User:Vitsuha

Babel

en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

zh該用戶的母語是中文。
该用户的母语是中文。

Education

博学日新This user attends or attended SEHS德行天下

This user attends or attended the Shandong University

This user attends or attended Stony Brook University.

This user attends or attended
the University of Michigan.

This user attends or attended Stanford University.

Personal

This user is a citizen of the People's Republic of China.
本用户是中华人民共和国公民。
本用戶是中華人民共和國公民。

This user lives in the
United States of America.

Trivia

This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 9 months and 26 days.

Living in CA, born in China.

About Me

I am an international student currently study in the states; I was born in Jinan, Shandong, China, and received basic educations there. My father comes from Zaozhuang, also a tiny city located in Shandong Province, so I was very familiar with cultures and customs in south-western Shandong (魯西南).

I took Gaokao and was admitted by SDU, but abandoned that admission and went abroad for study. I did my undergraduate studies in the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) with majors in Mathematics and Economics, and now doing my master's degree in Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

Before registering a Wikipedia account, I did several contributions, but I already forgot that IP address. I signed up this account in an office in the Resource and Environmental Science Department in Beijing Normal University in 2018, where people can surf the internet without restrictions of Great Firewall. The name Vitsuha derives from two things: Miyamizu Mitsuha in the film Kiminonawa and the River Vistula in Poland, which was mentioned several times by Günter Grass in his works, and I was fascinated about that and that time.

I remember when I was in elementary school Wikipedia could still be visited without restrictions, and I was attracted by the high-quality and versatility of Wikipedia and its sister projects. Nowadays, not only Wikipedia, but also Wikicommons, Wikisource, Wikitionary, and Wikivoyage are really useful tools in my life. For example, I never buy travel guides like Lonely Planet, which I think are useless, but visit Wikivoyage before going to some places. Also, I do think that Wikipedia's user page is a good place for scratching. Previously I like to use repos in Github, yet I found inserting pictures, links, and maps are hard in markdown files there, and Wikipedia's syntax is a powerful tool to achieve that goal. Another aspect that Wikipedia and other such websites attracted me were their openness and ambition to improve the overall knowledge and well-beings of mankind. Previously I attended several Wiki and OSM conferences, so of them are online due to COVID and some of them are in-person, I was impressed by how those communities aimed to refine themselves to promote free knowledges among people, this was unimaginable in developing countries like China.

I'm more a beneficiary other than contributor to Wikipedia, mostly I just fix the error when I when I found during reading, as I really do not have much time for such commitments; nevertheless, I did aware that lots of pictures for buildings and scenes in China are of extremely low quality, I've been consciously taken better pictures and upload them to wikimedia to improve the quality of articles about China.