NL-Romaine

About me

Active since 2003, with writing articles, taking pictures, fixing problems in templates and other maintenance on several wikis. I often serve as trouble shooter and template expert to make wikis easier for people to contribute to.

Since April 2025 I am a Wikimedian in Residence at Maastricht University. (announcement)

My work

• Organising/supporting various GLAM and education projects
• Publisher newsletter This Month in GLAM
• Organizing Wiki Loves Monuments (2010-present)
• Organizing Wiki Loves Earth (2014-present)
• Organizing Wiki Loves Africa (2014-present)
• Taking thousands of photos and having written over 6000 Wikipedia articles

Contact me

• Talk page on Meta (new)
• Talk page on Dutch Wikipedia (new)
• Chat: present on Telegram as Romaine
• E-mail

Activities

• Organisation
  • Organised many conferences, projects and activities
  • Various GLAM projects with cultural institutions
  • Various education projects with educational institutions
• Roles
  • Technical ambassador
  • Centralnotice admin

I can help you with...

• deleting a file on Commons with valid reason.
• renaming a file on Commons with valid reason.
• moving a local file on another project to Commons.
• fixing problems/errors in templates.
• fixing problems/errors in default system messages.
• Maintaining CentralNotice messages
• translating system messages and pages to Dutch.

Other

On other projects: Wikipedia - Wiktionary - Wikibooks - Wikinews - Wikiquote - Wikisource - Wikispecies - Wikivoyage - Commons - Wikidata - Meta - Outreach

Wikimedia: Wikimedia Nederland - Wikimedia Belgium

Because of SUL my username was changed from NL-Romaine to Romaine in June 2008, old edits can be found on this page.

Member of the Association of Stroopwafel Addicts