User:Msanford

Tasks

Priority

• Revamp Portal:Linguistics
• Revamp Portal:Peer_review
• Contribute to Licensing_update/Translation
• Create Keryx_software

Continuous Improvements

• Fix IPA

Someday-Maybe

• Create H aspiré.
• Create Rhetorical genre studies
• Improve CEGEP
• Add العربية to Tajwid.

Energy Level

I'm rather low on energy; I'll need to rest soon.

Academic Credentials

Abstract

I'm a linguist and an academic; I've written papers in psycholinguistics, rhetorical genre studies, phonology, historical linguistics and HPSG. I'm half French-Canadian and half anglophone, and have a basic, improving understanding of Greek, Arabic, Russian and Hebrew.

Degrees (Academic credentials)

I hold a Combined Honours Bachelor's of Arts in Linguistics and French, and a Certificate in French Translation Studies.

Domains of Contribution

Formal graduate training

I have received formal training at the graduate level, and feel confident in my ability to find resources in:

• Linguistics (Theoretical and Applied)
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Phonetics
  • Phonology
  • Rhetorical genre studies
• French
• Research methods, usual rigours of acaemic discourse.

Formal undergraduate training

I have received formal training at the undergraduate level in

• Linguistics
• French
• Formal Logic
• Mathematics (statistics, probability, calculus, linear algebra)
• Economics

Informal training

I have received informal but rigorous training in

• PHP (I hold a professional certification)
• MySQL
• XML

Well-read

I have a strong interest and am mostly self-taught in:

• Music theory (I play piano, guitar, bass guitar, oud, clarinet and erhu)
• Techniques of and major episemological discussions surrouding Peer review.
• News and current events.

Notable Contributions

Portals & Projects

• I am currently the maintainer of Portal:Linguistics.
• I am the creator and current maintainer of Portal:Peer_review.
• I am the creator of the Transliteration Task Force
• I am a member of the Writing Systems Project
• I am a member of the Epistemology Task Force

Articles

Some will go here soon.

Community

• I contribute regularly and thoughtfully to Wikipedia:Portal_peer_review.

Templates

• I have made a few templates and userboxes, which are listed at User:Msanford/Templates.

Biography

Why I'm here

I'm on Wikipedia to add my knowledge to that of the collective, and to contribute my skills and knowledge, in a larger way, to the formation and maintenance of a free, open, and most importantly, reliable and factually accurate encyclopedia.

Autographs

• Best UP evar. سلام Leena (talk) 04:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

References