User:Misaochan

About me
Hello there! I'm Josephine, an Outreachy applicant and a Computer Science graduate from the University of Auckland. I was born in Malaysia but left for the lush green hills of New Zealand several years ago, and have lived there since.

I believe that knowledge - learning about ourselves, the world around us, and beyond - is one of the most important things in life, and have been a voracious reader ever since I can remember. As technology progressed, the thick encyclopedias of my childhood transformed into volumes in a CD on my Windows 95 machine, and eventually into the Wikipedia of today.

But I digress. I've been a Wikipedia user for years, and am excited at the prospect of contributing to the organization that operates it. I strongly believe in transparency and the ethos of open source software, as well as the free and equal distribution of knowledge to all who desire it. I have only just started contributing to open source by working on the Upload to Commons Android app, but it has already been an incredible experience having my code merged and hoping that it will reach people out there.

In (the rest of) my spare time, I play computer games on Steam and Battlenet, read sci fi and space news websites, watch cute animal videos to distract myself from not being able to keep a pet in a rental house, and run a foodie website.

Contact/links

 * GitHub: misaochan
 * IRC: josephine_l (#mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev, #wikimedia-commons)
 * Email: josephinelim86@gmail.com