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==Intro in a nutshell==

Hi,

I'm a Hungarian Wikipedian, born in 1978. I'm interested in languages, informatics, literature, sciences, mathematics, social sciences, psychology, music and many other things.

==Announcement & request==

'''Please only ask me questions if you have sufficient grounds to believe that I may be the best person around to answer them. Please don't ask me to write or expand articles about this or that topic. Recently, I have little time for Wikipedia and I prefer to spend it spontaneously. Sorry everybody!'''

==Some pages I like (or I find useful/significant)==
* [[Wikipedia:Unusual articles]] (caution: it's a lot in itself!)
* [[Contronym]]
* [[Autistic savant]], including the late [[Kim Peek]] and [[Daniel Tammet]]
* [[Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia]]
* [[Anglish]]
* [[Proto-Indo-European roots]]
* [[Transcontinental nation]]
* [[Island of stability]] (not a resort: chemistry!)
* [[List of revived languages]]
* [[Ring species]] – compare: [[Dialect continuum]] (languages and living organisms show sometimes surprising similarities)
* [[0.999...]] – it equals to 1, whether or not you believe it ;-)
* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]
* [[Ubuntu (ideology)|Ubuntu]]
* [[Latin alphabet]]: a lot of interesting titbits
* [[Vulgar Latin]] (not so vulgar, in fact) :-)
* [[Latin influence in English]]
* [[Mutually intelligible languages]]
* [[Untranslatability]] (formerly: "Words hardest to translate")
* [[List of names in English with non-intuitive pronunciations]]
* [[Fourth dimension]] and [[Tesseract]]
* [[Fractal]] and [[Mandelbrot set]]
* [[:Category:Open problems]]
* [[Allophilia]]
* [[List of tallest churches in the world]]
* [[List of megaprojects]], [[List of architectural design competitions]]
* [[List of countries by spoken languages]]
* [[Template:Discrimination sidebar]] (who'd have thought it can appear in so many forms?)
* [[The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written (book)|The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written]]
* [[List of literary works by number of languages translated into]]
* [[List of best-selling books]]
* [[The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People]] and the ''abundance mindset'' described within
* [[DIALANG]]
* [[List of linguistic example sentences]]
* [[Twist ending]]
* [[Unreliable narrator]]
* [[Propaedeutic value of Esperanto]]
* [[Sniglet]]
* [[Films considered the greatest ever]]
* [[Philosophical zombie]], [[Mary's room]], [[Map–territory relation]]
* [[Baarle-Hertog]], [[Jungholz]] – where countries intertwine
* [[World Values Survey]] and [[Intercultural competence]]
* [[Happiness]] and [[Happiness economics]], [[Satisfaction with Life Index]], [[Happy Planet Index]], [[Gross national happiness]], as well as [[Paradox of hedonism]] and [[Hedonic treadmill]]
* [[Stroke order#General guidelines|Stroke order]] with great explanation and animated gif :)
* [[Kyōiku kanji]] the 1,006 Japanese kanji to be learnt, ordered by school years, probably related to frequency as well, as well as [[Kanji kentei]], the competition in the knowledge of a huge treasury of characters
* [[Remembering the Kanji]], a great book (see a link to the first 200 pages at the end of the article)
* [[Unitarian Universalism]], a common denominator of religions? (see also [[Universalism]] with its quotes)
* [[Simple Gifts]], a nice approach to life by the [[Shakers]], based on the principle of [[Simple living]]
* [[Altered level of consciousness]]
* [[List of French words and phrases used by English speakers]], or how to be snobbish ;-)
* [[List of minimum wages by country]]
* [[Mononymous person]]: don't look for their given names…
* [[Gestalt prayer]]
* [[SWOT analysis]], as well as [[Porter five forces analysis]] and [[VRIO]]
* [[Gary Chapman]]'s ideas about maintaining a relationship
* [[Praise]]
* [[Unaccusative verb]]: when ''you'' don't ''do'' what you “do”
* [[Mathematical beauty]]
* [[List of countries by Human Development Index]]
* [[Window of the World]], [[Beijing World Park]] – notable sights of the world together
* [[The Garden of Forking Paths]]
* [[Dream incubation]]
* [[List of common misconceptions]]
* [[Counterintuitive]]
* '''[[List of memory biases]]''', '''[[List of cognitive biases]]''', among them the [[Dunning–Kruger effect]]
* [[List of common misconceptions]]
* [[List of paradoxes]]
* [[List of smoking bans]]
* [[List of statues by height]]
* [[:Category:Lists of things considered unusual]]
* [[Gini coefficient]]
* [[Phoenician_alphabet#Letter_names]]: the correspondence of letters of different widespread alphabet, with the original meanings of the letters' names (see the chart)
* [[Fuji-Q Highland]]
* [[Chinese character classification]], [[Section headers of a Chinese dictionary]], [[Transcription into Chinese characters]]
* [[Disruptive technology]] and [[List of emerging technologies]]
* [[Vocabulary]] (far from obvious…)
* [[Flubber (material)|Flubber]] and other types of [[non-Newtonian fluid]]s
* [[Planned obsolescence]], [[Sustainability]], and [[Ethical consumerism]]
* [[List of roller coaster rankings]]
* [[Visionary environments]] – including [[Wat Rong Khun]] and [[Chalermchai Kositpipat]]'s other works, [[Bunleua Sulilat]]'s works, the [[Sanctuary of Truth]] and [[Ancient Siam]]
* [[List of Latin translations of modern literature]]
* [[Lucid dream]]
* '''[[Pay it forward]]''' (and [[Pay It Forward]])
* '''[[BookCrossing]]'''
* [[Intelligent Giving]]
* [[Garden path sentence]]
* [[List of loanwords in Chinese]]
* [[Chinese classifier]]
* [[List of topics characterized as pseudoscience]]
* [[Schizophrenic number]]
* [[Esperanto words with the suffix -um]] (the suffix for "unidentified" relations)
* [[List of living centenarians]] – more specifically, some of the notable ones
* [[Cartogram]]
* [[Blue note]]
* [[:Category:Informal legal terms]]
* Some [[toponymy]] topics: [[List of double placenames]], [[List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations]], [[List of places named after peace]], [[List of places named for their main products]], [[List of inventions named after places]], [[List of tautological place names]], and [[List of short place names]]
* [[Binaural beats]], [[augmented learning]] and especially '''[[power nap]]'''
* [[Edward Lear]]: a proof that "being of/with a well-rested/relaxed brain/mind" ''(pihentagyúság)'' exists in the English-speaking culture as well (not only in Hungarian), even if not under this name
* [[Principles of learning]]
* [[Unpaired word]]
* [[:de:Bild:Wikipedia_lexikon3e.jpg|A German-language picture of Wikipedia]]

