There are also second marriages to the siblings of the first spouse. Used to be more common when the maternal death rate was higher

Please don't use a prong collar on this lovely dog.

Customize your search string in your settings so that " -ai " is always an additional keyword

Only added it to the article about gender-flipping just now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_...

This article on a German opera became a lot more interesting when I added this 19th Dutch photograph of a performance that had the male love interest played by a woman

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_sch...

The article on the Shakespearean character of Feste only got a photo added to it back in 2020 when I was tagged the photos from the "Onze Tooneelspelers" ("Our Stage Actors") from 1899. Articles look so much better with a picture

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feste

By matching archival footage to articles you get to unexpected stories. Like how Albert Pomper got to be a professional organ player despite coming from the most humble backgrounds because he got educated at the Amsterdam Institute for the Blind
nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...

You get to explore the world from home by cataloging other people's photos. I got introduced to Kenyan writer Nanjala Nyabola by doing that with those made available by @re-publica.com
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjala...
Photo: Jan Michalko / re:publica (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In 2017 I got to contribute the photograph of @naomiaklein.bsky.social to Wikipedia when she visited Amsterdam, how cool is that?

When you do things right within the Wikimedia projects, the resulting response is typically deafening silence. Thinks are getting better but compared to the dopamine hit social media can be. I got one "thank you" for finding these silos that look like the default Dutch peanut butter jar

Read about how I got to upload 86k+ files to Wikimedia Commons on my blog:

New and improved: more embedded media, and a whole section added about working with public domain material

Delpher, the Dutch newspaper archive, made an website in which you can browse newspaper photos that have been added to Wikipedia. If you browse for politicians you can see many of my finds kbnlwikimedia.github.io/GLAMorousToH...

I got really into digging up the new portraits out of public domain material in 2019-2020. This early 20th century parliamentarian is so dapper, finding new things like this is so fun. He's nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbertu...

I build it back in 2018 so I could match names to faces on my phone after I'd uploaded a mass of photos the @re-publica.com conference had published on Flickr. They're the largest new media conference in the German speaking world. Their files are currently being used in just over 1700 locations

I've gamified matching photos to individuals described in Wikidata with software I've written myself: the Orator-Matcher can take a list of names and give you an overview of matches. It ranks them by how many language editions of Wikipedia describe them

My very best portrait is that of Judit Elek (10 language editions) at the IFFR 2023. It makes me proud to think it will stand as a representation of her through the ages en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_E...