User:Gobonobo

Hi! I'm gobonobo. I've been a Wikipedia editor since before hashtags. I survived 100 wikidays, have written around 1000 articles, and have made over 100,000 edits to the English Wikipedia and Wikidata. I patrol recent changes, review draft articles, revert vandalism, and monitor social media for errors that have slipped through the cracks. I sometimes contribute to the did you know... section on the main page and have uploaded oodles of images both here and on Commons.

As an editor, I focus on a wide variety of content and try to address systemic bias, especially in regards to gender, racial and geographic biases. I am a member of several WikiProjects, support GLAM initiatives, and have volunteered with Art+Feminism and participated in Black Lunch Table events. I've organized edit-a-thons and led editing workshops at the Loft, Mia, the American Craft Council, St. Kate's, Hamline, and the U of M.

About me

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This user drinks mate.

This user understands, or is learning to understand, the language of the birds.

This user collects cones.

I hail from Minnesota where I learned how to be nice and ride tall bikes. While my username refers to the most enlightened of the great apes, I am actually a night owl who enjoys rabbit holes. I use Linux and support the free and open-source software movement. I have a background in the cooperative movement and consensus decision-making. I'm a C-SPAN junkie and enjoy listening to Wikipedia, time-travel romance, and long bicycle rides where I can snap photos for Wikishootme.

I made my first edit to Wikipedia in 2006 and my early focus centered on different types of cooperatives. Early on I was an online ambassador, working with university classes (before Wiki Ed) and worked briefly with the volunteer response team. I later became involved in efforts to address the gender gap. I no longer maintain my gender gap red list, as the Women in Red lists are far more comprehensive. I was privileged to be a part of the group that organized an edit-a-thon at the Minneapolis Central Library where the Guerrilla Girls were guests of honor and to be among the Wikimedians who convinced the Minnesota Historical Society to license their MNopedia content as CC BY-SA. I supported the global blackout of this site in opposition to SOPA, have been described as a "Wikipedia Angel" and was the first editor to note the death of Kim Jong Il.

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Did you know... contributions

Did you know...

... that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
... that the Fox Island Electric Cooperative operates the largest community wind energy facility on the East Coast of the United States?
... that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam?
... that political strategist Rod Shealy sought to increase the turnout of white voters in South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
... that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones created the award-winning radio documentary Ghetto Life 101 when he was 13 years old?
... that Canada's Federated Co-operatives partnered with SeaChoice to promote sustainable seafood, like the spiny lobster, through its co-operatives?
... that Armajaro's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading?
... that Tyonajanegen, a woman from the Oneida tribe, fought in the American Revolutionary War?
... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War, a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International?
... that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan?
... that Harlan Crow's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong?
... that the Research Works Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research?

... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell (pictured) were influenced by ukiyo-e?
... that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form?
... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis?
... that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?

... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer (pictured) went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota?
... that jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD had a crowd moshing at a J Dilla tribute show?
... that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has its origins in a group formed to oppose laws against sweatshops?
... that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown?
... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project?
... that the documentary Heist traces the origins of the Great Recession to a confidential memo written in 1971?

... that Tar Heel Annie Lowrie Alexander (pictured) was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States?
... that Margarete Bieber was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany?
... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi?
... that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta?
... that Buffy Sainte-Marie's song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" originally mentioned that the Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua?
... that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis?
... that attorney Harriet Pilpel counted Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?

... that Loretta Lynn (pictured), Mary Breckinridge, and Thelma Stovall are all Kentucky Women Remembered?

... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson?
... that Soosan Firooz has been described as Afghanistan's first female rapper?
... that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles elicited encores in Australia?
... that Ruby Hurley opened the NAACP's first permanent office in the Deep South?
... that Maxine Feldman's song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival?
... that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut?
... that while Claude Raguet Hirst's painting A Gentleman's Table was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
... that Kuwaiti electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi was the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East?
... that pork-knockers ate pickled pork of wild pig?
... that the Burka Avenger is Pakistan's first animated female superhero?
... that Florence Koehler was one of the best-known jewelers of the Arts and Crafts movement?
... that the first modern cochlear implant was developed by Austrian electrical engineer Ingeborg Hochmair?
... that the Ph.D dissertation of taphonomist Kay Behrensmeyer suggested that sauropods were terrestrial?
... that female physicist Elizabeth Laird came out of retirement during WWII to research radar?
... that Minneapolis City Councilmember-elect Abdi Warsame is one of the first Somali Americans to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?

