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# Sans serif

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|  | Serif font (serifs in red) |

The Gill Sans typeface is used throughout the London Underground system.
Simple sans serif capitals on a late nineteenth-century memorial, London.
In typography, a **sans serif** typeface is one that does not have the tiny feet called "serifs" at the end of strokes.
The term comes from the French word *sans*, meaning "without" and "serif" from the Dutch word *schreef* meaning "line".

Sans serif typefaces have been used since the 18th century, but became most used in the twentieth century as the modern art movement developed. Most designers of typefaces were artists. Some were outstanding in other artistic fields, and were part of the wider artistic culture of their times.

The apostle of sans serif was Jan Tschichold (2 April 1902 Leipzig, Germany – 11 August 1974 Locarno, Switzerland), a German-Swiss graphic designer.
Tschichold not only designed typefaces, he showed how they could be used in the design of book printing. He was a chief designer for Penguin Books after the Second World War.

Sans serif faces are most used for display signs, advertising and for headings in books. Although they seem to work well for the text in books, they are much less used for that purpose.

## Other names for sans serif

* Egyptian
* Antique
* Grotesque
* Doric
* Gothic (not to be confused with blackletter)
* Lineale, or linear
* Simplices
* Swiss
# Style guide

*For the Wikipedia style guide, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style.*
A **style guide** (also known as **style manual**) is a set of rules for language usage and design of documents (records). Some style guides are about things related to graphic design, such as arranging words and white space on a page. Website style guides often help with visual or technical things. Literary style guides help with choosing the best words, common errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling; and help for how to express ideas in a precise, fair and forceful way.

Some modern style guides are for use by all people. These are usually more about language than about how it should look.

Style guides do not stop a writer from using his own unique style, but some writers believe style guides are too restrictive.

Like language itself, many style guides change as time passes. For example, the Associated Press stylebook is updated every year.

## Online style guides

* The ABC Style Guide, about.abc.net.au
* BBC News Style Guide, bbc.co.uk
* English English Style Guide | European Commission, ec.europa.eu
* Grammar and Style Guide, agu.org
* Interinstitutional Style Guide, publications.europa.eu
* NCBI Style Guide, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
* New Zealand Style Guide, styleguide.nz
* OECD Style Guide, oecd-ilibrary.org
* Style Manual, stylemanual.gov.au
* University of Oxford Style Guide Archived 2022-10-09 at ghostarchive.org [Error: unknown archive URL], ox.ac.uk
# Embroidery

Gold Embroidery *Sicut lilium inter spinas*, Saint Laurentius church in Lokeren, Belgium
Embroidery, c. 1660, Flanders
Japnese Embroidery
**Embroidery** is the art of decorating fabric or other materials with designs stitched in strands of thread or yarn using a needle. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Sewing machines can be used to create machine embroidery.

## Qualifications

City and Guilds qualification in Embroidery allows embroiderers to become recognized for their skill. This qualification also gives them the credibility to teach. For example, the notable textiles artist, Kathleen Laurel Sage, began her teaching career by getting the City and Guilds Embroidery 1 and 2 qualifications. She has now gone on to write a book on the subject.

## Other websites

* The *Crimson Thread of Kinship* Archived 2007-08-30 at the Wayback Machine at the National Museum of Australia
# Dungan people

The **Dungan people** are ethnic Muslims that came from China who live in regions of the former Soviet Union and Xinjiang. Their ancestors are the Hui people in China. Russians and Turkic-speaking peoples call them Dungan, but the Dungan call themselves Hui because that is what their ancestors called themselves.

