Hello! I'm Dorothy. I have been editing Wikipedia for 10+ years. Recently I have been writing and improving Wikipedia articles related to history, artists and art venues, music, qualitative research methods, and labor concepts. I've also worn multiple hats as a community organizer, open knowledge advocate, and researcher, and attend
Wikimedia New York City meetups.
I was formerly a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the
Metropolitan New York Library Council in 2013-2014, and the documentation for that work can be found at:
Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council. I also contributed to
WikiProject Consumer Reports. I was a Program Officer at
WikiConference USA, 2014. I was an early Wikipedia community advisor/curricula developer/organizer for
Art + Feminism, 2014-2015.[1] I have also done some academic research reflecting on participating in the Wikimedia community as a gender and diversity advocate, see Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care citation below.
Dorothy Howard & Lilly Irani. 2019.
Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care. 2019. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). Awarded Honorable Mention (top 4%).