User:Gobonobo

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Hi! I'm gobonobo. I've been a Wikipedia editor since before hashtags. I survived 100 wikidays, have written around 1000 articles, and have made over 100,000 edits to the English Wikipedia and Wikidata. I patrol recent changes, review draft articles, revert vandalism, and monitor social media for errors that have slipped through the cracks. I sometimes contribute to the did you know... section on the main page and have uploaded oodles of images both here and on Commons.

As an editor, I focus on a wide variety of content and try to address systemic bias, especially in regards to gender, racial and geographic biases. I am a member of several WikiProjects, support GLAM initiatives, and have volunteered with Art+Feminism and participated in Black Lunch Table events. I've organized edit-a-thons and led editing workshops at the Loft, Mia, the American Craft Council, St. Kate's, Hamline, and the U of M.

About me[edit]

I hail from Minnesota where I learned how to be nice and ride tall bikes, neither of which are very useful in Buenos Aires. While my username refers to the most enlightened of the great apes, I am actually a night owl who enjoys rabbit holes. I use Linux and support the free and open-source software movement. I have a background in the cooperative movement and consensus decision-making. I'm a C-SPAN junkie and enjoy listening to Wikipedia, time-travel romance, and long bicycle rides where I can snap photos for Wikishootme.

I made my first edit to Wikipedia in 2006 and my early focus centered on different types of cooperatives. Early on I was an online ambassador, working with university classes (before Wiki Ed) and worked briefly with the volunteer response team. I later became involved in efforts to address the gender gap. I no longer maintain my gender gap red list, as the Women in Red lists are far more comprehensive. I was privileged to be a part of the group that organized an edit-a-thon at the Minneapolis Central Library where the Guerrilla Girls were guests of honor and to be among the Wikimedians who convinced the Minnesota Historical Society to license their MNopedia content as CC BY-SA. I supported the global blackout of this site in opposition to SOPA, have been described as a "Wikipedia Angel" and was the first editor to note the death of Kim Jong Il.

Barnstars

Precious The Modest Barnstar The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

Did you know... contributions
Did you know...

detail of Magna Carta (An Embroidery)

Self-portrait of Kendall
Self-portrait of Kendall
Grip, Dickens's raven
Grip, Dickens's raven
Blotter art of the Eye of Horus
Blotter art of the Eye of Horus
Yokcushlu
Yokcushlu
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin



























tomorrow's picture of the day, but upsidedown
HMS Malabar


HMS Malabar was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1818 at Bombay Dockyard. In 1838, Malabar ran aground off Prince Edward Island in British North America and was damaged, with the loss of two crew members. She was refloated later that year and towed into Three Rivers in Lower Canada. In August 1843, Malabar, under the command of Sir George Sartorius, assisted in fighting a fire that destroyed the United States Navy sidewheel frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar, taking aboard about 200 of that ship's survivors. Malabar was converted to a hulk in 1848, eventually becoming a coal hulk, and was renamed Myrtle in 1883. The hulk was sold out of the navy in 1905. This lithograph from around 1843 shows the crew of Malabar watching as Missouri explodes and burns in the distance.