User:Dreamyshade
I'm Britta Gustafson. I've been editing Wikipedia since October 2001. In January 2016 I gave a short talk explaining why people should learn more about Wikipedia's history, and you can watch it. There's a community profile about me on the Wikimedia blog, and I contributed to a history of Wikipedia at 20 years old.
I established a LocalWiki for Isla Vista, CA, part of the separate LocalWiki project that encourages documenting non-notable local topics.
Resources for facilitating workshops
[edit]I received workshop facilitator training in 2014 and have led and supported many edit-a-thons. Materials and notes that I'm happy to share for reuse and adaptation:
- "Secret rules of Wikipedia editing" intro presentation (PDF)
- Videocall editathon checklist
- Tips for promotion:
- Set up a detailed Wikipedia meetup page. Examples: Wiki Loves Monuments photowalk in San Francisco, Black Campus Movement @ Oakland Public Library, Art+Feminism SF MOMA
- Find any relevant mailing lists to email - for example, in my area, it's good to send a note to the Wikimedia-SF mailing list
- Create a geonotice
- Set up an Outreach dashboard page to help track attendees and outcomes
- Examples of lists of articles to edit, expand, and create, to help people get started:
- To create accounts for new editors at events and bypass the limit on number of accounts created per IP per day, you can request event coordinator permission.
Articles
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Some topics where I wrote an initial version:
- 2001-2002: I started editing Wikipedia because there wasn't an article for harp. I made one! There weren't many articles back then, so I also made assorted new entries such as Pablo Neruda, Alien and Sedition Acts, and driftwood. This was back when creating an encyclopedia from scratch felt more like a lark than an achievable concept, so why not create a bunch of articles with whatever you learned from your homework.
- 2004: Shrine Auditorium, a landmark in my hometown
- 2006: Joel Sternfeld, a photographer whose work I appreciated
- 2007: Derek McCulloch (comics), the author of an interesting graphic novel about Stagger Lee and American music history
- 2012: Pinboard (website), the independent successor to a website I used to work for
- 2014: Outreachy, a program that supports underrepresented people interested in working on open source software
- 2017: Another editor started Hodgkins and Skubic House (a Modernist house designed for a lesbian couple in 1967) based on my LocalWiki article
- 2022: Afro-American Association (a gap in coverage of the Black Power movement) and Amund Dietzel (a gap in coverage of tattoo history)
- 2023: Weston Havens House, a Modernist house designed for a gay man in 1940
- 2024: Rustls, an open source software project that aims to improve internet security
Draft: Trans Lifeline sources.
Photos
[edit]I like documenting local historic buildings and landmarks, so I've contributed photos to Historic-Cultural Monuments in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, San Francisco Designated Landmarks, and List of Oakland Designated Landmarks. I served as a judge for Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States for a few years.
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Puente Hills Landfill, the largest landfill in the United States -
A free box in the majority-student community of Isla Vista, California -
A gas station built in 1929 next to the Ellwood Oil Field in Goleta, California -
Workers cleaning up the Refugio oil spill in 2015 in Santa Barbara County, California -
Listerine bottle found in my grandparent's house -
The Lexington Club, a lesbian bar in the Mission District of San Francisco from 1997-2015 -
I. Magnin Building, a former department store in Oakland, California -
Hallway in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
