Wikipedia Visiting Scholars  

These are the experienced editors currently working with educational institutions to improve Wikipedia in the Visiting Scholars program.

Amqui

Amqui (talk · contribs) is the Visiting Scholar at the Rutgers University. Amqui is excited to be partnering with Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, to advance his work with endangered languages and take advantage of Rutgers’ vast resources. This partnership is possible through Rutgers’ Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures.

Media

• Announcing Jean-Philippe Béland as the Visiting Scholar for Rutgers University - Wiki Education blog. (4 June 2018)

Czar

Czar (talk · contribs) is a Visiting Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution during 2017-2018, sponsored by Smithsonian Libraries and the National Museum of African Art.

Highlights

1:54, a contemporary African art fair held annually in London
Nadia Kaabi-Linke, a Tunis-born, Berlin-based visual artist
National Museum of African Art, the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum in Washington, D.C.

Media

• Introducing the Smithsonian Libraries Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog. (28 February 2017)
• Visiting Scholar is representing African artists and activists on Wikipedia - Wiki Education blog. (20 June 2018)

Gen. Quon

Gen. Quon (talk · contribs) has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania since 2017, improving Wikipedia's coverage of Classics topics. In addition to the highlights below, Gen. Quon keeps track of his Visiting Scholar work here.

Highlights

Media

• Penn Library Hires Official Classics Wikipedian - University of Pennsylvania Classics Department (n.d.)
• Gen. Quon is Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania - Wiki Education blog. (4 October 2017)
• UPenn Visiting Scholar Gen. Quon is making real progress improving Wikipedia’s coverage of Classics - Wiki Education blog. (30 April 2018)
• Visiting Scholar Gen. Quon writes about his passion for Wikipedia editing - Wiki Education blog. (25 May 2018)

Lingzhi

Media

• Lingzhi is Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at USF - Wiki Education blog (1 December 2016)

RockMagnetist

RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) is a Visiting Scholar at the Deep Carbon Observatory for 2017-2018, improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics relevant to deep carbon science.

Highlights

Extraterrestrial diamonds

List of mineralogists

Mark S. Ghiorso

Organic mineral

Media

• Introducing the New DCO Wikipedia Visiting Scholar: Andrew Newell, Deep Carbon Observatory (19 September 2017)
• Andrew Newell is the Deep Carbon Observatory Visiting Scholar, Wiki Education (21 September 2017)
• Learn about deep carbon science on Wikipedia thanks to RockMagnetist - Wiki Education blog (4 June 2018)

Rosiestep

Rosiestep (talk · contribs) has been a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University since 2017, hosted by the Women Writers Project, part of the university's Digital Services Group.

Highlights

Rosiestep is a prolific content contributor, and as Visiting Scholar she has developed more than 400 articles about women writers. Too many to list here, but Rosie maintains a list here. Among many excellent contributions was a biography for Maria Elise Turner Lauder, which happened to be Wikipedia's 6 millionth article!

Media

• Welcome to our Wikipedia Visiting Scholar! - Northeastern University Libraries Digital Scholarship Group (16 March 2017)
• Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University - Wiki Education blog (12 April 2017)
• How one prolific Wikipedian is giving voice to pre-20th century women’s stories - Wiki Education blog (28 March 2018)
• Rosiestep is putting faces to pre-20th century women’s history - Wiki Education blog (11 May 2018)
• 6 million articles on Wikipedia! - Wiki Education blog (27 January 2020)

Textaural

Textaural (talk · contribs) is the Visiting Scholar at the University of Windsor. Using the University of Windsor’s collections, his research will include cross-border culture, First Nations history in the Essex county/Detroit River area, early French History of the Detroit River area, Windsor/Sandwich’s Underground Railroad, and First Nations sports history.

Media

• Steve Jankowski is the University of Windsor’s Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (22 March 2018)

Wehwalt

Wehwalt (talk · contribs) has been a Visiting Scholar at George Mason University since 2014, focusing on historical figures and coinage.

Highlights

• Wehwalt is one of Wikipedia's most prolific editors of Featured Articles. As a Visiting Scholar at GMU he has taken 50 articles to that level, some of which were first Good Articles. 15 appeared on the Main Page with Did You Know hooks.

