User:Hexatekin

Hello! I'm Dorothy. I have been editing Wikipedia for 10+ years. Recently I have been writing and improving Wikipedia articles related to history, artists and art venues, music, qualitative research methods, and labor concepts. I've also worn multiple hats as a community organizer, open knowledge advocate, and researcher. I am a participating member of Wikimedia New York City.

I was formerly a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in 2013-2014, and the documentation for that work can be found at: GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council. I also contributed to WikiProject Consumer Reports. I was a Program Officer at WikiConference USA, 2014. I was an early Wikipedia community advisor/curricula developer/organizer for Art + Feminism, 2014-2015. I have also done some academic research reflecting on participating in the Wikimedia community as a gender and diversity advocate, see Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care citation below.

Announcements
 * I am a Co-PI on a Wikimedia Research funded grant to study conversations about the opportunities and challenges neurodivergent Wikimedians experience, 1 June-1 December, 2024. The proposal is here: Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences. The project page is here: Research:Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences. Anyone is welcome to provide feedback on the discussion page.



Miscellaneous Writing and Media Appearances About Wikipedia
 * Dorothy Howard & Lane Rasberry. Perspectives on the Meeting of Wikipedia & Artificial Intelligence. UVA Data Points Podcast. August 22, 2023.
 * Dorothy Howard, John Samuel, and Owen Blacker. WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference, The Signpost, 22 May, 2023
 * R. Stuart Geiger, Dorothy Howard, and Lilly Irani. The labor of maintaining and scaling free and open-source software projects. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction 5, no. CSCW1 (2021): 1-28.
 * Dorothy Howard & Lilly Irani. 2019. Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care. 2019. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). Awarded Honorable Mention (top 4%).
 * Dorothy Howard. "Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps." Wikimedia blog. February 24, 2015.
 * Dorothy Howard. Interviews with librarians and archivists in participating in GLAM-Wiki at the Metropolitan New York Library Council blog.
 * Dorothy Howard. Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor, April, 2014. (self-published)
 * Dorothy Howard. On Closing the Gender Gap in Wikipedia Metropolitan New York Library Council.