User:Kayau


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HI! I'm from Hong Kong. I'm a second-year university student, and have been updating this line since I was in primary school.

I joined Wikipedia as a curious child and stuck around for a few years, engaging at various times in content creation, vandalism fighting, motto writing and gnoming. I still remember the excitement of getting each of my fresh, new articles in WP:DYK and looking at the cool citation styles that I created with Wikipedia templates. Nor will I ever forget my involvement with the MOTD when it reached the apex of its development. I wrote a set of guidelines outlining common practice at the MOTD and created some discussion-related templates which were later improved on by User:pjoef and others.

During my teenage years, Wikibooks caught my attention, and I acquired a (notorious) habit of starting book projects but never getting round to finishing any of them. After I went to high school, the stress of the HKDSE overwhelmed me, and I spent all my time on the curriculum, only occasionally dabbling in WP, and using WB mostly for the sake of taking (and sharing) personal notes online.

Oh, and of course - Wikinews. I was very excited about Wikinews for a while, even agreeing to become an administrator at one point. But then schoolwork piled up, I left all Wikimedia projects temporarily, and my admin right was removed, having never once been exercised. I feel bad about it to this day, and to the members of the Wikinews community whom I have disappointed, I offer my deepest apologies, even if you may not read my Wikipedia userpage.

Having entered university, and joined other sites (including several in which I was a regular member at different points), I am still not prepared to resume my early teenage level of activity on WP. However, you will still see me editing the occasional article as I browse, correcting typos, adding  tags and, who knows, maybe even writing articles from time to time.

Wikibooks remains, to this day, the place on the Internet I call my home, even if I only check back every couple of months. I hope that one day, I will get round to tying some of the many loose ends I left on this site, though only time will tell if I can. I aspire to become a university professor, and I have seen cases of Wikibooks being developed cooperatively in class as a project, which is something I might attempt if my dream is realised.

Current work

 * User:Kayau/Clause chaining

Created

 * Otto Undercover
 * Out of the blue (idiom)
 * Jesse Lee KerchevalSymbol question.svg
 * List of executions in the United Kingdom
 * Template:Children's Literature Barnstar
 * List of expressions related to death
 * Template:User WikiProject Hong Kong Transport
 * Template:WikiProject Hong Kong Transport
 * Please bite the newbies
 * Kick the bucket(former redirect)Symbol question.svg
 * Wu GangSymbol question.svg
 * John Smith (housebreaker)Symbol question.svg
 * Tsui Sing Lau PagodaSymbol question.svg
 * I don't see why not
 * Land use conflictSymbol question.svg
 * What autoreviewer and rollbacker rights are not
 * Battle of MingtiaoSymbol question.svg
 * Citing textbooksSymbol question green.svg
 * Manufacturing in Hong KongSymbol question.svg
 * Lam Chiu YingSymbol question.svg
 * Working-Hotelling ProcedureSymbol question.svg
 * Randomised decision rule



Expanded/Greatly contributed to

 * List of vegetarians
 * Yi Yin
 * Zhang Yi (strategist)

To-do
Current to-do list:
 * Syntax coverage on Wikipedia is, frankly, in a sorry state. I'd like to improve on and expand syntax articles such as quirky subject, ergative-absolutive language, split ergativity, copula (linguistics), control (linguistics), raising (linguistics), switch reference and others.
 * Create syntactic ergativity, Working-Hotelling Procedure, clause chaining, emergence of the unmarked, markedness reversal, typological hierarchy, language economy, gradient grammaticality, Stochastic Optimality Theory...
 * Improve on and expand analysis of covariance.


 * Ave Maria... Virgo Serena Not enough info
 * In Use hard to find 3rd-party sources
 * Interred With Their Bones
 * John Smith (housebreaker) finished 07:23, 15 January 2010 (UTC).
 * Land use conflict finished 12:53, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Reagent bottle finding info is impossible; UPDATE: someone created it already. yay!
 * Battle of Mingtiao finished 10:32, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Novel-in-story not enough sources
 * Rewrite Yi Yin finished 02:52, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Manufacturing in Hong Kong finished 12:26, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Residential areas in Hong Kong exists. It's a horrible article, but now I've lost all the motivation to improve it. Maybe later.
 * Expand Zhang Yi (strategist) finished 07:12, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Expand Xin Dynasty - there is now a merger proposal and I don't want to disrupt it.
 * Expand Shi Jingtang ( at Talk:Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin/Sandbox)</s?
 * Lam Chiu Ying (appeared in the roadshow show with the above) - finished 04:07, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Note: Any un-struckthrough items on this list below this pointwill never be done. I am leaving this here because of historical value alone.
 * 1) Expand Lowell Lo
 * 2) Public execution (redirect)
 * 3) Pip Pirrip (redirect)
 * 4) Bole (horse master)
 * 5) Xining Reform
 * 6) Rainsplash - not sure why nobody's written an article on that; it's pretty important
 * 7) Fluvial process
 * 8) Strike valley
 * 9) Expand, draw pictures for drainage system
 * 10) Joint supply, competitive supply
 * 11) Wall effect (or maybe I should just add a mention in urban heat island? hmmm...
 * 12) Expand Three Rural Issues
 * 13) Expand Spheroidal weathering
 * 14) Do something about the horribly short Geography of Hong Kong and Geology of Hong Kong
 * 15) Record for Piano music of Gabriel Fauré - shame to see there's no play button on the FA! :(

Long-time plans:
 * 1) Promote List of vegetarians to FL
 * 2) Familiarise myself with the CSD rules\

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