Media

• Welcome, Wikipedia Affiliate - Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media news (5 March 2014)
• Are you the next Wikipedia Visiting Scholar? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (25 April 2014)
• What happens when you give a Wikipedia editor a research library? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (17 March 2015)
• Wehwalt is George Mason University's Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (6 October 2015)
• First Featured Article from a Wiki Ed Visiting Scholar: Boroughitis - Wiki Education blog (10 November 2015)
• Read a Visiting Scholar's Featured Article on Founding Father - Wiki Education blog (20 January 2016)
• Today's featured article by GMU Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (3 November 2016)
• Wehwalt is ensuring the quality of Wikipedia’s coverage of American political history - Wiki Education blog (26 April 2018)
• How access to academic sources empowers already prolific Wikipedia editors - Wiki Education blog (7 May 2018)

Barbara (WVS)

Barbara (WVS) (talk · contribs) (also edits as Bfpage) was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh from 2015-2019. Barbara contributes to a wide range of topics, often inspired by the University of Pittsburgh's collections on historical topics. In March 2017, Barbara celebrated her 10-year anniversary as a Wikipedian.

Highlights

• Improved more than 1000 articles which have been viewed more than 100 million times.
• Developed high-quality health and medicine information on topics like trichomoniasis, adolescent sexuality, bacteriocin, Bifidobacterium longum, breastfeeding, feline zoonosis, gut flora, Lactobacillus paracasei, chlamydia infection, Staphylococcus aureus, miscarriage, and thrombosis prevention.
• Brought the Whiskey Rebellion article to Good Article status with content from the University of Pittsburgh archives.
• Improved content in eight different Wikipedias: English, Simple English, Kreyol Ayisen, Portuguese, Italian, German, Esperanto and French.
• Translated articles about women's health topics from English to Kreyol Ayisien and Simple English
• Over 25,000 edits as Barbara (WVS) and over 19,000 edits as Bfpage
• 182 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
• Created neonatal infection, uterine microbiome, and serial rapist, which were featured in the Did You Know section of Wikipedia's Main Page

Media

• University of Pittsburgh welcomes two Visiting Scholars - Wiki Education blog (25 September 2015)
• The Wikipedia Visiting Scholar Program and Why It Works for Women - Wikimedia Diversity Conference (17 June 2016)
• UPitt Visiting Scholar is opening access to women’s health information - Wiki Education blog (28 June 2016)
• Volunteer Expands Pitt's Reach, One Wikipedia Citation at a Time - PittChronicle (22 August 2016)
• American Archives Month- Using Archives in Wikipedia - Archives Service Center @ Pitt (27 October 2016)
• Meet the nonprofit responsible for adding educational content to Wikipedia by LiAnna Davis, Wiki Education blog (5 December 2016)
• Library searches for ‘Wikipedian’ The Temple News, Temple University. (6 September 2016)
• Pitz, Marylynne, A Wikipedia Woman of Letters. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (11 December 2016)
• Pitt Med Magazine, (Spring 2017) The University of Pittsburgh Medical School Magazine.
• CCAC to serve as a host for Northeast Regional Honors Council Conference in April Community College of Allgheny County. (8 March 2017)

Briancua

Briancua (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at DePaul University for 2015-16, improving articles about Chicago history, Catholic social justice studies, and Vincentian Studies.

Media

• DePaul Joins Wikipedia Visiting Scholars Program - DePaul University Library News (16 July 2015)

Chris troutman

Chris troutman (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at University of California, Riverside in 2014-15, focusing on biographies of historically significant scientists and academics.

Highlights

• Chris created 20 new biographies of prominent scientists and academics and created or improved a total of 25 articles.
• 21 of the 25 articles Chris worked on appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did You Know?" section. For example, did you know...

• "... that the engineering professor Morrough Parker O'Brien is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering?"
• "... that Harry Scott Smith coined the term 'biological control' in 1919?"

Media

• Wikipedia’s Visiting Scholar: Chris Troutman - UCR Libraries News and Events (27 May 2015)
• What happens when you give a Wikipedia editor a research library? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (17 March 2015)

Dnllnd

Dnllnd (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at McMaster University during 2015-16, improving articles about overlooked or underrepresented people and events.

Highlights

• Danielle created or improved more than 40 articles on a number of subjects.
• Significant work on several biographies like Lady Constance Malleson, Louise Bennett-Coverley, Basil H. Johnston and Marian Engel.
• Major contributions to the Canadian Indian residential school system article. After completing her Visiting Scholarship she continued to work on the article, bringing it up to Featured Article.
• Creation of William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections page.

