User:OberMegaTrans

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The current date and time is 12 August 2026 T 12:56 UTC.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 1 month and 20 days.

Who we are

This is the user page of "OberMegaTrans" in the English language section of Wikipedia. This is my individual user page that I use to coordinate work with others on Wikipedia. Basically, what we do as a group of people - students and an instructor or two - at the University of Freiburg, is translate articles in the German language Wikipedia, or sometimes other languages (see below), into English for use on the English language Wikipedia. If we get lucky, we sometimes collaborate with other groups, like the group of instructors and students of German at the University of Aberdeen in 2010, to translate English language articles into German. I welcome any and all proposals to collaborate in any translation and/or Wikipedia related projects; just get in touch!

Here's a list of articles we've translated or are translating into English, either completely or partially:

Latin Settlement, Friedrich Kapp, Basel Münster, Balko, Strausse, Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival, Harald Schmidt (ARD), Amok (Stefan Zweig book), Vicco von Bülow, German Red Cross, Cleopa Ilie, Alconétar Bridge , Eckart von Hirschhausen, Ephraimiten, Oliver Pocher, Schirmacher Oasis, Federal Election System (Germany), HIV/AIDS in Ukraine, Medieval Greek, electronic cash, Augsburger Puppenkiste, Elwetritsch, Freiburg Bächle, Kaiserstuhl, Counts of Freiburg, Walk of Ideas, Free City of Frankfurt, Illuminati, Kaiser-Joseph-Straße, Dreisam, Dieter Nuhr, List of deaths at the Berlin Wall, Pegida, Die Welle, Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, Donauquelle, Augustinermuseum, Nibelungen Museum Worms, Konzerthaus Freiburg, Green spaces in Freiburg, Asylum in Germany, Currywurst, Schauinsland, Culture of Remembrance, Otto Krayer, Heart of Stone, K.I.Z., Little Muck, Blutritt, Schorle, Why We Took the Car, Colombischlössle, How It Is (Wap Bap …), Höllentalbahn (Black Forest), Stadtgarten Freiburg, Rathaus (Freiburg im Breisgau), Wolfgang Herrndorf, Studierendenwerk Freiburg, COREU, Rieselfeld, Cut Off (film), SC-Stadion, Advent calendar, Tennenbronn, Hinterzartener Moor, Jupiter Jones, Schloss Ritzebüttel, Unterschneidheim, Bernd Kortmann, Mord auf Ex, and Altmühlsee.

Occassionally we translate (parts of) articles into German:

A Mathematician's Apology and Pacific Crest Trail.

Here's a list of some potential candidates for us to work on. Feel free to add your suggestions:

Franz Karl Stanzel, Semester at Sea, Nursing ethics, documenta, Patrick Süskind, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Heuriger, Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem, Colton Point State Park, Svetlana Geier, Apparentment, Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, Illuminati, Das Kapital, Marxian economics, Reichstag fire, Mong Tai Army, Rape during the occupation of Germany, Politics of Somaliland, Trade unions in Germany, Three Emperors Dinner, Heinz Drossel, Victoria Woodhull, Buck Washington, Minced oath, Boston Brahmin, Eyeish, Ay kingdom, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Sankt Georgen (Freiburg), Merzhausen, TheocracyWatch, Käthe Vordtriede, Hambach Forest, Harro von Senger, Savitri (opera), Forth and Bargy dialect, Ancient Belgian language, Grievance studies affair, Sosias-Maler, Adolf Lampe, Hans W. Hubert.

My user page on the German language Wikipedia is here.

If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions of articles for us to translate OR if you'd like to work with us, please don't hesitate to visit my discussion page and/or send us an email!

Templates

To insert this template use: {{Translated|de|Whatever}} NB: Replace 'whatever' with the German name of the article! This template should be added to the Talk page of every article that we translate!

NB: If you want to use this template in other languages, you will also need to change "Translated" into the target language and the "de" will need to be changed to the original source language. To show, for instance, that you had translated (part of) the article Winal from English into Romanian, you would modify the template thus: {{Traducere|en|Winal}}.

To insert the template above use: {{cleanup-translation}}

This user page may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. No cleanup reason has been specified. Please help improve this user page if you can; the talk page may contain suggestions.

To insert the template above use: {{cleanup}}

This article is currently the subject of an educational assignment.

To insert the template above use: {{EducationalAssignment}}

 This article is in the process of being translated from Etwas in the German-language Wikipedia. In order to reduce edit conflicts, please consider not editing it while translation is in progress.
 This page was last edited 4 months ago, at 09:16, 7 April 2026 (UTC) (refresh). Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited for several hours. If you added this notice, remember to remove it or replace it with {{Under construction}}  between editing sessions.

To insert the template above use: {{Beingtranslated|de|Etwas}} NB: Replace 'Etwas' with the German name of the article! (See above)

Info found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Being_translated/doc

To insert a map of a certain location use: {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|type=point|coord=00°00′00″N 00°00′00″E / 0.00000°N 0.00000°E / 0.00000; 0.00000|title=Location} NB: Change the coordinates and the location name

More templates and info on templates:

A very brief introduction to templates

General information on templates

Specific information (How they are used on WP)

Educational Assignments

Cleaning up

Babel - Language userboxes

Login Update

Wikipedia & related projects now allow a Unified Login. Simply put, this allows you to create ONE account with ONE Username and ONE Password using ONE email address that can be used in (almost?) all languages and projects of Wikimedia/Wikipedia, etc. This is great news. This is progress. This makes translating and working with multiple languages much easier. If you want to find out how to unify accounts you've already created, read this. Otherwise you should just be able to switch from language to language, from project to project with the same username; you'll see your username at the top - in red at first, until/unless you create your userpage (in that particular language or project).

List of links

General

Dictionary.com - primarily American
Merriam Webster - primarily American
Oxford English Dictionary - primarily British (but with aspirations to global use)
Cambridge Dictionary - primarily British
Leo Dictionary - a multilingual online dictionary
dict cc - a bilingual (Eng/Ger) online dictionary
Google translate - Google translator (multilingual)
Contextual Chinese - online dictionary with context and other information
This is a brief, clearly written article on "Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia".
The Five Pillars of Editing (also mentioned in the article above).
This is a wonderfully long list of common errors in English (and how to avoid them).
Welcome to the Grammar Slammer!
Wikipedia:Manual of Style
This is a list of Frequently Asked Questions on grammar from the University of Northern Iowa.
Here's a tutorial on how to put pictures in your articles
The sites on grammar and style (errors) found on this very useful page. Thanks to Giraffedata!
Travel back in time to a Wikipedia from long time ago.
This is a page that explains how translating and copyright work on Wikipedia
Here's a list of language userboxes that you can use for your User pages.
Deep L Translator
Archive.org: The Wayback Machine allows the user to go "back in time" and see how websites looked in the past. Useful if a link in the references list of an article is not online anymore.
This link will take you to the online version of the 2016-2017 annual report of the Wikimedia Foundation. (The article on the Wikimedia Foundation in Esperanto is an "excellent article" by the way.)
This link will take you to Wikimedia Deutschland, which is roughly the German version of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Count your words with this link!
Find out how many subpages any User has
If you'd like to visit the Freiburg Stammtisch of Wikipedians, here you go.
Citizendium is a slightly different version of Wikipedia.
Our glossary for work being done here