Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is a prolific Wikipedia editor (since 2007) and admin (since 2009), as well as a fledgling WikiPortraits photographer (2025). She co-founded the annual in-person conference, WikiWomenSummit (est. Wikimania 2023), and the online content gender gap project, Women in Red (est. Wikimania 2015). Rosie serves as the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston), where her work focuses on women writers, and as the Community Engagement Manager at the University of Queensland (Australia) on the Wikimedia research project “Measuring the Gender Gap.” Previously, she served on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (2021-24). In 2016, Rosie was honored as Wikipedian of the Year; two years later, she was knighted partly because of her Wikipedia work. She makes her home in California, US.
Sessions
🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ojbuIcX6LVg?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIr2HbYikIz4XMBXKTGytWY&t=23750 🎥
10 years ago Roger and Rosie made a short presentation at Wikimania in Mexico suggesting that every editor should take an interest in the low number of women on Wikipedia. The idea took off and the resulting wikiproject was called Women in Red. Wikidata had only just started, but it soon told us that there were 15.5% of biographies that were about women. Over thirty sister projects looked at other languages. Over ten years, hundreds of editors, over 400 editathons from Norway to Kenya and New Zealand and a budget of zero, has resulted in an increase in the percentage to 20%. What did we learn?
🎥 Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/IIJaOtycCf0?feature=shared&t=4629 🎥
Since WikiPortraits was formed in early 2024, its photographers have uploaded over 20,000 photos, which have been used on over 20,000 articles across more than 150 language Wikipedias. These photos are used on articles that receive upwards of 100 million views per month — or over a billion views per year.
WikiPortraits has covered the Nobel Prizes, Venice Film Festival, Jaipur Literature Festival, Riddu Riđđu indigenous festival, SXSW, and many other significant cultural events. Dozens of volunteer photographers — both new and old to the wiki movement — have joined from Italy, France, Iran, New Zealand, Germany, Brazil, Canada, Austria, the United States, Dubai, Spain, and other countries.
Come learn how you can contribute and get a quick demo of Commons.Gallery.
Group photo after the presentation.
Brief presentations from Wikimedian of the Year winners. Each presentation takes 5 minutes. (Total:30 min). We will have a discussion for the remaining time.