Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is the 2016 Wikipedian of the Year, an honor she shares with Emily Temple-Wood, who attends medical school in Illinois. In the same year, Rosie was one of five women shortlisted for the ITU/UN Women's GEM-TECH award in the category "Apply Technology for Women’s Empowerment and Digital Inclusion". Rosie has been editing Wikipedia since 2007, and has been a sysop since 2009. She founded WikiProject Women Writers, and she co-founded WikiProject Women in Red, WikiWomen's User Group, and WikiConference North America. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Wikimedia District of Columbia, serves on the Editorial Board of "The Signpost", and is a member of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee. Though Rosie earned an MBA from California State University San Marcos, she is a cultural anthropologist at heart. She is a feminist, thought leader, and guest speaker at international conferences on gender and diversity. Rosie has created over 4,200 articles on Wikipedia, and has had more articles appear on the English Wikipedia mainpage than any other woman. She makes her home in Nevada City, California, having retired in 2016 after a 26 year career with DaVita HealthCare Partners. Her husband, Greg Goodknight, was a Sr. Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, and was the sole inventor on Cisco patent "Packet telephony across the public switched telephone network."