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''My pronouns are she/her.''

I'm a librarian who lives in Vermont. There is a [[Jessamyn Charity West|Wikipedia page]] about me if you'd like to know more. Feel free to [[Special:Emailuser/Jessamyn|email me]]. I used to be a member of the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board Wikimedia Foundation advisory board] back when that was a thing and before the whole page was memory-holed. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162603/https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board archived]). I am currently Community Manager for the [[Flickr]] Foundation.

I am trying to help Wikipedia adjust its unequal treatment of female Wikipedians and Wikipedia articles about women. Want to read about the problem? This paper is a good start: 
[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448211023772 Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia].

== ongoing projects ==
===representation===
* [https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/the-history-and-experience-of-african-americans-in-america%E2%80%99s-postal-service postal history of African Americans], adding to WP articles, or creating them
* Page creation or improvement for women of color, especially activists: [[Jewell_Mazique]], [[Tougaloo_Nine]], [[Doris Seale]], [[Bhakti_Ziek]]
* Mystery people: [https://dlg.usg.edu/record/auu_itchpc_indx6-19180323-pho0113 C. A. McGill], [https://www.loc.gov/item/2016708586/ Captain R. L. Miller], [https://www.loc.gov/item/2016694588/ Collins]
* [[Wikipedia:Meetup/New_Orleans/WomeninLibraryHistory|Women in library history]]

===vermont===
* add town links to [[Vermont_towns|VT towns]] (second pass: Cavendish)
* get photos for VT towns, list photos accurately on town page
* [[WP:VERMONT|Wikiproject Vermont]], [[Vermont_251_Club|251 Club]], public libraries in VT
: '''sources'''
:* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vermont|Project Vermont]] on Wikipedia
:* [http://crs.uvm.edu/community_data/gazetteer.htm Center for Rural Studies, A Gazetteer of Vermont Places]
:* [http://www.virtualvermont.com/placenames/ Vermont Place Names: Footprints of History by Esther Munroe Swift] which is often cited/quoted in...
:* [http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/ Virtual Vermont's Town Pages]
:* [https://www.threadsofourgame.com/ Threads of Our Time] - baseball uniform database

===pictures===
* Current: [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=18921049 adding librarian photos]
* Current: [https://www.loc.gov/search/?c=160&q=bellcm+portrait&sp=51&st=gallery C M Bell] using [https://history.house.gov/People/Search/ People Search] 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_images Adding images from PD sources]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Vermont requested images of Vermont]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_images_of_people Requested images of people]
:'''sources'''
:* [http://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?search=picasso&only-open-access=1 Cleveland Art public domain]
:* [https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=portrait&filters%5Brights%5D=pd NYPL public domain portraits]
:* LoC Public Domain Collections: [https://www.loc.gov/search/?c=160&q=bellcm+portrait&sp=25&st=gallery C M Bell]
:* [https://www.floridamemory.com/ Florida Memory] 
:* [https://picryl.com/ Picryl] + research to find source

===other===
====Articles to Write====
* All caught up (for now)

====Resources to Use====
* [https://womensbios.lib.virginia.edu/index.html Collective Biographies of Women]

== I am proud of my awards ==
{{The Patroller's Barnstar|For reviewing at least 100 articles during the drive.}}
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Danke für das Foto des New York Subway Tokens...:-)
[[User:Joli Tambour|Joli Tambour]] ([[User talk:Joli Tambour|talk]]) 12:05, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Great work on rewriting the article on [[Leslie Harpold]] and helping preserve the history of a pioneering woman creator on the web.<br /> —[[User:Tom Morris|Tom Morris]] ([[User talk:Tom Morris|talk]]) 22:15, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Biography Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for all the new biographies you publish including [[Paul Littlechief]] and [[Ann Cornelisen]]. [[User:RevelationDirect|RevelationDirect]] ([[User talk:RevelationDirect|talk]]) 03:11, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank you again for making this amazing award for last year's participants.  Looking forward to the contest again in May.  [[User:Gamaliel|<span style="color:DarkGreen;">Gamaliel</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Gamaliel|<span style="color:DarkGreen;">talk</span>]])</small> 19:55, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your contribution of a photograph to the [[Charles F. Shoemaker]] article depicting the former Revenue Cutter Service officer in mufti. [[User:Cuprum17|Cuprum17]] ([[User talk:Cuprum17|talk]]) 16:45, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | The work on [[List_of_U.S._state_library_associations|state library associations]] is a deep dive into library history for which the profession has endless gratitude as will scholars of librarianship, students, and activists fighting for information access. [[User:Kmccook|Kmccook]] ([[User talk:Kmccook|talk]]) 15:37, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''Goddess Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for all your work on Wikipedia improving [[Gender bias on Wikipedia|articles about women]] and their achievements, particularly with [[Kittie Knox|subjects]] with lesser visibility. Edit(s) like [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrie_Diaz_Eaton&diff=965654634&oldid=965552384 these] do more than simple copy-editing – they show readers that articles about women are held to the same standards as other entries. Thank you. [[User:DonSpencer1|<span style="color:maroon; font-family:Garamond;">'''Donna Spencer'''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:DonSpencer1|<span style="color:#E6A817; font-family:times new roman;">''talk-to-me''</span>]]⛅</sup> 18:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
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{{user precious|header=women and library associations|thanks=for quality articles about woman such as [[Megan Rosenbloom]], [[Leslie Harpold]], [[Jewell Mazique]] and [[Bhakti Ziek]], for project work Vermont, for all these  [[Vermont Library Association|library associations]], for adding images including [[:File:Alison Macrina portrait.jpg|yours]], - Jessamyn, [[Jessamyn West (librarian)|librarian]] who visited all states of the U.S.,}}

== my other sites & stuff ==

* Mine: [http://librarian.net librarian.net] | [http://jessamyn.com jessamyn.com] & [http://jessamyn.com/journal blog] | [http://jessamyn.info jessamyn.info] & [http://jessamyn.info/booklist booklist]
* Socials: [https://glammr.us/@jessamyn mastodon]

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