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Great to hear from you! Well timed - I'm getting more into photography (still n00b) so interested to hear more about your rediscovery.
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1,000 book interview podcasts since 2021!
So proud of my kick-ass and super smart wife, Dr Miranda Melcher: making academic books accessible and having the time of her life doing it.
newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/1000-episo...
The Wikipedia page I wrote on Kiki Wong has now reached Good Article status π
(Approx 0.6% of Wikipedia articles reach this level.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Wong
Screen shot of the mobile view of the article for Veiqia - a cropped image is shown where a woman, called Ra Enge is sketched. She is topless, has cropped hair and is looking to the left. She has dark tattoos around her mouth called qia gutsu.
Screen shot of the front page of Wikipedia, showing feedback be boxes: top left is featured article box showing image of Fijian woman with tattoos - the Veiqia are around her hips. Below that is the did you know section. To the top right in the in the news section, bottom right is "on this day". Below all four is the featured list section
Featured Articles are those on @wiki-potd.bsky.social that are deemed the highest quality & today an article I started on the Fijian tattoo practice of veiqia is one!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veiqia
Many thanks to the dozen or so editors who peer reviewed the article as part of its nomination βββββ
Shalom Nagar recently became my second ever Wikipedia Good Article π
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom_...
π It was a recovery run π
19.03.2025 19:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was prompted to write this article after spotting Wills' blue plaque on a run in Liverpool recently.
"Did you know that music manager Alan Wills learned about management from his father, who was 'in charge of the UK's nuclear early warning system'?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wi...
Love a sarky bingo card. Well played @thewhitepube.bsky.social π
Thanks also to @deadinkbooks.bsky.social for a fab event yesterday.
I've done similar myself a couple of times: "improving" does not necessarily mean "lengthening"...but I conflate the two and then create more work π
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Love it when this happens! Got a Google Alert that someone's used a photo I took and shared on Wikimedia Commons π
This time: someone = Canadian running magazine, photo = Palo Alto Parkrun in 2022.
runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/pa...
When I first read about Biernoff, I enjoyed the (original research!) connection to another artist I've written about recently.
Her and Dan Hays both reproduce the "flaws" of images originally created with more technologically recent means than painting.
bsky.app/profile/jona...
Was excited to see someone found and added an appropriately licensed image that I'd missed within hours of it being featured β€οΈ
03.02.2025 13:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An article I created is on the front page of Wikipedia today π
"Did you know that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, some including details like lens flare and overexposure?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elishev...
Thanks! I was definitely glad I started with a short article :)
24.01.2025 17:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Personal Wikipedia milestone: completed my first Good Article review!
Wanted to keep it simple, so went for a fun and straightforward topic: a song by Wiz Khalifa and friends from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie π
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_M...
Another John Moores Prize winner on Wikipedia's main page today: "Did you know that artist Dan Hays uses what he calls 'the tactile, flawed and time-consuming medium of painting' to reproduce the effect of a low-resolution JPEG?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Hay...
Not a John Moores Prize winner, but I did see his exhibition at the Bluecoat last year, so still a tangential Liverpool connection ;)
"Did you know that Babak Ganjei tried to sell a painting of his credit card to Barclays?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_G...
she's the reason that of all the song articles with "featured" status (highest quality rank), ~7% are meghan trainor songs!! there are dozens of fan editors like this who often start in their teens. some have bias issues but many others get incredibly good at writing articles
11.01.2025 20:35 β π 328 π 4 π¬ 4 π 1"Did you know...that a key part of Alexis Harding's abstract art practice is the chemical incompatibility of the different paints he uses?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_...
"Did you know...that Sarah Pickstone based her John Moores Prizeβwinning painting on an illustration that accompanied the poem 'Not Waving but Drowning'?"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_P...
Had a Baader Meinhoff lemon pig moment today. Saw one in a cafΓ©, having only just heard about them from your article.
04.01.2025 14:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I went on a spree of writing Wikipedia pages about artists in December, partly with the goal of ensuring all winners of the John Moores Painting Prize had entries.
So, this is the first of a handful of upcoming Did You Know features from that batch.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn...
This was a super interesting biography to write recently. Lots of detective work to piece little bits together from all over.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom_...
(Featured in Did You Know on 28th December.)
A screenshot of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red from the 19th Dec, showing 20.003% of 2,040,570 bios are about women, that's 408,183 articles.
20% of English Wikipedia's biographies are about women! This is a huge milestone, but there's so much more work to be done on notable women who are more than qualified for their own Wikipedia biography. Thank you to all of the editors who are taking part in this work π«Ά
#gendergap #wikipedia
Was great to find the perfect Creative Commons-licensed photo on Flickr for this article, featured in Wikipedia's "did you know" today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Wong
Politics palate cleanser: I learned a lot about fortune-telling with cheese writing this fun article recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyromancy
I don't like talking politics on the internet, but I'm a sucker for a neologism, and the debate about the role of journalism drew me in.
"Sanewashing" is on the front page of Wikipedia today. I expanded the article, helped save from deletion, nominated for "did you know".
Today I learned: "Perfect all-kill is a music chart achievement in South Korea where a song simultaneously reaches number one on the real-time, daily, and weekly [chart]."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_all-kill
(Because of the track by RosΓ© from Blackpink with Bruno Mars.)
In Poland for the first time for #Wikimania2024. π΅π±
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