User:Oronsay
Why do I edit Wikipedia? To increase the percentage of women's bios on English Wikipedia. It's 20.20% as of 24 September 2025. Other editing is focused on updating articles about Australia and Australians.
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About me
[edit]I have a BA, majoring in history and Russian, from the Australian National University. I enjoy the writing style (non-florid) that Wikipedia demands.
My Wikipedia adventure began when I attended the University of Sydney Wikibomb in October 2014 at the Charles Perkins Centre.
After a slow start, in July 2017 I joined the WikiProject Women in Red, with the aim of turning redlinks into blue, adding entries for women of note who deserve their own entries in Wikipedia. In late 2017 I discovered their #1day1woman project and also began contributing to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge which has a long way to go to reach its goal. On 3 January 2018 I signed up the 2018 #1day1woman project and have been an active participant in this important global initiative ever since.
Outreach
[edit]I have volunteered at a number of edit-a-thons, beginning with Franklin Women's Women in Health and Medical Research (July 2019).
2020
[edit]- Know My Name (IWD 2020). Subsequently, remotely at editWikipedia4BlackLives (June 2020) and NGA Wiki Club (July 2020 onwards).
- Two introduction to Wikipedia editing sessions for the University of Newcastle Library team's Missed In History Edit-a-thon (History Week Sept 2020).
2021
[edit]- Assisting on IWD2021 at WriteWomenUSYD / Dashboard:Write Women USYD.
- Assisting at WOMEESA edit-a-thon in March 2021.
- Assisting at City of Sydney editing training for librarians prior to the Picture This edit-a-thon on 15 May 2021.
- Co-hosting #1Lib1Ref drop-in sessions in May – June 2021.
- Assisting online at the City of Sydney First Nations Editathon and dashboard on 10 July 2021.
- Assisted online at UNSW Women in Science editathon, dashboard.
- Ada Lovelace Day Women in Red recruitment drive on 12 October 2021 dashboard, NZ list and OZ list.
2022
[edit]- Assisted with the 7 April 2022 Franklin Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon & sheet for Women in Health and Medical Research on World Health Day, delayed twice by COVID-19 lockdowns.
- Co-facilitator for #1Lib1Ref 2022, dashboard, suggestions, WMAU
- Assistant facilitator, Hands on history: an introduction to Wikipedia, 3 September, google sheet, dashboard.
- Assistant facilitator, WOMEESA and GSA Edit-a-thon, 5 October 2022, google sheet, dashboard.
- Assistant facilitator, City of Sydney Aus Music Month: an introduction to Wikipedia, 12 November, google sheet, dashboard.
2023
[edit]- Assistant facilitator, The Record Australian Music Centre Editathon, WMAU event page, Eventbrite, google sheet, dashboard.
- Participant, WikiProject Australian Cartoons
- Participant, New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject editathon – Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, dashboard
2024
[edit]- Assisting with Franklin Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2024 in Sydney (24 July) and Canberra (25 July), Google sheet for Women in Health and Medical Research dashboard. Also, Franklin Women.
- WikiCon2024 Adelaide - dashboard
2025
[edit]- Remote assistance for AbbVie + Franklin Women (19 February) – project page, google sheet, dashboard
- Assisting at Artbank editathon (7 March) – project page, google sheet, dashboard
- Assisting at 2SER-FM Women in Journalism (8 March, 10 May) – IWD editing, dashboard, google sheet
- Assisting at Gilead / Franklin Women (3 June) – project page, dashboard, google sheet
- Assisting at National Communication Museum (4 June) – project page, dashboard, google doc
- Assisting remotely with permissions and welcomes for Art Gallery of South Australia's two Dangerously Modern events (6 June, 1 August) – project page, dashboard 1, dashboard 2
- Assisting at UNSW's Underrepresented Scientists (24 September) – project page, dashboard, google sheet
- Assisting at Women at Sydney (30 October) – project page, dashboard, google sheet
Paid contributions declaration
[edit]The City of Sydney (CoS) contracted me to assist at a training workshop for their librarians in preparation for three editathons to be held in 2021 and to co-facilitate the Picture This editathon on 15 May. In both instances I demonstrate how to edit Wikipedia using CoS content including providing online support to participants via Zoom. The project page for the 15 May public editathon is Wikipedia:GLAM/Australian libraries and WP/Events/City of Sydney Picture This. In 2022 I have again been contracted by CoS to assist in facilitating two Wikidata and two Wikipedia in-person editathons.
