User:Kyoko/Redesign

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Hello...
I'm Kyoko, formerly known as Tachikoma. I'm a 20-something woman from Montréal. My father's from Japan, and my mother's from Québec, and I am proud of my combined heritage. I speak English very fluently, French pretty fluently, and Japanese very badly.

I've been a registered user of Wikipedia since January 2006, and I've written and contributed to a number of Good and Featured articles. My edit count can be seen here. I also contribute to the Spanish, French, and Simple English Wikpedias. Not all Wikimedia Kyoko accounts have been created by me, so if you see of these accounts act maliciously, please block them if you are able, and notify me here.

10 May 2007 was named Kyoko's Day, in honour of me, by Phaedriel. Thank you, Phaedriel!

I try to treat people with compassion and to do the right thing, but I also have to protect myself, by keeping certain things private, and not tolerating certain kinds of messages. I hope you understand. If you feel that I have hurt your feelings or made a mistake, please tell me.

A commitment to my real-life identity can be found here. — Kyok o



Some topics of interest

 * Literature, especially Quebec literature and French literature. I read a bit of everything: novels, poetry, plays, etc. I wrote significant portions of the articles on The Count of Monte Cristo and Norwegian Wood. I've also contributed a bit towards The Tale of Genji and the poem Orlando furioso. My last really big project was the The Lais of Marie de France, which I never really finished due to other interests.


 * Music. I listen to all sorts of music, but I especially love most anything by Bach, as well as the musicals Chess and Rent. One day I hope to improve the articles on the operas Le Devin du Village and Atys. I helped bring the operas Agrippina and Orfeo ed Euridice to Good Article status, and the list of major opera composers to Featured List status. I also started articles on Les nuits d'été and Charles Ives' Holiday Symphony. I have also translated Comédie-Italienne from the French.


 * Television, such as the new Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, and various anime series, such as Bleach, and Blood+. In this area, I also started the article on the voice actor Richard Epcar.


 * Pulmonary hypertension or PH, something I had never even heard of until I was diagnosed with the idiopathic form of the disease. I've contributed towards Wikipedia's article about PH, and written or contributed towards articles about some medicines used in its treatment, such as ambrisentan, bosentan, sitaxsentan, treprostinil, epoprostenol, iloprost, sildenafil, and tadalafil. I try not to concentrate solely on health topics, though. I don't want to let PH define how others see me, or in other words, I am a person and not a disease.


 * Lung transplantation and heart-lung transplants, which are the only definitive cures for my form of PH. I wrote the initial version of the lung transplant article, as well as the related articles on the lung allocation score and the ventilation/perfusion scan. I'm also interested in organ transplantation in general.


 * Cystic fibrosis or CF, something I became interested in because someone with CF once went to the same school I did. The article on CF is a featured article, but I only had a small part in its development. Whenever I get around to it, I might translate more content from its French Wikipédia article as well as from other languages.


 * Miscellaneous. Did I mention that I brought Bengali Language Movement to Featured Article status? I also wrote the introduction of now-FA status Biman Bangladesh Airlines, but other concerns kept me from doing more.


 * translating missing content from French Wikipédia to English Wikipedia and vice versa. Many of the medicine-related articles in particular need improvement and/or creation on French Wikipédia.


 * improving articles related to medicine, especially in the areas of pulmonology, nephrology, and cardiology.

This last project is something I feel pretty strongly about. Many of the Wikipedia articles relating to medicine and science seem to be written towards a doctor's or scientist's point of view, rather than that of a patient or interested layperson. I do not want to "dumb down" the articles, just make them more understandable to everyone, without diluting their scientific content.

It's a hard task to accomplish, because as I've said on the Science reference desk, using scientific jargon saves time for people who are already familiar with the field, while it confuses or frustrates others. You may have noticed in my own contributions to scientific and medical articles that I tend to lapse into more formal and jargon-filled language because it allows both precision and brevity, so I'm just as guilty as anyone of that. Even so, I truly feel that Wikipedia should be for everyone, both novices and experts, and I hope that there is some middle ground that will satisfy everybody.



Some thoughts
Omnia vincit Amor. — Eclogues, Virgil



Subpages
User and talk page header Talk page archives Awards I have been given Commitment to my real identity My personal smile template Sandbox for userpage redesign Why I left Esperanza My entry on editor review, when I used the name "Tachikoma" My Esperanza template, now just a redirect to my talk page Thank you message Thank you message 2 Reference pages so I don't have to search the main help files Sandbox for my Tale of Genji project (postponed until another reading) Sandbox for my L'Abyssin project (sort of on the back burner) Welcome message for newcomers Welcome message for anonymous users Javascript tools List of custom warnings

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