User:Fæ - Wikimedia Commons

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Wikimedia LGBT+ user group

Fæ has uploaded 6,368,621 media files to Wikimedia Commons (84,675 gigabytes)

Babel user information

This user is a native English speaker.

Users by language

Projects

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

Other projects of interest:

IA books used time-boxed threaded uploads to cater for WMF server upload bugs for large PDFs, and used OCR via pytesseract to detect redundant cover pages for automatic removal
User:Fæ/Wayback adding Wayback Machine archive links for selected past batch upload projects
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
Listeria reports for WMLGBT+ /LGBTQBIOFR/not_male, /LGBTQBIOSK

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

2021 Reach 10,000,000 edits

2020 IA books upload reaches one million books, ensuring that Commons mirrors public domain books from the Internet Archive

2020 Reach 5,000,000 uploads

2018 Reach 4,000,000 uploads

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

2016 Create Wikimedia LGBT twitter stream

2016 Create WMLGBT Telegram channel

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

2014 Create #wikimedia-lgbt IRC channel

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

Wellcome, Persian Wikipedia July 2019
Schlesinger Library, English and Persian Wikipedias
IWM
LOC, English Wikipedia
Unsplash, Chinese Wikipedia
Auckland Museum, Hebrew Wikipedia
Unsplash, Slovenian Wikipedia
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DOD, Persian Wikipedia
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DOD
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MOD
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Hebrew Wikipedia Dec 2016
MOD
Wikipedia Aug 2016
Wikipedia Aug 2016
Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith
Commons, Bengali Wikipedia
Featured on English Wikipedia
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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
Featured on Commons and the English Wikipedia Mar 2016

Valued Images

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.