User:Oronsay

Why do I edit Wikipedia? To increase the percentage of women's bios on English Wikipedia. It's 19.80% as of 15 April 2024. Other editing is focused on updating articles about Australia and Australians.

Userboxes 100,281+ This user has made more than 100,281 contributions to the English Wikipedia, over 76,179 of which were to articles.  0.0090%  This user has created 613 of the 6,816,055 articles on the English language Wikipedia. This user has made 480 women blue. This user is ranked 1120 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created. This user is one of the 846 most active English Wikipedians of all time. awesome Wikipedian on March 15, 2022. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue) This user has been on Wikipedia for 9 years, 5 months and 28 days. Unified login: Oronsay is the unique login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects. This user participates in WikiProject Australia. This user participates in WikiProject New South Wales. This user participates in WikiProject New Zealand. This user is a member of the West Coast task force. WikiProject Australian literature . This user is a participant in WikiProject Women writers. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women artists. new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify ) This editor is a WikiGnome. This user lives in the Australian state of New South Wales. ANU This user is a student or graduate of the Australian National University. This user is proud to be a financial member of Wikimedia Australia This user is a donor to the Wikimedia Foundation. You can be one, too. This user also has a Trove account to improve Australian history articles in Wikipedia. This user welcomes new users with Twinkle! SB This user lets SuggestBot recommend articles to edit weekly. This editor is a Master Editor III and is entitled to display this Bufonite Editor Star.

About me

I have a BA, majoring in history and Russian, from the Australian National University. I enjoy the writing style (non-florid) that Wikipedia demands.

My Wikipedia adventure began when I attended the University of Sydney Wikibomb in October 2014 at the Charles Perkins Centre.

After a slow start, in July 2017 I joined the WikiProject Women in Red, with the aim of turning redlinks into blue, adding entries for women of note who deserve their own entries in Wikipedia. In late 2017 I discovered their #1day1woman project and also began contributing to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge which has a long way to go to reach its goal. On 3 January 2018 I signed up the 2018 #1day1woman project and have been an active participant in this important global initiative ever since.

Outreach

I have volunteered at a number of edit-a-thons, beginning with Franklin Women's Women in Health and Medical Research (July 2019).

2020

• Know My Name (IWD 2020). Subsequently, remotely at editWikipedia4BlackLives (June 2020) and NGA Wiki Club (July 2020 onwards).
• Two introduction to Wikipedia editing sessions for the University of Newcastle Library team's Missed In History Edit-a-thon (History Week Sept 2020).

2021

• Assisting on IWD2021 at WriteWomenUSYD / Dashboard:Write Women USYD.
• Assisting at WOMEESA edit-a-thon in March 2021.
• Assisting at City of Sydney editing training for librarians prior to the Picture This edit-a-thon on 15 May 2021.
• Co-hosting #1Lib1Ref drop-in sessions in May – June 2021.
• Assisting online at the City of Sydney First Nations Editathon and dashboard on 10 July 2021.
• Assisted online at UNSW Women in Science editathon, dashboard.
• Ada Lovelace Day Women in Red recruitment drive on 12 October 2021 dashboard, NZ list and OZ list.

2022

• Assisted with the 7 April 2022 Franklin Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon & sheet for Women in Health and Medical Research on World Health Day, delayed twice by COVID-19 lockdowns.
• Co-facilitator for #1Lib1Ref 2022, dashboard, suggestions, WMAU
• Assistant facilitator, Hands on history: an introduction to Wikipedia, 3 September, google sheet, dashboard.
• Assistant facilitator, WOMEESA and GSA Edit-a-thon, 5 October 2022, google sheet, dashboard.
• Assistant facilitator, City of Sydney Aus Music Month: an introduction to Wikipedia, 12 November, google sheet, dashboard.

2023

• Assistant facilitator, The Record Australian Music Centre Editathon, WMAU event page, Eventbrite, google sheet, dashboard.
• Participant, WikiProject Australian Cartoons
• Participant, New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject editathon – Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, dashboard

Paid contributions declaration

The City of Sydney (CoS) contracted me to assist at a training workshop for their librarians in preparation for three editathons to be held in 2021 and to co-facilitate the Picture This editathon on 15 May. In both instances I demonstrate how to edit Wikipedia using CoS content including providing online support to participants via Zoom. The project page for the 15 May public editathon is Wikipedia:GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/City of Sydney Picture This. In 2022 I have again been contracted by CoS to assist in facilitating two Wikidata and two Wikipedia in-person editathons.

