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.navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title">Pigsonthewing</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">— <span class="role"><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimedia">Wikimedian</a></span> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted gender" style="font-size: larger;" title="male">♂</span> —</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikimania_2014_-_102_CROP.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Collecting my "Honourable Mention" award, Wikimania, August 2014. The Mac is not mine!"><img alt="Collecting my "Honourable Mention" award, Wikimania, August 2014. The Mac is not mine!" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Wikimania_2014_-_102_CROP.jpg/200px-Wikimania_2014_-_102_CROP.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Wikimania_2014_-_102_CROP.jpg/300px-Wikimania_2014_-_102_CROP.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Wikimania_2014_-_102_CROP.jpg/400px-Wikimania_2014_-_102_CROP.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4474" data-file-height="2983" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Collecting my "<span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2014">Honourable Mention</a></span>" award, Wikimania, August 2014. The Mac is not mine!</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Name</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="fn" style="display:inline;">Andy Mabbett</div> <span class="honorific-suffix"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts">FRSA</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/23px-Flag_of_England.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/35px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/Flag_of_England.svg/46px-Flag_of_England.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current location</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Birmingham,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Birmingham, England">Birmingham</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time zone</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC">UTC</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style=";">Contact info</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk">pigsonthewing<wbr />.org<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Skype" title="Skype"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000E-QINU`"'</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">Skype</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data">Ask!</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">Facebook</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/pigsonthewing">pigsonthewing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Flickr" title="Flickr"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">Flickr</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pigsonthewinguk">pigsonthewinguk</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LinkedIn" title="LinkedIn"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">LinkedIn</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pigsonthewing/">pigsonthewing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">Twitter</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing">pigsonthewing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">YouTube</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/@pigsonthewinguk">pigsonthewinguk</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Bluesky" title="Bluesky"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">Bluesky</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bsky.app/profile/pigsonthewing.org.uk">pigsonthewing.org.uk</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style=";">Account statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First edit</th><td class="infobox-data">16 October 2003</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Pigsonthewing" class="extiw" title="xtools:ec/en.wikipedia.org/Pigsonthewing"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">Edit count</span></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits" title="Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits">> 256,000</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/userviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&namespace=0&redirects=0&range=latest-20&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&user=Pigsonthewing">Userviews</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&limit=1&username=Pigsonthewing"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:">Permissions</span></a></span></th><td class="infobox-data">AC, AP, IP, Rv, Ro, TE</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="215" style="width:215px;" data-durationhint="11" data-mwtitle="Andy_Mabbett_voice.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Andy_Mabbett_voice.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/96/Andy_Mabbett_voice.ogg/Andy_Mabbett_voice.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3AAndy_Mabbett_voice.ogg&lang=en&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">A recording made in February 2013, for the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Voice_intro_project" title="Wikipedia:Voice intro project">Voice intro project</a> which I founded.