User:Gobonobo

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... what would Diderot do?

Hi! I'm gobonobo. I've been a Wikipedia editor since before hashtags. I survived 100 wikidays, have written around 1000 articles, and have made over 100,000 edits to the English Wikipedia and Wikidata. I patrol recent changes, review draft articles, revert vandalism, and monitor social media for errors that have slipped through the cracks. I sometimes contribute to the did you know... section on the main page and have uploaded oodles of images both here and on Commons.

As an editor, I focus on a wide variety of content and try to address systemic bias, especially in regards to gender, racial and geographic biases. I am a member of several WikiProjects, support GLAM initiatives, and have volunteered with Art+Feminism and participated in Black Lunch Table events. I've organized edit-a-thons and led editing workshops at the Loft, Mia, the American Craft Council, St. Kate's, Hamline, and the U of M.

About me[edit]

I hail from Minnesota where I learned how to be nice and ride tall bikes, neither of which are very useful in Buenos Aires. While my username refers to the most enlightened of the great apes, I am actually a night owl who enjoys rabbit holes. I use Linux and support the free and open-source software movement. I have a background in the cooperative movement and consensus decision-making. I'm a C-SPAN junkie and enjoy listening to Wikipedia, time-travel romance, and long bicycle rides where I can snap photos for Wikishootme.

I made my first edit to Wikipedia in 2006 and my early focus centered on different types of cooperatives. Early on I was an online ambassador, working with university classes (before Wiki Ed) and worked briefly with the volunteer response team. I later became involved in efforts to address the gender gap. I no longer maintain my gender gap red list, as the Women in Red lists are far more comprehensive. I was privileged to be a part of the group that organized an edit-a-thon at the Minneapolis Central Library where the Guerrilla Girls were guests of honor and to be among the Wikimedians who convinced the Minnesota Historical Society to license their MNopedia content as CC BY-SA. I supported the global blackout of this site in opposition to SOPA, have been described as a "Wikipedia Angel" and was the first editor to note the death of Kim Jong Il.

Barnstars

Precious The Modest Barnstar

Did you know... contributions
Did you know...

detail of Magna Carta (An Embroidery)

Self-portrait of Kendall
Self-portrait of Kendall
Grip, Dickens's raven
Grip, Dickens's raven
Blotter art of the Eye of Horus
Blotter art of the Eye of Horus
Yokcushlu
Yokcushlu
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin



























tomorrow's picture of the day, but upsidedown
Ethel Smyth


Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth's extensive body of work includes the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra, and the Mass in D. Her opera The Wreckers is considered by some critics to be the "most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten". This photograph of Smyth was taken in 1922.