User:Accedie

Acedia or accedie: a state of weariness and lack of concern for the world, often resulting from too much solitary scholasticism.

Ohai! (Credit: cc-by-sa-3.0, Ragesoss)

Greetings and salutations!

I'm Maryana. I'm a literature and languages person by trade, but I like dabbling in anything that strikes my fancy. There's so much still to be done here!

Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation (my staff account is here), but this is my personal account. Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account are my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

What I do

I'll happily take on copyediting requests (just ask!) – I especially enjoy fixing up articles written by non-native English speakers. I'm fluent in Russian and Ukrainian, so I also try to watch Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English for any Slavic-related material that needs improvement.

Otherwise, you'll find me spiffying up random articles, helping newbies, and occasionally creating articles on various and sundry topics I happen to know something about.

Stuff I've done (that you can help improve!)

Articles I created:

Giovanni Battista Castiglione Lobaria oregana The Origin of German Tragic Drama Build light indicator Tick dragging Anna Reid Acoustic wayfinding The Second Line (magazine) Affair of the Sausages Boston busing crisis Dmytro Chyzhevsky Robert Tryon Mary Allen Seminary Robot & Frank Feminism in Russia Southdown Plantation Orange Grove Plantation House Maurice Coindreau Eva Kantůrková Basketball uniform Bill Baird (musician) Hoodslam Basic bitch Project Unified Assistance Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company Building

GA work:

• Light in August

Wikipedians are nice

Barnstars!

The Original Barnstar for a great first article! - Philippe 19:50, 9 April 2011 (UTC) The Teamwork Barnstar GO TEAM SCIENCE Stu (aeiou)I`m Researching Wikipedia 20:30, 29 August 2011 (UTC) The "preventing Jimbo fatigue" fundraising barnstar Thank you for subjecting yourself to the potentially hilarious memes that will flow from your forthcoming appearance in the Fundraiser. —Tom Morris (talk) 23:42, 18 November 2011 (UTC) The Copyeditor's Barnstar On your WikiBirthday, and in celebration of making your first 1,000 edits. Steven Walling • talk 22:20, 21 March 2012 (UTC) The Copyeditor's Barnstar Thanks Accedie! You assisted in various ways on the Paul McCartney FAC. Thank you! Without your help and support McCartney would not be a FA today! ~ GabeMc (talk|contribs) 21:31, 9 July 2012 (UTC) The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thanks much for your help with creating a new page for my student. I am relatively new to the wiki experiment and using the wiki as part of my class assignments. Your helpfulness has motivated me to incorporate the wiki more seriously in my college classes and become more familiar with the editing process. With sincere thanks, Marko Prof. Dumancic (talk) 18:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC) The Real Life Barnstar For raising awareness at Wikimania of gender-related issues and the ways in which we unintentionally or subconsciously exclude people from participating fully in Wikipedia. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:44, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Flair

This user is a participant in WikiProject Novels.

This user is a wikiarchaeologist and enjoys looking through old page histories for no particular reason.

This user is a member of
the Guild of Copy Editors.