User:Mike Peel

Me in 2023

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Hello, welcome to my user page! My name (in case you haven't guessed it from my username) isMike Peel.My personal website is atMikePeel.net.I'mQ26207216on Wikidata.

I am a Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation: my official WMF account isUser:MPeel-WMF.All edits with this account are in a personal capacity only unless otherwise stated.

Wikimedia projects

I have been editing the English Wikipediasince 17 March 2005.You can find some of my main contributions inmy worklist.I've been anEnglish Wikipedia administratorsince 2007;I amopen to recall,and I have committed to not unblocking editors without training/approval from an experienced unblocker per[1].I have contributed to several articles where I have aen:WP:COI,which are noted on myworklist.I was not paid for this work (or any other editing that I do). I became aWikimedia Commons administrator in 2018,and aWikidata administrator in 2020.You can find all of my on-wiki contributions atSpecial:CentralAuth/Mike_Peel—I have made over 400,000 edits.

I've uploaded over 60,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license asI enjoy seeing them used both on Wikipedia and elsewhere(both online and offline). If you're using one of my photos, then I only ask for two things: that you follow the Creative Commons license that I've released the image under (which primarily asks that you to attribute me, and that you share any derivative works under the same license); and for you to drop me a message to let me know. My photographs can be found incommons:Category:Photos by Mike Peel.

I also operateUser:Pi bot(andUser:Pi admin bot), which has madeover 10 million edits.I also help maintaincommons:User:QICbot.Past accounts (now locked) that I used for specific purposes arem:User:Mike Peel (FDC),en:User:Peelbotandcommons:User:File Upload Bot (Mike Peel).

Wikimedia organisations

I co-foundedWikimedia UKin 2008, and I served on itsBoard of Trusteesuntil 2013. I organised the firstWikipedia Editathonat the British Library in 2011, and I helped with the creation of the firstWikipedian in Residence.I am an Honorary Member of WMUK since 2021. I have been a member of theWiki Movement Brazil User Groupsince 2019, andWikimedia Españasince 2022. I ran for the WMF Board in2021and2022,and I was selected in 2022. I am currently serving as a WMF Trustee from7 December 2022 until 31 December 2025.I maintain apublic record of my Wikimedia compensation.

I was a member of theNorthern and Western Europe Wikimedia grants committeein 2021–22. Before that I was a member of theWikimedia Foundation'sFunds Dissemination Committee,first as one of its initial members in2012–2014, and I waselected in 2015to serve a second term, which ended in 2017. My COI statement and pledge were atFDC Pledge and COI 2015(previous versions are also online:2013 pledge and COI,outdated 2013 version,2012 version). When I was both a trustee of WMUK and a member of the FDC I managed my conflict of interest according to mydeclaration of interest.

I supervisedtwo summer studentsworking on Wikipedia's science articles in 2014, twoOutreachystudentsworking on synchronising Wikidata and Wikipediain 2021, two Outreachy studentsworking on matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidatain 2021–22, two Outreachy studentson "What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata"in 2022 (co-mentored withUser:Pigsonthewing) and a GSoC student onrewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Luain 2022. In 2022–23 I co-mentored an Outreachy student withÉder Portoondeveloping features for the Wiki Loves Monuments App.

Day job

I'm apostdoctoral researcheratImperial College London;before that I was a postdoc at theInstituto de Astrofísica de Canarias,Tenerife (2019–2023); aSão Paulo Research FoundationYoung InvestigatorFellowat theUniversity of São Paulo,Brazil(2016–2019), and a postdoc at theJodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics,part of theUniversity of Manchester(2010–2016). I work onSimons Observatory,theGroundBIRDtelescope, theQUIJOTE CMB Experiment,theBINGO telescope,thePlanck satelliteand theC-Band All Sky Survey,as well as co-leading theIAU CPS SatHub.

I'm a member ofWikimedia UK We are the local support group helping the Foundation to "create a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Love Wikimedia? Live in the UK?Join up,DonateandGet Involved