User:Kaybeesquared

This is my user page and it is being revised

Squirrel like the one we saw last week

I am attending events to learn more about wiki editing.

Although I have edited for a number of years, I still have so much to learn that I appreciate all advice and improvements to any articles.

Image of Victoria Park Allotments

Now retired, if not actually editing, I go to an allotment or knit, I also like walking and seeing nature, like the red squirrel.

2025 Celebrating Wikimedia

So here's an example of starting some work and going down a rabbit hole. I am meant to be writing a brief note for Celebrating Wikimedia. But saw I had explained my new hobbies (non-wiki) so off to find images of allotments... and upload more of my own!

I'd better not start looking at knitting or the wiki story will never be told.

2018

When the Scottish Natives (aka weeds or wildflowers) took over.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red

My first training event to be a wiki-editor led by Ewan McAndrew Stinglehammer, focussed on 100years of women's suffrage (in UK)!

That was it... I was hooked... more below. Total main articles written and still live to 15 October 2025 is 135.

Plot 6 Victoria Park Allotments 2016

Women in Red meet ups and more 2018-2025

I have been joining (when I can) monthly Women in Red (WiR) edit-a-thons at the University of Edinburgh where we are part of a global WikiProject trying to increase the number of notable women with entries in Wikipedia, to help balance the gender gap - together!

Women in Red

Nick, Roger (standing) and kaybeesquared (me - far right sitting)

Roger and Nick (and me and a.n.other volunteer) at one of my first Women in Red edit-a-thons

Now WiR events are friendly in person at Edinburgh University or virtual editathons on Zoom with trainer Ewan, usually on the last Friday of the month.

You can read more about these here

During the last 6 or 7 years I have worked with such supportive researchers as IanTheActivist and Victuallers (Roger) who have become in person friends.

Melissa's Burns Supper image

Themes of my editing are notable women, but I wander off into shipwrecks and lighthouses (after a CodeTheCity remote session) led by Ian Watt and also food, in particular a fun Burns Supper edit-a-thon where we had haggis flavoured crisps and irn bru. Melissa added Burns Supper images on Commons.

Speaking of things Scottish, I have also helped monthly online Scots wiki editing, see here for any upcoming events, where we co-edit on Zoom during a week lang writing drive, and help from more Scots spikkers is wantit. English speakers can help adding images or citations aka soources to airticles. Through this community, I joined a friendlyTransatlantic conversation group to improve the use of my native leid. (see Scots-English dictionary for italicised words). This enabled me to add Aaron Gayle's funny Doric film festival award winning animated short film "Three Wee Grumphies" into Wikipedia, a hilarious take on 'Three Little Pigs' story.

2025 September/October

I joined the 23rd local Wiki-Meet-Up and met Sara who got me into ScotsWiki editing and new contacts, admins and editors, as well as our host Douglas.

Topics talked over brunch, range from childbirth to copyright, gender balance to train-the-trainers, and even Africa and the Church of Scotland.

So stimulating and interesting and friendly! And yeah, I also talk with my hands, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_14_meetup.jpg

I joined a WikimediaUK Online Introduction training and refreshed some of the basics, with Gemma Coleman and Olubusola Afolabi and added a sportsperson infobox to the existing article on track cyclist, Emily Bridges.

2024 September

Workshop on Castles and Witches. There are lots of historians and archivists volunteering to improve wikipedia today.

Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Scottish Castles and Witchcraft#Worklist - Ideas for Articles to Create and Improve

I also got involved in Wiki Loves Monuments when I found some listed buildings in the area I had moved to live in, and also that the Edinburgh Futures Institute only had a limited number of images on Commons, so I took some and uploaded using the easy to use tools provided by the photo competition.