Media

• Announcing McMaster University’s Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (25 November 2015)
• Wikipedia and Archives – Accessibility and the Greater Good - Things I'm Fonds Of (1 August 2016)
• Visiting Scholar draws upon her archival expertise to improve Wikipedia - Wiki Education blog (9 January 2018)

Jackiekoerner

Jackiekoerner (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at San Francisco State University for 2016-17, working with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability to improve Wikipedia's coverage of disability-related topics.

Highlights

• Created or substantially improved articles on the 504 sit-in, disability in the United States, and the Superfest International Disability Film Festival, which appeared as a Did You Know on the Main Page in February 2017.

Media

• Longmore Institute Seeking Disability Studies Wikipedian - Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability blog (29 September 2016)
• SFSU opening access to library resources for Wikipedian interested in disability studies - Wiki Education blog (29 September 2016)
• Jackie Koerner: Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at SFSU - Wiki Education blog (2 December 2016)
• Drunk History covers disability rights subject after it’s added to Wikipedia by Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog. (21 February 2018)
• Why this Wikipedian believes in sharing knowledge freely - Wiki Education blog. (8 June 2018)
• Visiting Scholar improves Wikipedia’s coverage of disability-related topic - Wiki Education blog. (22 June 2018)

M2545

M2545 (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at Rollins College in 2016-17, focusing on urbanization in Florida and the southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and on Cuba-Florida connections.

Highlights

• Created or improved dozens of timeline articles about cities in Cuba and the southern United States.
• Created 116 articles and improved about 100 others in the focus topic areas.
• Uploaded almost 600 relevant images to Wikimedia Commons.

Media

• Rollins College chooses Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (8 June 2016)
• Timelines of a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (30 August 2017)

Mike Cline

Mike Cline (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at Montana State University in 2014-15, focusing on historical and environmental topics, especially those relevant to Montana.

Highlights

• Brought Montana Vigilantes to Good Article status, about vigilantism in response to a robberies and murders in the Idaho Territory (later Montana) in the mid-late 1800s.
• Created several new articles, including Megan Boyd, a historically significant, award-winning British fly tyer, and Montana Arctic grayling.
• Improved the article for explorer, engineer and officer William F. Raynolds to become a Featured Article.

Media

• What happens when you give a Wikipedia editor a research library? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (17 March 2015)

Owlsmcgee

Owlsmcgee (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at Brown University during 2017-2018, sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of ethnic studies topics.

Highlights

Algorithmic bias

Black cowboys

Canales investigation

Cockstock Incident

Oregon black exclusion laws

Media

• Announcing the new Brown University Visiting Scholar, Eryk Salvaggio - Wiki Education blog (31 May 2017)
• Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at The JNBC! - John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage (12 June 2017)
• Chapter in the history of racism in America added by a Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (14 September 2017)
• Brown University’s Visiting Scholar expands Wikipedia article about “Joan of Arc” of Syria - Wiki Education blog (26 June 2018)
• Learning from the past to design the future - Wiki Education blog (27 June 2018)

Seattle

Seattle (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh from 2015-2017, focusing on topics related to the history of Pittsburgh.

Highlights

• Added dozens of images from the University of Pittsburgh's collections to Wikimedia Commons, including a set of photos of Pittsburgh mayors. See all of Seattle's uploads in this gallery.
• Created or improved more than 75 articles, including:

Robert Schmertz (artist)

Mark Baldwin (baseball)

The Ohio Company: Its Inner History

Media

• University of Pittsburgh welcomes two Visiting Scholars - Wiki Education blog (25 September 2015)
• "Did You Know?" highlights Visiting Scholar article on Pittsburgh folk musician - Wiki Education blog (9 February 2016)
• American Archives Month- Using Archives in Wikipedia - Archives Service Center @ Pitt (27 October 2016)

Staticshakedown

Staticshakedown (talk · contribs) was a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University in 2014-15, focusing on health care, jazz, and other topics consistent with the university's strategic plan of "Cultures, Diversity, and Inequality — Local and Global."

Highlights

• Among the 24 articles she created or improved, Daniela worked on several music-related topics like Melodears and Viola Gertrude Wells as well as cultural subjects like limited English proficiency and cultural competence in health care.

Media

• What happens when you give a Wikipedia editor a research library? - Wikimedia Foundation blog (17 March 2015)
• Experience of Writing a Wikipedia Article - Cultural Competence in Health Care - Poster presentation at 2014 Rutgers University Libraries State of the Libraries Showcase (4 November 2014)