IFaqeer |
You will have heard about the earthquake that hit my native Pakistan the hardest. The time since then has been spent working on creating what has become a growing sub-site on the quake within [http://Pakistan.WikiCities.com a WikiCity I am associated with]. Here s a backgrounder:
http://ifaqeer.blogspot.com/2005/10/information-site-on-earthquake.html
and a note on the genesis of the site:
http://pakistan.wikicities.com/wiki/Talk:Earthquake_10-05#History_of_this_Page
Please come by, even if just to browse (I am counting on Wiki folk to be too tempted to only be spectators ;)):
http://pakistan.wikicities.com/wiki/Earthquake_10-05
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=Me, I, ... er ...=
Starting out on the journey of self-discovery, (when I was young, and, well, cornier--cornier than this , you might ask ;)), I came up with the following characterization for myself:
: I am a 2nd generation n birth.
:or maybe I should say
: I am a 2nd generation birth.
That might give you an idea of how it is that I butt in on the #WikiWikiMe that I do.
A ). It s part of what drew me into the Wikipedia; looking for places with information on rickshaws.
I recently had reason to say the following in a discussion on an article:
: ...the main reason I associate myself with the Wikipedia is that I consider it a chance to receive and present a more complete picture of the world than I grew up having to read. ( )
...and in another discussion:
: Let me say the following up front by way of disclaimer: I am a Muslim and sympathise with Islam. And I also am not sympathetic to inflexible and/or extreme rationalist devotees of any ideology—be it Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Communism, Capitalism, Progressive philosophies or any other.
: And I am also a strong believer in the importance of strict NPOV policies for an encyclopedia to really live up to its name. See, for example, what I am trying to do at .
Which is why I spend time on Wikipedia.
=Updates=
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6/18/05 See: #Pakistan
==Urdu Language Users==
5/15/05 We are actually breaking some very interesting ground here on the Internet as the Urdu language starts to mature in its use on this medium. And Wikipedia is on the cutting edge. See: http://urdu-ke-naam.blogspot.com/2005/05/urdu-speaking-wikipedia-users.html and http://urdu-ke-naam.blogspot.com/2005/05/on-being-saahib-e-zubaan.html
I have just finally got to publishing my thoughts and translations on Urdu poetry, Sufism and related topics. For now, it will be mainly on the following page:
:http://urdu-ke-naam.blogspot.com
See #Net sites I own/contribute to below for more details.
Just posted the following at
: My personal bias (excuse the pun) is that bias is something that exists in every person—it s basically a function of our being human and being shaped by our own experiences and background. The High Road, IMHO, is to understand what one s own bias is and work from there—identify opinion as opinion and try to work with others to achieve objectivity and completeness is a priority, as it is for projects like Wikipedia. (And yes, I have worked as a journalist and do [http://iFaqeer.blogspot.com have a blog].) The way I do this on Wikipedia is to place an honest statement of my background and an attempt at describing my own bias on my . I know this will make me an easy target for people that want to discredit me or my contributions based on their perception of people like me . So be it; it is the price of honesty. 20:53, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
Starting to take interest in 20:55, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
Just discovered something while reading 02:21, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
Just started engaging with the 08:47, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
in over 100 languages.
::::::::::::Articles I created on September 20, 2004: ::::::::::::*NED University (my alma mater) ::::::::::::*Razia Sultan ::::::::::::*Sahabzada Yaqub Khan
=WikiWikiMe=
The very nature of the medium makes it difficult to list things like pages I have made a significant contribution to. And of course, on Wikipedia and in the wider Wikiworld, there is no such thing as owning a page, let alone a whole Wiki. Even pages one starts are communal property and contributed to by others, often extensively. And often that s the desired result. And things happen fast. The lists below are provided only to give you a small sampling and an idea of what I am interested and engaged in. They are, by definition, rather sketchy and out-of-date. You can check a list of my contributions to see what I have been up to lately.
==Wikis==
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The Wikipedia re-ignited the hope in my heart and mind to try and work on a dream project of mine; to collect and overlay genealogies, sufi initiation chains and other information, starting in South Asia and work outwards to document people and other topics around the world. After discussions on . Of course, like all WikiCities projects and all true Wikis, it is a community resource that I just have the honour being the founder of:
http://genealogy.wikicities.com
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I have the honor of being the founder of Wiki Pakistan ! Or The Pakistan Wiki , PakWiki, or WikiPak, call it what you will.(You may want to avoid Paki Wiki , since in some parts of the world, that first word is seldom used in affection.) It is at:
http://Pakistan.wikicities.com
The basic idea is a national project. A Pakistan Information database to which everybody can and does contribute...You can read more at .
==WikiProjects and Boards==
===Those I started===
===Those I am subscribed to===
==Categories==
==Pages I Started==
===Entries===
*Ashraaf *Asma Jahangir *NED University (my alma mater--on September 20, 2004 , see top of this page) *Razia Sultan (on September 20, 2004 , see top of this page) *Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (on September 20, 2004 , see top of this page) *Turuq
===Redirects===
: The (usually pre-existing) articles are in brackets. I have just added another way of people might be looking for the same information. *Aurangzeb Alamgir (Aurangzeb) *Chagatai Turks (Chagatai Khan#Chagatai Turks) *Chagatai Turk (Chagatai Khan#Chagatai Turks) *Chughtai (Chagatai_Khan#Chughtai -- including the content for that section) *House of Taimur (List of Mughal emperors) *Lord Lugard (Frederick Lugard)
==Pages I have Butted In To==
===Entries===
*Afghan Wars *Ashraf Jehangir Qazi *Aurangzeb *Baisakhi *Babur *Bahadur Shah II (moved/changed title from Bahadur Shah Zafar II and pointed Bahadur Shah Zafar to it) *Barbary pirates *Bey *Chagatai Khan (including adding Chagatai_Khan#Chughtai and Chagatai_Khan#Chagatai Turks) *Hina Jilani *List of Mughal emperors (I am trying to add full names, not just short, common monikers) *Mughal Empire *Partition of India *Tariqa *Women as imams (including obtaining consensus and renaming the page)
==Pages I have Edited A Wee==
===Entries===
*Frederick Lugard *Rajpath *Sokoto *Usman Dan Fodio
=WikiPedia Content I Recommend Highly=
: The usual reason a page is listed here is that reading it will provides an insight that, in my humble opinion, is important in helping us all better understand (and be more understanding of) the universe around us.
==Entries==
*Urdu poetry *Urdu#Urdu_-_Hindi_-_Hindustani -- One of the best expositions I have seen of the issue.
==WikiHumor==
=WikiContent I like to browse=
= To Do list =
: Please free to help—and if you want to/are working on one.
=External links=
==Net sites I own/contribute to==
*[http://iFaqeer.blogspot.com iFaqeer]; I blog, therefore I am *[http://wadiwallah.blogspot.com WadiWallah], another blog I am experimenting with; might get merged with the previous *[http://rickshaw.blogspot.com Rickshaw!] a blog that captures the inscriptions on the back of Rickshaws (Rickshaw, Velotaxi and Auto Rickshaw)
==Other places you can catch up with me==
==Links of interest==
=Awards=
I present this Barnstar to you for your excellant contributions to articles related to 08:04, May 17, 2005 (UTC)|
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