User:Hexatekin

I have been editing Wikipedia for twelve years. I enjoy working with distributed communities to expand publicly available knowledge and identify content gaps. I have worn multiple hats as a community organizer, advocate, and researcher. Recently, I have been working on Wikipedia articles related to music, history, artists and venues, scholarly outputs and research methods.

Announcements

• In September 2025, I started a Pratt Linked Open Data Fellowship with the Museum of Modern Art. See: Wikidata:WikiProject Museum of Modern Art as part of my MLIS.
• I have a paper in the works on Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences, with support from a Wikimedia Research grant

Additional Background I was formerly a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in 2013-2014, and the documentation for that work can be found at: Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council. In that position, I was an early proponent of the Wikipedian-in-Residence concept. I also contributed to WikiProject Consumer Reports. I was a Program Officer at WikiConference USA, 2014. I was an early Wikipedia community advisor/curricula developer/organizer for Art + Feminism, 2014-2015.^[1] I have also done some academic research reflecting on participating in the Wikimedia community as a gender and diversity advocate, see Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care citation below. I was Administrative Executive for the Queering Wikipedia 2023 international, virtual conference. I previously focused on adding in metadata to Wikidata about open tools for environmental science with the project SEEKCommons Wikidata:SEEKCommons.

Miscellaneous Writing and Media I've produced

• Slides: Scholarly Profiling in Wikidata - SEEKCommons, Wikicite 2025.
• Dorothy Howard & Lane Rasberry. Perspectives on the Meeting of Wikipedia & Artificial Intelligence. UVA Data Points Podcast. August 22, 2023.
• Dorothy Howard, John Samuel, and Owen Blacker. WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference, The Signpost, 22 May, 2023
• R. Stuart Geiger, Dorothy Howard, and Lilly Irani. The labor of maintaining and scaling free and open-source software projects. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction 5, no. CSCW1 (2021): 1-28.
• Dorothy Howard & Lilly Irani. 2019. Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19). Awarded Honorable Mention (top 4%).
• "Wikipedia, work, and capitalism. A realm of freedom?" [Book review], Wikimedia Research Newsletter, March 2017
• Dorothy Howard. "Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps." Wikimedia blog. February 24, 2015.
• Dorothy Howard. Interviews with librarians and archivists in participating in GLAM-Wiki at the Metropolitan New York Library Council blog.
• Dorothy Howard. Thoughts on Wikipedia Editing and Digital Labor, April, 2014. (self-published)
• Dorothy Howard. On Closing the Gender Gap in Wikipedia Metropolitan New York Library Council.