Emily Temple-Wood

Quick Facts

Full Name	Emily Temple-Wood
Occupation	Wikimedian In Residence Employer National Institu
Date Of Birth	May 24, 1994(1994-05-24)
Age	30
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Taurus

Emily Temple-Wood Biography

Emily Temple-Wood is one of the most popular and richest Wikimedian In Residence Employer National Institu who was born on May 24, 1994 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Emily Temple-Wood (born on May 24 1994) is an American Wikipedia editor who goes by the name Keilana on the website. She is well-known for her efforts to combat the negative effects and causes of gender bias in Wikipedia especially by creating articles on scientific women. She was named a joint winner in the year Wikipedian of the Year award in 2016. Wikipedian of the Year award from Jimmy Wales, at Wikimania on June 24, 2016.

Temple-Wood was a student at the Avery Coonley School in Downers Grove, Illinois. In 2017, a Wired article stated that she was “the type of middle schooler who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, because she thought the idea of making children swear a loyalty oath was bizarre.” She was the winner of at the time of the 2007 DuPage County Spelling Bee. The victory led her to taking part at the Scripps National Spelling Bee the same year. She was able to stay until the quarterfinals. She was ranked 46th. After the event in June 2008, she was recognized by the governor at the time, the lieutenant governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, as well as the other regional champions of the spelling bee. She later attended Downers Grove North High School in Illinois, where she was on Speech team. The team was awarded four medals, among which was for the first place during the Illinois High School Association state event in Peoria. As an alumna she was ranked in”the “top two percent” in 2012. In May of 2016 she received her degree in May 2016 from Loyola University Chicago with degrees in molecular biology, as well as Arabic as well as Islamic studies. She started Medical school in the Chicago’s Midwestern University in the fall of 2016.

Her work led to her being named as joint Wikipedian of the Year in 2016, along with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight.

Emily Temple-Wood Net Worth

Emily Temple-Wood is one of the richest Wikimedian In Residence Employer National Institu from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Emily Temple-Wood 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Temple-Wood has received national press coverage for the creation of Wikipedia articles on women scientists and also for her efforts to boost their inclusion on Wikipedia. She first made edits in Wikipedia on the site in 2005 when she was just 10 years old. The first time she contributed to Wikipedia at the age of 12 and it was only when she was 12 years old that she first encountered harassment online due to the Wikipedia contributions. She began her work with regard to women scientists while still in the middle-school years. The year 2007 was the time she was the administrator of Wikipedia and also served on the Arbitration Committee from 2016-2017. She was the co-founder of Wikipedia’s WikiProject Women Scientists in 2012 Since her time, she has contributed to many Wikipedia pages on female scientists. Editing under the name “Keilana”, she began writing articles about women when she noticed that not many female in the Royal Society had Wikipedia articles. She informed that the Wikimedia Foundation that the first time she realized this and was shocked, she “got pissed and wrote an article that night. I literally sat in the hallway in the dorm until 2 am writing [my] first women in science article.” The article she’s most proud of about Rosalyn Scott, who was the first African-American woman to be an surgeon for the thoracic.

Temple-Wood also organizes edit-a-thons in libraries and museums to increase the number of women scientists represented on Wikipedia. In October of 2015 she informed The Atlantic that she had identified over 4,400 female scientists that did not have Wikipedia articles about them, despite the fact that each one was noteworthy enough to warrant being covered by one. In March of 2016 she received media attention across the world due to her approach to online sexual harassment she received: for every emails she receives, she planned to write the Wikipedia article about a female scientist. In March, she informed BuzzFeed News that with respect to doing this, “My motivation is to channel the frustration I feel from being harassed into something productive.” In May she was quoted by in the Fader the following “As a Wikipedian, my natural response to seeing a gap in coverage is to start a project, so that’s what I did with the Women Scientists project. The narrative of history has been dominated by men, and making sure that women’s biographies are included in Wikipedia can be our way of writing women back into that narrative.”

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Emily Ranked on the list of most popular Wikimedian In Residence Employer National Institu. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Emily Temple-Wood celebrates birthday on May 24 of every year.