User:Invertzoo

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This is Invertzoo's user page. I live in NYC. My user name reflects my interest in invertebrate zoology. I hope I can be classified as a malacologist; I am primarily a serious amateur, but not just a conchologist. One or two people (you know who you are!) call me "The Snail Lady", and some others call me "The Shell Lady". I am interested in all mollusks, and indeed in all of nature.

Here on Wikipedia I enjoy research, writing, re-writing, improving prose, clarifying, organizing, and adding images to articles. I believe that Wikilove is a very important concept here. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I don't really enjoy doing routine cleanup on thousands of stub articles, but I have done that.

I was born in and lived half of my life in England, and after that in the USA, first on the West Coast and then on the East Coast. Every year since 1991 I have visited the Lesser Antilles, West Indies, where I am currently investigating the marine mollusk fauna of several of the Leeward Islands.

I started here in the summer of 2007. I give images to Commons, my account, my images. My Meta account is here. I have made over 62,000 edits. During March 2010 I was number 317 on the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits, (and a much higher rank if you don't count the bots and the sysops.) By March of 2011, I was number 433 by total number of edits: [1] And... yes I am well aware that editcountitis is a serious disease! [2].

The first time that I had the pleasure and honor of meeting HRH Jimmy of Wales, our handsome and somewhat mysterious founder, was at the first Wiki-Conference New York, 25th July 2009, where I gave a talk on the growth and development of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods. I also conversed with Mr. Wales on Oct 6th and 7th, 2010.

My user page is long so you are welcome to ignore it, or only look at the sections you are interested in.

Best wishes to you all, Invertzoo (talk).

Participation in Wikipedia/Wikimedia events

2012: Wikipedia Day 11th Birthday Bash NYC[3], a lightning talk about the role of WikiProjects in user retention, and participation in Open Space.

2011 October: Interview with Wikimedia Foundation for a international fundraising appeal banner which ran in November and December.

2011: WikNYC Picnic, June 25th [4] Spent 4 hours at the picnic, encouraged some new people to start editing the 'pedia.

2011: GLAMcamp NYC [5] Put in a brief appearance at AMNH, meeting with several of the participants. Sprained knee and pulled Achilles tendon prevented me from doing more.

2011: Wikipedia Day 10th Birthday Bash NYC [6], January 15th, I gave the Keynote address, "WikiLove: On the Wikipedia Community", and was interviewed by CBS and PRI. A pdf version of the WikiLove presentation is here [7].

2010: Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser, NYC, 7th October. Invited to attend a fundraiser event [8] to talk to donors and potential donors about Wikipedia. Also attended the pre-event meeting on 6th Oct.

2010: Interview, August. Interviewed by Dennis Chanay via Skype for an article (here) about unpaid labor that briefly mentions Wikipedia in The Fiscal Times, an online publication.

2010: Interview in The Wikipedia Signpost, April 26th. Interviewed as part of the Signpost's "WikiProject report" on WikiProject Gastropods, here.

9th WP B'day coin

2010: Interview on film, March. Interviewed on film by documentary filmmaker Trina Rodriguez, who is hoping to make a film about what goes on inside Wikipedia.

2010: Wikipedia Day NYC, January 24th. On Sunday January 24th, at Wikipedia Day NYC 2010 [9], gave a lightning talk, an update on WikiProject Gastropods. Pdf of the slide show is here.

2009: 1st Wiki-Conference New York, July 25th.

Saturday July 25th 2009, a 20-minute presentation on WikiProject Gastropods, part of panel B-2 on Collaboration and WikiProjects, 4 pm–5:30 pm, room B, (i.e. room 220) at Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law. General info here.

In this image, ClockworkSoul and I are visible in the background, over Jimbo's shoulder at the left. The second image shows all three people in Panel B-2... User:GreenReaper on the left, then me, then User:ClockworkSoul.

A pdf of my PowerPoint slide show for the conference is here. The Wikipedia Signpost account of it is here. A page of images is here. Video of Jimmy Wales's keynote address is here.

Jimbo left me a note on my talk page, and a barnstar, which is further down on this page.

2007: 1st annual Wikipedian Picnic in Central Park, NYC, August 12th. Attended just three weeks after starting on Wikipedia.

