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My name is Andy Mabbett.
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{{Quote|'''It's important to realise that our mission is not to make a website, but to share knowledge, freely available for reuse.'''| as @WeAreWikipedia, retweeted by Jimmy Wales; quoted at ] by ].}}
==Stalker==
In the light of and , not to mention other abuse, I feel that I'm entirely justified in concluding that ] exhibits no good faith. Accordingly, I will not be responding to his posts on my talk page (or elsewhere), nor his demands that I justify my edits to him (nor, indeed, to any such posts made by people acting as his proxy).


I am Wikimedian in Residence (pro bono) at ].
==Useful Misplaced Pages stuff==

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I have previously been Wikimedian (or Wikipedian) in Residence at ], ], the ], at ], and at the ]; and ], ], ], ], and (titled "Misplaced Pages Outreach Ambassador").
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I have also set up and run backstage pass/ editathon events at the ], the ], ], the ], ] (with the ]) and the ]. While in Washington for Wikimania 2012, I met with senior staff at the Smithsonian's ] and gave an address to staff of the ] and ].
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In January 2013, I was elected a ] "for your work on open data, Misplaced Pages and social media".
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I gave at Wikimania 2014, in London, where I also received an "{{Plainlinks|https://wikimedia.org.uk/UK_Wikimedian_of_the_Year_2014|Honourable Mention}}" in Wikimedia UK's annual awards. I gave two more at Wikimania 2016. Also in 2016, I undertook a , , giving talks about Wikidata, and Misplaced Pages's GLAM collaborations in 2016 and a , in 2018. I taught a ], in 2016, 2018 and 2019. I delivered the same course online in 2020 (twice), 2021 and 2022.
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I have attended the following international Wikimedia events:
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* ] - December 2011
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* a meeting of {{lang|de|]}} - December 2011
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* ] in Washington DC
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* {{lang|de|]}} - August 2012
* GLAMcamp London - September 2012
* ] in Belgrade
* GLAM-Wiki 2013 in London.
* , 24-26 May, in Amsterdam
* ], 1-8 February 2014
* ] in London
* , 3-5 April 2015
* , February 2016
* ] in ], Italy
* ], October 2016, in Warsaw, Poland
* ] in ]
* ] in Montreal
* ] in Cairo
* ] in Berlin
* ], Barcelona
* ], Armenia
* ] in Cape Town
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* ] in Berlin
* ] in Singapore

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.

Elsewhere, I spoke and mentored at , 22-24 February 2013. I attended the in Chicago on 21-22 May 2014 and in Barcelona on 18-19 May 2015; in part to speak about the use of ORCID in Misplaced Pages & Wikidata. I also spoke about authority control in Misplaced Pages and and its sister projects at the ]'s Arab Peninsula Regional Group conference in Qatar in May 2015. On behalf of the Royal Society of Chemistry, I gave talks about Misplaced Pages to chemists around the UK, and at the ], Tunisia, and to a Delegates' Assembly of the ] in Berlin. I was compère at OpenStreetMap's in Birmingham, and spoke (about Wikidata and more) at . I gave a at ] in Istanbul to mark Wikidata's 6th Birthday.

Among other things, I ] (and have deployed them on sister projects including Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikisource; as well as the OpenStreetMap wiki), conceived {{Tl|Coord}} for our coordinates, and liaised with Google to have that template used for the Misplaced Pages layer on their maps. I also conceived {{tl|URL}}, {{tl|Start date}} and {{tl|End date}} to emit metadata; and {{Tl|Flatlist}} and {{Tl|Plainlist}} 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 ], which asks article subjects to record a sample of their spoken voice, so that Misplaced Pages 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 , uploading audio extracts from radio programmes, under an open licence; and worked with the ESA to have the ''''''. I'm also one of the people behind ]. I sometimes write about Misplaced Pages and for other publications.

Why do I do all this? I couldn't put it better than Wilfred T. Grenfell:

{{quote|Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.}}

'''Pigsonthewing''' is my ] for all public ]. I am an administrator on Wikispecies.<!-- I am an ] operator.--> I maintain alternative accounts, ] and ], with default settings, which I use for testing, training and demonstration purposes. I created ] for documentation and testing purposes, but it is not used for editing. I have separate user pages at:

* ]
* ]
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as well as soft redirects on various other Wikipedias. Oh, and I have permission from ] to use the web {{diff|User talk:Timbl|525726817|525726677|whenever I like}}.

