User:Hexatekin

Hello! I'm Dorothy. I have been editing Wikipedia for 10+ years. I understand the value of contributing to Wikipedia and open knowledge repositories, and enjoy the reflective process of working with different communities to expand publicly available knowledge. However, I am also an advocate for transparent discussions about Wikipedia's reliance on unpaid labor, and how Wikipedia's reliance on unpaid labor affects its content gaps. I've worn multiple hats as a community organizer, open knowledge advocate, and researcher. Recently, I have been working on Wikipedia articles related to music, history, artists and art venues, and research methods.

Announcements

• I am currently a Master of Library and Information Science student at Pratt Institute School of Information as of fall 2024
• I recently helped out with Wikidata workflows for the SEEKCommons project, Wikidata:SEEKCommons.

Current Research

• I initiated and am a Co-PI on a Wikimedia Research funded grant to study conversations about neurodivergent Wikimedian experiences, 1 June-1 December, 2024. The project page is here: Research:Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences. Anyone is welcome to provide feedback on the discussion page. I am beginning a book project on this topic. If you would like to participate in this project by being interviewed, please reach out.
  • Anyone is invited to collaborate and provide feedback on the page, Meta:Neuro-inclusive event strategies, which emerged from this project.

Additional Background 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. In that position, I was an early proponent of the Wikipedian-in-Residence concept. 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. I was Administrative Executive for the Queering Wikipedia 2023 international, virtual conference.

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%).
• "Wikipedia, work, and capitalism. A realm of freedom?" [Book review], Wikimedia Research Newsletter, March 2017
• 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.

• http://dorothyhoward.com/