*[[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser]] - this may be useful

:… and if you've had enough serious stuff, check out [[Uncyclopedia]] or [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].

'''Articles that have been deleted since:''' <small>
[[List of countries by compactness]],
[[Harry Potter in translation series]],
[[List of characters in translations of Harry Potter]],
[[List of wizarding terms in translations of Harry Potter]],
[[List of polydactyl people]],
[[Hungarian jokes]],
[[István Dabi]],
[[List of movie clichés by genre]],
[[List of trivia lists]],
[[List of people who died in their thirties]],
[[Gallery of confusable flags]],
[[English words with uncommon properties]],
[[List of landmarks]], 
[[Abolitionism (bioethics)]], 
[[List of virtual communities with more than 100 million users]], 
[[List of mathematical concepts named after places]], 
[[List of statistically superlative countries]] (although it could be considerably expanded from the [[lists of countries]])
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==Trivia==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006&diff=27646026&oldid=27630233 I predicted] as early as on 7 November 2005 that the English Wikipedia would reach its 1,000,000th article in ''early March 2006''. It reached that number on 1st of March.
*[http://jeff560.tripod.com/words.html A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia] – an amusing website.
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==Contributions==
===Overview===
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Adam78&dbname=enwiki_p Statistics of my contribution in the English Wikipedia]
*[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/contribution_tree?namespace=0&user=Adam78&dbname=enwiki_p My contribution tree in the English Wikipedia]

According to my [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|number of edits]], I was ranked

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excluding bots, regarding main namespace edits, out of the (currently) more than 600,000 registered [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]].

<small>''Note: the November 2005 data included bots but their number has been subtracted (378&minus;20 make 358).''</small>

In the [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits|List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits]], I was ranked 47th in the interval between June 1 and July 24, 2005, with 2627 recent edits (regarding main namespace edits).

About my contributions in Hungarian, see [http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Adam78 this page].

===Some of my more or less noteworthy contributions in detail===

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* '''[[Hungarian grammar]]''': perhaps my most significant contribution (along with [[User:Gailtb|Gailtb]]).

'''[[Budapest]]'''

Bridges:
[[Árpád Bridge]],
[[Erzsébet Bridge]],
[[Széchenyi Chain Bridge]],
[[Margaret Bridge]],
[[Petőfi Bridge]],
[[Lágymányosi Bridge]],
[[Liberty Bridge (Budapest)]]

Transport:
[[Budapest Metro]],
[[HÉV]],
[[List of Budapest metro stations]],
[[List of HÉV stations (Budapest)]],
[[Zero Kilometre Stone (Budapest)]]

City parts:
[[Erzsébetváros]],
[[Józsefváros]],
[[Krisztinaváros]],
[[Tabán]]

Other notable places:
[[Andrássy Avenue]],
[[Belváros (Budapest)]],
[[Castle of Vajdahunyad]],
[[City Park (Budapest)]],
[[Csepel Island]],
[[Dohány Street Synagogue]],
[[Gellért Baths]],
[[Grand Boulevard (Budapest)]],
[[Greater Budapest]],
[[Heroes' Square (Budapest)]],
[[Hungarian State Opera House]],
[[Hungarian Parliament Building]],
[[Kerepesi Cemetery]],
[[List of cemeteries in Budapest]],
[[Margaret Island]],
[[Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)]],
[[Palace of Art (Budapest)]],
[[Small Boulevard (Budapest)]],
[[Tabán]]

