User:Vysotsky

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  • I am a Dutchman, living near Leiden.
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This editor is a Lord High Togneme Vicarus and is entitled to display the Book of All Knowledge: 2nd Edition. (>135,000 edits
& >12 years of service)
  • The pseudonym Vysotsky is a tribute to the admired Russian singer, poet, boozer and actor.
  • My main interests lie with crosspatches & sly dogs and with artists, libraries & publishers.
  • I have contributed >6666 images to Wikimedia Commons.
  • I was one of the organizers of a Wikipedians in Special Residence project, cooperating with 12 special libraries in the Netherlands (WSWB, amongst 10 others the EYE film institute and the Rijksmuseum) from 2013 to 2015. Some results can be found here.
  • I never received any personal compensation (financial or otherwise) for contributions I made to Wikipedia.



  • Some pictures that wouldn't have been in Wikimedia if I hadn't (etc):


Grahamstown


Basel

Wendingen (art journal)

Hendrik Werkman

Cambridge

Porto

Fort Hare & Hogsback

Dakar

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Library of Congress

Books & manuscripts

Andries Oosterbaan (1882-1935)

Morocco / Maroc

Cape Town / Kaapstad

Stellenbosch

Uppsala

Emmy Andriesse (photographer)

Ron Kroon (photographer)

Jacob Merkelbach (photographer)

Franz Ziegler (photographer)

Graveyards

Persons (my photographs)

Persons (my uploads)

Wim van Schaik

Wall poems

Buildings

Manhole covers

More