I'm Britta Gustafson. I have a website with some projects. I also started a LocalWiki for Isla Vista, CA, part of a separate wiki system that encourages documenting non-notable local topics.
I've been editing Wikipedia since October 2001. In January 2016 I gave a short talk explaining why you should learn much more about Wikipedia's history, and you can watch it. There's a community profile about me on the Wikimedia blog, and I contributed to a history of Wikipedia at 20 years old.
I like helping with editathon events in the San Francisco Bay Area or virtual, especially ones that work to counter Wikipedia's systemic bias. If you're organizing one, post on my talk page or email me! I can help with things like:
- Planning how to set up and manage a Zoom-based workshop or outdoor Commons photowalk.
- Promotion of the event to SF-area Wikipedians — for example, emailing the Wikimedia-SF mailing list and creating a geonotice.
- Setting up a Wikipedia meetup page and Outreach dashboard page to help track attendees and outcomes. Example meetup pages: Black Campus Movement @ Oakland Public Library, May 2021, Art+Feminism SFMOMA March 2021.
- Preparing a list of articles to edit/expand/create to help people get started.
- Giving a "secret rules of Wikipedia editing" intro presentation (PDF). You are also welcome to reuse this and give it yourself.
- Helping new editors by answering their questions and helping them find interesting things to edit during the event.
- If in person: creating accounts for new editors at events to bypass the limit on number of accounts created per IP per day (I have the event coordinator permission).
My own article topic lists, to help me keep track of them: User:Dreamyshade/Anti-circumvention article project.
Articles[edit]
I wrote initial entries for some things: Harp, Glissando, Zarzuela, Lyon & Healy, Neapolitan ice cream, Pablo Neruda, Neopets, Hammurabi, Code of Hammurabi, Tamasay, Alien and Sedition Acts, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Driftwood, Shrine Auditorium, Episodic memory, Sinople, Common Spotted Cuscus, Joel Sternfeld, Derek McCulloch (comics), Britta, Pinboard (website), Outreachy.
Photos[edit]
I've contributed photos of Historic-Cultural Monuments in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles:
Photos of other buildings and landmarks in Los Angeles County:
Photos of San Francisco Designated Landmarks:
Photos of other buildings in San Francisco:
Photos in Santa Barbara County:
And photos of some other things:
For my reference: