User:Femke

About me
I'm Femke (pron: FEM-kuh, ), a lecturer in innovation, energy and climate at the University of Exeter who dabbles in complexity economics (university profile). My work focuses on the power sector, and specifically the role of solar power and storage. Before, I did a PhD on climate change.

Accurate and neutral information about climate change or other contentious topics can help us make informed decisions and make the topic less polarised. Also, people are wrong on the internet. I'm passionate about making Wikipedia articles easier to understand, as us experts like to correct people that are wrong on the internet with fancy words.

I support User:TatjanaBaleta, who works as a Wikimedia Visiting Fellow at the University of Exeter, as part of my job. I will generally not edit directly for this project, but will be organising a edit-a-thon as part of the module I teach, and may improve edits from students.

I live with two zebra finches and a human.

My collection of barnstars and the like

Editing interests
I started editing on the Dutch Wikipedia in 2013, mostly articles on physics, climate change and women in science (User page). Around 2018 I became active here, working on climate change and energy articles. As a picture can say more than a thousand words, I've dedicated some time to improving climate change graphs. I started an cross-language effort get climate denial removed after a BBC journalist found widespread misinformation.

Outside of climate / energy, I work on multi-system illnesses such as long COVID, after I became ill with the condition myself. You can sometimes also find me at Requests for permissions or closing reviews at Good article reassessment.

FA

 * 1)  Sustainable energy (with Clayoquot)
 * 2)  Million_award_logo.svg Climate change (saved at FAR)
 * 3)  Million_award_logo.svg Antarctica (saved at FAR with Devonian Wombat and Amitchell125)
 * 4)  Million_award_logo.svg Earth (saved at FAR)

GA

 * 1) Symbol_support_vote.svg Sea level rise
 * 2) Symbol_support_vote.svg Greta Thunberg
 * 3) Symbol_support_vote.svg Climate sensitivity
 * 4) Symbol_support_vote.svg Climate system
 * 5) Symbol_support_vote.svg Paris Agreement
 * 6) Symbol_support_vote.svg Million_award_logo.svg David Attenborough (with Lee Vilenski)
 * 7) Symbol_support_vote.svg Tipping points in the climate system
 * 8) Symbol_support_vote.svg Effects of climate change
 * 9) Symbol_support_vote.svg Long COVID
 * 10) Symbol_support_vote.svg Melvin Ramsay
 * 11) Symbol_support_vote.svg Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (with Ward20 and The Quirky Kitty)

2024 goals

 * 1) Get myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome to FA
 * 2) Improve the WP:RfA process with a more standard democratic process
 * 3) Work on more articles about prominent women and their work in ME/CFS, such as creating Judith Rosmalen and bringing Unrest (2017 film) to GA.

How to write better articles

 * Copyediting:
 * Tony1's redundancy exercises have helped me write easier sentences
 * Drop the howevers: User:John/however
 * Quick and ugly check to see if your writing is too difficult: The Hemingway App. A readability score (Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease) over >45 is fairly okay. Another rule of thumb: 4S: short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, short articles.
 * Identifying reliable sources (science): use reviews, don't write them.
 * Don't commit crimes against significant digits