Les733

Introduction

Hi, my name is 譚梅花 (Tan, Gie Li), translated to Leslie Tom.

History

Architects BUILD Wiki, a Wikipedia Improvement Pilot Project

Starting in ~2018, Saundra Little and I started conversations about taking her Noir Parti Design, research on Black Architects to organize with wikis. In 2021, Saundra, Karen Burton with the National Organization of Minority Architects ELEVATE committee led by Angela King we started to develop Architects BUILD Wiki. This work's starting funds came from Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Architects BUILD Wiki pilot project to edit, document and elevate Black Architects, improving information on the public Internet. Architects, historians, enthusiasts, Wikipedia editors, and anyone interested in editing collaboratively are encouraged to attend.

Museum / Sustainability Career

I moved to Detroit, Michigan in 2015 to work at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History as the Chief Sustainability Officer. This is my dream job! I can combine all my passions - people, history, and deep diving into work on creating a digital twin building information model with computational design, work with architects

Post Graduate - Google X (flux.io), Kaiser Permanente, and Design UX Research with so many start ups

Saw how computing and well-being can be combined.

Graduate School

I moved to San Francisco in 2010 to get a Master's of Information Management Systems at UC Berkeley's School of Information. I have always been interested in designing, organizing, culture and arts for as long as I can remember. I have found my Csikszentmihalyi flow this summer at an Open Source UC Berkeley project called CollectionSpace._[1].

Architecture Career

I have a bachelors of architecture from the University of Arizona from my hometown, Tucson, Arizona. I was an architectural intern at my parents firm the architecture company for 6 years. March 2012 marks the last month before my five-year rolling clock expires and I'll need to pass all my Architecture Registration Exams to become a real live architect!

Some of the computer programs I am especially knowledgeable about include:

My List of Wiki(p/m)edia // A few favorite Media Wiki Things I've Done

- 2021 Aug 19 - Added alternative careers to the profession of architects - Architect#Alternate_practice_and_specializations
2020 Mar 9, 2020 - I've created in all the wiki's I have -- 14,000 Articles
- 2017 Feb 5 - Added "see also" from Black History Month to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -- would like to make a template.Les733 (talk) 15:49, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
- 2016 Jan 12 - Signed up to be interested in Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium
- 2015 Sept 7 - 20 - Wikipedia:Meetup/Women_in_Red/2
- 2015 Nov 25 - tied together prison to school pipeline in -- prison, school, and pipeline articles.
- 2015 Aug. 15 - Straightened up to have same granularity level: Category:Museums_by_region - to include Category:Asian-American_museums
2015 Aug. 14 - Eyeo festival talk on using media wiki for making vision boards come true published: https://vimeo.com/channels/eyeo2015/136017301
- 2014 Feb. 1 - Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco/ArtAndFeminism_2014
2014 Aug. 14 - I've created in all the wiki's I have -- 8,000 + articles
- 2013 May 25 - Wikipedia:Meetup/San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 5
2013 Feb. 24 - I've created in all the wiki's I have -- 6,000 articles
- 2013 Feb. 20 - Engineering Wikipedia Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/ -- whenever I can get the chance...
- 2013 Jan. 26 - Participated in the Oakland Wikipedia Code-a-thon hosted by the California League of Women Voters, Wiki Strategies, and Tech Liminal
- 2012 Dec. 12 - Participated in the Wikipedia.org DeepDive at the Computer History Museum
2012 May 12 - I've created in all the wiki's I have -- 5,000 articles
- 2012 Oct. 16 - Participated in the Ada Lovelace Day at WikiMedia's Office
- 2011 Apr. 06 - Went to a PHP Meetup with my classmate Saghar to meet Ryan Lane give a talk about Wikipedia.org's architecture.
- 2010 Jan. 15 - Volunteered at the 10 year Anniversary West Coast Wikipedia Conference and met Ward Cunningham! http://2011.westcoastwikicon.org/wiki/Program
- 2008 Oct. 16 - Got adopted by Twinzor -- through Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User Program!
2018 June 30 - Leslie downloaded her own media wiki software onto her own server.
2017 - Andrew, a project manager from her parent's Architecture Firm teaches her so much about Building Information Modeling, open source software - such as Media Wiki's. We set up a wiki at her parent's firm.