User:Gwendy

gwendy is a STEM librarian, runner, beekeeper, mother, and avid reader of fiction. She loves wearable tech, is addicted to her iPhone, and knows just enough about coding to be really annoying. She was a technical writer in a former life, and while it stomped out her creative voice, the skill she developed is plenty useful around the Wikisphere. She grew up playing with toads and bugs, which is where her love for the biological sciences stems.

Articles I've created
• Melissa Sweet (illustrator)

• Anodonta californiensis

• Suzanne Sonye

• Svenny Kopp

• Finding aid

Tasks and subjects of interest *
• Copy editing

• Reviewing pending changes

• Today's article for improvement

• Adding references

• Sourcing zoo facts

• Fixing citations w/ bare urls

• Welcoming newbies!

• Stalking recent changes for vandalism

• Women Scientists ( * )

• Children's literature ( * )

• Biology

Event participation

 * Wiki Wednesdays with Rare Books - National Poetry Month – 19 April 2023
 * Wiki Wednesdays with POA - Women Scientists – 29 March 2023
 * Wiki Wednesdays with Rare Books - Women's History – 15 March 2023
 * Wiki Wednesdays with Rare Books - Black History – 15 Feb 2023
 * Wikipedia for Climate Justice – 26 Oct 2022
 * Women on Wikipedia edit-a-thon – 25 March 2022
 * Women on Wikipedia edit-a-thon – 26 March 2021
 * Women on Wikipedia edit-a-thon – 27 March 2020
 * Women on Wikipedia edit-a-thon – 22 March 2019
 * Women on Wikipedia edit-a-thon – 24 March 2018
 * Women on Wikipedia edit-a-thon to honor Women's History Month – 25 March 2017
 * Women Book Artists Online Editathon – April 2017
 * Women in Sports and Athletics – May 2017


 * WP:CHEAT
 * WP:REFILL
 * Manual of Style/Biographies
 * Manual of Style/Infoboxes & List_of_infoboxes
 * Citing sources with Zotero
 * Help:Advanced text formatting
 * Finding_images_tutorial


 * Biographies with bare urls

TAFI templates
 * – invite project to edit this week's TAFI
 * – invite editors to join TAFI

Wayback template webarchive can create links for you; use the url, title and date parameters to specify the URL, title and date. For example: → Without the date included: → Note that the date parameter defaults to


 * WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/How to
 * Articles needing copy edit by month


 * To leave a note on the editor's talk page to tell them you're beginning their request:


 * To post a notice at the top of an article saying the article is undergoing a major copy-edit and requesting that no one edit the article while the notice is posted:


 * To post a notice near the top of an article's talk page indicating that a copy-edit has been completed (after all the various WikiProject templates, if there are any):
 * This will add the date automatically.


 * To leave a note on requester's talk page saying copy-edit has been completed:


 * Geonotice request
 * Temporary lift of account creation IP cap