[3] A 2017 Wired article described her as "the type of middle schooler who refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, because she thought the idea of making children swear a loyalty oath was bizarre.

[5] This victory led to her participating in the Scripps National Spelling Bee the same year,[6] where she lasted until the quarterfinals[7][8] and finished in 46th place.

Following the competition, in June 2008 she was honored by the then-lieutenant governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, along with the other regional spelling bee champions.

[27] Temple-Wood has also organized edit-a-thons at museums and libraries with the aim of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia.

[28] In October 2015, she told The Atlantic that she had identified 4,400 women scientists who did not have Wikipedia articles written about them even though each of them was notable enough to be covered by one.

[37] She is also a board member of the Wiki Project Med Foundation,[38] and has served as Wikipedian in Residence at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

[39] The paper "Interpolating Quality Dynamics in Wikipedia and Demonstrating the Keilana Effect", about a phenomenon named after Temple-Wood's work, was presented by Aaron Halfaker at OpenSym '17, the International Symposium on Open Collaboration.

This study finds an inflection point in term of articles' quality for women scientists around late 2012, when Temple-Wood impulsed a community effort on that matter.