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This is Invertzoo (Susan J. Hewitt)'s user page on the
malacologist; I have 60 published scientific papers. Some people call me "The Snail Lady", or "The Shell Lady". Since 2014 I have been very active as both an observer and identifier on the global citizen science platform iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/people/50920
I started here in the summer of 2007. I have given over 100 images to Wikimedia Commons. My Meta account is here. I have made over 89,000 edits, all by hand (none by automated software). During March 2010 I was number 317 on the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits, (and a much higher rank if you don't count the bots and the sysops.) By February 2013, I was number 401 by total number of edits: [1] And... yes, I am well aware that editcountitis is a serious disease! [2].
The first time that I had the pleasure and honor of meeting
HRH Jimmy Wales, our handsome and somewhat mysterious founder, was at the first Wiki-Conference New York, 25th July 2009, where I gave a talk on the growth and development of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods
. I also conversed with Mr. Wales on Oct 6th and 7th, 2010. I saw Jimmy, but did not get the chance to talk to him, at the Wikipedia Spring Fundraising Party in NYC, on April 19 2017.
My user page is long, so you are welcome to ignore it, or only look at the sections you are interested in.
Invertzoo has contributed 46 Did you knows? to the Main Page of the English Wikipedia, including the second most popular ever up to that point, which was Love dart, on October 9th 2008.
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