15 Facts About Emily Temple-Wood

Emily Temple-Wood was born on May 24,1994 and is an American physician and Wikipedia editor, who goes by pseudonym Keilana on the site.

Emily Temple-Wood is known for her efforts to counter the effects and causes of gender bias on Wikipedia, particularly through the creation of articles about women in science.

Emily Temple-Wood was declared a joint recipient of the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award by Jimmy Wales at Wikimania.

Emily Temple-Wood went on to attend Downers Grove North High School, where she was a member of the speech team.

Emily Temple-Wood began medical school at Chicago's Midwestern University in the fall of 2016.

Emily Temple-Wood later became a practicing physician in Montevideo, Minnesota.

Emily Temple-Wood made her first edit to Wikipedia in 2005, at the age of 10.

Emily Temple-Wood first started contributing to the site when she was 12, and it was when she was 12 that she was first harassed online as a result of her Wikipedia contributions.

Emily Temple-Wood began her efforts in regards to women scientists when she was in middle school.

Emily Temple-Wood co-founded Wikipedia's WikiProject Women Scientists in 2012; since then, she has written hundreds of Wikipedia pages about female scientists.

Emily Temple-Wood has organized edit-a-thons at museums and libraries with the aim of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia.

Emily Temple-Wood's work led to her being named as joint Wikipedian of the Year in 2016, along with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight.

Emily Temple-Wood is a member of the board of directors of Wikimedia DC, the District of Columbia-area chapter of the Wikimedia movement.

Emily Temple-Wood is a board member of the Wiki Project Med Foundation, and has served as Wikipedian in Residence at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

The paper "Interpolating Quality Dynamics in Wikipedia and Demonstrating the Keilana Effect", about a phenomenon named after Emily Temple-Wood's work, was presented by Aaron Halfaker at OpenSym '17, the International Symposium on Open Collaboration.