Media

• SBSNews interview by Rayane Tamer, This Australian has written 400 profiles of deserving women on Wikipedia. Here's why she's 'obsessed' 26 Oct 2022
• Excerpt from ABC's The Drum 4 Nov 2022
• These women are closing Wikipedia's gender gap, Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, 6 Jun 2023

To do list

• Attend WikidataCon2023 - program link
• Finding images on NLA Trove to upload to Wikimedia Commons and then add to Australian biographies on Wikipedia using the hashtag #VisibleWikiWomen.
• Adding women from The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, (originally compiled by User:Lankiveil) and maintained in his memory. Alternatively, adding women without entries to relevant crowd-sourced lists at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index. See also my EWL redlist.
• Australian diplomats
• Australian historians
• Australian women in ADB - WiR redlist
• Australian women – other, including Miscellanea of musicians ex ADB
• Australian women writers – from A Bibliographic Guide by Debra Adelaide
• Australian women in STEM
• USYD IWD list
• Update award shortlists and winners via List of Australian literary awards
• DrThneed's list of NZ women academics
• New pages feed
  • Oceania list

Wikipedia pages I find helpful

• Australia stub templates
• Wikipedia:List of infoboxes#Other person
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists
• Wikipedia:Notability (people)
• New Zealand Meetups
• URL Shortener
• Wikipedia Library
• Active editors by country
• The 5000 Challenge The 5000 Challenge
• Global js page
• Pre-fill from Wikidata for bio generation
• Wikipedia:Age calculation templates
• Perry Middlemiss's Australian literature to do
• User:JackofOz/Research redlinks
• Monthly Geoeditors report
• Geoeditors raw data
• User:The-Pope/Aussie Olympians, useful redlist including women, notability assured
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do/Australian Dictionary of Biography – ADB
• Lists of Australians
• JWB and User Manual – the Mac equivalent of AWB
• HotDefaultSort
• Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
• https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/index.html
• Art+Feminism videos and other resources
• Order of article elements
• Did you know/Reviewing guide
• Training Libraries - via Dashboard
• User:Schwede66's DYK slide set, Hokitika 2021
• Population data / Census 2021 and Category:Australian place articles using Wikidata population values
• Web2Cit
• Trove newspaper links ex DABs and Full list

Other links

• Wikimedia Australia
• Wikimedia Australia – Training and the four new GLAM training modules
• Event coordinator instructions, including creating new accounts and assigning confirmed status
• West Coast Wikisource Project
• Intro to Wikisource for West Coast Project
• British Library e-theses online
• LD4 VanderBot tutorial – using Python
• Celtic Knot Conference – 1-2 July 2022
• Article's wikilinks inspector
• Trove searching hints by Tim Sherratt
• WOW2022
• ESEAP Conference Nov 2022
• Image existence checker – checks category image requested against image in those articles
• Country Music content list - 2022 list and Dashboard
• AMC Music content list - 2023 list and Dashboard
• #EveryBookItsReader - Wikidata video
• Userviews Analysis
• Ambrosia10's Gadgets & Tools for Wikipedia & WikiCommons – Wellington WikiCon 2023
• SLNSW Cartoons
• The Women's Pages – Australian Women and Journalism since 1850

Articles I have created

External links

• Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smithsonian Institute – WikidataCon 2021, my part from 26:40

Barnstars and Awards

The Original Barnstar Thanks so much for your work - including that on Royal Society fellows for Women in Red - Brilliant Victuallers (talk) 09:31, 19 February 2019 (UTC) The Original Barnstar Hay, you dropped this. I think actually you dropped about a hundred of these but this is the only one I could find quickly. So please forgive me for not bringing the other 99 to you but here is number 100. Thank you. Victuallers (talk) 11:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC) See one, do one, teach one Thank you for being a panelist on the "Improving women’s biographies on Wikipedia using Wikidata tools - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smithsonian Institution" session today at Wikidatacon 2021. Rosiestep (talk) 23:52, 30 October 2021 (UTC) Women in Red Women in Oceania contest Oronsay Thank you for your additions October 2021 WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:29, 1 November 2021 (UTC) Women in Red Women in Oceania contest 13 articles Oronsay Third Place November 2021 Congratulations! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC) Women in Red Women in Oceania contest 13 articles Oronsay Second Place December 2021 Congratulations! WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 01:12, 1 January 2022 (UTC)