User:Figureskatingfan

Welcome to Figureskatingfan, Christine's userpage
My real name is Christine Meyer. Welcome to my Wikipedia "bragging page".
 * User:Scartol: "Leading a poetic wikilife..."
 * User:Courcelles: "Now, Christine, you are a weirdo." To which I say: Hey, I'm in good company!
 * Described as "a content creator in peak form". - User:Hawkeye7

Contributions and accomplishments
Wow, listing my contributions here has made this userpage too large and bulky, so I created another one! See User:Figureskatingfan/Christine's contributions.

Awards
 * I taught two sections of first-year composition, using Wikipedia as a class assignment and under the aspices of Wiki Education, at the University of Idaho In Spring 2022.
 * My M.A. thesis (May 2022): “If You Want to Change the World, Edit Wikipedia”: Mitigating the Gender Gap and Systemic Bias on Wikipedia
 * “Uncovering Women’s Stories: She Said, but Not According to Wikipedia.” Women Advancing Knowledge Equity: The Parliament of the World's Religions, pp. 32-51.
 * “Elizabeth Ursic: Artist and Scholar.” Women Advancing Knowledge Equity: The Parliament of the World's Religions, pp. 152-168.
 * Workshop Leader, 2023 American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, "Wikipedia in the Classroom: Students Writing Women in Religion into History"
 * Presenter, 2023 World Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, Illinois.
 * Co-Presenter, 2023 Wikimania Conference (taped), Singapore, "Using LLMs to Overcome Bias: An Experiment"
 * Presenter, 2021 WikiConference North America (virtual), "So Many Books, So Little Time: Wikipedia as Odd Literature"
 * List of figure skating articles I've created and/or improved: User:Figureskatingfan/Sandbox 4
 * In late August 2014, I participated in the Wikipedia Workshop Facilitator Training in Washington, D.C.
 * Meetup/WSU Open Access Week 2014
 * Presenter, Wikimedia Foundation Metrics Meeting, 14 December 2017

Media & journal articles

 * "Wikipedia edit-a-thon part of Open Access Week", Nella Letizia; WSU News, 16 October 2014.


 * "Writing Her Place", Lisa Waananen Jones; The Inlander, 29 October 2014.


 * "From Sesame Street to Maya Angelou, this Wikipedian digs deeper", Melody Kramer; Wikipedia Foundation, 2 November 2017.


 * "Obsessed with Wikipedia ‘personal life’ entries? You’re not alone." Emily Yahr; Washington Post, 31 December 2019.


 * Meyer, C; et al. (2019). in Maya Angelou's autobiographies". WikiJournal of Humanities. 2 (1). 10.15347/wjh/2019.003.
 * Meyer, C. (December 2022). “Challenging Bias: Book Review, Challenging Bias against Women Academics in Religion ed. by Colleen D. Hartung.” CrossCurrents, 72 (4), pp. 379-382.

Wikipedia essays of note

 * Vandals versus Trolls
 * Ignore all rules
 * Not an essay, but a possible way to deal with the uninitiated Wikipedia user.
 * From a Signpost: Not all redlinks are bad.
 * Plagiarism is Bad.
 * Verifiability: "Material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, must be attributed to a reliable, published source."
 * Citing sources

Quotes
"Like I always say, why let facts get in the way of your opinions?" - Christine W. Meyer (That's me!)

Added on St. Patrick's Day: In March 2008, I attended the memorial service of my uncle, Pat Wombacher. His son Dave made the following statement:
 * "When people ask me if I'm Irish, I say, 'Well, my dad drinks beer, and my grandmother's name was Murphy, so I guess that makes me Irish." I get to say the same thing, but that my mother's name was Kelly.

"I'm not even my own kids' favorite Wiggle." - Anthony Field

"I actually prefer when she watches the Steve episodes." - Donovan Patton, 2nd host of Blue's Clues, speaking of his two-year old daughter. Personal note: My kids, who watch Blue's Clues daily, actually prefer the Joe episodes. However, my son is definitely OG Blue's Clues; he has no time for the 2019 reboot, Blue's Clues & You!

"Sin makes you stupid." - Dale Alquist

"All life has inestimable value, even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God’s creation, made in his own image, destined to live forever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect." - Pope Francis, 2013

"I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike". - Maya Angelou, "Human Family". 

"If there were another man in my life, it would be Oscar. Don't tell Luis". - Sonia Manzano

"If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." (Wikipedia policy)

"I'm really part of the first generation of people who grew up on Sesame Street. The work of Sesame Street, in its own way, is similar to my work in the sense that [it's] fundamentally about universal access to preschool education and my work is about universal access to knowledge.  We both play a role in what I think has become much bigger than the time when Sesame Street started: the world of informal learning". - Jimmy Wales

In the final words of his autobiography, Steve Martin says the following about the internet. He might as well be speaking of Wikipedia: "... I have learned that people are uploading their lives into cyberspace and am convinced that one day all human knowledge and memory will exist on a suitable hard drive which, for preservation, will be flung out of the solar system to orbit a galaxy far, far away."

Humor



 * "Steve Burns vandalism" called "dubious unsourced content".
 * I thought I had seen it all, until here. The edit summary is priceless: "Need reliable source".
 * In 2021, after Burns appeared in a video celebrating the 25th anniversary of Blue's Clues that went viral, his bio article was heavily vandalized, even more than normal, but with a new twist: claims that Burns was a soldier in the War in Afghanistan. \
 * The first instance of Greg Page suffering from "Steve Burns vandalism". Also, see here.  It's even affected another Yellow Wiggle, Emma Watkins. See here.Vandalism, Lazy Town style.  ("You are a pirate!")  With thanks to Thingg, who originally caught it, although I was the one who pointed out the source.
 * Australian juvenile "humor".
 * Explains why he lost to Jesse Ventura.
 * Gangsta Wiggles. Anthony Field has the tattoos for it, that's for sure.
 * My answer to a ridiculous question.
 * Maya Angelou parodies.
 * This would've never happened if they just asked me.
 * I used to think Moni3's talk page was the funniest talk page on Wikipedia, but that was before I discovered Darth Sidious 2's.
 * Best vandalism and edit summary ever.

Tools

 * Citation templates
 * Talk page templates
 * How to archive a talk page
 * Anti-Vandalism tools, including templates
 * WikiProject edit counters
 * Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * Library access: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/
 * CC search: https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.org
 * How to ping:

My sandboxes

 * Sandbox 1: General use
 * Sandbox 2: Template for saint articles, w/list of common sources
 * Sandbox 3
 * Sandbox 4: List of figure skating articles
 * Sandbox 5: 2nd template

From an idea by User:RosPost.