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I like helping with editathon events in the San Francisco Bay Area or virtual, especially ones that work to counter Knowledge's systemic bias. If you're organizing one, post on my talk page or
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Prepare a list of articles to edit, expand, and create, to help people get started. Example topic lists I've created about areas I'm interested in:
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If in person: I can create accounts for new editors at events to bypass the limit on number of accounts created per IP per day (I have the
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I do this work for free for institutions/organizations/groups that have tiny budgets, like public libraries.
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Mentor new editors by answering their questions and helping them find interesting things to edit.
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I like documenting local historic buildings and landmarks, so I've contributed photos to
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is on the left, built in 1957 for a lesbian couple in Isla Vista, California
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2001-2002: I started editing Knowledge because there wasn't an article for
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Promote of the event to SF-area Wikipedians — for example, emailing
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Wikipedians by alma mater: University of California, Santa Barbara
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Teaching at a Knowledge editing event in Berkeley, California.
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to help track attendees and outcomes. Example meetup pages:
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in the majority-student community of Isla Vista, California
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Plan how to set up and manage a Zoom-based workshop — see
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a "secret rules of Knowledge editing" intro presentation
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Black Campus Movement @ Oakland Public Library, May 2021
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Members of the Twenty Year Society of Knowledge editors
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Historic-Cultural Monuments in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
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that encourages documenting non-notable local topics.
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Index

a website with some projects
started a LocalWiki
Isla Vista, CA
separate wiki system
October 2001
you can watch it
community profile about me on the Wikimedia blog
a history of Knowledge at 20 years old

More photos from Knowledge events.
email me
my videocall editathon checklist
outdoor Commons photowalks
the Wikimedia-SF mailing list
geonotice
Outreach dashboard page
Black Campus Movement @ Oakland Public Library, May 2021
Art+Feminism SFMOMA March 2021
Healthcare projects
Tattoo history project
Tech culture project
Anti-circumvention article project
a "secret rules of Knowledge editing" intro presentation
PDF
event coordinator
harp
Pablo Neruda
Alien and Sedition Acts
driftwood
Shrine Auditorium

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