User:PaulieZiegfeld
Hi I'm code name: PaulieZiegfeld. I'm a working professional based in the USA, east coast, who has always been tempted to contribute to/improve Wikipedia but the process intimidated me, so here I am, learning, or trying to. I can go down the rabbit hole on anything, but my fave subjects / expertise lies in history, comedy, popular fiction, mathematics, food, the science of all kinds of popular stuff, and just a desire for integrity in the information that's floating in the world.
It drives me nuts when info on some of my fave subjects is wrong, or incomplete, so I'm here to contribute for and to the good.
I hope people here are nice and not super mean. I'm kind of mad at myself for running away more than a decade ago, and more than a decade before that when people were mean. I've been working online writing, editing and creating since before Wikipedia existed and I should've worked harder to crack it. Trying to make up for lost time.
Update: Increasingly alarmed by all the notable woman I know who are absent on Wikipedia, I learned a lot more about the ways Wikimedia Org has tried to address gender bias. When I saw they really have identified all the reasons women don't contribute here, or get representation, it was an arrow to my heart because nearly every one of those reasons is why I came in and came out a revolving door here. From the Gender bias on Wikipedia page, in August 2013, Sue Gardner said, "I didn't solve it. We didn't solve it. The Wikimedia Foundation didn't solve it. The solution won't come from the Wikimedia Foundation."
I'm an outsider, and I really want to solve it. Bob Dylan wrote, how does it feel to be a complete unknown? I know. My late mother knows. And so do all the other Women in Red. Maybe we call ourselves "Invisible now" as we have no secrets to conceal, or maybe I've got nothing, so I've got nothing to lose. Update: I haven't come close to solving it, but a year later at least I didn't run.
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