User:Sumanah

I'm Sumana Harihareswara. I live in New York City, USA.

Currently the main topic I'm working on is current events and electoral politics in New York City and New York State. I'm slowly working on a draft article about the advocacy group Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM); I'm not a DRUM member but have volunteered at a few DRUM events.

I sometimes like to improve coverage of women in open source software, like Lorinda Cherry and Jane Silber, as well as political figures, such as Tulsi Gabbard (there was a moment where I was the top English Wikipedia contributor to the page about Gabbard) and Kat Abughazaleh. I have a copy of the deleted Isaiah Martin bio - feel free to ask if you want it to work on. I was (slowly) working to get the Hari Kondabolu article to Good Article status -- see User:Sumanah/Hari Kondabolu draftspace -- but you should feel free to take that work on yourself, as it's been ages since I worked on it. And I'm mildly interested in creating an article for Sheryl E. Gordon, an Alabama National Guard leader (Alabama's first female Major General). I also do bits of cleanup and cite-adding here and there.

I gave the speech "Hospitality, Jerks, and What I Learned" at Wiki Conference USA in 2014.

• Homepage and blog: http://www.harihareswara.net
• Consulting business: http://changeset.nyc/
• Fediverse (Mastodon): https://social.coop/@brainwane
• MetaFilter: brainwane
• IRC: I'm sumanah on OFTC, GNOME, and Mozilla IRC, which I visit very rarely

I also have a mediawiki.org userpage.

This is my personal account for personal editing; if I edited in my capacity as a Wikimedia Foundation staffer, I was User:Sharihareswara (WMF). (I no longer work at WMF; I worked there from early 2011 till 30 September 2014.)

Although I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account are exclusively in my individual, personal capacity.