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Mike Peel
Hello, welcome to my user page! My name (in case you haven't guessed it from my username) is
Mike Peel
. My personal website is at
MikePeel.net
. I'm
Q26207216
on Wikidata.
Wikimedia projects
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I have been editing the English Wikipedia
since 17 March 2005
(see
my worklist
). I've been an
English Wikipedia administrator
since 2007
; I am
open 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 a
en:WP:COI
, which are noted on my
worklist
. I was not paid for this work (or any other editing that I do). I became a
Wikimedia Commons administrator in 2018
, and a
Wikidata administrator in 2020
. You can find all of my on-wiki contributions at
Special: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 as
I 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 in
commons:Category:Photos by Mike Peel
I also operate
User:Pi bot
(and
User:Pi admin bot
), which has made
over 13 million edits
. I also help maintain
commons:User:QICbot
. Past accounts (now locked) that I used for specific purposes are
m:User:Mike Peel (FDC)
en:User:Peelbot
and
commons:User:File Upload Bot (Mike Peel)
Wikimedia organisations
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I co-
founded
Wikimedia UK
in 2008, and I served on its
Board of Trustees
until 2013. I organised the first
Wikipedia Editathon
at the British Library in 2011, and I helped with the creation of the first
Wikipedian in Residence
. I am an Honorary Member of WMUK since 2021. I have been a member of
Wikimedia Brasil
since 2019, and
Wikimedia España
since 2022. I ran for the WMF Board in
2021
and
2022
, and I was selected in 2022. I was a WMF Trustee from
7 December 2022 until 31 December 2025
I was a member of the
Northern and Western Europe Wikimedia grants committee
in 2021–22. Before that I was a member of the
Wikimedia Foundation
's
Funds Dissemination Committee
, first as one of its initial members in
2012
–2014, and I was
elected in 2015
to serve a second term, which ended in 2017. My COI statement and pledge were at
FDC 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 my
declaration of interest
I supervised
two summer students
working on Wikipedia's science articles in 2014, two
Outreachy
students
working on synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedia
in 2021, two Outreachy students
working on matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidata
in 2021–22, two Outreachy students
on "What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata"
in 2022 (co-mentored with
User:Pigsonthewing
) and a GSoC student on
rewriting the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua
in 2022. In 2022–23 I co-mentored an Outreachy student with
Éder Porto
on
developing features for the Wiki Loves Monuments App
Day job
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My usual profile picture
I'm "a softly-spoken radio astronomer".
I'm currently a
postdoctoral researcher
at
Imperial College London
(2023-26); before that I was a postdoc at the
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
, Tenerife (2019–2023); a
São Paulo Research Foundation
Young Investigator
Fellow
at the
University of São Paulo
Brazil
(2016–2019), and a postdoc at the
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
, part of the
University of Manchester
(2010–2016). I work on
Simons Observatory
, the
GroundBIRD
telescope, the
QUIJOTE CMB Experiment
, the
BINGO telescope
, the
Planck satellite
and the
C-Band All Sky Survey
, as well as co-leading the
IAU CPS SatHub
References
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"Where does Wikipedia go in the age of AI?"
Financial Times
. 2025-10-23.
Authority control
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0000 0004 2680 7021
ORCID
0000-0003-3412-2586
ResearcherID
Z-4170-2019
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