Hello! I'm Dorothy. I have been editing Wikipedia for 10+ years. I understand the value of contributing to Wikipedia and open knowledge repositories, and enjoy the reflective process of working with different communities to expand publicly available knowledge. I've worn multiple hats as a community organizer, open knowledge advocate, and researcher. Recently, I have been working on Wikipedia articles related to music, history, artists and art venues, and research methods.

Announcements

• I am currently a Master of Library and Information Science student at Pratt Institute School of Information as of fall 2024
• I am helping out with Wikidata workflows for the SEEKCommons project, Wikidata:SEEKCommons.

Current Research

• I am a Co-PI on a Wikimedia Research funded grant to study conversations about neurodivergent Wikimedian experiences, 1 June-1 December, 2024. The project page is here: Research:Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences. Anyone is welcome to provide feedback on the discussion page.

Additional Background 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: Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council. In that position, I was an early proponent of the Wikipedian-in-Residence concept. 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.^[1] 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. I was Administrative Executive for the Queering Wikipedia 2023 international, virtual conference.

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%).
• "Wikipedia, work, and capitalism. A realm of freedom?" [Book review], Wikimedia Research Newsletter, March 2017
• 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.

• http://dorothyhoward.com/

This user is a participant in WikiProject Jazz.