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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'mQ26207216 on 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.
I have been editing the English Wikipediasince 17 March 2005 (seemy 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 500,000 edits.
I've uploaded over 90,000 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 13 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:Peelbot andcommons:User:File Upload Bot (Mike Peel).
I co-foundedWikimedia UK in 2008, and I served on itsBoard of Trustees until 2013. I organised the firstWikipedia Editathon at 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 ofWikimedia Brasil since 2019, andWikimedia España since 2022. I ran for the WMF Board in2021 and2022, and I was selected in 2022. I am currently serving as a WMF Trustee from7 December 2022 until 31 December 2025.
I was a member of theNorthern and Western Europe Wikimedia grants committee in 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 2015 to 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 students working on Wikipedia's science articles in 2014, twoOutreachy studentsworking on synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedia in 2021, two Outreachy studentsworking on matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidata in 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 Lua in 2022. In 2022–23 I co-mentored an Outreachy student withÉder Porto ondeveloping features for the Wiki Loves Monuments App.

I'm "a softly-spoken radio astronomer".[1] I'm currently apostdoctoral researcher atImperial College London (2023-26); before that I was a postdoc at theInstituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife (2019–2023); aSão Paulo Research Foundation Young InvestigatorFellow at 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, theGroundBIRD telescope, theQUIJOTE CMB Experiment, theBINGO telescope, thePlanck satellite and theC-Band All Sky Survey, as well as co-leading theIAU CPS SatHub.
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