User:Jordanblocker
Hi there![edit]
"Jordanblocker" is actually the name of a hockey team at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where I went for grad school. I thought it was a smart pun with a cool pronunciation even though I have no interest in hockey. It just came into my mind when I registered this Wikipedia account perfunctorily, not expecting myself to be a long-term Wikipedia editor.
Wikipedia has been an extremely helpful resource for me to get new knowledge and I believe it has even partly contributed in forming my personality.
More about me[edit]
My first language is Mandarin Chinese and am consciously trying to make English my primary language. I'm fluent in the speaking and listening of Shanghainese too, which I consider is a different language as Mandarin Chinese.
My activities on English Wikipedia[edit]
Some of my editing has been undone and some may turn out useless, and it's hard to measure how much meaningful contributions I have actually made for each page I'm involved in. Thus, I decide to just list out the pages where I spent more than half an hour editing. They are:
- Alessandro Strumia
- Barbary pirates
- Magda Goebbels
- Avital Ronell
- Nien_Cheng
- Julian Casablancas
- Richard Lindzen
- Lolita fashion:Confusions
- South_Park_Republican
- Helmholtz_decomposition
- Radon_transform
- University_of_Science_and_Technology_of_China
- Coriolis_force.
The full record of the contribution history from my account can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jordanblocker
List of things I'm planning to do[edit]
This section records the things I want to do on Wikipedia that I have not done yet due to my procrastination.
Big projects[edit]
Each task here would probably take at least 3 hours away from me. Please contact me if you want to work together to get some of these done sooner.
- Revamp the Coriolis Force entry. The status quo is intolerable. I plan to add the rigorous mathematical derivation (applying the change of basis matrix) and try to persuade the other editors to put that in a prominent position. Some stuff in the current version is wrong while others may be redundant or extremely unfriendly to someone new with the concept, and I will try to fight with the editors on deleting them. I will also add some applications of the Coriolis effect in atmospheric/oceanic dynamics that I consider important.
- Create the entries for a few important meteorological terms, such as "Gradient wind", "Eliassen–Palm flux".
- Revamp the Scholar-official entry.
- Revamp the Farewell My Concubine (play) entry.
- Adding a controversy section to the Red Cross Society of China entry.
Small projects[edit]
Each will probably take me 0.5-1 hour.
- Translate parts of the Chinese version of Kirchhoff's circuit laws and add to the English version.
- Edit the Accessory_nail_of_the_fifth_toe entry: focus on adding the controversies and ongoing researches about its origin in Han Chinese.
My user page on Chinese Wikipedia[edit]
I'm starting editing on Chinese Wikipedia as well now. My user page on Chinese Wikipedia is: