I'm a couple of months into thinking about #photography beyond quick snaps of family. This is the first thing I've taken that's a clear step up from that. I never even would have noticed this tunnel before.

#ShotwithHalide, edited with Photomator.

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...

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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Was 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 👏
Thanks also to @deadinkbooks.bsky.social for a fab event yesterday.

Love it when this happens! Got a Google Alert that someone's used a photo I took and shared on Wikimedia Commons 😎

This time: someone = Canadian running magazine, photo = Palo Alto Parkrun in 2022.

runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/pa...

An article I created is on the front page of Wikipedia today 🎉

"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...

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 😂

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_M...

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

I 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.)

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 🫶

#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

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 Rosé from Blackpink with Bruno Mars.)

In Poland for the first time for #Wikimania2024. 🇵🇱