What to expect?

Well, as I’ve said on a previous post, I haven’t been active in blogging for this month. But don’t worry; I would certainly be more active next year. And that’s not very far from now.

Why wasn’t I active?

Well, the events conspired against me from blogging: Wikimedia and Special Force (It’s really adictive and entertaining.).

It’s been productive so I don’t really regret it.

Wikimedia

In my Wikimedia work, I’ve managed to create the following. And also, the following are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, meaning that you may edit, redistribute, work upon, whatever the following maps for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial as long as you attribute it to me and/or this site (http://felipeaira.i.ph/) or any Wikimedia project (http://www.wikimedia.org/ or http://commons.wikimedia.org/ or any other project), where I also released these maps. So you can also find these maps on Wikimedia Commons, the free image repository. There will be more, more precisely, statistical and locative ones.

This can be found at Wikimedia Commons and Ang Katagalugan (this site).

For the link on this site, just click the map.

The following are Wikimedia Commons links.

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhlMapCit.png (plain version; PNG)

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhlMapCit.svg (plain version; SVG)

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhlMapCit_(coloured).png (coloured version; PNG)

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhlMapCit_(coloured).svg (coloured version; SVG)

   

Now you ask, “What makes this map special?”. Well it is special. It is the most comprehensive map of the Philippines yet. Unlike the traditional maps which are divided into provinces, these ones are divided into municipalities and cities. Now that’s accurate. It took me approximately 6 months to do, and another 2 weeks to colour. I really made this with passion.

Special Force

As I have said on my previous post about it, I’ve been playing it. I am now a Second Lieutenant.

What to expect?

Now, what to expect? Well, there will be more maps like that as I’ve said. Next year I would be posting an index of all the blog posts I’ve made this year. There will be more Tagalog language lessons, and more commentaries. Also I’ll try to experiment with vlogs. I’ll make some of them next year. I’ll be also publishing a research work on the evolution of the Philippine languages, which will focus on how the Philippine languages have evolved from Old Malay, and my theory which follows that the Proto-Philippine came from the south contrary to the theory of a growing number of linguists that the language came from the north through the Taiwan aborigines migrating to the Philippines through ancient land bridges that supposedly connected Taiwan and Luzon; of course, I don’t believe it. And finally, as a priority, I would be releasing my own set of Baybayin fonts which would be fully compliant to the Unicode standard.

And also, next year, I might not be as active as I want to be since I would also be working on directing an indie school film. And I would be really pushing my efforts on that one, because I would really like to win. And I will; I say this since I’ve seen the competition, and they’ve got a very shallow part. My concept, I don’t want to brag but, is way better. It is a very morbid tragedy, and practically the only tragedy on the entries, as my source tells me.

I’m quite worried though that we’ll get censored since the script that we (the two of us) wrote is the one most filled with profanity, and the plot is quite explicit since it deals with violence (suicide & murder), and incest; or at least, that was what I was told. Would you call sex with your sibling incest?

That’s all that I can say for now since I don’t want to ruin the excitement. We may have to perform self-censorship though since the school are run by Catholic priests.

Wikimedia Fundraiser 2008

As you can see, obviously, this post is in English for a wider reading audience, and this has been my first post for this month. I don’t really have time nowadays to blog  but I’ll try.

Well, the banner above is the Wikimedia Foundation’s banner for their fundraiser this year. So support. Wikimedia and its projects, most notably Wikipedia, help millions of people everyday on their everyday lives. Wikimedia projects are especially helpfull on students like me, especially on research projects.

In short, Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in history, and the largest collaboration of its kind. Wikipedia is written by approximately 115,000 volunteers around the globe, and that includes me.

By donating to Wikimedia, you help run its projects. Wikimedia needs our money in order to support their ever growing site traffic, electricity costs and payment to their small staff. Also a part of the money that you donate will go to the further development of the MediaWiki software, the software used to run its projects, which would make it more aesthetically pleasing thus easier editing and reading.

Now if you are worried where you’re money would go, Wikimedia is fully transparent. Their expenditures are all enlisted in their financial reports; you can see that on their site, which is accessible through the banners above and below this post.

Also, many people criticise Wikipedia and its sister projects for its openness; openness which can be used by vandals and other psychotic individuals to vandalise and post anomalous information on Wikipedia articles. However, we must not forget that also through this openness, the ever growing community of 115,000 volunteers are combating the vandalisms that are being posted on its pages. And also through this community, we have been able to, again, build the largest, most accurate, and most updated encylopedia in the world.

Your money, time, and campaigning efforts would really help. Please donate to the Wikimedia Foundation so that we could enlighten even the darkest corners of the world. This would be one of your most humanitarian actions in our life. However small, your donation would really help. However if you don’t have the time, you can spread the word, and pursue others to donate.

Donate now! Make http://www.wikimedia.org/ your homepage.

Also if you are wondering how could you help my site running, you can just click on the pay-per-click advertisements on the right side of this site; I get cents of money each time someone clicks. And don’t worry you’ll just have to click, you don’t actually have to buy their stuff; I still get payed regardless of the circumstances. Now you would ask, “Surely, I would to that to Wikimedia. I would go to http://www.wikimedia.org/ and click on all their advertisements. Surely I would help.”. Errr! You can’t do that. Wikimedia projects don’t host advertisements, the projects all rely on your contributions and donations. Now see how your significance really is.

Donate! And click my ads! Hehe.