User:Hexatekin

I am a researcher and information professional with 12+ years of experience contributing to the Wikipedia ecosystem as an editor, Wikipedian-in-Residence, event organizer, affiliate operations manager and researcher. I enjoy working with distributed communities, building goverernance protocols and translating policies to support community wellbeing.

As a volunteer editor, I regularly work on Wikipedia articles related to artists and venues, music, libraries/archives, and methods in social science.

Updates

I have a paper in the works on Investigating Neurodivergent Wikimedian Experiences, with support from a Wikimedia Research grant

Additional Background I was formerly a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in 2013-2014, and the documentation for that work can be found at: Wikipedia:GLAM/Metropolitan New York Library Council. In that position, I was an early proponent of the Wikipedian-in-Residence concept. I also contributed to WikiProject Consumer Reports. I was a Program Officer at WikiConference USA, 2014. I was an early Wikipedia community advisor/curricula developer/organizer for Art + Feminism, 2014-2015.^[1] I have also done some academic research reflecting on participating in the Wikimedia community as a gender and diversity advocate, see Ways of Knowing When Research Subjects Care citation below. I was Administrative Executive for the Queering Wikipedia 2023 international, virtual conference. I previously focused on adding in metadata to Wikidata about open tools for environmental science with the project SEEKCommons Wikidata:SEEKCommons. I completed a Pratt Institute, School of Information Linked Open Data Fellowship with the Museum of Modern Art, September 2025-April 2026. See: Wikidata:WikiProject Museum of Modern Art.