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| full name = Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

| image name = Rosie at the Louvre mirror image, Bastille Day 2024 (cropped 2024).png

| job title = Co-founder, Women in Red

| short quote = "Not all who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." - Madeleine Albright
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." — George Orwell

| about me = Hello. I am a first-generation American, born in Indiana, grew up in Los Angeles, lived in Oregon, Illinois, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Now I live in Northeastern California. Pronouns: she/her.

Awards & honors

23 January 2020, I wrote EN-WP's six millionth article
2018, Knighted, Dame of the St. Sava Order of Diplomatic Pacifism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Serbia
2016, shortlisted, ITU/UN Women GEM-TECH award
2016, Wikipedian of the Year, with Emily Temple-Wood

Conflict of interest statement:

I have made 310,000+ edits and I have not been paid for any of them.
In 2016, I retired from DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. after 26 years of employment with the organization (JSA Healthcare/HealthCare Partners Nevada/DaVita HealthCare Partners); I have not edited articles regarding the parent organization or subsidiaries or employees.
In 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation hired me as a contractor for three months for the Gender Diversity Mapping project.

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Research projects

December 2024 - present, Community Engagement Manager, Research:Measuring the Gender Gap: Attribute-based Class Completeness Estimation, University of Queensland
2017-present, Wikimedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, University Libraries' Digital Scholarship Group, Women Writers Project.
2017, Gender Diversity Mapping

On EN-WP

2015-..., co-founder, with Roger Bamkin, Women in Red
2014-..., founder, WikiProject Women Writers
2009-..., Administrator

On EN-WP, new articles created by me:

By year: 2007 (167) * 2008 (848) * 2009 (1,206) * 2010 (132) * 2011 (337) * 2012 (300) * 2013 (365) * 2014 (375) * 2015 (334) * 2016 (217) * 2017 (321) * 2018 (215) * 2019 (214) * 2020 (67) * 2021 (219) * 2022 (358) * 2023 (390) * 2024 (310) * 2025 (check it out)
Women's biographies (2,400+)
Within the scope of Visiting Scholar (700+)