Hello! I'm Dorothy. I contribute to Wikipedia articles related to history, art/artists, music, philosophy, literature, labor, archives, health, and more. I started editing Wikipedia around 2012. I've worn multiple hats as a Wikipedia editor, community organizer, and researcher. I currently participate as an organizer in the Wikimedia User Group, Wikimedia LGBT+ (I'm bi). I recently contributed to the global/virtual Queering Wikipedia 2023 conference and presented a talk about Wikipedia and AI.
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 member of Wikimedia NYC, and a Program Officer at WikiConference USA, 2014. I have done some academic work 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 recently co-submitted a research proposal to WMF Grants to study conversations about the opportunities and challenges neurodivergent Wikimedians experience. The proposal is in Round II of submissions, Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences Anyone is welcome to provide feedback to the grant discussion page.
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.
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