Hello! I'm Dorothy. I have been editing Wikipedia for 10+ years. I understand the value of contributing to Wikipedia and open knowledge repositories, and enjoy the reflective process of working with different communities to expand publicly available knowledge. Recently I have been writing and improving Wikipedia articles related to history, artists and art venues, music, qualitative research methods, and labor concepts. I've also worn multiple hats as a community organizer, open knowledge advocate, and researcher. I am a member of Wikimedia New York City.
Additional Background
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. In that position, I was an early proponent of the Wikipedian-in-Residence concept. I also contributed to WikiProject Consumer Reports. I was a Program Officer at WikiConference USA, 2014. I was an early Wikipedia community advisor/curricula developer/organizer for Art + Feminism, 2014-2015.[1] I have also done some academic research reflecting on participating in the Wikimedia community as a gender and diversity advocate, see Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care citation below.
Miscellaneous Writing and Media Appearances About Wikipedia
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%).