... that Deborah Sussman (pictured) designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
... that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy?"
... that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo?
... that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
... that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week?
... that Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann identified 106 new species of cacti?
... THAT FEMINIST HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY AND ONLY MAKE CAPITALIZATION EXCEPTION FOR bell hooks?
... that Betty Bone Schiess is one of the Philadelphia Eleven, leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church?
... that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies?
... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
... that Myra Adele Logan was the first woman to perform open heart surgery?
... that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota pairs emerging women artists with professionals in a mentorship program?
... that a Spiderwoman Theater performance in Italy was cancelled for fear of riots?
... that feminist artists invented the WEB in 1971?

... that Abbie Lathrop's mouse number 57 was the origin of the C57BL/6 (pictured) laboratory mouse?

... that Cornelia Parker has made an embroidered representation (detail pictured) of the Wikipedia article on Magna Carta?
... that Kini Kapahu was recognized as Hawaii's "Honorary First Lady"?
... that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner's body was turned into "medicinal" grease?
... that Melati Suryodarmo went viral after dancing on butter?
... that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote?
... that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon?
... that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships?
... that LeRoy Woodson's photographs of steel-industry pollution were part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project?
... that Muraina Oyelami started painting after attending a Mbari Mbayo workshop?

Self-portrait of Kendall

... that after buying a view camera in the 1880s, Marie Hartig Kendall (pictured) took over 30,000 photographs?
... that the Line 3 oil spill was the largest inland oil spill in United States history?
... that protesters against the Line 3 oil pipeline handcuffed themselves together at an Enbridge pump station?
... that no wave band Pulsallama was described as "13 girls fighting over a cowbell"?

Grip, Dickens's raven

... that Charles Dickens's talking raven Grip (pictured) inspired the poem "The Raven"?
... that the historical-romance novel My Tender Matador includes a fictionalized version of the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet?
... that the UN Human Rights Committee recognized a correlation between the right to life and protection of the environment in Portillo Cáceres v Paraguay?
... that Edna Thomas portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth?
... that orcas have been teaching each other to attack boats?
... that Soledad Rosas was falsely charged with eco-terrorism in Italy?

Blotter art of the Eye of Horus

... that you've probably eaten blotter art (examples pictured) if you've ever taken LSD?

... that the chemicals responsible for the smell of freshly cut grass are a plant defense mechanism?

Yokcushlu

... that Yokcushlu (pictured) was taken hostage on HMS Beagle and named after a basket?

... that readers of Detroit columnist Nancy Brown funded the reforestation of 560 acres of land in her honor during the Great Depression?
... that a 1950s album of frog calls developed a cult following?

Frédéric Chopin

... that Chopin's heart (composer pictured) was smuggled into Poland by his sister?

... that a "welding nun" angered farmers with her garbage-eating goat?
... that Detroit has been waiting for its statue of RoboCop for more than 12 years?
... that Porphyry describes a moral obligation to extend justice to animals in his 3rd-century treatise on vegetarianism?

... that Pep the dog was falsely accused of murdering a cat and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary?

A teleseme

... that 1890s hotel guests could use a teleseme (pictured) to order cocktails and manservants?

... that Rewilding Argentina has reintroduced giant river otters, giant anteaters, and jaguars to the country?
... that beavers, mules, and dogs have been parachuted from airplanes?
... that the first woman cleared to fly Boeing 747s recorded the 1982 outsider music album Jet Lady?
... that Lore Harp McGovern went from being a housewife to the CEO of a US$36 million computer company in six years?

Spoonful and jar of mad honey

... that hallucinogenic honey (pictured) was used as a biological weapon more than 2000 years ago?

Galileo's middle finger

... that Galileo's middle finger (pictured) is considered a secular relic?
... that a graphic novel for teens was among the 10 most challenged books in the United States in 2023?

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It is like some vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious snacks.^[1]

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European bison