User:CorradoNai

Hello, I am Corrado! More of a Wikipedia reader than editor, but I will give it a start and hope to be able to contribute a bit.

In no particular order, I love: Cinema, reading, writing, meeting people, learning new languages, playing guitar, basketball and tons of other things. I have lived in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, and am currently based in Indonesia.

In September 2022 I have attended the learn-to-edit workshop by Dr Kirsty Ross at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Edinburgh, as part of the 72h editathon during EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night. Thanks for reminding me that "having time to edit Wikipedia is a priviledge."

Wikipedia contributions
I am fungi enthusiast and the feeling that, in general, fungi are overlooked by most people, motivates me to contribute more knowledge on fungi on Wikipedia. I am particularly interested about innovative uses, human interactions with, and novel approaches communicating about fungi. That is, all those approaches involving fungi that can have a positive societal impact. By 'innovative' I mean those initiatives that have not yet entered the mainstream. Which includes not having a presence on Wikipedia yet.

My first contribution was with a page on 'Black Yeasts' to present this group of microbes.

I love fungi and #VisibleFungi initiative
This is not a very encyclopedic statement but it had to be said (and I loved to see this appear on the TOC list above). Also, this is my page so I can probably do whatever I like. I am mostly driven by enthusiasm, and when I see or a hear a less-known, interesting fact I think: This is too cool, why it is not on Wikipedia yet? So expect me to edit along these lines although I will also try to take a more structured approach. I want to learn from other Wikipedians as much as I can and I hope for constructive feedback. So far, it has been great.

The #VisibleFungi initiative is a call for action to fungi practitioners to share examples on the applied use of fungi on social media using the hashtag, as well as to upload more images on fungi (not only mushrooms...) on Wikimedia Commons.

After 2022
Since 2022, I decided to get serious about becoming a Wikipedia contributor. Let's see if the motivation keeps up with the intention. I am passionate about fungi and I write about them. Editing Wikipedia is for me a way to spread knowledge about fungi and to connect with fungi practitioners as well as with Wikipedians sharing the same passion. I would like my contribution to be a service for everyone wanting to know more about fungi and for the fungal community. I would love to be recognized as the "guy who writes about fungi. '' I will not use Wikipedia to cite my own writings and I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia.

Before 2022
At the end of 2018, I started the Wikipedia Taskforce within FEMS (The Federation of European Microbiological Socities), an organisation I am collaborating with since 2016 (volunteering for ca. 2,5 years, then employed since May 2018). The idea was to recruit volunteers, who are early career scientists in microbiology and who speak different languages, who wished to contribute to the encyclopedia; they would bring microbiology knowledge to the encyclopedia and with their contribution they addressed the Wikipedia gender gap (most volunteers being women) and the fact that not many active researchers are Wikipedians. We also encouraged them to write, update and/or translate pages relative to the organisation (FEMS, FEMS journals, EAM) although we didn't have any influence on what they edited and how. After ca. one year we decided to discontinue the project as we felt that we could not support the volunteers enough in their work (including myself not being an experienced Wikipedian), because we could not develop measures on the impact of the Volunteer Taskforce for Wikipedia or for the efforts put in by the volunteers, and because we were worried that the project was perceived as self-serving for the organisation.