Dnaoro

Hi, I am dnaoro. Wikipedia is a huge part of my life. I spend hours reading it. I do not consider it the ultimate source of knowledge - after all, we live in the 21st century, the time of no absolute truths. I consider it a great source of inspiration, database of all the truths, the source of sources. It is a springboard for my journeys into the vast realm of humanity's knowledge.

I always liked checking out encyclopedias. I mean the traditional, paper ones. Everything has changed after Wikipedia was created. Now I despise her paper sisters, full of inaccuracies and misinterpretations, with no possibility to edit the content. In the time relativism is the only way to approach our world, Wikipedia gives us the opportunity to nevertheless stay put in our endeavor to understand things. There is no bias against topics, national and personal narratives, languages and writing systems, sources of information (maybe with the exception of social media..). Each entry can be changed (as the things change), debated (as the idea of truth is), and rewritten (as our lives often are), and in the same time - a record of each edit is kept.

I hope to contribute more in the future myself. As for now, what I do except exploring Wikipedia by reading it, are mostly minor edits and some simple new articles. Mostly in the fields of my interests, but not exclusively.

Among my interests are films, comics, art, traveling, cookery, languages, mythologies, history. I have vast knowledge on cinemas of the world (I watched couple of thousand of movies from most countries of the world, in hundreds of languages), cuisines of the world, art history, ancient civilizations, geography. I travel a lot and I have visited more than 60 countries. During my journeys and sojourns I always try to learn as much as possible about local culture(s) and grasp basic use of local language(s). I am fluent in Polish, I am learning Russian, and I can comprehend other Slavic languages in favorable circumstances. I know basic French, Spanish and Italian. I am far from fluency in either of them but my knowledge is sufficient to conduct research in these languages. One of my main fields of study is China and her languages. I learn by my own, but I am able to understand couple of hundreds of Chinese characters, I speak basic Mandarin and I am preparing to start to learn Cantonese as well. While learning spoken language, I pay close attention to authentic pronunciation - people usually comment that I have good French accent, while learning Arabic I try to differentiate between local varieties, so on and so forth.

major contributions

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medium-sized contributions

Lianhua Symphony (page creation), Tatar trail (page creation), City of Gastronomy (page creation), Wang Weiyi (physician) (page creation),

the simplest contributions

He Mengfu (page creation; just a stub), Joanna Kos-Krauze (page creation; just a stub), New Horizons Film Festival (regular updates), Shen Fu (director) (page creation), Situ Huimin (page creation), Wan Jen (page creation), Five Flavours Film Festival (page creation), Far East Film Festival (page creation), Alberto Vázquez (page creation), Short Waves Festival (page creation), Chrysanthemum Tea (film) (page creation), Tang Shenwei (page creation), Lee Byung-il (page creation), Museum of Toruń Gingerbread (page creation),