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Hello, I am a Wikipedian (since 2005) and an administrator on Wikipedia (see log).[1] I was born on April 27 in Kiev (Kyiv),[2] Ukraine. I first came across Wikipedia through an internet search in October of 2005 and kept it in my bookmarks as a useful source.[3] I only became active since late December 27, 2005. If you have any photograph requests of Ukraine (Kiev, Crimea, Bukovyna), I will be happy to provide them.[4] Feel free to ask for help or to contact me on any issues.
On the English Wikipedia, I mostly contribute articles related to Ukraine (mostly architecture, Kiev, and Crimea), although I may stray off to other topics like Lviv, Donbas, Russia, and the United States.[5] Contributions that I am most proud of are the four  Featured contents (St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Portal:Ukraine, House with Chimaeras, and the 1691 map of Kamianets-Podilskyi), two  Good articles (Andriyivskyy Descent, Mezhyhirskyi Monastery, and  Donetsk)[6]and the 32  Did you know articles. For my full list of contributions see here.
You can also notice that I sometimes lose enthusiasm about the topics I am writing about, which is why I have so many unfinished articles waiting to be published in the article namespace. Another recent one I started is the Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle—a nice start—but a lot to do before it gets published.
In addition to contributing to the English Wikipedia, I also commonly go to the Wikimedia Commons and the Ukrainian[7] and the Belarusian Wikipedia,[8] where I have written a couple of articles. Some useful links: Ukrainian portal (new articles, notice board), Crimean portal, and the Slovak portal.
- ^ See my RfA here.
- ^ I don't really understand why there is such a huge conflict over the name of an article. "It's not the name that counts, its the quality of the article." I wouldn't care if Kiev was named Kiev (Kyiv) and was at Featured status... Same with the 2,409,476 some articles in this encyclopædia. "It's not the quantity that counts, it's the quality."
- ^ My first Wikipedia article, Rusanivka,[link] written by IP adress 69.209.226.56.
- ^ I have a whole lot of photographs and images on the Wikimedia Commons, see my category here.
- ^ I used to only contribute to Ukraine-related articles, now I strive to give light onto those topics that are in terrible state (as of right now, the Kamianets-Podilskyi article) or onto those which were destroyed and later forgotton (Palmer Mansion in Chicago).
- ^ Donetsk was delisted after I failed to fix up the article.. I never even knew the article was up for reassessment..
- ^ I wrote a total of 12 articles on the Ukrainian Wikipedia, although most of them are stubs. For the list of articles, see here.
- ^ I was a temporary administrator on the Belarusian Wikipedia, while their were voting on their own admins. See my logo of actions here.
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I, Irpen, hereby give you this Exceptional Newcomer Award for your exceptional enthusiasm, inventiveness, and, especially, for your contribution towards another Ukraine related article, Khreschatyk, being featured on the Wikipedia's Main Page "Did you know" section. Please keep up the good work! Conferred by Irpen 02:13, 10 January 2006 (UTC) |
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№ 2. --Irpen 04:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC). |
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For contributing so many Ukrainian related articles to wikipedia, I hereby award you this barnstar! Enjoy, abakharev. |
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For your tiredless efforts on the quality of many Ukrainain articles as well as others, and for your excellent results in the number of them reaching DYKs...and of all the recent overhall of Kiev; I, Kuban Cossack hereby award you the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky barnstar. Please continue to enlighten wikipedia with your priceless contributions. Conferred by Kuban Cossack  22:17, 26 July 2006 (UTC). |
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You are hereby awarded this Ukrainian National Award "For Irreproachable Services - 3rd" for continuous contributions to the mission of Portal:Ukraine, for exposing Ukraine-related articles to wider audiences by writing quality entries featured on the main page, and for protecting against deletionists. --Riurik(discuss) 06:10, 21 October 2007 (UTC) |
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Congratulations! Here's a medal for you in appreciation of your hardwork in creating, expanding and nominating 25+ articles for DYK. Its a bit belated as you have over 30ish ... it seems a long time since you started and so many articles. Keep up the good work, DDima, the Ukraine is represented! --Victuallers (talk) 21:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC) |
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Let me use an opportunity of Ukraine being recognized today as a good article to award you this barnstar for your excellent work on the whole variety of Ukrainian geographic articles. Greggerr (talk) 00:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC) |
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I hereby awarded you the Ukrainian National Award ‘The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky - 3rd degree’ for your enthusiasm and dedication to Ukrainian topics and doing all those small edits other Wikipidians overlook! - Mariah-Yulia (talk) 22:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC) |
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