Emily Temple-Wood

Emily Temple-Wood
Born (1994-05-24) May 24, 1994[1]
Nationality American
Occupation Wikipedian in Residence
Known for Creating Wikipedia articles about women scientists
Awards Wikipedian of the Year (2016)

Emily Temple-Wood (born May 24, 1994, in Chicago)[1] is an American Wikipedia editor who goes by the name of Keilana on the site. She is known for her efforts to counter the effects and causes of gender bias on Wikipedia, particularly through the creation of articles about women scientists. She was declared a joint recipient of the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year, by Jimmy Wales, at Wikimania on 24 June 2016.

Early life

Temple-Wood attended Avery Coonley School,[2] and won the 2008 DuPage County Spelling Bee.[3] This victory led to her participating in the Scripps National Spelling Bee the same year, where she lasted until the quarterfinals[4][5] and finished in 46th place. As a result, in June 2008, she was honored by the then-lieutenant governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, along with the other regional spelling bee champions.[6] In May 2016, she graduated from Loyola University Chicago with degrees in molecular biology and Arabic and Islamic studies. She intends to begin medical school at Midwestern University in the fall of 2016.[7][8]

Work on Wikipedia regarding women in science

A video of Temple-Wood in which she expresses why she thinks more women should edit, and be represented on, Wikipedia.

Temple-Wood received national press coverage for creating Wikipedia articles about women scientists, as well as her activism to increase their representation on Wikipedia. She first started contributing to the site when she was 12,[9] and began her efforts in regards to women scientists when she was in middle school.[10] She co-founded Wikipedia's WikiProject Women Scientists in 2012.[11] Editing under the username "Keilana",[12] she began creating such articles when she noticed that few women who were members of the Royal Society had Wikipedia articles. She told the Wikimedia Foundation that when she first noticed this, she "got pissed and wrote an article that night. I literally sat in the hallway in the dorm until 2 am writing [my] first women in science article."[13][14] The article she is the most proud of is that on Rosalyn Scott, the first African-American woman to become a thoracic surgeon.[15]

2013 interview with Temple-Wood

Temple-Wood has also organized edit-a-thons at museums and libraries with the aim of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia.[16] In October 2015, she told The Atlantic that she had identified 4,400 women scientists who did not have Wikipedia articles written about them even though each of them was notable enough to be covered by one.[17] In March 2016, she gained international media attention because of her approach to the online sexual harassment she had received: for every such email she received, she plans to create a Wikipedia article about a woman scientist.[18][19][20][21] That month, she told BuzzFeed News that with respect to her doing this, "My motivation is to channel the frustration I feel from being harassed into something productive."[22]

Her work led to her being named as joint Wikipedian of the Year in 2016.[23]

Positions

Temple-Wood is the vice president of Wikimedia DC, the District of Columbia-area chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as a member of their board of directors.[24] She is also a board member of the Wiki Project Med Foundation,[25] and a Wikipedian in Residence at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.[26]

Works

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Emily (User:Keilana)". Twitter. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ Wamble, Michael (February 23, 2006). "Three Kids Outwit, Outlast and Outspell Opponents". Daily Herald. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ McKendrick, Eva (March 4, 2008). "13-year-old going to National Spelling Bee". Naperville Sun. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Mathie, Frank (June 2, 2008). "8th-grade spellers represent Chicago area". ABC 7. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ (May 30, 2008). National Spelling Bee (Image), Houston Chronicle ("Emily Temple-Wood, 14, of Downers Grove, Ill., celebrates making it through the second round.")
  6. ↑ "Avery Coonley Students Honored by Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn". Avery Coonley School. 22 September 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2016. In June, Temple-Wood was recognized along with the other regional champions in a ceremony with Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield.
  7. ↑ Avenant, Michelle (March 30, 2016). "Wikipedian writes woman scientist's biography whenever she is harassed". ITWeb. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  8. ↑ Sayo, Charlene (26 May 2016). "Emily Temple-Wood: 'If her name survived this long, that's a huge indicator of her importance.'". Rabble.ca. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  9. ↑ Sanghani, Radhika (March 14, 2016). "Student praised for tackling 'sexist Wikipedia' by creating page for female scientist every time she's trolled". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ Huang, Keira (August 11, 2013). "Wikipedia fails to bridge gender gap". South China Morning Post. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  11. ↑ Akst, Jef (March 10, 2016). "Student Fights Harassment with Wikipedia". The Scientist. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  12. ↑ Sherriff, Lucy (March 14, 2016). "Student Emily Temple-Wood Writes A New 'Women In Science' Wikipedia Entry Every Time She's Harassed". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
  13. ↑ Lutkin, Aimee (March 10, 2016). "A Biologist Is Writing a Wikipedia Article About a Woman Scientist For Every Harassing Email She Gets". Jezebel. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  14. ↑ Chang, Rita. "Emily Temple-Wood: A cool Wikipedian on a big mission". Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Female scientist fights harassment with Wikipedia". BBC. March 14, 2016. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  16. ↑ Cohen, Noam (March 19, 2014). "Warming Up to the Culture of Wikipedia". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  17. ↑ Paling, Emma (October 21, 2015). "Wikipedia's Hostility to Women". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  18. ↑ Gibson, Caitlin (March 11, 2016). "How one young female scientist decided to cope with online harassment". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  19. ↑ Mosbergen, Dominique (March 10, 2016). "For Every Sexist Email She Gets, This College Student Will Pen a Wikipedia Entry About a Woman Scientist". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  20. ↑ El Asri, Lucía (March 9, 2016). "Esta 'wikipedista' está poniendo a las científicas en el lugar que se merecen". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  21. ↑ Winkel, Sarah (March 10, 2016). "Pour chaque mail sexiste reçu, elle crée la page Wikipédia d'une scientifique". 7sur7 (in French). Persgroep Digital. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  22. ↑ Oakes, Kelly (March 10, 2016). "This Student Adds A Woman In Science To Wikipedia Every Time She's Harassed Online". BuzzFeed. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  23. ↑ "Jimmy Wales names Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight as Wikipedians of the Year". Wikimedia Foundation. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
  24. ↑ "Board of Directors". Wikimedia DC. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  25. ↑ "Board members". Wiki Project Med Foundation. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  26. ↑ Temple-Wood, Emily (May 19, 2015). "A Wikipedian-in-Residence and the US government join forces to share knowledge on occupational safety and health". Wikimedia Blog. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
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