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Fæ

Joined 29 March 2010
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Dodo detail from Atlas de Zoologie.jpgFæ has uploaded 4,218,754 images to Wikimedia Commons
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Projects

Batch upload projects are mostly detailed at Project list, there are a lot of them

Other projects of interest:

  • User:Fæ/upscale increasing the resolution of cropped images, even when rotated or irregular, by reverse engineering the crop using OpenCV
  • User:Fæ/Imagehash the use of standard image hashes in Python to find near identical image matches of different resolutions and with different EXIF data
Faebot maintained reports
  • Userlist, list of active and recently inactive editors with more than 10,000 edits on Commons.
  • BLP overwrites, images used on Wikipedia biographies overwritten by less experienced accounts in the last week (useful as a vandalism prevention tool).
  • SignificantReverts, the most overwritten images on Commons with changes in the last week.
Wiki CV
2018 Reach 4,000,000 images uploaded
2017 Represent Wikimedia LGBT+ at WMCON
2017 Propose Gender neutral language for policies on Commons (passes) and English Wikipedia (fails)
2016 Run vote of no confidence in Arnnon Geshuri, he resigns from the Wikimedia Foundation board as a result
2015 Reach 1,000,000 images uploaded (WMF blog post)
2015 Upload 100,000 historic medical images, working with the Wellcome Library
2014 Run first UK LBGT+ editathon, independently of UK chapter
2014 Volunteer for technical help desk at Wikimania London
2013 First multilingual large batch upload project
2013 Sign Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group agreement with the WMF
2013 Direct the first international GLAM-WIKI conference, freely hosted by the British Library
2013 Under new Chair, Wikimedia Chapters Association disbands
2012 Co-founder of Wikimedia LGBT+ group
2012-2013 Chair of Wikimedia Chapters Association
2012 After WMF declines support, coordinate multi-chapter funding for GLAMwiki toolset over 2 years, and join the steering group
2011 Several months of targeted anti-gay harassment, on and off wiki, police case
2011-2013 Trustee for Wikimedia UK, with time as the Chair, chapter is registered as a UK charity
2011 Support the start of an international GLAM network and GLAM on the Outreach wiki
2011 Start learning Python, Faebot account created
2011 Sysop on English Wikipedia (RFA)
2010 Volunteer for OTRS
2010 Created Fæ account on Commons
2010 After being repeatedly targeted with anti-gay related hounding, attempt clean start
2005 First edits to Wikipedia, without an account

Personal pronoun
Though many Wikimedians know me from real life events and meetings, this is separate from my on-project identity. If you need a pronoun to refer to my account, I prefer a singular they rather than she, he or anything else.
Featured pictures

  • LOC, English Wikipedia

  • Unsplash, Chinese Wikipedia

  • Auckland Museum, Hebrew Wikipedia

  • Unsplash, Slovenian Wikipedia

  • Unsplash

  • DOD, Persian Wikipedia

  • Unsplash

  • DOD

  • MOD

  • MOD

  • Hebrew Wikipedia Dec 2016

  • MOD

  • Wikipedia Aug 2016

  • Wikipedia Aug 2016

  • A U.S. Navy Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Robert Frey fabricates a steel countertop aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Aug. 20, 2013, while underway in the Gulf of Oman 130820-N-JC752-778.jpg

  • Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith

  • Commons, Bengali Wikipedia

  • Fine Art, War and peace (Honorable Mention) 141202-F-PO994-001.jpg

  • Featured on English Wikipedia

  • MOD

  • Warrior Games athletes honored at Navy-Air Force football game 141004-D-DB155-022.jpg
  • Air National Guard wraps up training at Global Dragon 150319-Z-SV144-004.jpg
  • Goosenecks State Park, Utah, Image of the Day DVIDS860656.jpg
  • Refleksjoner.jpg

  • MOD

  • MOD

  • U.S. Navy Diver enters the water during a training evolution at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center 140218-N-IC111-156.jpg

  • MOD

  • Chuck Sketch, a Wounded Warrior with the veteran swim team, swims laps during a practice session 120214-M-YO938-177.jpg

  • Featured on the Turkish Wikipedia

  • Featured on the Persian Wikipedia MOD

  • A Did You Know on the English Wikipedia main page on 29 August 2014

  • Part of a Featured Article on the English Wikipedia, appearing on the Main page 7 July 2014

  • Featured on the English Wikipedia, July 2014

  • Featured on English Wikipedia (War)

  • Restoration from Wellcome Images, featured on the English Wikipedia

  • Featured on the English Wikipedia in Feb 2015

  • Featured on the English Wikipedia in July 2015

  • Featured on the English Wikipedia in Aug 2015

  • Advertisement for Hudson's Soap with policemen (back). Wellcome L0069077 - Restoration.jpg

  • Featured on Commons and the English Wikipedia Mar 2016

  • Valued Images
  • Southern Rhodesia (1909) (14804694073).jpg
  • John Ruskin, 1882.jpg
  • Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer HMS Dragon MOD 45153124.jpg
  • Carl Jørgen Wesenberg-Lund. Photograph. Wellcome V0027734.jpg
  • User:Faebot, GLAM related projects, uploads and testing
  • User:Noaabot, images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Committed identity: da99596d8f094d821e45a1829b3a3b723448a05620727da403771208211643d33196fc02306db123ba3963365fd2c831f8f8f81480c984bbb4540346a5b3218e is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.
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