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Hello! I'm Dorothy. I have been editing Wikipedia for 10+ years. Recently I have been writing and improving Wikipedia articles related to history, artists and art venues, music, qualitative research methods, and labor concepts. I've also worn multiple hats as a community organizer, open knowledge advocate, and researcher, and attend Wikimedia New York City meetups.

I was formerly a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in 2013-2014, and the documentation for that work can be found at: Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council. I also contributed to WikiProject Consumer Reports. I was a Program Officer at WikiConference USA, 2014. I was an early Wikipedia community advisor/curricula developer/organizer for Art + Feminism, 2014-2015.^[1] I have also done some academic research reflecting on participating in the Wikimedia community as a gender and diversity advocate, see Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care citation below.

Announcements

I am a Co-PI on a Wikimedia Research funded grant to study conversations about the opportunities and challenges neurodivergent Wikimedians experience. The proposal is here: Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences. The project page is here: Research:Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences. Anyone is welcome to provide feedback on the discussion page.

Dorothy presenting on how to edit Wikipedia at Eyebeam, NYC, February 2014

Miscellaneous Writing and Media Appearances About Wikipedia

Dorothy Howard & Lane Rasberry. Perspectives on the Meeting of Wikipedia & Artificial Intelligence. UVA Data Points Podcast. August 22, 2023.
Dorothy Howard, John Samuel, and Owen Blacker. WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference, The Signpost, 22 May, 2023
R. Stuart Geiger, Dorothy Howard, and Lilly Irani. The labor of maintaining and scaling free and open-source software projects. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction 5, no. CSCW1 (2021): 1-28.
Dorothy Howard & Lilly Irani. 2019. Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care. 2019. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). Awarded Honorable Mention (top 4%).
Dorothy Howard. "Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps." Wikimedia blog. February 24, 2015.
Dorothy Howard. Interviews with librarians and archivists in participating in GLAM-Wiki at the Metropolitan New York Library Council blog.
Dorothy Howard. Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor, April, 2014. (self-published)
Dorothy Howard. On Closing the Gender Gap in Wikipedia Metropolitan New York Library Council.

External links

http://dorothyhoward.com/

References

^ staff (November 2014). "A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 | Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Richard Knipel, Dorothy Howard, Laurel Ptak". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

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[1] staff (November 2014). "A World Disrupted: The Leading Global Thinkers of 2014 | Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael Mandiberg, Richard Knipel, Dorothy Howard, Laurel Ptak". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

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