Acedia or accedie: a state of weariness and lack of concern for the world, often resulting from too much solitary scholasticism.
Me when I first started editing Wikipedia! (Credit: cc-by-sa-3.0, Ragesoss)

Greetings and salutations!

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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

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I dip in and out of being an active content contributor onwiki, but when I do fall down the wiki-hole, I most enjoy creating articles on niche topics and copyediting (to help out non-native English speakers, and to assist brave souls trying to get an article to FA – bonus points if said article is also on a niche topic!).

Otherwise, you'll find me spiffying up random articles and occasionally hosting an editathon to introduce more newbies to the joys of Wikipedia.

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

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Articles I created:

GA work:

Wikipedians are nice

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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

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 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.