Why do I edit Wikipedia? To increase the percentage of women's bios on English Wikipedia. It's 19.79% as of 1 April 2024. Other editing is focused on updating articles about Australia and Australians.
After a slow start, in July 2017 I joined the WikiProject Women in Red, with the aim of turning redlinks into blue, adding entries for women of note who deserve their own entries in Wikipedia. In late 2017 I discovered their #1day1woman project and also began contributing to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge which has a long way to go to reach its goal. On 3 January 2018 I signed up the 2018 #1day1woman project and have been an active participant in this important global initiative ever since.
The City of Sydney (CoS) contracted me to assist at a training workshop for their librarians in preparation for three editathons to be held in 2021 and to co-facilitate the Picture This editathon on 15 May. In both instances I demonstrate how to edit Wikipedia using CoS content including providing online support to participants via Zoom. The project page for the 15 May public editathon is Wikipedia:GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/City of Sydney Picture This. In 2022 I have again been contracted by CoS to assist in facilitating two Wikidata and two Wikipedia in-person editathons.
Thanks so much for your work - including that on Royal Society fellows for Women in Red - Brilliant Victuallers (talk) 09:31, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Hay, you dropped this. I think actually you dropped about a hundred of these but this is the only one I could find quickly. So please forgive me for not bringing the other 99 to you but here is number 100. Thank you. Victuallers (talk) 11:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)