User:Xania

Hi, I'm Xania. I've been here at Wikibooks since 2005 and presently I'm an administrator (since 2006) and check user (since 2014) 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 for malicious vandalism.

Contact me
You can often find me on IRC using the username Xania: {|
 * Alternatively leave me a message on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
 * 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.
 * Correct typos in one click
 * Special:ValidationStatistics - Pages awaiting review
 * Special:UnreviewedPages - Unreviewed pages
 * Category:Candidates for speedy deletion - Speedy Deletion Nominations
 * Requests_for_deletion - Requests for Deletion
 * Unreviewed new pages - Unreviewed new pages
 * Requests for import - Requests for Import
 * Category:Queried pages - Queried Pages
 * 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
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Useful Templates

 * - Wikijunior Navigation Template
 * - Dewikify template for material copied from en.wiki
 * - Template for shared Educational IP addresses
 * - Template for general shared IP addresses
 * - Recipe summary template for Cookbook pages
 * - Useful for auto-converting Cookbook temperatures

Edit Warnings

 * - for removing text without using edit summ.
 * - suggests they read U.W
 * - concerns inappropriate links
 * - quite strong but final
 * - rather strong
 * - very strong
 * - use categories on new pages
 * - blanking
 * Page - Copyright warning
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