User:Rhododendrites/userpageinfo

__NOINDEX__ Active on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons; occasional user of other Wikimedia projects (Wikidata, Meta, etc.). Leave a message or feel free to email. Wikipedian for quite a while now. Mainly as a researcher for the first few years. Then I started teaching with Wikipedia and finally jumped into [very] active editing in 2013. I tend to edit in a wide variety of topic areas. In fact, as I think about it, it's hard to point to topic area concentrations.


 * guerilla gardening group who threw "seed grenades" into empty lots on the Lower East Side
 * site of a chocolate flood
 * site of a wine flood
 * first human cannonball
 * fictional order or mammals with diversely functional noses
 * largest ship graveyard in Rhode Island
 * mandarin duck who became a minor celebrity in Central Park
 * "the bug lady" of the American Museum of Natural History, also known for origami
 * the most trafficked animal in the world
 * first woman engineer at NASA
 * variant of chess where the pieces "explode"
 * myth of foreign ships being invisible to natives
 * little drawings of flies or bees in urinals
 * NYC's only wildlife hospital
 * art video game about marriage
 * when crime and corruption caused a third of the population or Rhode Island to lose access to their bank accounts
 * event space that almost burned down due to an eel in a fire hose, and later made "all your dreams come true" before it was demolished
 * one of the most successful jingle music groups in mid-20th century Chicago
 * devices used by people living in areas of conflict or under oppressive regimes to create pirate radio stations
 * social movement archive
 * compilation of psychedelic Cambodian rock music from just before the Khmer Rouge
 * former squat called the Batcave
 * cybernetic meadows...
 * landfill that a lot of people in Rhode Island think is the tallest point in the state (it's not though)
 * oldest nut company in the US, makers of ubiquitous displays of blue-packaged nuts/fruit
 * someone who led bird walks in Central Park for 40 years
 * how listening to music via headphones gives you a greater sense of control over your environment
 * one of the earliest sorta-kinda encyclopedias
 * beloved public bathroom
 * online black market
 * destroying ivory as an elephant conservation approach
 * journalistic technique for handling misinformation
 * dog memorialized in Green-Wood Cemetery

I tend to edit in waves, focusing on adding content for a while, then going into maintenance mode for a while. If you don't see me around here, there's a good chance I'm active over on Commons, or out in the world trying to take pictures for Commons. I'm involved with WikiNYC and engage in a variety of Wikipedia-related activities both online and offline. Leave me a message if you want to talk about Wikipedia research, Wikipedia in education, or New York-area events/partnerships.