User:GreatSculptorIthas

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Intro

I'm an American biology student with a passion for education. I believe that education is the path to a better life and a better society. It is a human right and a societal good, and it's best furthered by crowd-sourced, open projects like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, and others.

My primary work so far has been on articles within Wikiprojects related to biology and neighboring subjects. As a relatively new editor, I have largely kept to simple(ish) work such as article assessments (via Rater which I highly recommend), cleanup templates, wikification, and copy-editing. Below, you can see a list of pages that I work from. It is slowly expanding as I gain experience and confidence.

As visible in my userboxes, I also have an interest in translation. I've taken a break from German as a whole in my life recently, and I have been heavily focused on biology since it is my area of study. However, in the future I predict to make translation a significant portion of my editing work. I say I want Wikipedia to be available to all people, and I mean that. While my best strengths are in editing the English Wikipedia, I will do what I can to help make information available in other languages as well.

My Worklist

Unassessed articles (by WikiProject):

• BIO UA
• COMPBIO
• ECO
  • ECO IMPORTANCE
• EVO
• GEN
  • GEN IMPORTANCE
• MCB
• MICRO
• PLANTS
  • PLANTS IMPORTANCE
• WOMSCI
  • WOMSCI IMPORTANCE (HUGE))
• BIO starting with P
  • Sign up for another letter!

Current projects/work areas

• Guides to the use of User:Evad37/rater and assessment in general--DRAFT FINISHED, SUBMITTING 5-25-19
• Draft:Lane's Balance--Researching more before continuing
• Crafting of a Science User Group
• Wikiproject:Biology revamp

• Involves merger discussion, which may end here--GMCB
• Involves redesign discussion
• Involves assessment of WP:BIOL articles
• Involves rewriting assessment page
• Many future components

Future projects/work areas

• Working on general cleanup listing backlogs (by Wikiproject)
• Translation from de->en (mainly) and from en->de (less frequently)
• Infoboxes for projects I work with
• Tagging articles for cleanup
• Eventually learning more about biographical articles and contributing to Wikiprojects Women in Red/Women Scientists
• Contributing more to Tree of Life and sub-wikiprojects
• I have developed my own list of articles needing my skills (will begin work soon)
• WP:WOMSCI Assessment Drive (just click on the WOMSCI IMPORTANCE link above to see why that's necessary. Yikes!
• Banner Standardization for wikiprojects (especially Maths, Fungi, and Mathematical and Computational Biology)
• Adding more assessment backlogs from Category:Wikipedia_assessment_backlog

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Responsibilities
This user is a participant in WikiProject Biology. This user is a participant in WikiProject X. This user is a participant in WikiProject Tree of Life. This user is a participant in WikiProject Plants. This user is a member of WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology. ?This user likes to browse random articles, and make helpful edits whenever they can. This user helps out newcomers.

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This user is an advocate of open research and open access. #RThis user thinks redirection is preferable to deletion. wiki-2This user is an intermediate Wikipedia editor. Come chat with us on the Wikimedia Community Discord server! This user adds inline citations quickly and easily with Zotero. This user uses HotCat to work with categories. This user contributes using Vivaldi. - This user likes to translate and proofread articles from German to English. Wikipedia:Babel enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. Search user languages