User:Gobonobo

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... 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[edit]

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.

Barnstars

Precious The Modest Barnstar

Did you know... contributions
Did you know...

detail of Magna Carta (An Embroidery)

Self-portrait of Kendall
Self-portrait of Kendall
Grip, Dickens's raven
Grip, Dickens's raven
Blotter art of the Eye of Horus
Blotter art of the Eye of Horus
Yokcushlu
Yokcushlu
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin



























tomorrow's picture of the day, but upsidedown
Sea urchin


Sea urchins are a group of spiny globular echinoderms which form the class Echinoidea. About 950 species live on the seabed, inhabiting all oceans and depth zones from the intertidal to 5,000 metres (16,000 feet; 2,700 fathoms). Their tests (hard shells) are round and spiny, typically from 3 to 10 centimetres (1 to 4 inches) across. Sea urchins move slowly, crawling with their tube feet, and sometimes pushing themselves with their spines. They feed primarily on algae but also eat slow-moving or sessile animals. Their predators include sea otters, starfish, wolf eels, and triggerfish. This photograph, taken off the northern coast of Haiti near Cap-Haïtien, shows two species of sea urchin: a West Indian sea egg (top) and a reef urchin (bottom).