User:Dreamyshade

I'm Britta Gustafson. 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. There's a community profile about me on the Wikimedia blog (2017), and I contributed to a history of Wikipedia at 20 years old. I got a shoutout at a Depths of Wikipedia show.

My favorite policy is verifiability. Related notes:

• User:Dreamyshade/Reliability resources
• User:Dreamyshade/Dubious sources
• User:Dreamyshade/Archive links

I established a LocalWiki for Isla Vista, CA, part of the separate LocalWiki project that encourages documenting non-notable local topics.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Britta Gustafson.

I received workshop facilitator training in 2014 and have led and supported many edit-a-thons. Materials and notes that I'm happy to share for reuse and adaptation:

• "Secret rules of Wikipedia editing" intro presentation (PDF), aka "how to influence the world from your pajamas"
• Videocall editathon checklist
• Tips for promotion:
  • Set up a detailed Wikipedia meetup page. Examples: Wiki Loves Monuments photowalk in San Francisco, Black Campus Movement @ Oakland Public Library, Art+Feminism SF MOMA
  • Email any relevant mailing lists - for example, in my area, this is the Wikimedia-SF mailing list
  • Create a geonotice
  • Set up an Outreach dashboard page to help track attendees and outcomes
• To create accounts for new editors at events and bypass the limit on number of accounts created per IP per day, you can request event coordinator permission.

• User:Dreamyshade/Data privacy law
• User:Dreamyshade/Tattoo history project
• User:Dreamyshade/Trans Lifeline
• User:Dreamyshade/Healthcare projects
• User:Dreamyshade/Tech culture project
• User:Dreamyshade/Anti-circumvention article project

Some topics where I wrote an initial version:

• 2001-2002: I started editing Wikipedia because there wasn't an article for harp. I made one! There weren't many articles back then, so I also made assorted new entries such as Neopets, Pablo Neruda, Alien and Sedition Acts, and driftwood. This was back when creating an encyclopedia from scratch felt like a lark, so why not create articles based on your high school homework. I even wrote Hammurabi and Code of Hammurabi based on my sister's middle school homework.
• 2004: Shrine Auditorium, a landmark in my hometown
• 2006: Joel Sternfeld, a photographer whose work I appreciated
• 2007: Derek McCulloch (comics), the author of an interesting graphic novel about Stagger Lee and American music history
• 2012: Pinboard (website), the independent successor to a website I used to work for
• 2014: Outreachy, a program that supports underrepresented people interested in working on open source software
• 2017: Another editor started Hodgkins and Skubic House (a Modernist house designed for a lesbian couple in 1967) based on my LocalWiki article
• 2022: Afro-American Association (a gap in coverage of the Black Power movement) and Amund Dietzel (a gap in coverage of tattoo history)
• 2023: Weston Havens House, a Modernist house designed for a gay man in 1940
• 2024: Rustls, an open source software project that aims to improve internet security

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 served as a judge for Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States for a few years.