User talk:Mirzhan Irkegulov

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Some ideas for contributions

Сәлем Миржан — welcome aboard CZ. Matt has already given you some hints as to how things work here in general, and I wish to add some more practical hints on what possibilities you have to contribute. For a start, I just took some of the keywords from the information you supplied upon registration, and display below the current state of related CZ articles (for documentation, see Template:Rpl/Doc):

•  Ska: Musical genre originating in Jamaica in the late 1950s combining Caribbean mento and calypso with jazz and rhythm and blues. ^[e]
•  Reggae: A term for a particular music style that emerged in Jamaica in the late 1960s. ^[e]
•  Music: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm, harmonies and melodies. ^[e]
•  Anarchism: Doctrine that all forms of government are undesirable and should be abolished. ^[e]
•  Atheism: Absence of belief in any god or other supernatural beings. ^[e]
• Positivism: Add brief definition or description
•  Video game: A game played using an electronic controller to manipulate images on a display screen. ^[e]
•  Mathematics: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. ^[e]
•  Programming language: A formal language specification, and programs for translating the formal language to machine code. ^[e]
•  Jamaica: Caribbean island nation that became independent in 1962; formerly part of the British Empire and built on the slave trade (population about 2.8 million). ^[e]
•  Kazakhstan: A landlocked central Asian nation, formerly part of the Soviet Union, bordered by China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ^[e]
• Kazakh language: Add brief definition or description
•  Central Asia: A geographic area with many definitions, one common one based on the newly independent, predominantly Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union ^[e]

I am also interested in the history and especially the culture of Central Asia, as my band is performing traditional Central Asian music, and so I would welcome collaboration on CZ articles related to that. For such an example, see Ari Babakhanov.

Сау бол! Daniel Mietchen 04:31, 5 October 2008 (CDT)

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D. Matt Innis 13:13, 3 October 2010 (UTC)