Long story short: I contacted a constituency office
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Long story short: I contacted a constituency office
IDK, I once got asked if I knew about the position of "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office" and then got to tell the story of how I secured the wp picture of one of them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_(...
Did some work on my #FungiJournal the other day. A work in progress. I’ll finish it one day. Music: Detectorists - Johnny Flynn. #FungiFriends
J'ai faisaie ça
Het leesplankje aap-noot-mies
Ik heb vandaag het leesplankje van aap-noot-mies toevoegd aan Wikipedia, want sinds dit jaar is het publiek domein!
Dat stond sinds 2019 op de agenda 🎇
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leespla...
Kijk @marieke.bsky.social, de tekening van je voorouder Maurice Barbier, die sinds vandaag publiek domein is, staat op Wikipedia fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baorang...
Graphic met de Engelse tekst "het is nooit te laat om weer een masker te dragen! Je kan covid-veilige maatregelen altijd weer beginnen! Het maakt niet uit wanneer of waarom je daarmee gestopt bent"
Het is niet onvermijdelijk dat je meerdere keren per jaar ernstig ziek wordt van een virus
Read my blog post on how I got to upload quite so many files to 'Commons www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/09/v...
Portrait of a woman smiling in front of a purple background with orange and violet abstract shapes. Text says: Her photos help bring global culture to millions of readers. User:1Veertje, 2025 Media Contributor of the Year, has uploaded 86,000+ files to Wikimedia Commons.
“It’s incredibly satisfying to see how an article transforms with the addition of a photograph at the top. By now, I know that my work will be seen – not just today, but for eons to come.” Quote by User:1Veertje, 2025 Media Contributor of the Year.
Vera de Kok's dedication exemplifies how one person can enrich our collective visual memory through both artistry and technical know‑how.
For her incredible contributions to our movement, @veradekok.nl was honored as the 2025 Media Contributor of the Year 🎊
People arriving at and leaving Delft City Hall on election day 2025. In front of the historic building is a portico with stairs on both sides and a temporary accessibility ramp fitted over the right staircase. A row of parked bicycles stands in front of the portico, with two cyclists just arriving.
Election day 2025 in Delft, Netherlands
📷 Vera de Kok, cc-by-sa-4.0
Wikipedia needs your science photos. There are cash prizes up for grabs. Submit your photos to Wikimedia Commons between 1 Nov and 15 Dec to be in to win.
We’re excited to partner with our friends across the ditch at Wikimedia Australia for Wiki Science Competition 2025!
This photography competition aims to improve the availability of open source science images — from microorganisms to galaxies, and everything in between! 🦠🧬🔭
More info ➡️ w.wiki/FVb3
Dutch Wikipedia as exactly 2,2 million articles 🎉
There are also second marriages to the siblings of the first spouse. Used to be more common when the maternal death rate was higher
In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
Customize your search string in your settings so that " -ai " is always an additional keyword
Smiling man with a white beard sitting outdoors at a table with food, wearing a patterned shirt. Text overlay reads: "What can you learn from a 100-year-old Wikipedia editor?" with palm trees in the background.
George Pendergast, known as "G3," turned 100 and still edits Wikipedia daily. Since starting in his 80s, he has created and improved articles on WWII and overlooked women’s histories. His work shows that contribution has no age limit.
Read more ➡️ w.wiki/FJi5
Was vandaag met Open Monumentendag bij het fantastische brutalistische stadhuis van Terneuzen. Heb veel foto's genomen en het artikel op Wikipedia flink onder handen genomen. Met dank aan de geweldige bronnen van @martjankuit.bsky.social (boek BRUUT) en de RCE. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadhui...
Only added it to the article about gender-flipping just now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_...
This article on a German opera became a lot more interesting when I added this 19th Dutch photograph of a performance that had the male love interest played by a woman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_sch...
Late 19th century Dutch actor Louis H. Chrispijn dressed up as Feste
The article on the Shakespearean character of Feste only got a photo added to it back in 2020 when I was tagged the photos from the "Onze Tooneelspelers" ("Our Stage Actors") from 1899. Articles look so much better with a picture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feste
By matching archival footage to articles you get to unexpected stories. Like how Albert Pomper got to be a professional organ player despite coming from the most humble backgrounds because he got educated at the Amsterdam Institute for the Blind
nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...
You get to explore the world from home by cataloging other people's photos. I got introduced to Kenyan writer Nanjala Nyabola by doing that with those made available by @re-publica.com
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjala...
Photo: Jan Michalko / re:publica (CC BY-SA 2.0)
In 2017 I got to contribute the photograph of @naomiaklein.bsky.social to Wikipedia when she visited Amsterdam, how cool is that?
Two silos at the side of a river embankment in Rotterdam that have been made to look like Calvé peanut butter jars
When you do things right within the Wikimedia projects, the resulting response is typically deafening silence. Thinks are getting better but compared to the dopamine hit social media can be. I got one "thank you" for finding these silos that look like the default Dutch peanut butter jar
Read about how I got to upload 86k+ files to Wikimedia Commons on my blog:
New and improved: more embedded media, and a whole section added about working with public domain material
Did the Wikipedian who is this year's "Media Contributor of the Year" add more media and text to a blog post after publishing it? Of course she did
