User:Gobonobo

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Hi! I'm gobonobo. I've been a Wikipedia editor since before people had iPhones. 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 drafts at Articles for Creation, and revert vandalism, monitoring social media for errors that have slipped through the cracks. I 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 active with several of the WikiProjects for women, including Women in Red. I support GLAM initiatives and have volunteered with Art+Feminism and Black Lunch Table. 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 my current home 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

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
De Viron Castle


De Viron Castle is a castle in the town of Dilbeek in Flemish Brabant, Belgium. Commissioned by the de Viron family, which settled in Dilbeek in 1775, the castle was built in 1863 by Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar. The Tudor-style castle was built on the ruins of a 14th-century fortification that was destroyed in 1862. One of the medieval towers, the Sint-Alenatoren, can still be seen in the park surrounding the current building and is named after Saint Alena, who lived in Dilbeek. The castle has served as the town hall of Dilbeek and housed the offices of the municipality since 1923, and was listed as a Belgian protected monument in 1990. This photograph shows the facade of De Viron Castle with the surrounding park in the foreground.