Media
[edit]- SBSNews interview by Rayane Tamer, This Australian has written 400 profiles of deserving women on Wikipedia. Here's why she's 'obsessed' 26 Oct 2022
- Excerpt from ABC's The Drum 4 Nov 2022
- These women are closing Wikipedia's gender gap, Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, 6 Jun 2023
- Can Wikipedia survive the rise of AI and Trump?, ABC's Long Read, 11 May 2025
To do list
[edit]- Attend WikidataCon2023 - program link
- Finding images on NLA Trove to upload to Wikimedia Commons and then add to Australian biographies on Wikipedia using the hashtag #VisibleWikiWomen.
- Adding women from The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, (originally compiled by User:Lankiveil) and maintained in his memory. Alternatively, adding women without entries to relevant crowd-sourced lists at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Redlist index. See also my EWL redlist.
- Australian diplomats
- Australian historians
- Australian women in ADB - WiR redlist
- Australian women – other, including Miscellanea of musicians ex ADB
- Australian women writers – from A Bibliographic Guide by Debra Adelaide
- Australian women in STEM
- USYD IWD list
- Update award shortlists and winners via List of Australian literary awards
- DrThneed's list of NZ women academics
- New pages feed
Wikipedia pages I find helpful
[edit]- Paste this at the end of a WP bio url to make the WE-Framework appear: ?useskin=vector
- PrepBio
- Wikipedia:List of infoboxes#Other person
- Australia stub templates
- Template:Cite Q
- Template:Cite book
- Inline templates
- Geographical coordinates
- Smartphone editing
- Wikipedia:Age calculation templates
- Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists
- Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting names
- Wikipedia:Notability (people)
- New Zealand Meetups
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Popular pages - updated on 4/5 each month
- URL Shortener
- Wikipedia Library
- The 5000 Challenge The 5000 Challenge
- Global js page
- Pre-fill from Wikidata for bio generation
- Perry Middlemiss's Australian literature to do
- User:JackofOz/Research redlinks
- [editors by country]
- Monthly Geoeditors report
- Geoeditors raw data
- Celebrate Women!
- User:The-Pope/Aussie Olympians, useful redlist including women, notability assured
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do/Australian Dictionary of Biography – ADB
- Lists of Australians
- JWB and User Manual – the Mac equivalent of AWB
- HotDefaultSort
- https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/index.html
- Art+Feminism videos and other resources
- Order of article elements
- DEFAULTSORT rules for surnames
- Did you know/Reviewing guide
- Training Libraries - via Dashboard
- User:Schwede66's DYK slide set, Hokitika 2021
- Population data / Census 2021 and Category:Australian place articles using Wikidata population values
- Web2Cit
- Trove newspaper links ex DABs and Full list
Other links
[edit]- Wikimedia Australia
- Wikimedia Australia – Training and the four new GLAM training modules
- IABot tool for rescuing refs
- Event coordinator instructions, including creating new accounts and assigning confirmed status
- Jan's Wikipedia image quiz – played at Wikidata Reuse Days 2025
- West Coast Wikisource Project
- Intro to Wikisource for West Coast Project
- British Library e-theses online
- LD4 VanderBot tutorial – using Python
- Celtic Knot Conference – 1-2 July 2022
- WikiWomen Erasmus+ Project
- Editing Wikipedia
- Illustrating Wikipedia
- Article's wikilinks inspector
- Trove searching hints by Tim Sherratt
- WOW2022
- ESEAP Conference Nov 2022
- ESEAP Conference May 2024
- WPWP2025 on Meta
- Images available WD4WP
- Image existence checker – checks category image requested against image in those articles
- Country Music content list - 2022 list and Dashboard
- AMC Music content list - 2023 list and Dashboard
- #EveryBookItsReader - Wikidata video
- Userviews Analysis
- Ambrosia10's Gadgets & Tools for Wikipedia & WikiCommons – Wellington WikiCon 2023
- SLNSW Cartoons
- The Women's Pages – Australian Women and Journalism since 1850
- Toby's slides at WOW 2019
- Video: Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes – Molly White
Videos
[edit]- Videos for Introduction to Wikipedia by James Gaunt
- Wikipedia Editing Tutorial by Caddie Brain
Articles I have created
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External links
[edit]- Improving Women's Biographies through Wikidata - Experiences from Women in Red and the Smithsonian Institute – WikidataCon 2021, my part from 26:40
Barnstars and Awards
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