User:Felix Wan

Wikipedia:Babel
en-4This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.
zh該用戶的母語是中文。 该用户的母语是中文。
yue呢位用户嘅母语系粤语/广州话。 呢位用戶嘅母語係粵語/廣州話。
zh- wuu-2箇个用户能用一般性个吴语来交流。 箇個用戶能用一般性個吳語來交流。
ja-1この利用者は初級の日本語ができます。
de-0Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse.
es-0Este usuario no entiende español (o lo entiende muy difícilmente).
fr-0Cet utilisateur ne comprend pas le français ou seulement avec des difficultés notables.
ipa-4 əThis user has a near-complete understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
con langThis user likes constructed languages.
Other statements
This editor is a WikiGnome.
This user is a participant of WikiProject Countering systemic bias.
This user supported the creation of Chinese Wikinews.

Introduction

Felix Wan is my real name. You can find me on the Internet [1] on topics about linguistics and languages, especially conlangs, or Chinese culture, or Japanese Animation, or Christianity.

I am a computer professional. I was born and mostly raised in Hong Kong. My early childhood was spent in Japan. Then I was immigrated to the United States of America and live in the greater Los Angeles area. Now, I frequently go to Mainland China, where I may be blocked from accessing Wikipedia.

Contributions

Most of my edits are small and useful. Occasional significant contributions include:

• Numbered musical notation
• Gongche notation
• Standard Cantonese
• Tone number
• Syllable onset
• Syllable rime
• Chinese numerals
• Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
• Historical Chinese anthems

Plans that may materialize eventually:

• /Draft: pages under construction.
• Chinese music and its elements need expansion.
• Sino-Japanese can use some linguistic information.
• Wikipedia:China-related topics notice board

Counter Systemic Bias

Diagram illustrating systemic bias

Wikipedia has a systemic bias caused by the demographic of the editors. It cannot be eliminated but can be mitigated by the conscious effort of fellow wikipedians. That is done by increasing coverage on topics that are important and extensively covered in other encyclopedias but not by suppressing or deleting coverage on topics outside the "ideal".

So I will try to help developing articles in the red area of the diagram, but I do not see any problem with the coverage of Ent or Babylon 5 or other fictional elements as long as they fall into the right places. Wikipedia is not paper. So far, Wikipedia is the best place to find information of geek interest.