User:DarTar

This is my volunteer account, for my staff account see User:Dario (WMF)

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Hello, I'm Dario Taraborelli (Q21562060)! I am an Italian transplant in San Francisco.

My Wikipedia contributions

I have been editing Wikipedia for about 19 years and most recently I've become an avid Wikidata contributor. As an

October 2016 Dyn cyberattack). Since 2019, I'm mainly focused on biographies of scientists, naturalists, and science communicators (Corina Newsome, Earyn McGee, Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, J. Drew Lanham, Jason Ward, Naia Butler-Craig, Darryl Fears, Black Birders Week) as well as Wikipedia's and Wikidata's coverage of biodiversity. I create or expand articles for species that lack a Wikidata or Wikipedia entry (for example, all known species of leaf-footed bugs in genus Anisoscelis or the different subspecies of Red-tailed Hawk -- Buteo jamaicensis) and I am involved in initiatives such as WikiProject Biodiversity

to promote sharing and reuse of open-licensed images of nature.

I am a compulsive new article creator, a WikiGnome, and an unabashed inclusionist. I also care a lot about citations and verifiability. Random love signals are filed here .

My work at Wikimedia

I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation between 2011 and 2019. Between 2015 and 2019 I served as the Foundation's Director of Research, overseeing the organization's research strategy and driving research collaboration and outreach efforts with industry, academia, and the Wikimedia movement. Prior to this role, I was the lead of the

Scuola Normale Superiore. A list of talks and publications is available on my personal homepage

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