User:Ouro

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pl Polski jest językiem ojczystym tego użytkownika. en-4 This user speaks English at a near-native level. de-4 Dieser Benutzer hat Deutschkenntnisse auf muttersprachlichem Niveau. ru-2 Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык. cs-1 Tento uživatel má základní znalosti češtiny. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español. sk-1 Tento redaktor má základné znalosti slovenčiny. la-1 Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.
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Ouro is a WikiUser from Poland. He is 26, a translator, photographer and hitch-hiker. Apart from that I love music in all its forms, and am interested in literature, the Universe, history and computer science. I learn languages quickly.

As a translator I work with Polish, German and English, thus I spend most of my day in front of the computer screen usually.

I was born in Gdynia, have spent most of my life in Gdańsk, and recently half a year in Kraków. Returned to Gdynia to take care of my grandmother for four months, moving to Olsztyn in the beginning of March 2008 to live with my better half whole. When time permits (I usually give it no choice but to) I hunt moments with my camera (recently upgraded to Canon EOS 40D from a Fujifilm Finepix S5600). Photos can be found on my website (see below).

I usually correct some minor things here and there, mostly on the Polish and English Wikipedias, however for reasons of convenience am registered on others too. I am a regular, daily visitor and like to read the Wiki while eating (if that seems strange to you, well, I do not really care) and pretty much all the time. Fairly often I can be found at the reference desks.

Should anyone ask: I am definitely, absolutely and permanently against ads on Wikipedia, and anything that would even vaguely resemble them.

If you'd like to leave me a message, go right ahead.

Contents 1 Me 1.1 Travels 1.2 WikiVanity 1.2.1 Milestones 1.2.2 Articles started 1.2.3 Images 1.2.4 Userboxes 1.2.5 Awards 2 Useful reading (t. b. c.) 2.1 Signpost

Me

Userboxes This user is a professional translator. This user prefers black-and-white photography. This user is addicted to traveling. This user is a diehard hitchhiker. This user is insanely enthusiastic at the prospect of his country co-hosting Euro 2012 with Ukraine. This user edits Wikipedia while bored at work. This user eats chocolate. This user would rather drink tea than coffee. This user drinks mint tea (Touareg Tea). 3,000+ This user has made over 3,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has a website, which can be found here. Things that make me go whoa: curious, aren't we now?.

• Geek Test score - 27.61341% - Total Geek.
• Which sci-fi/fantasy character are you? - Anakin Skywalker. I don't know how it happened, though.
• Jung Typology Test
  • first time: ESTJ (11, 12, 1, 56), meaning this and this
  • second time: ESFJ (1, 1, 25, 22), which is this and this

Travels

• Country of origin/spent years in: Poland
• Spent months in: Germany, Brazil
• Spent weeks in: Norway, Spain
• Spent days in: France, Great Britain, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Belgium, The Netherlands
• Spent hours in: Switzerland, Hungary, Sweden
• plans for 2008: France, Moldova, Euro 2008, Iran, Jordan, Uzbekistan and who knows what else... detouring to lead a good life somewhere in Poland. I've been rescued.

WikiVanity

Milestones

• 1st edit (June 22nd, 2004) - created my user page
• 500th edit (Feb 7th, 2007) - removing trolly entries from November 29
• 1000th edit (Sep 18th, 2007) - a redirect for Al Bano and Romina Power
• 2000th edit (Dec 22nd, 2007) - updating my tally during WP:MILHIST's Tag & Assess 2007
• 3000th edit (Jan 9th, 2008) - removing a redlink leading to a deleted article

Articles started

• Recording the Angel
• Rives, Isère

Images

• a few images uploaded to the Wikipedia Commons, recently here. I take a lot of photos, I'm bound to upload more. A bit more here (in the future)

Userboxes

• My two three userboxes. If you want, you can include them on your user page.

Code	Result
{{User:Ouro/tramp}}	This user is a diehard hitchhiker.
{{User:Ouro/euro2012}}	This user is insanely enthusiastic at the prospect of his country co-hosting Euro 2012 with Ukraine.
{{User:Ouro/whoa|Wikipedia}}	Things that make me go whoa: Wikipedia.

Awards

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 1000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 20:13, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your fine work on 2000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Tireless Contributor's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 20:13, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		For your excellent work on 3000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Working Wikipedian's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 11:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Useful reading (t. b. c.)

• Raul654's and others' laws and observations on Wikipedia (not only) as a sociological phenomenon
• Things to know about being a good Wikipedian, by me
• Fun facts from the collective unconscious

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