User:Chameleon/Contributions

Wikipedia:Babel Native speaker of standard English

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

es-4El nivel de este usuario corresponde al de un hablante casi nativo del español.

fr-4Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.

it-4Questo utente utente ha una conoscenza da madrelingua dell'italiano.

ca-3Aquest usuari pot contribuir amb un nivell avançat de català.

pt-2Este usuário/utilizador pode contribuir com um nível médio de português.

la-1Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.

zh-1該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。 该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。

de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

nl-1Deze gebruiker bezit beginnende kennis van het Nederlands.

This is known as a brag sheet. If you don't have one, well done for resisting the temptation.

I'm leaving this here just for the heck of it. It should be protected against defacement. Bear in mind that it is very out of date.

Links to contributions

Contributions	Edit count	total	Grand total
w:en:Helpful Dave	461	8723+	9666+
w:en:Chamaeleon	1213
w:en:Chameleon	7049
wiktionary:en:Chameleon	22+
commons:Chamaeleon	921

Note: these links are broken.

Credentials on linguistic matters

Sometimes people like to know this.

• I have taught myself several languages to a high level.
• I have a BA in Modern Languages (French & Spanish) from the University of Bradford.
• I have the Trinity College London certificate in TESOL.
• I have a certificate in teaching Spanish as a foreign language, from International House Barcelona / University of Barcelona.
• I know a huge amount about linguistics.
• I am a professional translator (French/Italian/Spanish/Catalan → English)
• I also studied for a degree in Chinese at Bordeaux University, but unfortunately had to drop out for work reasons.
• I have lived and worked in London, Paris, Milan, Bordeaux and Saragossa. I currently live in Valencia. I shall be moving to Australia soon, and to China in a year or so.

Text contributions

• One featured article: Domestic AC power plugs & sockets.
• Several great articles written almost entirely by me: Spanish grammar, Names given to the Spanish language, Spanish verbs, Romance copula...
• Other edits to pages, often giving Wikipedia an international edge and avoiding systemic bias: Falles...
• Great work battling against POV-pushers (by engaging them in debate whenever possible, and ignoring them when necessary)
• Quest to eliminate systemic bias: User:Chamaeleon/National bias research, User:Chameleon/NPOV (abandoned beta draft)
• Plenty of corrections of spelling, grammar and Wiki-code.
• Created Template:Ruby, which improves display of Chinese on Wikipedia. (Used at House_of_Flying_Daggers#Literary_origins)
• Created Category:Featured desktop backgrounds
• Extra info on image pages, e.g. Image:Page of Lay of the Cid.jpg, Image:Joël Bellassen.jpg…

Some of the thousands of articles I have edited

A tick means I started it;
A star means I made it a Featured Article;
Bold text means it has been featured on the Main Page.
A speaker means I recorded it;
A smiley means I added images to it.

• Domestic AC power plugs & sockets ✓ ☺
• Triquetra ✓ ☺
• Spanish verbs ✓
• Spanish grammar
• Copula
• Romance copula ✓
• Cojones
• Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
• Chinese measure word
• Names given to the Spanish language ✓
• Vulgar Latin ☺
• Beaucaire ☺
• Szechuan pepper
• Noam Chomsky ☺ (audio soon!)
• Tarascon ☺
• Tarasque ☺
• Apple pie
• Joël Bellassen ✓ ☺
• {{IPA2}} ✓
• {{Lipsum}} ✓
• {{Ruby}} ✓
• {{Ruby-big}} ✓
• {{FeaturedWallpaper}} ✓ ☺
• {{Spanish}} ✓ ☺
• {{Spoken Wikipedia request}} ✓

Images

I believe Wikipedia should have more illustrations.

I also don't like crappy little pictures. I like to be able to click on an interesting thumbnail and see a gloriously detailed image complete with extra information.

I'm not happy with the number and quality of my images, but there is not much I can do about it because I don't actually have a camera. All the pictures taken by me were made with my crappy little webcam or borrowed cameras. Feel free to contribute to the Chameleon camera fund. I take PayPal.

These images have various copyright notices for practical reasons, however I don't actually believe in intellectual or any other kind of property per se, so feel free to use them and everything else in this world for any purpose that does not harm others.

Feel free to nominate them at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, or to leave a comment saying that they are a load of crap.

This is a complete list of all the images that I have uploaded, except for other people's images that I have downloaded and then re-uploaded after optimising or cropping them, and perhaps renaming them. I've lost track of all those. I've also lost track of the images I've had deleted.

Audio

See WP:SPOKEN.

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Video

None as yet. Can anyone help me convert video files to Ogg Theora?