User:Fæ

This user is a license reviewer on Wikimedia Commons. (verify)
Category:Commons reviewers#Fæ
Fæ has uploaded 6,368,621 media files to Wikimedia Commons (84,675 gigabytes)
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This user is a native English speaker.
Category:User en#FæCategory:User en-N#Fæ
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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
  • 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.
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