The Dungan language came from Mandarin Chinese, and it is most like the dialects in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in China. The Dungan call their language the Hui language. Like Chinese, it is a tonal language. However, it is different from Chinese because it uses some words that are no longer used in Chinese dialects today. There are also many Arabic and Persian loanwords. Unlike Chinese, it is written using Cyrillic instead of Chinese characters.
# Glossary of Shinto

This is a Glossary of Shinto. Covering different terms used in the religion

* Jingu a major Shinto shrine related to the Japanese royal family
* Jinja the word for Shinto shrines
* Kami no Michi the kunyomi of Shinto
* Omiki a sacrifice of alcohol
* Shinto the way of the gods
* Taisha a major Shinto shrine
# Emperor Kōrei

| Kōrei |
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| *Emperor of Japan* |
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| Reign | legendary |
| Predecessor | Kōan |
| Successor | Kōgen |
| Born | legendary |
| Died | legendary |
| Burial | *Kataoka no Umasaka no misasagi* (Nara) |

**Emperor Kōrei** (孝霊天皇, *Kōrei-tennō*) was the 7th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Historians consider Emperor Kōrei to be a legendary person; and the name Kōrei*-tennō* was created for him posthumously by later generations.

No certain dates can be assigned to this emperor's life or reign. The conventionally accepted names and sequence of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of Emperor Kammu, who was the 50th monarch of the Yamato dynasty.

The *Gukanshō* records that Kōrei ruled from the palace of *Ihoto-no-miya* at Kuroda in what will come to be known as Yamato province.

## Traditional history

Kōrei is almost certainly a legend. The *Kojiki* records only his name and genealogy. The *Nihonshoki* includes Kōrei as the sixth of "eight undocumented monarchs" (欠史八代,, **Kesshi-hachidai**).

Kōrei was the eldest son of Emperor Kōan. *Jinnō Shōtōki* records that his mother was Oshihime, who was the daughter of Ametarashihiko-Kunio-shihito-no-mikoto.

Some scholars question the existence of the first nine emperors. These critics consider Kōrei's great-grandson (Emperor Sujin) to be the earliest to have actually existed.

## Events of Kōrei's life

The absence of information about Kōrei does not imply that no such person ever existed. Very little information is available for study prior to the reign of the 29th monarch, Emperor Kimmei.

The *Kojiki* notes that it was during Kōrei's reign that Kibi Province was conquered.

### After his death

This emperor's official name after his death (his posthumous name) was regularized many centuries after the lifetime which was ascribed to Kōrei.

The actual site of his grave is not known. According to the Imperial Household Agency, this emperor is venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine (*misasagi*) at Nara.

## Related pages

* Emperor of Japan
* List of emperors of Japan
* Japanese imperial family tree

The chrysanthemum symbol of the Japanese emperor and his family.

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| Preceded by Emperor Kōan |  **Legendary Emperor of Japan Kōrei** 290-215 BC *(traditional dates)* | Succeeded by Emperor Kōgen |
# Speech recognition

Sound wave
**Speech recognition** (also known as **voice recognition**) is the process of converting spoken words into computer text. The user speaks into a microphone and the computer creates a text file of the words they have spoken.

Although the accuracy of these systems has improved in the 21st century, they are still far from perfect. If you only need them to recognise a few words, for example the words *one, two, three* etc., then speech recognition software can be very accurate. This is why this feature has started to appear on modern mobile phones. But systems that can recognise any word spoken by any person in any language are still a few years away.

You can greatly improve the accuracy of these systems by *training* them to recognise just one voice. This is usually done by getting the user to read a short set piece of text into the microphone. The user looks at the text which has been created and corrects any mistakes the software has made. By repeating this a number of times the computer's accuracy increases a great deal.
# Wikimedia Bangladesh

Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation| উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ ফাউন্ডেশন |
|  |
| Bangladesh map on globe |
| Abbreviation | WikimediaBD |
| Formation | 3 October 2011 (2011-10-03) |
| Founder | Wikimedia community |
| Founded at | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Type | non-profit organization |
| Registration no. | S-11906 |
| Legal status | Active |
| Location | * Dhaka, Bangladesh
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| Area served  | Bangladesh |
| Methods | Bengali Wikipedia, Bengali Wiktionary, Bengali Wikiquote, Bengali Wikibooks, Bengali Wikisource |
| President | Shabab Mustafa |
| Key people | * Ankan Ghosh Dastider (Secretary)
* Masum Al-Hasan (Treasurer)
 |
| Affiliations | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Volunteers  | 71 (As of 2019) |
| Website | wikimedia.org.bd |

**Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation** (aka **Wikimedia Bangladesh** or **WikimediaBD**) is a registered charity established in Bangladesh who work to support volunteers on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. It is a Wikimedia chapter approved by the Wikimedia Foundation. It has a temporary office in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

## Projects and initiatives

### Wikimedia Bangladesh projects

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|  | **Name:** Bengali Wikipedia **Description:** online encyclopedia **Website:** bn.wikipedia.org |  | **Name:** Bengali Wiktionary **Description:** online dictionary and thesaurus **Website:** bn.wiktionary.org |
|  | **Name:** Bengali Wikisource **Description:** digital library **Website:** bn.wikisource.org |  | **Name:** Bengali Wikibooks **Description:** collection of textbooks **Website:** bn.wikibooks.org |

### Current native projects

| **Bengali language (`bn`) projects** |
| --- |
| Name | Type | Language | Local name |
| Bengali Wikipedia | Wikipedia | Bengali | উইকিপিডিয়া |
| Bengali Wiktionary | Wiktionary | Bengali | উইকিঅভিধান |
| Bengali Wikisource | Wikisource | Bengali | উইকিসংকলন |
| Bengali Wikibooks | Wikibooks | Bengali | উইকিবই |
| **Bishnupriya Manipuri (`bpy`) language projects** |
| Name | Type | Language | Local name |
| Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia | Wikipedia | Bishnupriya Manipuri | উইকিপিডিয়া |

## Other websites

* Official website
* Wikimedia website
* Wikimedia Bangladesh on Meta-Wiki
* The Wikimedia Bangladesh bylaws on Meta wiki
# The Signpost

Front page of *The Signpost*, 24 February 2016
The Signpost is the online newsletter of the English Wikipedia. It is written by Wikipedia editors and covers news about the English Wikipedia. It includes news about important discussions, new featured articles and pictures, Wikipedia technology, and what other newspapers and journals have written about Wikipedia. It also publishes opinion articles by Wikipedia editors and sometimes news about the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedias in other languages.

## History

Michael Snow, the founder of *The Signpost*, in 2009
Joke picture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales from *The Signpost* on April Fool's Day 2015
*The Signpost* was started in January 2005 by Michael Snow. In its first edition he wrote:

> I hope this will be a worthwhile source of news for people interested in what is happening around the Wikipedia community.
>
>

Snow was *The Signpost'*s main editor (editor-in-chief) until August 2005. Ryan Lomonaco became the new editor-in-chief, but Snow still wrote articles for the newsletter until February 2008. He stopped when he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. In July 2008 he was elected Chairman of the Board. He was the Chairman for two years.

When it started, the newsletter's title was *The Wikipedia Signpost*. In 2011, the title became simply *The Signpost*. From 2005 to March 2016, *The Signpost* came out every week. Then it changed to coming out every two weeks because it did not have enough editors. In March, April and May of 2016 it did not come out at all. As of 2019, it comes out once a month.

On April Fool's Day, *The Signpost* sometimes publishes joke articles and pictures. Examples of joke articles from April Fool's Day 2015 are "Special Report: Pictures of the Year 2015" (with joke pictures) and "Featured Content: Stop Press. Marie Celeste Mystery Solved". Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe".

## In other newspapers and magazines

Journalists from other newspapers and magazines have used articles in *The Signpost* to help write their own articles.

* In 2013 "Wiki-PR's extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed", a story about people secretly paying companies to write Wikipedia articles about them, was used by the *International Business Times*.
* In 2015 "Three weeks to save freedom of panorama in Europe", a story about changes to European copyright rules for photographs, was used by the German newspaper *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung* and the British magazine *Amateur Photographer*.
* In 2016 "New internal documents raise questions about the origins of the Knowledge Engine", a story about the Wikimedia Foundation accepting money to develop a new search engine, was used by the German magazine *Heise* and the American journal *Nonprofit Quarterly*.

## Other websites

* *The Signpost* homepage
* Wikisignpost– official Twitter account
# Censorship in Taiwan

Newspaper in December 1941
The Taiwanese government generally does not censor people's speech as a matter of opinion/ personal viewpoint. The media is free to report the news as detailed as possible. However, there is still a gray area. In 2024, Taiwan considered blocking Telegram (software) due to a child pornography group using Telegram. However, the government stopped after being criticized.