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A shortcut for this page is https://w.wiki/QP - alternatively, http://enwp.org/User:PotW

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== Interests ==

I aim to make all my edits in compliance with Wikimedia Foundation policies.

* I acknowledge that my affiliations may create a perceived or actual conflict of interest in my Wiki contributions.
* I commit to transparently declare my affiliations in relevant discussions and when making contributions that could potentially be influenced by them.
* 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 Misplaced Pages channels .
* 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.
* I will always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on ], ], verifiability, notability and no original research.

Accordingly, I declare that:

* I am pro bono ] at ]
** The role is described in
** I was also an ] "" until ORCID ended that programme
** I sat on ORCID's ''.
** I attended the in Chicago on 21-22 May 2014; in part to speak about the use of ORCID in Misplaced Pages & Wikidata.
** I attended the in Barcelona on 18-19 May 2015; I gave a presentation on ORCID in Misplaced Pages & Wikidata.
** I attended the ORCID outreach event in Canberra, Australia in February 2016, where I again spoke about ORCID in Misplaced Pages & Wikidata
* I sit, pro bono, on the ]-Wiki working group
* 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: ], ], ], ]
* I was Wikimedian in Residence at ], June 2019-May 2021
* I was Wikimedian in Residence at ]
* I was Wikimedian in Residence at ]
* I was a Wikipedian in Residence at ] in 2016
* I have occasionally worked for the BBC, either directly, or via one of their suppliers
** I was contracted to create articles on people who appeared on ]
** I worked on the ]
** I created and deployed the {{tl|BBC composer page}} template
* I was ] at the ], Sept 2014-Sept 2015.
* I was ] at ] in 2015.
* I was ] at ], Burnley, in 2013 & 2014.
* I was ] at ], April-June 2013.
* In 2012, I was Wikipedian in Residence at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, which manages:
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** Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archives Service
* I was (effectively a Wikipedian in Residence) to ], working on their ] project, in the summer of 2011
* I have worked with the ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] in Wikipedian-in-Residence style roles.
* My paid work includes delivering advice and workshops on and training in the use of Misplaced Pages and sister projects, for example ; .
* I maintain other, legitimate, accounts:
** ], with default settings, used for testing and training purposes
** ], with default settings and visual editor, used for testing and training purposes
** ], defending a common abbreviation of my user name; may be used for testing
** ], a bot account, so far used only for training (and on Wikidata, where it has bot approval)
** ], used briefly on other projects
* I have "accountcreator" rights on this wiki, and sometimes create accounts for people I train, and others
* I was an ] operator
* I am a member of Wikimedia-UK and a past member of Wikimedia-AU
* I am part of the ] team
* I am accredited by Wikimedia-UK as a trainer
** 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.
* 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.
* I am a contributor to technical standards:
** , ({{ISSN|2070-1721}}), the ] 4.0 specification
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** the ] microformat
* I am the author of
** I (and others) sometimes cite them as references
** In that context, I am also mentioned in Misplaced Pages articles including ] and ]
* I volunteered at and ran ]
* I am a Fellow of the ]
* I was a trustee of the ], registered as a charity in England (resigned May 2014)
* I am a former member of the ]
* I enjoy use of the Misplaced Pages Library accounts

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.

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== External links ==

These are all me:

* https://pigsonthewing.org.uk
* https://bsky.app/profile/pigsonthewing.org.uk
* https://mastodon.social/@Pigsonthewing
* https://www.facebook.com/pigsonthewing/
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/pigsonthewing/
* https://www.flickr.com/people/pigsonthewing/
* https://twitter.com/Pigsonthewing (no longer used)

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Latest revision as of 19:32, 25 December 2024

Pigsonthewing
— Wikimedian ♂ —
Collecting my "Honourable Mention" award, Wikimania, August 2014. The Mac is not mine!Collecting my "Honourable Mention" award, Wikimania, August 2014. The Mac is not mine!
NameAndy Mabbett FRSA
BornBirmingham
Country England
Current locationBirmingham
Time zoneUTC
Contact info
Websitepigsonthewing.org.uk
SkypeAsk!
Facebookpigsonthewing
Flickrpigsonthewinguk
LinkedInpigsonthewing
Twitterpigsonthewing
YouTubepigsonthewinguk
Blueskypigsonthewing.org.uk
Account statistics
First edit16 October 2003
Edit count> 256,000 (Userviews)
PermissionsAC, AP, IP, Rv, Ro, TE
My voice A recording made in February 2013, for the Voice intro project which I founded.
This user has been editing Misplaced Pages for more than twenty years.

