User:Mithridates

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Mithridates aka 데이빛

This is where I plan to be in thirty years (no I'm not joking).

Sysop on the Ido Wikipedia and sysop and bureaucrat on the Galbijim Wiki (more below). Also have a Cyworld page, all in Korean. Can't see Cyworld without turning off the popup blocker, but if you're Korean you already knew that.

My other favorite IAL is Lingua Franca Nova. We have a wiki of our own here that is currently preparing for a Wikipedia application. As most IAL Wikipedias just pass the nomination process and little else, we're going to start with 1000+ articles on the wiki and then make the application when it's obvious that there's enough content. Upon consulting with a number of people on other boards that have no interest in IALs (ie, just regular people) they seem to prefer it at first glance to Ido by about 2 or 3 to 1.

[edit] Galbijim wiki

A project started by some people I know here in Korea that I am contributing to on the wiki side - it's a wiki for everything an expat in South Korea would need to know. The content overlaps what you'll find here from time to time (such as city articles and whatnot) but the galbijim wiki is much more specific, such as:

List of movie theatres that do not show credits - I started to want to write this list when I was living in Sanbon, just south of Seoul, and after The Passion of the Christ no less, the owner of the theatre decides to shut the whole movie theatre down within a minute after the credits start to roll. In my world that would be a felony. So if you are in Korea and thinking of going to Sanbon Cinema, do not. Go to Cinema 7 instead. It's closer to the station anyway. 쳇...Nevertheless, you may see a link to the galbijim wiki if our article is much bigger than the one over here. Use it as a reference and also feel free to come over and ask questions - for Korea-related content I will be putting all my effort into that wiki as I can be as specific as I like. Here it is.

[edit] Colonization of Venus and Atmosphere of Venus

After reading a paper by Geoffrey A. Landis on the concept (located here as a pdf) on the Colonization of Venus I've decided that this is what we should be putting most of our efforts towards instead of Mars. You can't beat one bar of pressure and a temperature of only about 50C that you get in the cloudtops of the planet. Think Cloud City in Star Wars. I think it's time that this be made a featured article so I'll be working on that page quite a bit in the near future. Feel free to help out if you can.

Note from Sept. 4: Atmosphere of Venus is an article I created that was put on the did you know section for half a day in August. Since there's waaay more content for the atmosphere of the planet than for theoretical colonization, I've decided that this is the better article to try to make into a FA. Over the past few weeks I also translated it into Korean and Japanese and it was featured on their did you know...section too. Personally I'd rather see the colonization of Venus article on the front page, but I don't think that's possible for the time being.

[edit] Supporting the Ido language movement

What if you want to support the Ido language movement but aren't sure what to do, and don't know the language that well? Here are some easy ways:

  • The easiest way is to add words to Wiktionary, either in the Ido Wiktionary (now at 105,000+ words), or by adding Ido words to the translation section in your Wiktionary.
  • If you see an article of ours with a large number of interwiki links, chances are we've only added the interwiki links to the English and perhaps French and German Wikipedias. Feel free to add Ido interwiki links to the other languages.
  • Put this template on your user page: {{User_io-0}}

Here's an example of what Ido sounds like sung. This is not me. I play the drums. I don't sing. Yet.

Listen

Me vidis ofte en sonj' des'quieta
Ke trans rivero distant'
Super la tekti, sub la nubeti
La griza kavalo esis lente flugant'.
En la cielo, super la tekti
La griza kavalo esis lente flugant'.
On audas nul' soni dum lua kurado,
Ritmoze fluktuadas pektor'.
Levint' maxim alte lu des'aparadas.
Me esis vekant' e ne povis dormor.
Me rimemoras ke sempre plu alte
La kaval' es levinta... Me ne povas dormor.
"Quon signifikas la sonjo, tu dicez",
Me pregis la ciganin'.
"Nu, mea kara, tu esos felica,
Tun prizas fortuno", respondis l'oldin'.
"Yes-yes, mea ora, tu esos felica,
Por la fortuno tu es preferind'".
Ma regretinde me ja ne vidas
La griza kaval' en ciel':
Sive pavoras feliceso timida
siv' men des'prizeskis la fortuno rebel'.
La feliceson flugant' me timigas,
Me des'prizesis dal fortuno rebel'.
Mith aka Dave.
Mith aka Dave.



en This user is a native speaker of English.
ja-4 この利用者は母語に近いレベル日本語を話すことができます。
ko-3 이 사용자는 한국어유창하게 말할 수 있습니다.
io-3 Ica uzanto povas kontributar kun alta nivelo di Ido.
zh-2 該用戶能以一般中文進行交流。
该用户能以一般中文进行交流。
fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
no-2 Denne brukeren har god kjennskap til norsk.
ia-2 Iste usator pote contribuer con un nivello intermedie de interlingua.
eo-2 Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per meza nivelo de Esperanto.
es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.
af-1 Hierdie gebruiker het 'n basiese begrip van Afrikaans.
et-1 See kasutaja suudab eesti keeles kaastööd teha algaja tasemel.
sv-1 Denna användare har grundläggande kunskaper i svenska.
tr-1 Bu kullanıcı düşük seviyede Türkçe anlıyor.
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perc-3 This user is an advanced percussionist.
This user has significantly contributed to 1 featured article.