## Chronology of key events

"Taobao Taiwan" was officially shut down in 2020. It is not clear whether the decision was made due to direct pressure from the Taiwanese government. She merely required Taibao to re-register as a mainland Chinese company.

Since December 2022, the installation of Douyin and TikTok on goernment devices has been banned.

In February 2025, Taiwan asked the government personnel not to use DeepSeek.
# Human rights in Taiwan

Flag of the Republic of China.
**Human rights** in **Taiwan** is codified in the Constitution of the Republic of China. These rights have evolved from the days since the retreat of the Kuomintang (KMT) to the island of Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War in 1949 respectively.

## LGBT rights

Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage after a 2017 court ruling, becoming the first country in Asia to do so. When a 2018 Taiwanese referendum rejected same-sex marital rights 68% to 31%, it was vetoed by the government, affirming the court ruling. However, adoption of children by same-sex couples is illegal.
# New Taiwan dollar

New Taiwan dollar| 新臺幣 / 新台幣 (in Chinese) |
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| ISO 4217 |
| Code | TWD (numeric: 901) |
| Subunit | 0.01 |
| Unit |
| Plural | dollars (English only) |
| Symbol | $ or NT$‎ |
| Nickname | kuài (塊) |
| Denominations |
| Subunit |  |
|  1/10 | 角 Jiao, but no official translation |
|  1/100 | cent (分, Fen) Subunits used only in stocks and currencies |
| Plural |  |
|  cent (分, Fen) | cents (English only) |
| Nickname |  |
|  角 | máo (毛) |
| Banknotes |  |
|  Freq. used | $100, $500, $1000 |
|  Rarely used | $200, $2000 |
| Coins |  |
|  Freq. used | $1, $5, $10, $50 |
|  Rarely used | $20 |
| Demographics |
| User(s) | Republic of China |
| Issuance |
| Central bank | Central Bank of the Republic of China |
|  Website | www.cbc.gov.tw |
| Printer | China Engraving and Printing Works |
|  Website | www.cepp.gov.tw |
| Mint | Central Mint of China |
|  Website | www.cmc.gov.tw |
| Valuation |
| Inflation | 2.34%,3.7% (CIA World Factbook, 2008 est.) |
|  Source | Central Bank of the Republic of China, Jul-Dec 2007 |
|  Method | CPI |

The **New Taiwan dollar** (traditional Chinese: 新臺幣 or 新台幣; simplified Chinese: 新台币; Hanyu Pinyin: *Xīntáibì*; Tongyong Pinyin: *Sīntáibì*) (currency code **TWD** and common abbreviation **NT$**), or simply **Taiwan dollar**, is the official currency of Taiwan. It was used since 1949, when it replaced the Old Taiwan dollar. It was first printed by the Bank of Taiwan, it has been printed by the Central Bank of the Republic of China since 2000.
# Azumi people

The **Azumi** were a clan and tribe of warriors in Japan during the Jōmon period. They are known for their culture and beliefs, which are considered one of the earliest sea religions in Japan. They lived in Northern Kyūshū. They were active from the early 3rd century to the 7th century. They were great sailors. They had a big navy.

They lived in an area called Chikuzen, which is now part of Fukuoka Prefecture. The Azumi people used their knowledge of tidal changes, weather patterns, and constellations to explore and navigate the sea successfully. They followed the sea god, Watatsumi, and a powerful deity named Isora, who provided them with spiritual guidance in their daily lives.

## Shikaumi Jinja

Shikaumi Shrine is their ancestral shrine. The shrine is taken care of by a priest who is believed to be a descendant of the Azumi clan. The biennial gojinkosai ceremony held at the shrine is recognized as an intangible cultural property by the prefecture. The shrine includes a deer motif in its rituals and designs. The deer motif is significant to the Azumi people and their beliefs. It is a common feature in the historic culture of the region.
# Southern Court

The **Southern Court** (南朝, **Nanchō**) in Japan was a set of four emperors during the Nanboku-chō period from 1336 through 1392.

