... what would Diderot do? Hi! I'm gobonobo . I've been a Wikipedia editor since before people had iPhones . 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 drafts at Articles for Creation , and revert vandalism , monitoring social media for errors that have slipped through the cracks. I 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 active with several of the WikiProjects for women, including Women in Red . I support GLAM initiatives and have volunteered with Art+Feminism and Black Lunch Table . 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
This user has made over100,000 edits to Wikipedia .
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years
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I hail from Minnesota where I learned how to be nice and ride tall bikes , neither of which are very useful in my current home 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 .
Did you know... contributions
Did you know... ... that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
... that the Fox Island Electric Cooperative community wind energy facility on the East Coast of the United States?
... that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam
... that political strategist Rod Shealy South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
... that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones Ghetto Life 101
... that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice sustainable seafood , like the spiny lobster , through its co-operatives ?
... that Armajaro 's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading ?
... that Tyonajanegen Oneida tribe , fought in the American Revolutionary War ?
... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War , a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International
... that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan ?
... that Harlan Crow 's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro , Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong ?
... that the Research Works Act U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research?
... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell (pictured) were influenced by ukiyo-e ?
... that Nina Wilcox Putnam The Mummy 1040 income tax form ?
... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson Minneapolis ?
... that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas
... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer (pictured) went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota ?
... that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
... that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association sweatshops ?
... that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson 's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown
... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project ?
... that the documentary Heist Great Recession to a confidential memo written in 1971 ?
... that Tar Heel Annie Lowrie Alexander (pictured) was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States ?
... that Margarete Bieber
... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi ?
... that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis Danube Delta ?
... that Buffy Sainte-Marie 's song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua ?
... that the Lesbian Herstory Archives Daughters of Bilitis ?
... that attorney Harriet Pilpel Betty Friedan , Mel Brooks , Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?
... that Loretta Lynn (pictured) , Mary Breckinridge , and Thelma Stovall are all Kentucky Women Remembered
... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson ?
... that Soosan Firooz
... that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles Australia ?
... that Ruby Hurley NAACP 's first permanent office in the Deep South ?
... that Maxine Feldman ' s song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival ?
... that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish birth control clinic in Connecticut ?
... that while Claude Raguet Hirst 's painting A Gentleman's Table (pictured) was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
... that Kuwaiti electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi Middle East ?
... that pork-knockers
... that the Burka Avenger female superhero ?
... that Florence Koehler Arts and Crafts movement ?
... that the first modern cochlear implant was developed by Austrian electrical engineer Ingeborg Hochmair
... that the Ph.D dissertation of taphonomist Kay Behrensmeyer sauropods were terrestrial?
... that female physicist Elizabeth Laird
... that Minneapolis City Councilmember -elect Abdi Warsame Somali Americans to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?
... that Deborah Sussman (pictured) designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ?
... that Judith Pipher infrared astronomy ?"
... that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux Gestapo ?
... that the Downton Abbey law
... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía
... that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week
... that Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann
... THAT FEMINIST HULK bell hooks ?
... that Betty Bone Schiess Philadelphia Eleven , leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church ?
... that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead Thirteen Colonies ?
... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
... that Myra Adele Logan
... that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota
... that a Spiderwoman Theater
... that feminist artists invented the WEB
... that Abbie Lathrop 's mouse number 57 was the origin of the C57BL/6 (pictured) laboratory mouse?
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