</div></div></div></div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="wikipediauserbox" style="float:left;border:1px solid #000080;margin:1px;width:238px"><table role="presentation" style="border-collapse:collapse;width:238px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;background:#ffffff;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><td style="border:0;width:45px;height:45px;background:#c0c0c0;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;color:black;padding:0 1px 0 0;line-height:1.25em;vertical-align:middle"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Twenty_Years_Society_%282019%2C_square_edit%29.svg/42px-Twenty_Years_Society_%282019%2C_square_edit%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="42" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Twenty_Years_Society_%282019%2C_square_edit%29.svg/63px-Twenty_Years_Society_%282019%2C_square_edit%29.svg.png 1.5x, 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.mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Andy_Mabbett" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Andy Mabbett">Andy Mabbett</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Works_by_Andy_Mabbett" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Works by Andy Mabbett">Works by Andy Mabbett</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><b>It's important to realise that our mission is not to make a website, but to share knowledge, freely available for reuse.</b></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/WeAreWikipedia/status/479301316859424770">Posted by me</a> as @WeAreWikipedia, retweeted by Jimmy Wales; quoted at <a href="/wiki/Wikimania_2014" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimania 2014">Wikimania 2014</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Thompson_(technology_writer)" title="Bill Thompson (technology writer)">Bill Thompson</a>.</cite></div></blockquote> <p>I am Wikimedian in Residence (pro bono) at <a href="/wiki/ORCID" title="ORCID">ORCID</a>. I am currently contracting with the <a href="/wiki/Museum_Data_Service" title="Museum Data Service">Museum Data Service</a>, in a W-i-R type role, working on integrating their data with Wikidata. This also involves creating redirects on Wikipedia where institution names in MDS data do not match article titles. </p><p>I have previously been Wikimedian (or Wikipedian) in Residence at <a href="/wiki/Coventry_University" title="Coventry University">Coventry University</a>, <a href="/wiki/TED_(conference)" title="TED (conference)">TED</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry" title="Royal Society of Chemistry">Royal Society of Chemistry</a>, at <a href="/wiki/The_Physiological_Society" title="The Physiological Society">The Physiological Society</a>, and at the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Modern_Biomedicine_Research_Group" title="History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group">History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank">at Thinktank, Birmingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/QSMM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/QSMM">at Queen Street Mill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/NAGW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/NAGW">at The New Art Gallery Walsall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SAHS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/SAHS">at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service</a>, and <a class="external text" href="https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/ARKive_project">to ARKive</a> (titled "Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador"). </p><p>I have also set up and run backstage pass/ editathon events at the <a href="/wiki/Black_Country_Living_Museum" title="Black Country Living Museum">Black Country Living Museum</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Birmingham_Society_of_Artists" title="Royal Birmingham Society of Artists">Royal Birmingham Society of Artists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ikon_Gallery" title="Ikon Gallery">Ikon Gallery</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers" title="Institution of Civil Engineers">Institution of Civil Engineers</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Leicester" title="University of Leicester">University of Leicester</a> (with the <a href="/wiki/Attenborough_Arts_Centre" title="Attenborough Arts Centre">Attenborough Arts Centre</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_Police_Museum" title="West Midlands Police Museum">West Midlands Police Museum</a>. While in Washington for Wikimania 2012, I met with senior staff at the Smithsonian's <a href="/wiki/National_Zoological_Park_(United_States)" title="National Zoological Park (United States)">National Zoo</a> and gave an address to staff of the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a>. </p><p>In January 2013, I was elected a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts">Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts</a> "for your work on open data, Wikipedia and social media". </p><p>I gave <a class="external text" href="https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing">three presentations</a> at Wikimania 2014, in London, where I also received an "<span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2014">Honourable Mention</a></span>" in Wikimedia UK's annual awards. I gave two more at Wikimania 2016. Also in 2016, I undertook a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under_(2016)">four-week tour of Australia</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikidata_and_Pywikibot_Training">and Indonesia</a>, giving talks about Wikidata, and Wikipedia's GLAM collaborations in 2016 and a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under_(2018)">second four-week tour of Australia</a>, in 2018. I taught a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/PoliMi" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/PoliMi">course on Wikipedia at the Polytechnic University of Milan</a>, in 2016, 2018 and 2019. I delivered the same course online in 2020 (twice), 2021 and 2022. