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Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Rosiestep submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Gobonobo to be Editor of the Week for their long-time efforts to free knowledge. I have known of and interacted with this editor for at least a decade. They completed 100 wikidays, have written around 1,000 new articles, and have made more than 100,000 edits to English Wikipedia and Wikidata. Gobonobo patrols recent changes, reviews draft articles, reverts vandalism, and monitors social media for errors that have slipped through the cracks. They contribute to the Did You Know... section on the mainpage and have uploaded many images to Wikipedia and on Commons. As an editor, they focus on a wide variety of content and try to address systemic bias, especially in regards to gender, racial and geographic biases. They are a member of several WikiProjects, support GLAM initiatives, and have volunteered with Art+Feminism and participated in Black Lunch Table events. They have organized edit-a-thons and led editing workshops at multiple locations. For all of these reasons, I nominate Gobonobo to Be Editor of the Week, though, for the life of me, I'm clueless why this has slipped through the cracks till now. This nomination was seconded by Vacant0 and QuicoleJR.

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Gobonobo

Editor of the Week
for the week beginning October 26, 2025

. They have completed 100 wikidays, have written around 1,000 new articles, and have made more than 100,000 edits to English Wikipedia and Wikidata. Regularly patrols recent changes, reviews draft articles, reverts vandalism, and monitors social media for errors that may have slipped through the cracks. Contributes to the Did You Know section on the mainpage and has uploaded many images to Wikipedia and on Commons. They focus on a wide variety of content and addresses systemic gender, racial and geographic biases. A member of several WikiProjects, supports GLAM initiatives, and has volunteered with Art+Feminism and participated in Black Lunch Table events.

Recognized for

organizing and leading edit-a-thons and editing workshops at multiple locations.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 12:54, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow, this is so unexpected. Thank you Buster7. And thank you to Rosiestep for the nomination. I've been so busy with school that I haven't been able to edit as much recently. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 13:11, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Women in Red - November 2025

Women in Red | November 2025, Vol 11, Issue 11, Nos. 326, 327, 353, 354

Recognized as the most active topic-based WikiProject by human changes.

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21 Oct 2024, 19.963% of biographies on EN-WP were about women (2,030,245 biographies; 405,305 women)
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