User:Juzeris

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lvŠim lietotājam latviešu valoda ir dzimtā valoda.

en-3This user can contribute with an advanced level of English.

et-2See kasutaja suudab eesti keeles kaastööd teha keskmisel tasemel.

ru-2Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык.

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fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

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My background is varied professional experience in the translation industry. Originally from Latvia, I have also lived in Estonia and elsewhere in Europe for several years and accordingly I speak Latvian, English, Russian, conversational Estonian and some German and French.

On Wikipedia, I have contributed mostly to Latvian Wikipedia where I used to be an admin from 2005 until 2012 when gave up my role voluntarily and relinquished the admin rights. See also my accounts on Meta and English Wiktionary.

My bookmarks

Here are some articles I have found in Wikipedia. I used to add them to my watchlist but it has grown just too much to be able to follow and differentiate between the stuff that really needs following and simply great articles that most possibly are already watched by knowledgeable Wikipedians.

Some of these articles simply crave for attention, others are a great read, and for some of them I have no idea why I've listed them. :)

This list is not necessarily alphabetised or otherwise prioritised but it should be. Or maybe it is. Nor this list should be regarded as an accurate reflection of my world view or interests. This is merely a fraction of it. Or maybe it isn't related to me at all.

I really hope this doesn't end up being similar in size to Special:Allpages...

Movies	Books	Language	Music	Web
Amélie Fight Club Four Rooms Groundhog Day Knockin' On Heaven's Door Natalie Portman O Brother, Where Art Thou? Oksana Akinshina Trainspotting Sergei Bodrov Jr. Sergei Eisenstein	book collecting dictionary Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum George Orwell The Good Soldier Švejk Henryk Sienkiewicz Hundarna i Riga Lullaby Nineteen Eighty-Four Chuck Palahniuk Victor Pelevin The Trial by Kafka Grigore Vieru	computer-assisted translation copy editing French language French phrases Internet slang Latin phrases machine translation netiquette online newspaper archives Russian joke shibboleth stop words translation relay vittu volapuk encoding Võro language of Estonia zero article zeugma язык падонков	BBC Radio David Bowie Depeche Mode Gotan Project Keane Lemon Jelly Moby Smells Like Teen Spirit Underworld	Badger Badger Badger Eternal September Internet slang interwiki language order META refresh MMOGs netiquette shipping webmaster Wikipedia essays Wikipedia Signpost Wikipedia Tools: Navigation popups
History	Leisure	Urban stuff	Misc.	No bookmark, just stress
Ancient Rome Baltic way Eternal September Hanseatic League Ivan Susanin entities that have issued postage stamps Potemkin village Soviet Union	auto racing Critical Mass Demolition derby (btw, Demolition Derby was merged into it but not entirely) massage meme procrastination Seinfeld Simpsons, The sleep disorder Slinky train spotting	city elevator surfing residential area road junction thirteenth floor traffic calming urban studies and planning	Anthelia, a deleted article on a micronation banana republic corna déjà vu eye contact Funniest Joke in the World here human-computer interaction indigenous peoples Moritz Cantor rectory subculture urban legend useful idiot	Laid back

Other stuff

Picture of the day

The Tocopilla railway was a mountain railway built to serve the sodium nitrate mines in the Toco area of the Antofagasta Region in Chile. With a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), it ran from the port of Tocopilla on the Pacific coast up to a height of 4,902 feet (1,494 metres), with gradients up to 1 in 24. The railway was built by a joint-stock company founded in London and was designed by William Stirling of Lima, with a detailed description of the initial operation of the railway published by his brother Robert in 1900. The line was electrified in the mid-1920s and expanded in 1930 with the addition of lines serving new areas of mining. It continued operating into the 21st century, but was forced to close in 2015 when flash flooding caused numerous washouts on the electrified section of the railroad. With the declining prospects for nitrate, it was not economical for the line to be repaired. This photograph taken in 2013 shows a boxcab on the Tocopilla railway, leading a train down towards the coast.Photograph credit: David Gubler

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