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Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, * Rosiestep: personal account * RStephenson (WMF): community-elected Wikimedia Foundation Trustee account

Rosiestep: personal account
RStephenson (WMF): community-elected Wikimedia Foundation Trustee account

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." - Madeleine Albright

About me

Hello. I am a first-generation American, born in Indiana, grew up in Los Angeles, and now I live in Northern California. My pronouns are she/her.
In addition to creating articles, this is other stuff I do around here.

2007, English Wikipedia editor (administrator, 2009)
2014, founder, WikiProject Women Writers
2015, co-founder, with Roger Bamkin, Women in Red
2015, Volunteer of the Year, Wikimedia District of Columbia (WMDC)
2016, Wikimedian of the Year, with Emily Temple-Wood
2016, shortlisted, ITU/UN Women GEM-TECH award
2016-21, WMDC Board member; Vice-president, 2017-2021
2016-21, member Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee; Secretary, 2018; Chair 2020-21
2017-present, Wikimedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, University Libraries' Digital Scholarship Group, Women Writers Project
2017, contractor, Wikimedia Foundation, Gender Diversity Mapping project
2018, Knighted by Serbia
2018, member, Wikimedia Foundation, Community Health Working Group
23 January 2020, I wrote EN-WP's six millionth article
23 October 2021 - present, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee

My work

New articles created by me

By year: 2007 * 2008 * 2009 * 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * 2015 * 2016 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2020 * 2021 * 2022 * 2023 * 2024

Women's biographies: All * As Visiting Scholar

More about me: Presentations, panels, committees, projects, training, trainer, awards, grants, barnstars, social media, press, podcasts, videos...

Conflict of interest statement:

I have made 290,000+ edits and I have not been paid for any of them.
In 2016, I retired from DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. after 26 years of employment with the organization (JSA Healthcare/HealthCare Partners Nevada/DaVita HealthCare Partners); I have not edited articles regarding the parent organization or subsidiaries or employees.
In 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation hired me as a contractor for three months for the Gender Diversity Mapping project.

Disclaimer: Although I am a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account do not necessarily represent the actions or views of the Board or the Foundation unless expressly stated otherwise. For example, edits to articles or uploads of other media are done in my individual, personal capacity unless otherwise stated.