## List of monarchs

* Emperor Go-Daigo, 1318–1339
* Emperor Go-Murakami, 1339–1368
* Emperor Chōkei, 1368–1383
* Emperor Go-Kameyama, 1383–1392

After 1392, Go-Komatsu was the 100th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

## List of monarch-created eras

During the Nanboku-chō period, the Southern Court monarchs recognized 11 Japanese era names (年号, *nengō*, lit. year names), including

1. Gentoku, 1329–1331
2. Genkō, 1331–1334
3. Kemmu, 1334–1336
4. Engen, 1336–1340
5. Kōkoku, 1340–1346
6. Shōhei, 1346–1370
7. Kentoku, 1370–1372
8. Bunchū, 1372–1375
9. Tenju, 1375–1381
10. Kōwa, 1381–1384
11. Genchū, 1384–1392

## Related pages

* Northern Court
* List of emperors of Japan
* Japanese era name

## Other websites

 Media related to Nambokucho period at Wikimedia Commons

* Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kamakura and Nanbokucho Periods (1185–1392), Muromachi Period (1392–1573)
# Son of Heaven

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The Son of Heaven was a title given to the Chinese ruler who was considered sacred and had power over everything under the sky. This title started with the Zhou dynasty and was based on the idea that the ruler had a mandate from heaven. Later, the title was used by other monarchs in the same region to support their own rule. The Son of Heaven was seen as the most important ruler who had power over everything. In some places, like China and Japan, the ruler was thought of as a god or a chosen one.

## Related pages

* Emperor of China
# Polity

A **polity** is a group of people who are brought together by any form of political agreement and who consider themselves as forming an autonomous unit. The political agreement uniting the group may be of different types: it can be a written constitution or even the unwritten recognition and respect of a hierarchy within the group. Depending on the size of the polity, it can be organized by a government or other, simpler forms of hierarchy. It is important to realize that the term polity can be used to refer to big entities like states, empires, and kingdoms, but also to smaller units like chiefdoms. What counts in calling a given group "a polity" is not its size nor the form of government it has. To be called "a polity" a group must be an organized and autonomous group that has exclusive rights of use of a specific portion of land.
# Shinano Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Shinano Province highlighted.
**Shinano Province** (信濃国, *Shinano no kuni*) or *Shinshū* (信州) is an old province of Japan in the area of Nagano Prefecture on the island of Honshū. Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces.

The ancient capital city of the province was near Matsumoto.

## History

View of Lake Suwa in Shinano Province, woodblock print by Hokusai, 1830
The boundaries of Mutsu were formally established during the reigns of Empress Genshō and Empress Kōken.

In 713, the road between Mino Province and Shinano Province was widened. There were increasing numbers of travelers on this road.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. Maps of Japan and Shinano Province weres reformed in the 1870s.

The World War II–era Japanese aircraft carrier *Shinano* was named after this old province.

## Shrines and Temples

*Suwa taisha* was the chief Shinto shrine (*ichinomiya*) of Shinano.

## Related pages

* Provinces of Japan
* Prefectures of Japan
* List of regions of Japan
* List of islands of Japan

## Other websites

 Media related to Shinano Province at Wikimedia Commons

* Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903
* Hokusai, *A View of Mount Fuji across Lake Suwa,* circa 1831
# Shita-kiri Suzume

**Shita-kiri Suzume** (which means *The Tongue-Cut Sparrow*) is a Japanese folk legend. It is told by many parents to their children. The story is about being kind and helping someone who is hurt. It is also about being mean and greedy.

## The story

Shita-kiri Suzume is the story of an old man and an old woman who find a sparrow. The old man takes care of the sparrow and gives it food. The old woman treats the sparrow badly and cuts out the sparrow's tongue. After the sparrow flies away, the old man goes to find it in the mountains. When he does, the sparrows give him a choice between two baskets to take home. The basket he picks is filled with many good things. The old woman sees the good things and goes to the sparrows to get a basket for herself. She is greedy and mean when she talks to the sparrows, but they still give her a basket. She is not patient and opens the basket before she gets home.