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1256386598">.mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#F0F2F5;color:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#CCFFCC;color:inherit}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}</style> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed" style="color:inherit; background: transparent; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:100%; clear: both; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th class="cot-header-other" style="; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:115%;margin:0 4em">I have attended many international Wikimedia events:</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: var(--background-color-base, #fff);"> <ul><li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam" class="extiw" title="m:GLAMcamp Amsterdam">GLAMcamp Amsterdam</a> - December 2011</li> <li>a meeting of <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Historische_Museen_Hamburg" class="extiw" title="de:Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg">Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg</a></i></span> - December 2011</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimania 2012">Wikimania 2012</a> in Washington DC</li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Museum_f%C3%BCr_Hamburgische_Geschichte/2._Hamburger_Workshop" class="extiw" title="de:Wikipedia:Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte/2. Hamburger Workshop">Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte/2</a></i></span> - August 2012</li> <li>GLAMcamp London - September 2012</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2012" class="extiw" title="meta:Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2012">Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2012</a> in Belgrade</li> <li>GLAM-Wiki 2013 in London.</li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013">MediaWiki hackathon 2013</a>, 24-26 May, in Amsterdam</li> <li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedians_in_European_Parliament" class="extiw" title="commons:Commons:Wikipedians in European Parliament">Wiki Loves European Parliament</a>, 1-8 February 2014</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2014" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimania 2014">Wikimania 2014</a> in London</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arabia.wikimedia.tn/">WikiArabia</a>, 3-5 April 2015, in Monastir, Tunisia</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under_(2016)">Wikidata Tour Down Under 2016, Australia</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikidata_and_Pywikibot_Training">and Indonesia</a> February 2016</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimania 2016">Wikimania 2016</a> in <a href="/wiki/Esino_Lario" title="Esino Lario">Esino Lario</a>, Italy</li> <li><a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2016/Contents/Poland_report" class="extiw" title="outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/October 2016/Contents/Poland report">Digital Museum Conference</a>, October 2016, in Warsaw, Poland</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017" class="extiw" title="m:WikiCite 2017">WikiCite 2017</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2017" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimania 2017">Wikimania 2017</a> in Montreal</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArabia/2017" class="extiw" title="m:WikiArabia/2017">WikiArabia 2017</a> in Cairo</li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017" class="extiw" title="d:Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017">WikidataCon 2017</a> in Berlin</li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/Wikimedia_and_Open_Science" class="extiw" title="mw:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Wikimedia and Open Science">Wikimedia and Open Science 2018</a>, Barcelona</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_forum_in_Yerevan" class="extiw" title="m:GLAM forum in Yerevan">GLAM forum in Yerevan 2018</a>, Armenia</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2018" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimania 2018">Wikimania 2018</a> in Cape Town</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under_(2018)">Wikidata Tour Down Under 2018, Australia</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019" class="extiw" title="d:Wikidata:WikidataCon 2019">WikidataCon 2019</a> in Berlin</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2023" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimania 2023">Wikimania 2023</a> in Singapore</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArabia/2024" class="extiw" title="m:WikiArabia/2024">WikiArabia 2024</a> in Muskat, Oman</li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025" class="extiw" title="m:Wikisource Conference 2025">Wikisource Conference 2025</a>, in Sanur, Bali, Indonesia</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>At these events, I variously spoke about GLAM collaboration and my work as a Wikimedian in Residence; and enjoyed