User:Victuallers
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Hello, I'm a Wikipedian editor and admin who lives in Jedburgh in Scotland. I've worked as an engineer, an information technologist and lecturer. I worked for Rolls-Royce and co-wrote pantomimes.[1] I have spoken about Wikipedia in several countries from Norway to Israel, Malawi and in Monmouth, Gibraltar, most Universities in the East Midlands, Edinburgh Uni, UCI and the Malawi University of Science and Technology. I partnered in Joburgpedia and have written many articles about subjects in Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Ecuador and Kenya. I took an interest in Malawi in 2025 and I joined the Scotland Malawi Partnership and we persuaded them to change their licensing.[2] Other organisations are following in Scotland and Malawi. I visited Malawi in May 2026.
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I wrote an article about a woman every day and I achieved 600 days on 11 Aug 2024. I was at the Monthly Women in Red meetings in Edinburgh. Previously in 2020 I completed writing an article a day for almost a year. My first run of one every day started on 22 March 2020 as the first? UK lockdown started 2,273 days ago and lasted for ~360 days. In August 2021 I spoke at Wikimania 2021. (My ''Fourth'' virtual appearance at a Wikimania).
... would you believe .... the Capitol Hill choir sang Happy Birthday Women in Red! Wooooo! and I'm told I was the only bloke speaking at WikiWomen 2025 in Nairobi.
Wiki CV
I was the 3rd Wikipedian in Residence (first British).[4] I gave a TEDx talk in Bristol that launched a wikiproject or two. I co-founded QRpedia, Monmouthpedia and Women in Red. QRpedia was donated to Wikimedia UK.[5] It is still used in Bremenpedia, Joburgpedia, Freopedia, Toodyaypedia and in education applications in Algeria.[6] I was chair of WikimediaUK when it became a charity and gained its first staff member[7] and first office. I've spoken about Wikipedia related projects in Israel,[7] Europe, America and Africa. I organised noted editathons at the Pankhurst centre.[8] In July 2025 I had written 2858 articles about women. In Feb 2025 I completed a year-long challenge to complete an article about a woman from every country in the world.
I have worked on QRpedia projects in Derby, Monmouth, Johannesburg, Bremen, Toodyay, Fremantle, Odessa (etc) and in 2025 I'm still working on Women in Red.[9] For Ada Lovelace Day I was involved with a 24 hour editathon at AdaWiki24.org which was based in Aus, Kenya, NZ, Pakistan, UK, USA covered by several news outlets.[10][11][12]
Acknowledgements
 | This user received the Editor of the Week award. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red |
 | Second place: New stubs: Women in Red stub contest, October 2019 |
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