List of memory biases, List of cognitive biases, among them the Dunning–Kruger effect
- List of common misconceptions
- List of paradoxes
- List of smoking bans
- List of statues by height
- Category:Lists of things considered unusual
- Gini coefficient
- Phoenician_alphabet#Letter_names: the correspondence of letters of different widespread alphabet, with the original meanings of the letters' names (see the chart)
- Fuji-Q Highland
- Chinese character classification, Section headers of a Chinese dictionary, Transcription into Chinese characters
- Disruptive technology and List of emerging technologies
- Vocabulary (far from obvious…)
- Flubber and other types of non-Newtonian fluids
- Planned obsolescence, Sustainability, and Ethical consumerism
- List of roller coaster rankings
- Visionary environments – including Wat Rong Khun and Chalermchai Kositpipat's other works, Bunleua Sulilat's works, the Sanctuary of Truth and Ancient Siam
- List of Latin translations of modern literature
- Lucid dream
- Pay it forward (and Pay It Forward)
- BookCrossing
- Intelligent Giving
- Garden path sentence
- List of loanwords in Chinese
- Chinese classifier
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- Schizophrenic number
- Esperanto words with the suffix -um (the suffix for "unidentified" relations)
- List of living centenarians – more specifically, some of the notable ones
- Cartogram
- Blue note
- Category:Informal legal terms
- Some toponymy topics: List of double placenames, List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations, List of places named after peace, List of places named for their main products, List of inventions named after places, List of tautological place names, and List of short place names
- Binaural beats, augmented learning and especially power nap
- Edward Lear: a proof that "being of/with a well-rested/relaxed brain/mind" (pihentagyúság) exists in the English-speaking culture as well (not only in Hungarian), even if not under this name
- Principles of learning
- Unpaired word
- A German-language picture of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser - this may be useful
- … and if you've had enough serious stuff, check out Uncyclopedia or Encyclopedia Dramatica.
Articles that have been deleted since: List of countries by compactness, Harry Potter in translation series, List of characters in translations of Harry Potter, List of wizarding terms in translations of Harry Potter, List of polydactyl people, Hungarian jokes, István Dabi, List of movie clichés by genre, List of trivia lists, List of people who died in their thirties, Gallery of confusable flags, English words with uncommon properties, List of landmarks, Abolitionism (bioethics), List of virtual communities with more than 100 million users, List of mathematical concepts named after places, List of statistically superlative countries (although it could be considerably expanded from the lists of countries)
Trivia
edit- I predicted as early as on 7 November 2005 that the English Wikipedia would reach its 1,000,000th article in early March 2006. It reached that number on 1st of March.
- A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia – an amusing website.
Contributions
editOverview
edit- Statistics of my contribution in the English Wikipedia
- My contribution tree in the English Wikipedia
According to my number of edits, I was ranked
| 912th | 404th | 374th | 358th | 378th | 394th | 754th | 1429th | 1640th |
| April 27 | July 24 | October 15 | November 29 | December 11 | March 11 | September 23 | September 12 | December 22 |
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | ||||||
excluding bots, regarding main namespace edits, out of the (currently) more than 600,000 registered Wikipedians.
Note: the November 2005 data included bots but their number has been subtracted (378−20 make 358).
In the List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits, I was ranked 47th in the interval between June 1 and July 24, 2005, with 2627 recent edits (regarding main namespace edits).
About my contributions in Hungarian, see this page.
Some of my more or less noteworthy contributions in detail
editLicensing
editI agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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