User:Carbon Caryatid

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My primary interest on Wikipedia is helping to weave the web. Creating links between mere raw items of information turns data into the "aha!", the "I never knew that!", the "now I see!", the "eureka!"

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Sometimes I act as a wikignome. Sometimes I add facts that come my way. Mainly I sprinkle in wikilinks, and "see also"s, and terms for things that previously had no name. (I love it that Wikipedia has given me names for concepts I knew of but had never really thought about. Once we have a name for something, it becomes a much more real mental construct, and suddenly we see examples all around us. So once Wikipedia led me to the Anglosphere and cousin couples and political decoy I want to add them wherever relevant, so other readers can be exposed to these ideas as well.) Sometimes I write opening sentences or paragraphs that tie the threads together, placing a subject in context. Sometimes I contribute to the reference desks, especially humanities and miscellaneous: answers, and also questions. Sometimes I hive off sections into separate stand-alone articles. So I really should join in with Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration.

I have wide-ranging interests. Don't we all? I also have my blind spots. Don't we all?

Articles of interest

Ones I've worked on

These are a few articles I've made substantial contributions to:

Biographies

Language

Authors and books

Other

Ones I have actually started

Amusements

Reminder to self: articles to work on and things to do (someday)

General

Start (just ideas)

  • Amélie Munier-Romilly, French painter, probably connected to Jane Franklin
  • Theodosia Monson
  • Matilda Charlotte Houstoun (or possibly Houston) [née Jesse; other married name Fraser], (1815-1892) novelist and travel writer, daughter to Edward Jesse.
  • keeping company - perhaps an article exists under another name, but this is a historic (obsolete?) euphemism for the *accepted* practice of premarital sex in communities which we tend to assume forbad or penalised it
  • Dollar princess (unless there's already an article under another name) (there's a recent book out on this, but doesn't use the phrase in thetitle, which I've forgotten)
  • Newington Green Academies, a subset of Dissenting academies
  • Lyceum Club - like the gentlemen's clubs, but for women; founded 1904? Inspired or affiliated to clubs of the same name in Texas and Australia?
  • maternity nurse - redirects to midwifery - not what I mean
    • and Night Nurse too - both the medicine and the baby sort
  • wise woman - currently a very unsatisfactory dab
  • collusive abduction, i.e. including elements of elopement and bride kidnapping
  • menstrual seclusion aka menstrual hut, as a bad case of menstrual taboo
  • marriage as prostitution, barely mentioned under Criticism of marriage
  • women's page - NOT the "society page" for gossip. EG Cotton's Weekly described in The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left, 1900-1918 (1997) (re UK Observer)
  • Auxiliary hospital - set up in WW1 (esp in English country houses) and largely staffed by Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses. See Red Cross info. There were thousands. Many leaders (often county ladies) got gongs (link to eg 1918 Birthday Honours and 1918 New Year Honours).
  • nyumba ntobhu, women marrying women in Tanzania, an old custom with a modern twist
  • translate School Mistresses and Governesses’ Benevolent Institution from German Wikipedia
  • invalid food
  • postnatal care (not the same as the current article postpartum care) - or merge with postpartum confinement?

Sandbox (my notes)

Improve

Sometimes this might mean going through the archives to see what has been removed or messed up.

Q&A

User:BrainyBabe/Q&A

Useful links

Tools

First Nations and small languages

  • Atikamekw, Wikipedia in a dialect of Cree, about 1000 articles, many on medicinal plants
    • YouTube video explaining the project, in French at Wikimania Montreal

Women in Red


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Categories, tags, and templates

Miscellaneous

Reminders to self of things done

Things I've learned on Wikipedia that I never would have heard of without

Info about Wikimedia and wikis generally

Just in case

To read

Awards

This editor is a Grand Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain.
The Original Barnstar
Your recent work on Farid Esack (besides other articles) is careful and skillful, and I can't help but appreciate it. Jizakullah! -- Rob C (Alarob) 22:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
To User:BrainyBabe I hereby award the prestigious Barnstar of Diligence for sweeping questions from the wrong desk to the right desk with unfailing, deft wrist motions and alacrity thereby saving the rest of us our time and hair pulling, clearing the refdesks of clutter and restoring their precision, so improving Wikipedia. With thanks, Julia Rossi (talk) 01:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
The BLP Barnstar
For great diligence on the Nicola Horlick article. DonFB (talk) 10:29, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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