Xania

I live in China and as such I edit from behind a VPN. I often don't log in as it's often quicker that way. I will still try to reply to messages occasionally.

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Hi, I'm ЗAНИA or Xania. I've been here at Wikibooks since 2005 and presently I'm an administrator here so happy to help with whatever problems you may have.

My specialties are linguistics (Romance, Slavic and Celtic languages and Basque), history, European geography, culture and politics.

I help out here with removing vandalism and spam, checking books for grammar or spelling mistakes, categorizing books, improving Cookbook pages by adding links and metric units and working on several books which I created or have contributed to.

I strongly support the European Union's recent Right to be forgotten which allows people to remove false, dated, libellous or overly-personal information about themselves from search engine results pages. I feel that Wikimedia is very wrong in its opposition to this basic human right. Wikimedia is being contrary by opposing this law while actively enphasising the importance of privacy on its own sites. Wikimedia is also biased in this way because it's based in the USA where freedom of speech comes above other rights no matter how incorrect that speech may be.

This user has never been further than...
	north		Rovaniemi, Finland	67°5′49″N 26°7′6″E
	south		Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	54°48′50″S 68°18′32″W
	west		Alberta, Canada	53°32′36″N 113°30′14″W
	central		Greenwich, United Kingdom	51°28′40″N 0°00′05″W
	east		Tokyo, Japan	35°46′14″N 140°23′18″E
... and higher than 3776 m on Mount Fuji

Some Wikibooks that ЗAНИA is currently working on:

• English - Principal English book
• English for B2 Students - This book is intended for Upper Intermediate students.
• English in use - This book was previously known as "English" and is a Wikibook resource for English grammar and vocabulary.
• English_as_an_Additional_Language - This is an older book for those learning English as a Foreign Language.
• FCE English (Book I created but forgot about)
• Polish (Basic Polish Language Course)
• Italian (reviewing lessons, adding extra information)
• Basque (TBC)
• Japanese (TBC)
• Manx (TBC)
• Wikijunior Languages (inter-linking WJ Languages, WJ Europe and WJ South America projects)
• Wikijunior Languages/Manx Gaelic (Junior Guide to the Isle of Man's Language)
• Wikijunior_Europe (Completed junior Guide to Europe)
• Wikijunior World Religions
• Wikijunior World Heritage Sites (new book I'm developing for WJ about UNESCO heritage sites) create
• Wikijunior:Countries A-Z (adding more pictures)
• Wikijunior:Solar System (TBC)
• Wikijunior:South America (creating pages, updating info)
• Wikijunior:Fruit Alphabet (I'm adopting this abandoned book and trying to expand it)
• Wikijunior:Africa (a book I plan to develop further)
• High School Earth Science (Changing settings to only show reviewed page version, currently done units 1-4 and sub pages)
• Cookbook (Adding Metric Measurements to all Recipes)
• User:Xania/Sandbox (Recipes still without Metric Measurements)
• User:Xania/Sandbox2

ЗAНИA'S Activity on Other Wikis:

I am most active on Wikibooks but you may also find me on these Wiki projects (especially Wikipedia and Wikivoyage English sites and Wikipedia Italian site):

Wikibooks projects:

• English Wikibooks (home wiki & sysop)
• Italian Wikibooks
• ქართული - Georgian Wikibooks

Wikipedia projects:

• English Wikipedia
• Italian Wikipedia
• Afrikaans Wikipedia
• ქართული ენა - Georgian Wikipedia
• Polish Wikipedia
• Catalan Wikipedia
• Manx Gaelic Wikipedia
• Simple English Wikipedia
• Portuguese Wikipedia
• Slovene Wikipedia
• Euskara - Basque Wikipedia

Wiktionary projects:

• English Wiktionary
• Simple English Wiktionary
• Italian Wikizionario

Other Wikimedia projects:

• English Wikiversity
• Italian Wikiversità
• English Wikinews
• Italian Wikinotizie
• English Wikiquote
• Italian Wikiquote
• English Wikisource
• English Wikivoyage
• Italian Wikivoyage
• Wikimedia Meta-Wiki

Languages

I am an English language professional with experience teaching the language to native speakers and non-native speakers as well as developing materials for use by other teachers. I speak Italian and Polish to a reasonable degree. I also have a more limited knowledge of French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque, Slovene, Serbian / Croatian, Manx Gaelic, Georgian and Estonian.

My Basic 'Policies' on Wikibooks

I spend a lot of time fighting vandalism on Wikibooks. I am always willing to give people the benefit of the doubt but I have no tolerance for racism, homophobia or edits on a youth-targeted page which would be considered inappropriate.

Contact me

You can often find me on IRC using the username Xania:

• #wikibooks^connect
• Alternatively leave me a message on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Useful Links These are mainly a shortcut for pages that I commonly visit but which take forever to find because of the poor search feature on Wikibooks. Special:ValidationStatistics - Pages awaiting review Special:UnreviewedPages - Unreviewed pages Category:Candidates for speedy deletion - Speedy Deletion Nominations Wikibooks:Requests_for_deletion - Requests for Deletion Unreviewed new pages - Unreviewed new pages Wikibooks:Requests for import - Requests for Import Category:Queried pages - Queried Pages Wikibooks:Templates - Templates Using Wikibooks/Class Project Guidelines - Useful to give this link to new users on class projects Using Wikibooks - Very useful, on side bar now Help:Editnotices - Edit Notice templates for individual pages MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist Cookbook:Requested Recipes - Requested recipes. Also check for duplicates and alternatively named existing recipes Special:LonelyPages - Orphaned pages to be found a home for, placed in main page indexes or deleted Category:Protected edit requests - Requests to edit protected pages Category:Copyright violations - Pages flagged as Copyright violations

Useful Templates {{Template:WikijuniorEurope}} - Wikijunior Navigation Template {{dewikify}} - Dewikify template for material copied from en.wiki {{SharedIPEDU}} - Template for shared Educational IP addresses {{SharedIP}} - Template for general shared IP addresses {{Recipe summary}} - Recipe summary template for Cookbook pages {{#invoke:temperature|f|400}} - Useful for auto-converting Cookbook temperatures Edit Warnings {{subst:EditSummary}} - for removing text without using edit summ. {{subst:please learn}} - suggests they read U.W {{subst:Spam}} - concerns inappropriate links {{subst:warn}} - quite strong but final {{subst:please stop}} - rather strong {{subst:blatantvandal}} - very strong {{subst:Use categories}} - use categories on new pages {{subst:blanking}} - blanking {{subst:no thanks|Page|2=--~~~~}} - Copyright warning {{cleanup|reason}}