Femke

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I'm Femke (pron: FEM-kuh, listen^ⓘ), a lecturer in innovation, energy and climate at the University of Exeter who dabbles in complexity economics (university profile). My work focuses on the power sector, and specifically the role of solar power and storage. Before, I did a PhD on climate change.

Accurate and neutral information about climate change or other contentious topics can help us make informed decisions and make the topic less polarised. Also, people are wrong on the internet. I'm passionate about making Wikipedia articles easier to understand, as us experts like to correct people that are wrong on the internet with fancy words.

I support User:TatjanaBaleta, who works as a Wikimedia Visiting Fellow at the University of Exeter, as part of my job. I will generally not edit directly for this project, but will be organising a edit-a-thon as part of the module I teach, and may improve edits from students.

I live with two zebra finches and a human.

My collection of barnstars and the like

I started editing on the Dutch Wikipedia in 2013, mostly articles on physics, climate change and women in science (User page). Around 2018 I became active here, working on climate change and energy articles. As a picture can say more than a thousand words, I've dedicated some time to improving climate change graphs. I started an cross-language effort get climate denial removed after a BBC journalist found widespread misinformation.

Outside of climate / energy, I work on multi-system illnesses such as long COVID, after I became ill with the condition myself. You can sometimes also find me at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions or closing reviews at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment.

1.   Sustainable energy (with Clayoquot)
2.     Climate change (saved at FAR)
3.     Antarctica (saved at FAR with Devonian Wombat and Amitchell125)
4.     Earth (saved at FAR)
5.   Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (  with Ward20 and The Quirky Kitty)

1.   Sea level rise
2.   Greta Thunberg
3.   Climate sensitivity
4.   Climate system
5.   Paris Agreement
6.     David Attenborough (with Lee Vilenski)
7.   Tipping points in the climate system
8.   Effects of climate change
9.   Long COVID
10.   Melvin Ramsay
11.   Unrest (2017 film)
12.   Grid energy storage

1. Work on more articles about prominent women and their work in ME/CFS, such as creating Judith Rosmalen, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik and Lisa McCorkell
2. Start working the social and environmental bits of car

• Copyediting:
  • Tony1's redundancy exercises have helped me write easier sentences
• Quick and ugly check to see if your writing is too difficult: The Hemingway App. A readability score (Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease) over >45 is fairly okay. Another rule of thumb: 4S: short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, short articles.
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (science): use reviews, don't write them.
• Don't commit crimes against significant digits
• User:Femke/RfA criteria
• User:Femke/2024 admin election notes – notes on stats, content creation, AN(I) discussions, permissions, etc for the 35 candidates