Oronsay

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.

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

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Assisting with Franklin Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2024 in Sydney (24 July) and Canberra (25 July), Google sheet for Women in Health and Medical Research dashboard. Also, Franklin Women.

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.

• 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

• 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:List of infoboxes#Other person
• Australia stub templates
• Template:Cite book
• Inline templates
• Geographical coordinates
• Wikipedia:Age calculation templates
• Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists
• Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting names
• Wikipedia:Notability (people)
• New Zealand Meetups
• URL Shortener
• Wikipedia Library
• The 5000 Challenge The 5000 Challenge
• Global js page
• Pre-fill from Wikidata for bio generation
• Perry Middlemiss's Australian literature to do
• User:JackofOz/Research redlinks
• [editors by country]
• 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
• https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/index.html
• Art+Feminism videos and other resources
• Order of article elements
• DEFAULTSORT rules for surnames
• 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

• 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
• WikiWomen Erasmus+ Project
• Editing Wikipedia
• Illustrating Wikipedia
• Article's wikilinks inspector
• Trove searching hints by Tim Sherratt
• WOW2022
• ESEAP Conference Nov 2022
• ESEAP Conference May 2024
• 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

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