Gave it some thought and I've decided to step away from the File: namespace, which was my main activity area for the past 3 years. Will still be here chasing vandals and socks but doubt I'll have any content-related contributions in the near future.
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Hello everyone, I'm Minorax. I've been editing the English Wikipedia for slightly over 6 years now and usually patrol Special:NewPages and find files that can be moved to Commons.
As a global sysop, I patrol small wikis and help out with administrative stuff there, typically finding x-wiki socks and reverting vandalism. For a list of other user rights, see m:User:Minorax/matrix.
If you have any queries or require assistance on wikis that have the GS-toolset enabled, do not hesitate to contact me.
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| ZH-5 | 这位用户的中文达到专业水平。 |
| KO-1 | 이 사용자는 한국어를 조금 할 수 있습니다. |
| MS-1 | Pengguna ini memiliki kemahiran asas dalam bahasa Melayu. |
| FR-1 | Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances de base en français. |
| NAN-2 | Chit-ê iōng-chiá tha̍k-siá Bân-lâm-gú ê lêng-le̍k sī tiong-kip. |
| YUE-1 | 呢位用戶有基本嘅廣東話知識。 |
| NOTE: nan & yue: read & speak only. |
| en-4 | This user has near native speaker knowledge of English. |
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The Shah Jahan Mosque is a 17th-century central mosque in the city of Thatta, Pakistan. The mosque was built during the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who bestowed it on Thatta as a token of gratitude, and is heavily influenced by Central Asian architecture – a reflection of Shah Jahan's campaigns near Samarkand shortly before the mosque was designed. It is notable for its geometric brick work, a decorative element that is unusual for Mughal-period mosques. The mosque is unusual for its lack of minarets although it has a total of 93 domes, the most of any structure in Pakistan. This photograph depicts an interior view of one of the Shah Jahan Mosque's larger domes, showing its blue-and-white tiles arranged in stellated patterns to represent the heavens.
Photograph credit: Alexander Savin
The battle of Bronkhorstspruit was the first major engagement of the First Boer War. It took place by the Bronkhorstspruit river near Bronkhorstspruit in Transvaal on 20 December 1880. Threatened by the growing numbers of militant Boers in the Pretoria region, the British recalled the 94th Regiment of Foot, which had several companies garrisoned in towns and villages across the wider area. The regiment's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Robert Anstruther, led a 34-wagon column on a 188-mile (303 km) journey from Lydenburg to Pretoria. A Boer commando force, led by Francois Gerhardus Joubert, was ordered to stop the British. Anstruther's column was confronted by the Boers, who demanded that the British stop their march. Anstruther refused, and the Boers attacked. The British took heavy casualties and surrendered after about 15 minutes; their surviving men were captured. Anstruther was badly wounded and died of his injuries a few days later. (Full article...)