Article statistics, WikiProject Gastropods, WikiProject Bivalves

Most of my work is as a member of the gastropod project. We currently have no unassessed articles and none unrated for importance. New articlesPortalProject talk page Project page Popular pages Random gastropod article function& Rocroi Update data

.......................................................................................Now we also have a new Bivalve Project! Project page,Talk page. For a list of new articles that mention bivalves, see User:AlexNewArtBot/BivalvesSearchResult.

Gastropods articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 2 4 9 B 9 6 9 34 58 C 15 58 86 122 281 Start 17 252 154 1,323 1,746 Stub 5 518 1,241 19,605 21,369 List 2 2 104 11 119 Book 2 2 Category 34 34 Disambig 1 5 6 Portal 1 1 Project 2 2 4 Redirect 4 3 7 Template 4 4 Assessed 49 840 1,598 21,108 45 0 23,640 Unassessed 2 2 Total 49 840 1,598 21,108 45 2 23,642

Bivalves articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total B 1 1 C 4 4 4 3 15 Start 8 13 11 2 34 Stub 8 94 24 12 831 969 Category 137 137 Template 1 1 NA 3 3 Assessed 21 111 39 17 141 831 1,160 Unassessed 2 2 Total 21 111 39 17 141 833 1,162

My relevant background

If you are curious about this, please see this page and this page too.

Recent Wikipedia editing

2012 Helping start up a new project, WikiProject Bivalves.

2011 Creating stub articles for missing genera. Checking and cleaning up new snail articles and tagging them with our project template. Welcoming new contributors of snail-related articles, inviting them to join Project Gastropods, and training them in the ways of Wikipedia. In November almost 40 new stubs about the original National Lampoon and working on that template.

2010 A great deal of work on improving Portal:Gastropods. Also going through thousands of older gastropod stub articles and others (including the family articles), fixing them up with lots of different clean up. I also tried to clean up some of the "most popular" (i.e. the most often accessed) gastropod articles, and upgraded their importance.

Some tasks:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/January 2010/N to Z. Continue cleanup for N to Z, N done to # 203, Z done in reverse order to # 2476

* Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Needed genus None of these left at the end of 2011!

Recognized content

Good Articles

	This user has written or significantly contributed to 6 good articles on Wikipedia.

Byne's disease, Kerry slug, Lobatus gigas, Love dart, Socorro springsnail, Strombus canarium

Did You Know?

		DYK
		Invertzoo has contributed 45 Did you knows? to the Main Page of the English Wikipedia, including the second most popular ever up to that point, which was Love dart, on October 9th 2008.

For a list of the DYKs I worked on, see User:Invertzoo/List of DYKs.

List of top DYK contributors is here. DYK statistics are here.

Barnstars and other awards

If you would like to see my awards, they are now on this page.

Real life identity

Susan J. Hewitt. I am 63. Where I have spent my life so far, spelled out in flags...

Decades here:	over a year here: and decades here:
Months, weeks or days here:
Hours at airports here:
In April/May 2010 visited:
In April/May 2011 visited:	also and
In December 2011 visited:
	This idea was copied from: User:Dentren >Grutness > Moriori > Calton >Salsb > Guettarda.

Subpages

/Barnstars and other awards, /List of DYKs, /My background, /Gallery, /Gastropods Project commercial ideas, /Subpage 4 Publications, /Subpage for drafting, /Another subpage for drafting, /Stub demo

Some contacts

• Shellnut, here
• Ganesh, here [10]
• Enviromet, aka Al, here: [11]
• Peter Woodard aka Poyt448, NSW [12]
• SuperHamster [13]
• Antarctic-adventurer [14]
• Chicoreus [15]
• Daniel Cavallari, São Paulo State, Brazil, [16]
• Seascapeza, Cape town area, S. Africa, [17]
• Moonriddengirl, here: [18]
• Anna, Hainan, China, [19]
• Paul Diamond, Nevis, User:Pdiamondnevis [20]
• Snek, the Czech Republic [21]
• Epipelagic, previously known as Geronimo20, NZ, [22]
• Martin, western Canada Martin
• JoJan, Belgium..[23]
• GrahamBould...talk blocked indefinitely
• Turbonilla...[24]
• Abyssal leviathin... [25]
• Mila... now blocked via her own request, (talk)
• Philcha... [26]

• Version of user count by month
• [27] Fancy user count
• [28] Individual page count
• [29] WP Graphic Lab

	This user has been on Wikipedia for 4 years, 6 months and 20 days.

1.2	This user has 1.2 centijimbos.