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These 18 years don't include roughly 1.5 years spent as a Wiki vandal.

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July 27, 2026 at 9:59 AM
aldebaran14.bsky.social
A part of today's handiwork. I wrote these structured data captions and descriptions on the Wikimedia Commons in eight languages.

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A screenshot of an entry on the Wikimedia Commons showing the "File information" tab selected above a section titled "Captions". The captions are listed in several languages, beginning with English: "Wall decor of colorful textile panels featuring overlapping, stylized Tamil letterforms", and Spanish: "Decoración mural compuesta por paneles textiles de colores vivos con letras tamiles estilizadas y superpuestas" A screenshot of the description section of a Wikimedia Commons entry showing various tabs and tools at the top. Below that descriptions in eight languages within wiki text.
July 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
aldebaran14.bsky.social
I did a thing. I have to add two more languages to it. And I don't know how to translate "Sino-Tibetan language" to Sanskrit.
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May 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
aldebaran14.bsky.social
If there are languages that you can speak and understand but not read or write, then this thread is for you. #PolyglotDiaries
aldebaran14.bsky.social Rohini Lakshané @aldebaran14.bsky.social · Aug 10
There is a cool hack I found for contributing Kannada and Bangla content to Wikidata. I cannot read either script. Google Translate supports text-to-speech for the source and target language. It also shows IPA transliteration for the target language. I can read IPA. (1)
August 10, 2024 at 1:21 PM