Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
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Dame Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight[2] (born December 5, 1953),[3][4] known on Wikipedia as Rosiestep, is an American Wikipedia editor who is noted for her attempts to address gender bias in the encyclopedia by running a project to increase the quantity and quality of women's biographies.[5][6] She has contributed thousands of new articles.
Stephenson was named co-
Early life and education
Stephenson-Goodknight is of
Wikipedia editing
Stephenson-Goodknight began editing Wikipedia in 2007. Her son had edited an article about a town in Ukraine where he was working with the Peace Corps, and told his mother that Wikipedia can be edited by anybody. She began editing later that year when she looked for books published by the Book League of America and found a gap in the site's knowledge resources.[12] She found the encyclopedia to be a suitable outlet for anthropology, citing Margaret Mead as an influence:[1][13]
Some of you know that I am a
cultural anthropologist at heart. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Margaret Mead and study cultural anthropology at Barnard (my mom's alma mater), like Margaret did. I wanted to travel to Papua New Guinea and do research on its people, like Margaret did. But my dad said 'no' to majoring in anthropology—he wanted something more practical for my university studies. So now, years later, I get to live the life of an armchair cultural anthropologist, writing articles about Goaribari Islandand its cannibals. To all the girls out there with impractical dreams, this article is dedicated to you.
Stephenson-Goodknight worked at creating articles on geography, architecture and various biographies for several years, but has more recently concentrated on women's biographies.
Stephenson-Goodknight believes there is information to write stronger biographies, provided people are prepared to search for it.[6] She also suggests it is possible for women to contribute greatly to Wikipedia, explaining, "What Wikipedia needs is you, the female editor, with your unique aptitudes and interests and talkpage tone. Without you, gender imbalance and systemic bias continue on Wikipedia."[1]
On January 23, 2020, Wikipedia announced that Stephenson-Goodknight was the creator of the
Awards and distinctions
On December 14, 2017, Goodknight was the "honored guest" at an event hosted by Israel's ambassador to Serbia, Alona Fisher-Kamm, to commemorate 25 years of diplomatic relations between Serbia and Israel.[2][18]
On May 29, 2018, in a ceremony conferring honors on those who deserved high diplomatic recognition, Stephenson-Goodknight was appointed a "Dame of the St. Sava Order of Diplomatic Pacifism" (Vitez svetosavskog pacifizma) by Deputy Serbian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dačić,[19] for her work on Wikipedia to preserve the memory of Serbs in the "hundred years since the Great War". Mention was specifically made of her contribution towards preserving the memory of the Serbian military officer and Jewish community leader, her grandfather David Albala.[20][19]
Personal life
Stephenson-Goodknight works in Las Vegas as a business administrator for a healthcare company, and has homes in that city and in Nevada City, California.[15][12]
See also
Notes
- ^ Total excludes redirects "Pages Created". WMFlabs. Archived from the original on February 12, 2017. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
References
- ^ a b c d e f Hussain, Netha (February 9, 2015). "Rosie Stephenson: The Woman Who Wrote Over Three Thousand Articles on Wikipedia". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ a b Milošević, Žikica (March 2, 2018). "Interview with Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight: Everyone in Serbia made me feel like 'this is your home'". Diplomacy&Commerce. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ^ Allen, Rachael (April 11, 2020). "Wikipedia is a world built by and for men. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is changing that". Washington Post. Retrieved October 14, 2021.
- ^ @WikiWomenInRed (December 5, 2016). "Happy Birthday @Rosiestep - Thanks for all your work last year" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b c "Wikipedia editing marathons add women's voices to online resource". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ a b Redden, Molly (March 19, 2016). "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation Board of (October 13, 2021). "Wikimedia Foundation welcomes new Trustees Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Victoria Doronina, Dariusz Jemielniak, and Lorenzo Losa". Diff. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
- ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4. Archivedfrom the original on June 29, 2014. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ Vučetić, Radina. "The Emancipation of Women in Interwar Belgrade and the "Cvijeta Zuzori ć " Society" (PDF). Yugoslav Association for Social History. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ Radović, Nadežda (April 3, 2006). "Evokacija Srpskog Feminizma S Početka 20. Veka" (in Serbian). Medijska Dokumentacija. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ "25 Years of the Israel-Serbia Diplomatic Relations". Embassy of Israel. December 25, 2017. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ a b Bernard, Zoe (February 14, 2013). "Finding inspiration from editing Wikipedia: a profile of Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ a b c Erhart, Ed (June 24, 2016). "Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year". Wikimedia Blog. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ "X!'s tools". wmflabs.org. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
- ^ a b Liu, Teresa Yinmeng (July 3, 2016). "Nevada City's Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight named co-Wikipedian of 2016 for addressing online gender gap". Western Nevada County Union. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
- ^ "Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon". University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. February 2016. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ Wikipedia now has more than 6 million articles in English Archived February 7, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Manish Singh, January 23, 2020, techcrunch.com.
- ^ "25 Years of the Israel-Serbia Diplomatic Relations". Embassy of Israel in Serbia. December 25, 2017. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ^ a b "Serbian Diplomacy Day Marked", C or D, Belgrade: Alliance International Media, May 29, 2018, archived from the original on November 18, 2018, retrieved June 25, 2018
- ^ "Dačić dodelio najviša diplomatska priznanja, među laureatima modna kreatorka, humintarac, preživeli logoraši Jasenovca…". Blic (in Serbian). May 29, 2018. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. Retrieved May 29, 2018.