Jengod has made 150K+ edits since 2003 via iphone. Almost all of her edits (81.7%) are in mainspace. Article creations and improvements are her forte. It would be fair to assume she had received the Editor of the Week honor many years ago since her valuable contributions have always been appreciated for more than two decades. A cherished veteran to all that know her.
Recognized for
interest in History, nature, literature, visual art, women
Hello, nice to meet you. You can call me Jen. I'm a wife and SAHM of four who writes encyclopedia articles on the Safari browser for iPhone 17 while folding laundry and waiting to pick up the kids from school, etc. One of these days I would like to become a working mom again, because money, but for the time being I'm mostly here with the goal of making new start-class to B-class quality articles on topics of low importance in my areas of interest (history, nature, books, women).
Typefaces I appreciate include Bembo, and Caslon, with honorable mention to Albertus for being in 1960s Faber & Faber books, thanks for asking.
It's our folk encyclopedia we can do what we want.
PURELY SUBTRACTIVE EDITORS ARE THE BANE OF THIS COMMUNITY
But on the other hand: "You don't have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency." —Bill Mollison et al.
Those who think that wisdom and whimsy are mutually exclusive have neither. It's vitally important to do the right thing when the consequences are dire, and to do a whole bunch of utterly frivolous silly dumb shit when it doesn't matter what you do. —homunculus-argument, Tumblr
Discovering that an article I created has been translated into another language is the most incredible feeling. Such an honor, such a thrill. Big thanks to all the wonderful translators! I wish I had your magic powers!
my human form"Slumpy" in Detroit - I took this picture for Wikipedia in a prehistoric age (<2006); the house was demolished in 2007It has been an honor to serve with you gentlemenI took this photo. In retrospect it is my most important contribution to Wikimedia Commons. I wish I'd put more effort into the lighting etc.! Caption on breastfeeding: Formula and pumped breastmilk side by side. Note that the formula is of uniform consistency and color, while the expressed breast milk exhibits properties of an organic solution by separating into a layer of fat at the top (the "creamline"), followed by the milk, and then a watery blue-colored layer at the bottom.Mosaic fountain, Getty Villa
Bold means that I think I did a good job or more likely that I just had a grand old time researching this topic.
✅ = done and patrolled
🌱 = stub, placeholder
➡️ = previously existed as a redirect
⬆️ = major expansion from draft or existing article
❓ = not yet patrolled/reviewed
👎 = dissatisfying placeholder
Order within categories is usually (but not always) chronologically newest to oldest.
Of late I do a lot of settler-colonizer studies, and trying to figure out where American slaves were held and by whomst
I would have liked to say that I was able to resurrect the voices of those who had been enslaved. But writing a historical narrative about the enslaved is complicated because there are multiple layers of silences. There is the fundamental silencing of Indigenous voices in the colonial archives, which privilege those of European officials. And many of the available epic poems or oral histories that have been passed from generation to generation often tell the stories of society's elites—the kings, nobles, warriors, and important religious leaders. Women rarely feature, and the enslaved almost never; they are muted, and the distance of a century reveals only flickering, spectral forms. How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids? I have tried here to uncover a handful of stories about a handful of people. I wish I could have done more.
—Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History by Jori Lewis (2022)
Pete Campbell: Mr. Cooper, he's a fraud and a liar. A criminal, even.
Bertram Cooper: Even if this were true, who cares? This country was built and run by men with worse stories than whatever you've imagined here. Pete Campbell: I'm not imagining anything. Bertram Cooper: The Japanese have a saying: A man is whatever room he is in, and right now Donald Draper is in this room. I assure you, there's more profit in forgetting this. I'd put your energy into bringing in accounts. Don, fire him if you want. But I'd keep an eye on him. One never knows how loyalty is born.
Back in the day I worked at E! Online/Style and added a reference to an eonline story about the death of Michael Jackson, and created a handful of stubs like Isaac. After I retired (LOL) to having kids, as a favor to a friend, I added a bunch of citations to articles at some website she worked at but I honestly can't recall the website name and I don't care to look it up and revisit my shame, and I believe all of those were all reverted in short order. (sorry to whichever editor had to deal with that nonsense.) In 2018 I created the article mg (magazine) as a favor for a friend who had an online publicity gig and I told her I didn't want to be paid but she nonetheless sent me a $20 Starbucks gift card in thanks which I definitely used to buy coffee. I regret it all. I also did plenty of the usual "edit your alma mater" stuff at the beginning, and have contributed photos of places that I frequent in my home region, etc. If there is anything I have neglected to mention it's just because I have a Swiss-cheese brain but I will add it here when I rediscover it or am otherwise reminded of it. I think I've been clean since 2018 and I plan to remain so.
My dad wants to contribute to wikipedia sometimes but has found the climate unwelcoming so sometimes he sends me text w cites or images and tells me where to add them and I do; such edits are summarized as such in edit summary. My FIL has written a lot of books that are cited on Wikipedia (which I know bc he told me), but I haven't ever messed with any of those pages or cites, to my knowledge. Another relative was killed in an act of terrorism but I have not engaged with the article other than reading it (or possibly typo fixes but I don't know how to check for sure). One of my kids has started making minor edits so I think we share an IP address when I'm not logged in. My husband is now on here very occasionally. Not sure if I want to link dad and husband accounts from here but just FYI.