It's important to realise that our mission is not to make a website, but to share knowledge, freely available for reuse.

— Posted by me as @WeAreWikipedia, retweeted by Jimmy Wales; quoted at Wikimania 2014 by Bill Thompson.

I am Wikimedian in Residence (pro bono) at ORCID.

I have previously been Wikimedian (or Wikipedian) in Residence at Coventry University, TED, the Royal Society of Chemistry, at The Physiological Society, and at the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group; and at Thinktank, Birmingham, at Queen Street Mill, at The New Art Gallery Walsall, at Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, and to ARKive (titled "Misplaced Pages Outreach Ambassador").

I have also set up and run backstage pass/ editathon events at the Black Country Living Museum, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Ikon Gallery, the Institution of Civil Engineers, University of Leicester (with the Attenborough Arts Centre) and the West Midlands Police Museum. While in Washington for Wikimania 2012, I met with senior staff at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and gave an address to staff of the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian Institution.

In January 2013, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts "for your work on open data, Misplaced Pages and social media".

I gave three presentations at Wikimania 2014, in London, where I also received an "Honourable Mention" in Wikimedia UK's annual awards. I gave two more at Wikimania 2016. Also in 2016, I undertook a four-week tour of Australia, and Indonesia, giving talks about Wikidata, and Misplaced Pages's GLAM collaborations in 2016 and a second four-week tour of Australia, in 2018. I taught a course on Misplaced Pages at the Polytechnic University of Milan, in 2016, 2018 and 2019. I delivered the same course online in 2020 (twice), 2021 and 2022.

I have attended the following international Wikimedia events:

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.

Elsewhere, I spoke and mentored at Wiki Academy Kosovo, 22-24 February 2013. I attended the ORCID Outreach Meeting and Codefest in Chicago on 21-22 May 2014 and ORCID/CASRAI conference in Barcelona on 18-19 May 2015; in part to speak about the use of ORCID in Misplaced Pages & Wikidata. I also spoke about authority control in Misplaced Pages and and its sister projects at the World Digital Library's Arab Peninsula Regional Group conference in Qatar in May 2015. On behalf of the Royal Society of Chemistry, I gave talks about Misplaced Pages to chemists around the UK, and at the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia, and to a Delegates' Assembly of the European Young Chemists' Network in Berlin. I was compère at OpenStreetMap's State of the Map 2013 in Birmingham, and spoke (about Wikidata and more) at State of the Map US 2015. I gave a guest lecture at Üsküdar University in Istanbul to mark Wikidata's 6th Birthday.

Among other things, I introduced Misplaced Pages's microformats (and have deployed them on sister projects including Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks and Wikisource; as well as the OpenStreetMap wiki), conceived {{Coord}} for our coordinates, and liaised with Google to have that template used for the Misplaced Pages layer on their maps. I also conceived {{URL}}, {{Start date}} and {{End date}} to emit metadata; and {{Flatlist}} and {{Plainlist}} 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 voice intro project, which asks article subjects to record a sample of their spoken voice, so that Misplaced Pages 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 related project, uploading audio extracts from radio programmes, under an open licence; and worked with the ESA to have the first ever content made specifically for Misplaced Pages in space. I'm also one of the people behind QRpedia. I sometimes write about Misplaced Pages on my own blog and for other publications.

Why do I do all this? I couldn't put it better than Wilfred T. Grenfell:

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

Pigsonthewing is my unified login for all public Wikimedia projects. I am an administrator on Wikispecies. I maintain alternative accounts, User:PigsOTWing and User:PigsotWing, with default settings, which I use for testing, training and demonstration purposes. I created User:Red link example for documentation and testing purposes, but it is not used for editing. I have separate user pages at:

as well as soft redirects on various other Wikipedias. Oh, and I have permission from TBL to use the web whenever I like.

A shortcut for this page is https://w.wiki/QP - alternatively, http://enwp.org/User:PotW

Declaration of Interests

Interests

I aim to make all my edits in compliance with Wikimedia Foundation policies.

  • I acknowledge that my affiliations may create a perceived or actual conflict of interest in my Wiki contributions.
  • I commit to transparently declare my affiliations in relevant discussions and when making contributions that could potentially be influenced by them.
  • 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 Misplaced Pages channels .
  • 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.
  • I will always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, verifiability, notability and no original research.

Accordingly, I declare that:

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.

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