meeting many on-line collaborators and making new friends. </p><p>Elsewhere, I spoke and mentored at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wikiacademykosovo.org/">Wiki Academy Kosovo</a>, 22-24 February 2013. I attended the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://orcid.org/content/orcid-outreach-meeting-and-codefest-may-2014">ORCID Outreach Meeting and Codefest</a> in Chicago on 21-22 May 2014 and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orcid-casrai-2015.org/">ORCID/CASRAI conference</a> in Barcelona on 18-19 May 2015; in part to speak about the use of ORCID in Wikipedia & Wikidata. I also spoke about authority control in Wikipedia and and its sister projects at the <a href="/wiki/World_Digital_Library" title="World Digital Library">World Digital Library</a>'s Arab Peninsula Regional Group conference in Qatar in May 2015. On behalf of the Royal Society of Chemistry, I gave talks about Wikipedia to chemists around the UK, and at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tunis_El_Manar" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Tunis El Manar">University of Tunis El Manar</a>, Tunisia, and to a Delegates' Assembly of the <a href="/wiki/European_Young_Chemists%27_Network" title="European Young Chemists' Network">European Young Chemists' Network</a> in Berlin. I was compère at OpenStreetMap's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://2013.stateofthemap.org/">State of the Map 2013</a> in Birmingham, and spoke (about Wikidata and more) at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stateofthemap.us/">State of the Map US 2015</a>. I gave a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uskudar.edu.tr/en/icerik/3354/wikidata-celebrated-the-6-birthday-at-uskudar-university">guest lecture</a> at <a href="/wiki/%C3%9Csk%C3%BCdar_University" title="Üsküdar University">Üsküdar University</a> in Istanbul to mark Wikidata's 6th Birthday. </p><p>Among other things, I <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats">introduced Wikipedia's microformats</a> (and have deployed them on sister projects including Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikisource; as well as the OpenStreetMap wiki), conceived <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Coord" title="Template:Coord">Coord</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> for our coordinates, and liaised with Google to have that template used for the Wikipedia layer on their maps. I also conceived <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:URL" title="Template:URL">URL</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Start_date" title="Template:Start date">Start date</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:End_date" title="Template:End date">End date</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> to emit metadata; and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Flatlist" title="Template:Flatlist">Flatlist</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Plainlist" title="Template:Plainlist">Plainlist</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> to make our lists more accessible and HTML-standards compliant. I am accredited as a trainer by Wikimedia-UK, in all three of the available categories. I instigated the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Voice_intro_project" title="Wikipedia:Voice intro project">voice intro project</a>, which asks article subjects to record a sample of their spoken voice, so that Wikipedia readers may know what they sound like, and how they pronounce their names. As part of that project, I worked with the BBC, to run a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2013/11/speakerthon-uploading-voice-samples-from-the-radio-4-archive-to-wikipedia">related project</a>, uploading audio extracts from radio programmes, under an open licence; and worked with the ESA to have the <b><a class="external text" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/29/astronaut-spoken-voice/">first ever content made specifically for Wikipedia in space</a></b>. I'm also one of the people behind <a href="/wiki/QRpedia" title="QRpedia">QRpedia</a>. I sometimes write about Wikipedia <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/category/wikipedia-2/">on my own blog</a> and for other publications. </p><p>Why do I do all this? I couldn't put it better than Wilfred T. Grenfell: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.</p></blockquote> <p><b>Pigsonthewing</b> is my <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Unified login">unified login</a> for all public <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Our_projects" class="extiw" title="wmf:Our projects">Wikimedia projects</a>. I am an administrator on Wikispecies. I maintain alternative accounts, <a href="/wiki/User:PigsOTWing" title="User:PigsOTWing">User:PigsOTWing</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:PigsotWing" title="User:PigsotWing">User:PigsotWing</a>, with default settings, which I use for testing, training and demonstration purposes. I created <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Red_link_example&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Red link example (page does not exist)">User:Red link example</a> for documentation and testing purposes, but it is not used for editing. I have separate user pages at: </p> <ul><li><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing" class="extiw" title="commons:User:Pigsonthewing">commons:User:Pigsonthewing</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing" class="extiw" title="meta:User:Pigsonthewing">meta:User:Pigsonthewing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing" class="extiw" title="wikidata:User:Pigsonthewing">wikidata:User:Pigsonthewing</a></li></ul> <p>as well as soft redirects on various other Wikipedias. Oh, and I have permission from <a href="/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee" title="Tim Berners-Lee">TBL</a> to use the web <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Timbl&diff=525726817&oldid=525726677">whenever I like</a></span>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><b>More about me:</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/about" title="User:Pigsonthewing/about">Activities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/honours" title="User:Pigsonthewing/honours">Honours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/dyk" title="User:Pigsonthewing/dyk">DYK successes</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><b>Useful stuff:</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/tools" title="User:Pigsonthewing/tools">Tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/boilerplate" title="User:Pigsonthewing/boilerplate">Boilerplate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/templates" title="User:Pigsonthewing/templates">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/scratchpad" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Pigsonthewing/scratchpad">Scratchpad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/welcome" title="User:Pigsonthewing/welcome">Welcome template</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/to-do" title="User:Pigsonthewing/to-do">To do</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing/to-do/Infoboxes" title="User:Pigsonthewing/to-do/Infoboxes">Infoboxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed" title="Special:NewPagesFeed">New Pages</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chl=//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing">Generate QR code for this page</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/articleinfo/index.php?article=Birmingham&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia">Article stats</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://tools.wmflabs.org/guc/index.php?user=Pigsonthewing">Global contributions</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://pageviews.toolforge.org/userviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&namespace=0&redirects=0&range=latest-20&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&user=Pigsonthewing">Page creations & views</a></li></ul> <p>A shortcut for this page is <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://w.wiki/QP">https://w.wiki/QP</a> - alternatively, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://enwp.org/User:PotW">http://enwp.org/User:PotW</a> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1256386598"> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed" style="color:inherit; background: transparent; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:100%; clear: both; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th class="cot-header-other" style="; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:115%;margin:0 4em">Declaration of Interests</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: var(--background-color-base, #fff);"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interests">Interests</h2></div> <p>I aim to make all my edits in compliance with Wikimedia Foundation policies. </p> <ul><li>I acknowledge that my affiliations may create a perceived or actual conflict of interest in my Wiki contributions.</li> <li>I commit to transparently declare my affiliations in relevant discussions and when making contributions that could potentially be influenced by them.</li> <li>I will refrain from editing content where my contributions could be seen as leading to a direct conflict of interest, and I will instead propose changes on talk or discussion pages or through other appropriate Wikipedia channels [gnoming, the reversion of vandalism, and other permitted non-controversial edits notwithstanding].</li> <li>My primary goal in contributing to the Wikimedia movement is to share knowledge and resources that are relevant and beneficial to the Wikimedia movement's mission of providing free, reliable, and neutral information.</li> <li>I will always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COI">conflicts of interest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NEUTRAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NEUTRAL">neutrality</a>, verifiability, notability and no original research.</li></ul> <p>Accordingly, I declare that: </p> <ul><li>I am pro bono <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ORCID" title="Wikipedia:ORCID">Wikipedian in Residence</a> at <a href="/wiki/ORCID" title="ORCID">ORCID</a> <ul><li>The role is described in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://orcid.org/blog/2014/06/04/announcing-orcid%E2%80%99s-wikipedian-residence">Announcing ORCID's Wikipedian-in-Residence</a></li> <li>I was also an <a href="/wiki/ORCID" title="ORCID">ORCID</a> "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://orcid.org/content/orcid-ambassadors-1">outreach ambassador</a>" until ORCID ended that programme</li> <li>I sat on ORCID's '<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/135701-twg-all-about-works-working-group">Works Metadata Working Group</a>'.