User: IFaqeer
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On Wikivacation. I will be checking my Talk page—as rarely as I can help it :D. ...and maybe Partition of India. You can help me resist Wikitemptation by helping with Africa-related, Islam-related, and South Asia-related topics.
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Me, I, ... er ...
Starting out on the journey of self-discovery, (when I was young, and, well, cornier--cornier than this, you might ask ;)), I came up with the following characterization for myself:
- or maybe I should say
That might give you an idea of how it is that I butt in on the #WikiWikiMe that I do.
A writer whose day job is as a technical writer in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area, I blog at [iFaqeer] and [WadiWallah]. I have recently also started paying attention to a blog I started a while back: Rickshaw!, which captures the inscriptions on the back of Rickshaws (jinrickshaws, cycle rickshaws and auto rickshaws). It's part of what drew me into the Wikipedia; looking for places with information on rickshaws.
I recently had reason to say the following in a discussion on an article:
- ...the main reason I associate myself with the Wikipedia is that I consider it a chance to receive and present a more complete picture of the world than I grew up having to read. (Source; for the curious.)
...and in another discussion:
- Let me say the following up front by way of disclaimer: I am a Muslim and sympathise with Islam. And I also am not sympathetic to inflexible and/or extreme rationalist "devotees" of any ideology—be it Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Communism, Capitalism, Progressive philosophies or any other.
- And I am also a strong believer in the importance of strict NPOV policies for an encyclopedia to really live up to its name. See, for example, what I am trying to do at Template talk:Timeline of Islamist militancy.
Which is why I spend time on Wikipedia.
Updates
Just started engaging with the Wiktionary Project, too--iFaqeer 08:47, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
- Articles I created on September 20, 2004:
- NED University (my alma mater)
- Razia Sultan
- Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
- Articles I created on September 20, 2004:
WikiWikiMe
- The very nature of the medium makes it difficult to list things like pages I have made a significant contribution to. And of course, on Wikipedia and in the wider Wikiworld, there is no such thing as owning a page, or even a whole Wiki. Even pages one starts are communal property and contributed to by others, often extensively. And often that's the desired result. The lists below are provided only to give you an idea of what I am interested in and engaged in.
Wiki
I am toying with the idea of starting a Wiki that would collect genealogies, sufi initiation chains and other information and thus start out in South Asia and work outwards to document people and other topics around the world. See my query at the Help Desk in this regard.
I am playing around with a Wiki hosted at Swiki as I think this through. I am hoping one day it will become a larger project--maybe under the MediaWiki rubric.
Any help, comments, feedback, etc. is welcome.
Pages I Started
Entries
- Ashraaf
- Asma Jahangir
- NED University (my alma mater--on September 20, 2004, see top of this page)
- Razia Sultan (on September 20, 2004, see top of this page)
- Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (on September 20, 2004, see top of this page)
Redirects
- The (usually pre-existing) articles are in brackets. I have just added another way of people might be looking for the same information.
- Aurangzeb Alamgir (Aurangzeb)
- Chagatai Turks (Chagatai Khan#Chagatai Turks)
- Chagatai Turk (Chagatai Khan#Chagatai Turks)
- Chughtai (Chagatai_Khan#Chughtai -- including the content for that section)
- House of Taimur (List of Mughal emperors)
- Lord Lugard (Frederick Lugard)
Categories
- Category:Chiefs of Army Staff, Pakistan (and pages on Jehangir Karamat and Mirza Aslam Beg)
Pages I have Butted In To
Entries
- Afghan Wars
- Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
- Aurangzeb
- Baisakhi
- Babur
- Bahadur Shah II (moved/changed title from Bahadur Shah Zafar II and pointed Bahadur Shah Zafar to it)
- Barbary pirates
- Bey
- Chagatai Khan (including adding Chagatai_Khan#Chughtai and Chagatai_Khan#Chagatai Turks)
- Hina Jilani
- List of Mughal emperors (I am trying to add full names, not just short, common monikers)
- Mughal Empire
Pages I have Edited A Wee
Entries
WikiPedia Content I Recommend Highly
- The usual reason a page is listed here is that reading it will provides an insight that, in my humble opinion, is important in helping us all better understand (and be more understanding of) the universe around us.
Entries
- Urdu poetry
- Note on the Urdu-Hindi-Hindustani issue -- One of the best expositions I have seen of the issue.
WikiHumor?
WikiContent I like to browse
To Do list
- Please free to help—and let me know if you want to/are working on one.
- Compile List of Caliphs either as part of Caliph or separately. Also Category:Caliphs. Update: Under Construction at Caliph
- Compile List of Shia Imams either as part of Shia Imam or separately. Also Category:Shia Imams. Current template stashed at Talk:Shia Imam. See also work being done at Caliph
- Compile List of Sufi Masters/Murshids/Peers either as part of Tarika or separately. Also Category:Sufi Masterss. Current template stashed at Talk:Tarika. See also work being done at Caliph
- Add Hejaz to list of places whose names starts with "The".
- Merge Urdu#Urdu_-_Hindi_-_Hindustani and Hindustani--the former has more/better info.
- Merge Note on Pen Names under List of Urdu poets with entry on Thakhallus
External links
Net sites I own/contribute to
- iFaqeer; I blog, therefore I am
- WadiWallah, another blog I am experimenting with; might get merged with the previous
- Rickshaw! a blog that captures the inscriptions on the back of Rickshaws (jinrickshaws, cycle rickshaws and auto rickshaws)