'''Notable Hungarians'''

Lists:
[[List of Hungarian architects]],
[[List of Hungarian painters]],
[[List of Hungarian sculptors]],
[[List of Hungarian writers]],
[[List of people of Hungarian origin]],
[[List of famous Hungarians who were born outside of present-day Hungary]]

Writers, poets:
[[Béla Balázs]],
[[György Faludy]],
[[Ferenc Molnár]],
[[Imre Kertész]],
[[Imre Madách]],
[[István Fekete]],
[[János Arany]],
[[Karl-Maria Kertbeny]],
[[Péter Esterházy]],
[[Péter Nádas]]

Artists, architects:
[[Imre Steindl]]

Linguists:
[[Ferenc Kazinczy]],
[[Kató Lomb]]

Scientists:
[[László Mérő]],
[[Daniel Carleton Gajdusek]],
[[Milton Friedman]]

Composers:
[[Ferenc Erkel]]

Politicians:
[[Ferenc Gyurcsány]],
[[Ferenc Mádl]],
[[Imre Nagy]],
[[László Sólyom]],
[[Pál Teleki]]

Historical people:
[[Elisabeth of Hungary]],
[[Emeric of Hungary]],
[[Emeric of Hungary (saint)]],
[[Gerard Sagredo]]

'''Culture of Hungary'''

Films:
[[The District!]],
[[Fateless (film)]],
[[Cat City]]

Universities:
[[List of universities in Hungary]],
[[Budapest University of Technology and Economics]],
[[Central European University]],
[[Corvinus University of Budapest]],
[[Pázmány Péter Catholic University]],
[[Semmelweis University]],
[[University of Budapest]]

Other:
[[Baumgarten Prize]],
[[Esztergom Basilica]],
[[Fasori Gimnázium]],
[[Himnusz]],
[[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]],
[[Hungarian literature]],
[[iWiW]],
[[List of Hungarian newspapers]],
[[Music of Hungary]],
[[Pannonhalma]],
[[Pannonhalma Benedictine Archabbey]],
[[Public holidays in Hungary]],
[[Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]],
[[Sziget]]

'''Geography of Hungary'''

[[Great Alföld]],
[[Csepel]],
[[Hortobágy]],
[[List of botanical gardens in Hungary]],
[[List of bridges in Hungary]],
[[List of islands of Hungary]],
[[List of national parks of Hungary]],
[[Pannonian plain]],
[[Puszta]]

'''History and politics of Hungary'''

[[Forint]],
[[Greater Hungary]],
[[Hungarian Workers' Party]],
[[List of historical capitals of Hungary]],
[[List of political parties in Hungary]],
[[Pengő]],
[[Politics of Hungary]],
[[Workers' Party (Hungary)]]

'''Hungary-related things in other articles'''

[[List of World Heritage Sites in Europe]],
[[Big Read]],
[[Sauna]],
[[Side friction roller coaster]],
[[The Flintstones]],
[[National longevity recordholders]],
[[List of city squares]],
[[List of most common surnames]],
[[List of social networking sites]],
[[Bible translations]],
[[Octagon]],
[[Parliament]]

'''Linguistics'''

Hungarian-related linguistics:
[[Hungarian language]],
[[Hungarian phonology]],
[[Hungarian alphabet]],
[[Copula]],
[[Double negative]],
[[Language game]],
[[Linguistic issues concerning the euro]],
[[List of English words of Hungarian origin]],
[[List of grammatical cases]],
[[List of language regulators]],
[[List of noted polyglots]],
[[Locative case]],
[[Quotation mark]],
[[Slavic languages]],
[[Temporal case]],
[[T-V distinction]],
[[Ugric languages]],
[[Uralic languages]],
[[Vowel harmony]],
[[Zero copula]]

Other:
[[List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents]],
[[Dissimilation]],
[[False cognate]],
[[False friend]],
[[Minimal pair]], 
[[wikt:Appendix:List of words that comprise a single sound|List of words that comprise a single sound]]

'''Miscellaneous topics'''

[[Charactonym]],
[[John Savage (actor)]],
[[Kefalonia]],
[[List of capitals and larger cities by country]],
[[List of countries whose capital is not their largest city]],
[[Timeline of country and capital changes]],
[[Mole (character)]],
[[Prague Metro]],
[[Salvador Dalí]],
[[Orders of magnitude (area)]],
[[Wikipedia:Unusual articles]]

+ organizing and populating Hungary-related categories

+ adding interwiki links into hundreds of articles

'''Wikiquote:''' [[:q:List of tongue-twisters|List of tongue-twisters]]

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==Licensing==

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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