</li> <li>I attended the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://orcid.org/content/orcid-outreach-meeting-and-codefest-may-2014">ORCID Outreach Meeting and Codefest</a> in Chicago on 21-22 May 2014; in part to speak about the use of ORCID in Wikipedia & Wikidata.</li> <li>I attended the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.orcid-casrai-2015.org/">ORCID/CASRAI conference</a> in Barcelona on 18-19 May 2015; I gave a presentation on ORCID in Wikipedia & Wikidata.</li> <li>I attended the ORCID outreach event in Canberra, Australia in February 2016, where I again spoke about ORCID in Wikipedia & Wikidata</li></ul></li> <li>I sit, pro bono, on the <a href="/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library" title="Biodiversity Heritage Library">BHL</a>-Wiki working group</li> <li>I occasionally edit or make edit-requests on behalf of freelance clients. In all such cases a talk page declaration is made. Examples include, but may not be limited to: <a href="/wiki/Edge_Hill_University" title="Edge Hill University">Edge Hill University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Human_Appeal" title="Human Appeal">Human Appeal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Opera_Gallery" title="Opera Gallery">Opera Gallery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_Foundation" title="Raspberry Pi Foundation">Raspberry Pi Foundation</a></li> <li>I was Wikimedian in Residence at <a href="/wiki/Coventry_University" title="Coventry University">Coventry University</a>, June 2019-May 2021</li> <li>I was Wikimedian in Residence at <a href="/wiki/The_Physiological_Society" title="The Physiological Society">The Physiological Society</a></li> <li>I was Wikimedian in Residence at <a href="/wiki/History_of_Modern_Biomedicine_Research_Group" title="History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group">The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group</a></li> <li>I was a Wikipedian in Residence at <a href="/wiki/TED_(conference)" title="TED (conference)">TED</a> in 2016</li> <li>I have occasionally worked for the BBC, either directly, or via one of their suppliers <ul><li>I was contracted to create articles on people who appeared on <a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs" title="Desert Island Discs">Desert Island Discs</a></li> <li>I worked on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BBC_voice_project" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/BBC voice project">Speakerthon voice project</a></li> <li>I created and deployed the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:BBC_composer_page" title="Template:BBC composer page">BBC composer page</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template</li></ul></li> <li>I was <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/Royal Society of Chemistry">Wikimedian in Residence</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry" title="Royal Society of Chemistry">Royal Society of Chemistry</a>, Sept 2014-Sept 2015.</li> <li>I was <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/Thinktank">Wikipedian in Residence</a> at <a href="/wiki/Thinktank,_Birmingham_Science_Museum" title="Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum">Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum</a> in 2015.</li> <li>I was <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/QSMM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/QSMM">the Wikipedian in Residence</a> at <a href="/wiki/Queen_Street_Mill" title="Queen Street Mill">Queen Street Textile Mill Museum</a>, Burnley, in 2013 & 2014.</li> <li>I was <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/NAGW" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GLAM/NAGW">also the Wikipedian in Residence</a> at <a href="/wiki/The_New_Art_Gallery_Walsall" title="The New Art Gallery Walsall">The New Art Gallery Walsall</a>, April-June 2013.</li> <li>In 2012, I was Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, which manages: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Staffordshire_County_Museum" title="Staffordshire County Museum">Staffordshire County Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shire_Hall_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Shire Hall Gallery">Shire Hall Gallery</a></li> <li>Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archives Service</li></ul></li> <li>I was <a class="external text" href="https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/ARKive_project">Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador</a> (effectively a Wikipedian in Residence) to <a href="/wiki/Wildscreen" title="Wildscreen">Wildscreen</a>, working on their <a href="/wiki/ARKive" title="ARKive">ARKive</a> project, in the summer of 2011</li> <li>I have worked with the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_Police_Museum" title="West Midlands Police Museum">West Midlands Police Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers" title="Institution of Civil Engineers">Institution of Civil Engineers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Birmingham_Society_of_Artists" title="Royal Birmingham Society of Artists">Royal Birmingham Society of Artists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitchell_Arts_Centre" title="Mitchell Arts Centre">Mitchell Arts Centre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Black_Country_Living_Museum" title="Black Country Living Museum">Black Country Living Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ikon_Gallery" title="Ikon Gallery">Ikon Gallery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polytechnic_University_of_Milan" title="Polytechnic University of Milan">Polytechnic University of Milan</a> in Wikipedian-in-Residence style roles.