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I edit primarily popular culture topics, particularly those that are arts-related (music, films/tv, biographies, organizations). I copy edit on virtually any article topic. ✌

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A fact from the article Alejandro González Iñárritu awards, which this user created, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.
A fact from the article The Smart Studios Story, which this user created, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.
A fact from the article Orange Is the New Black accolades, which this user created, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.
A fact from the article Manifesto (2015 film), which this user created, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.


A sample of a few of WP's systemic issues, especially gender disparity in the editing population & behavior:
  • Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words) (2011)
  • Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List (2011)
  • A Culture of Editing Wars (2011)
  • An Exploration of Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance (2011) (excerpt: There are gender-associated imbalances in coverage quality, which impinges on Wikipedia’s goal of producing a high-quality encyclopedia. Not only would addressing the gender gap help resolve the quality disparity, it would also help increase diversity within Wikipedia’s collaborations, which prior research has shown to improve group productivity and retention rates as well as decision-making quality.)
  • The Decline of Wikipedia (2013) (excerpt: The volunteer workforce that built the project’s flagship, the English-language Wikipedia has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. ... The loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers who might increase participation in Wikipedia and broaden its coverage.)
  • Yes, Wikipedia Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You (2013)
  • The women of Wikipedia: Closing the site's giant gender gap (2013) (excerpt: Women may have made a choice, but it was not based on whether they find the project interesting or have a contribution to make, but by the 'brogrammer' locker-room type of environment. ... Not only does a male-dominated culture lead to more biased articles, but also, research has shown that collective intelligence of a group goes up with increased social sensitivity, conversational turn-taking, and female participation.)
  • Does Wikipedia’s sexism problem really prove that the system works? (2013) (excerpt: Sexism doesn’t always manifest in the form of raving misogynistic rants or harassment campaigns ... It is arguably more insidious and damaging when it surfaces in subtle and systemic instances of discrimination.)
  • Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales: (2014) "It's mainly, basically, men ... and we really want to expand the community, we want to diversify the community, because we know that it helps lead to quality in other areas. The goal [that we set of increasing the number of women participants to 25% by 2015] completely failed. ... And we're really doubling down our efforts now. We realize we didn't do enough. There's a lot of things that need to happen to help improve that."

> Criticism of Wikipedia (Wikipedia's article): In the online magazine Slate, David Auerbach criticized the Arbitration Committee's decision to block a woman indefinitely without simultaneously blocking her "chief antagonists" in the December 2014 Gender Gap Task Force case. He mentions his own experience with what he calls "the unblockable"—abrasive editors who can get away with complaints against them because there are enough supporters, and that he had observed a "general indifference or even hostility to an outside opinion" on the English Wikipedia.
> Gender bias on Wikipedia (Wikipedia article): A 2021 study found that, in April 2017, 41% of biographies nominated for deletion were [of] women despite only 17% of published biographies being women.[1]
> Wikimedia Foundation: Wikipedia needs more women. Let’s close the gender gaps and change the stats.


This contributor to Wikipedia is female.