User:GreatSculptorIthas

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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