1. Dame Rosie Gojich Stephenson-Goodknight was born on December 5,1953 and is an American Wikipedia editor, known on the site under the pseudonym Rosiestep, who is noted for her actions addressing gender bias in the encyclopedia by running a project to increase the quantity and quality of women's biographies.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2021.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is the granddaughter of Paulina Lebl-Albala, an active feminist who was the president of the University Women of Yugoslavia.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight's son had edited an article about a town in Ukraine where he was working with the Peace Corps, and told his mother that Wikipedia can be edited by anybody.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight began editing later that year when she looked for books published by the Book League of America and found a gap in the site's knowledge resources.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight found the encyclopedia to be a suitable outlet for anthropology, citing Margaret Mead as an influence:.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight co-founded WikiProject Women, WikiProject Women writers, and Women in Red.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight has taken part in related projects such as the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon in April 2016.
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight believes there is information to write stronger biographies, provided people are prepared to search for it.
On January 23,2020, Wikipedia announced that Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight was the creator of the 6,000,000th article on Wikipedia, namely the article on Canadian author Maria Elise Turner Lauder.
On May 29,2018, in a ceremony conferring honors on those who deserved high diplomatic recognition, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight was appointed a "Dame of the St Sava Order of Diplomatic Pacifism" by Deputy Serbian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic, for her work on Wikipedia to preserve the memory of Serbs in the "hundred years since the Great War".