User:99of9

About me


I'm especially interested in improving scientific and Australian content, but also like helping newcomers or important neglected pages. I have a long watchlist, and enjoy seeing others expand or improve articles I've worked on.

Image contributions
I think high quality images and diagrams are very important for engaging wikipedia articles, so have developed my photography alongside my wiki editing. Visit my Commons user page to see the images I've contributed. Here's a taster:

Article contributions
Here are the peer reviewed articles I've made significant contributions to. The most recent pageview count was for the 90 days to 12 February 2013.

Featured articles

 * Cscr-featured.svgSymbol support vote.svg Redback spider (85375) (collaboration with User:Casliber)
 * Cscr-featured.svgSymbol support vote.svg Aleeta curvicosta (1233) (collaboration with User:Casliber)
 * Cscr-featured.svgSymbol support vote.svg Thopha saccata (934) (collaboration with User:Casliber)

Featured lists (pageviews 986)

 * Cscr-featured.svg 2000 Summer Paralympics medal table (986)

Good articles (pageviews ~40k)

 * Symbol support vote.svg Lord Howe Island (35620) (with User:Granitethighs)
 * Symbol support vote.svg Ionic compound (24560)
 * Symbol support vote.svg St John's Ashfield (2230)
 * Symbol support vote.svg Angie Ballard (2069)

Science (pageviews 10541)

 * Circle packing in a square (3036)
 * Tetrahedron packing (1998)
 * Circle packing in a circle (1895)
 * Enantiostasis (1847)
 * Circle packing in an equilateral triangle (979)
 * Circle packing in an isosceles right triangle (786)

Organizations (pageviews 7344)

 * List of Anglican churches in the Diocese of Sydney (3519)
 * St John's Ashfield (2230)
 * Gordon Research Conferences (1595)
 * Garrison Church (???)

Species (pageviews 9036)

 * Blacklip abalone (orig. Haliotis rubra) (581 + 900)
 * Xylocarpus granatum (906) Xylocarpus granatum.jpg
 * Bauhinia monandra (673)
 * Australian Emperor (669)
 * List of cicadas of Australia(557)
 * Actinia tenebrosa (542)
 * Persoonia oxycoccoides (412)
 * Calystegia affinis (369)
 * Noctepuna cerea (364)
 * Lomandra confertifolia (299)
 * Lachnagrostis (291)
 * Oedura lesueurii (278)
 * Diplodactylus vittatus (266)
 * Spilosoma glatignyi (258)
 * Anomalopus swansoni (219)
 * Eumorphia prostrata (196)
 * Gastrimargus musicus (194)
 * Oulactis (190)
 * Dark-capped Parrotfish (178)
 * Persoonia pauciflora (167)
 * Philotheca buxifolia (150)
 * Alpine Darner (149)
 * Australian Emerald (131)
 * Pultenaea sp. Genowlan Point (120)
 * Lachnagrostis limitanea (115)

Other (pageviews 3628)

 * Between Hope and History (1632)
 * Disability in Australia (854)
 * The Hungry Mile (687)
 * Rewari metal work (370)
 * Kellie Lim (349)
 * North Rothbury, New South Wales (304)
 * Lawrence Nield (286)
 * Sally Crossing
 * Kerry Schott

Ideas for pages:



 * Frank–Kasper phases
 * Cubatic order/Cubatic phase (see Cubatic)
 * Pages for species endemic to Lord Howe Island: User:99of9/LordHowe
 * Biographies of Australians in the ADB: WikiProject_Australia/To-do/Australian_Dictionary_of_Biography
 * Saissetia oleae
 * St Albans, Five Dock: 1909 preaching
 * Glen Helen Gorge
 * Three-striped Butterflyfish (Chaetodon tricinctus)
 * Long March for Justice, Freedom and Hope, 1988
 * Harman undertaking

Global interface edits
I occasionally edit Mediawiki space on other language Wikipedias. This uses the Global interface editor userright, for which I reapply each year. I translate customized terms on the Mediawiki:sidebar into English, to ensure that editors who specify the English language in their preferences can read the sidebar, even if they are not familiar with the local language. My edits should not affect anyone else. If you would like to supply a better translation, feel free to contact me or a local language administrator.

Paid contributions declaration
My employer The University of Sydney organized an editathon on 31 October 2014 focused on women historically or currently connected with the university. Due to my Wiki experience, I was asked to help both on the day and in preparation. So over a period of a few weeks around that date, some of my edits can be considered as (indirectly) "paid contributions", although it is not part of my job description per se. In any case, I always endeavour to edit in an objective manner, and take full personal responsibility for my edits. The project page is at Meetup/Sydney/University of Sydney Wikibomb. If you have any concerns about the event or edits associated with it, please contact me and I will be happy to investigate. Most of the editors were newcomers to Wiki - so please treat them nicely!

Similarly, we have organised other editathons which I participate in. The project pages are Meetup/Sydney/USyd2018 and WriteWomenUSYD.

The City of Sydney has contracted me to run three editathons during 2021 and four in 2022, during which time I will demonstrate editing using their content. These are documented at project pages GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/City of Sydney Picture This GLAM/Australian_libraries_and_WP/Events/City_of_Sydney_First_Nations and GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/City of Sydney Hands on history.