Xania

I edit from a country where access to Wikimedia projects is blocked so I use a VPN to edit. I am mostly active between 01.00 UTC and 14.00 UTC.

Userboxes en-N This user can read and write at a native level in English. gv-N Ta Gailck ec yn theay-ymmydee shoh. it-4 Questo utente può contribuire con un italiano di livello quasi madrelingua. pl-2 Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym. et-1 Kasutaja suudab kaastööd teha eesti keeles algaja tasemel. This user has made over 15,000 edits on Wikibooks. This user is an administrator on the English Wikibooks. (verify) This user is a checkuser on the English Wikibooks. (verify) This user is a member of the Wikimedia OTRS team. (verify) This user contributes using Opera. This user is a recent changes patroller …in. Ending a sentence with a preposition is something this user is okay with. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit.

X8

A1

N1

I1

A1

Hi, I'm Xania. I've been here at Wikibooks since 2005 (first edits as a registered user were 23 October 2006 though) and presently I'm an administrator and check user 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.

Some Wikibooks that I am 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) (Featured Book)
• 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

My 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)

Wikipedia projects:

• English Wikipedia
• Italian Wikipedia
• Manx Gaelic Wikipedia
• Simple English Wikipedia

Wiktionary projects:

• English Wiktionary

Other Wikimedia projects:

• English Wikisource
• English 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 to a reasonable degree. I also have a more limited knowledge of Russian, French and Polish.

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 malicious vandalism.

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. Wikibooks:Correct typos in one click 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 Spam Filter Log Special:AbuseFilter - Filter

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}}