People spent an estimated 2.9 billion hours reading English-language Wikipedia in 2024.

What does it take to be a trustworthy repository for all that curiosity?

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight has been a Wikipedia editor since 2007, and an administrator since 2009. With 100,000+ edits to her credit, she has created more than 4,000 new articles, with concentrations in geography, architecture, and womens biographies. In 2015, she co-founded a volunteer project intended to address the current gender bias in Wikipedia content and she’s a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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