</li> <li>My paid work includes delivering advice and workshops on and training in the use of Wikipedia and sister projects, for example <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pscsf.org.uk/2011/01/wikimedia-wikipedia-for-galleries-libraries-archives-museums/">[1]</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://museumnetworkwarwickshire.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/something-wiki-this-way-comes-workshop-14th-september/">[2]</a>.</li> <li>I maintain other, legitimate, accounts: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:PigsOTWing" title="User:PigsOTWing">User:PigsOTWing</a>, with default settings, used for testing and training purposes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:PigsotWing" title="User:PigsotWing">User:PigsotWing</a>, with default settings and visual editor, used for testing and training purposes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:PotW" class="mw-redirect" title="User:PotW">User:PotW</a>, defending a common abbreviation of my user name; may be used for testing</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing-bot" title="User:Pigsonthewing-bot">User:pigsonthewing-bot</a>, a bot account, so far used only for training (and on Wikidata, where it has bot approval)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:AndyMabbett" class="mw-redirect" title="User:AndyMabbett">User:AndyMabbett</a>, used briefly on other projects</li></ul></li> <li>I have "accountcreator" rights on this wiki, and sometimes create accounts for people I train, and others</li> <li>I was an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OTRS">OTRS</a> operator</li> <li>I am a member of Wikimedia-UK and a past member of Wikimedia-AU</li> <li>I am part of the <a href="/wiki/QRpedia" title="QRpedia">QRpedia</a> team</li> <li>I am accredited by Wikimedia-UK as a trainer <ul><li>Occasionally, when delivering training, I make small edits from the account of a trainee. For example, to fix quickly things that they have broken, or to show them how to do something, at their request.</li></ul></li> <li>I have attended Wikimedia-related events with funding (travel, accommodation, expenses) from Wikimedia-AU, Wikimedia-DE, Wikimedia-ID, Wikimedia-PL, Wikimedia-TN, Wikimedia-UK, WikiCite, and the Wikimedia-CEE group, in line with their published expenses polices.</li> <li>I am a contributor to technical standards: <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350">RFC 6350</a>, (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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title="Vcard">vcard</a> 4.0 specification</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/edtf.html">Extended Date/Time Format Specification</a></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/HAudio" class="mw-redirect" title="HAudio">hAudio</a> microformat <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://microformats.org/wiki/haudio">[3]</a></li></ul></li> <li>I am the author of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/pink-floyd">books and articles on Pink Floyd</a> <ul><li>I (and others) sometimes cite them as references</li> <li>In that context, I am also mentioned in Wikipedia articles including <a href="/wiki/The_Amazing_Pudding" title="The Amazing Pudding">The Amazing Pudding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Miles" title="Barry Miles">Barry Miles</a></li></ul></li> <li>I volunteered at and ran <a href="/wiki/Social_media_surgery" title="Social media surgery">social media surgeries</a></li> <li>I am a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Arts" title="Royal Society of Arts">Royal Society of Arts</a></li> <li>I was a trustee of the <a href="/wiki/West_Midland_Bird_Club" title="West Midland Bird Club">West Midland Bird Club</a>, registered as a charity in England (resigned May 2014)</li> <li>I am a former member of the <a href="/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Foundation" title="OpenStreetMap Foundation">OpenStreetMap Foundation</a></li> <li>I enjoy use of the Wikipedia Library accounts</li></ul> <p>If you have concerns about any of my edits, in the light of the above or otherwise, please let me know on my talk page, or by e-mail if you prefer to preserve your privacy. </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <p>These are all me: </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://pigsonthewing.org.uk">https://pigsonthewing.org.uk</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://bsky.app/profile/pigsonthewing.org.uk">https://bsky.app/profile/pigsonthewing.org.uk</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://mastodon.social/@Pigsonthewing">https://mastodon.social/@Pigsonthewing</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.facebook.com/pigsonthewing/">https://www.facebook.com/pigsonthewing/</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pigsonthewing/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/pigsonthewing/</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pigsonthewing/">https://www.flickr.com/people/pigsonthewing/</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/Pigsonthewing">https://twitter.com/Pigsonthewing</a> (no longer used)</li></ul> <table width="100%" style="background:white; border:1px solid silver; border-right:2px solid black; border-bottom:2px solid black; font-size:80%; clear:both;"> 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