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 people should learn 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.
Ask me for help with Bay Area editing events
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 do 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, and 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.
- Mentoring new editors by answering their questions and helping them find interesting things to edit.
- 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).
Articles
Some topics where I wrote an initial entry: Harp, Lyon & Healy, Neapolitan ice cream, Pablo Neruda, Neopets, Hammurabi, Tamasay, Alien and Sedition Acts, Driftwood, Shrine Auditorium, Joel Sternfeld, Derek McCulloch (comics), Britta, Pinboard (website), Outreachy, Afro-American Association.
My own article lists, to help me keep track of them: User:Dreamyshade/Anti-circumvention article project.
Photos
I like documenting local historic buildings and landmarks, so I've contributed photos to Historic-Cultural Monuments in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, San Francisco Designated Landmarks, and List of Oakland Designated Landmarks. I'm also a judge for Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States.
Some photos I've taken: