Ralph Midgley

Ralph Midgley is the Guvan ('Administrator') of the Volapük Community (according to an edict of the Cifal Brian Bishop made on 1 January 2006). He has been working with Volapük since 1972. He is the author of a number of online teaching courses released under the names Volapük for Everyone and Volapük in Action, as well as a brief introduction called Volapük vifik ('Quick Volapük'). He formed the Flenef Bevünetik Volapüka ('The International Community of Friends of Volapük'), and has published a magazine Vög Volapüka ('The Voice of Volapük') which followed on from a publication known as Sirkülapenäd ('The Newsletter'). His enthusiastic activism in promoting Volapük is responsible for the majority of people who currently study and learn the language.

Midgley lives in Scunthorpe in northern England.

Midgley is notable for having translated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in to both Neo and Volapük; the Volapük translation is forthcoming.