User:Effeietsanders
About me
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Glad to see you here. I'm Effe iets anders, commoners' Dutch for for a while something else and I love to build bridges and work on interfaces. My training is in Computational Social Science, and I'm a researcher in tools & methods for including people in policy making processes. I have lived in the Netherlands and the United States. I joined the Wikimedia movement as an editor on Dutch Wikipedia in 2005.
Over the past years I have been active in many different fields and capacities in the Wikimedia movement. I'm (still!) excited by the mission of Wikimedia to collect and disseminate the sum of all knowledge, and love to help with innovative approaches of making that happen. I'm primarily active on the Dutch Wikipedia, but have also edited other projects. In 2011, 2012 and 2016 I was candidate for the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees. I have filled both community advanced permissions roles (admin, bureaucrat, steward) and governance positions (various committees). I love bringing people together, making connections and finding ways to help successful ideas scale!
My work
Some of the work I did in the Wikimedia universe:
I was one of the initiators of Wiki Loves Monuments and helped it scale internationally (2010-2013). Since its initiation, the project has been organized in over 70 countries, and collected more than 1.7 million photos of built cultural heritage worldwide, submitted by 45,000+ people. I have been part of the international team (with a short break) until 2021, and after that remained an advisor.
I consider Wikimania and other international gatherings very effective in sharing insights, best practices and ideas between our communities.
I like to encourage discussion and knowledge sharing, and for that reason I collected and presented the Coolest Projects of Wikimedia Chapters in 2011, and presented them at Wikimania, the annual Wikimedia Conference. I repeated this in 2012 and 2013, and Deror continued the tradition since then. Over the years, Wikimania turned into a presentation-heavy conference, and in 2014 I took the initiative to bring back more discussions, by requesting, organizing and coordinating a separate track of discussions together with Iopensa in what we called the Discussion Room. This has become a full track of the conference, and roundtable, community focused discussions are back in the spotlights for a few years.
In 2021 I was part of the Core Organizing Team of the first Online Wikimania and I consider it important that we get better at scaling the benefits of our international conference(s) beyond the people who are able to be there in person. In 2025 I spearheaded some experiments with program elements designed for remote attendees. In 2024 I joined the Wikimania Steering Committee.
Over the years, I have started or heavily contributed to over 750 articles, mostly on the Dutch Wikipedia. I like to focus my efforts on translating and checking biographies, or writing reasonably short biographies from scratch. In total I have made more than 40,000 edits on the various projects.
I was administrator on various projects (2005-), board member of Wikimedia Nederland (2006-2011), steward (2006-2010), member of the Affiliations Committee (2009-2014), founder and international organizer of Wiki Loves Monuments (2010-2021) and member of the regional funding committee for North America (2021-2025).
Contact me
You can leave a message on my talk page, send me an email (my username AT gmail.com)
Translations
People often ask me what my nickname means exactly. Although it is hard to translate into English, it seems translations to several other languages work better. Below you'll find a selection of meanings of Effeietsanders in other languages:
| Language | Translation |
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| Català | Unaestonaunaaltracosa |
| Deutsch | Maletwasanderes |
| English | Changeofspice |
| Español | Unratoalgodistinto |
| Esperanto | Fojeioalia |
| Français | Unefoisautrechose |
| Frysk | Efkeswatoars |
| Íslenska | Smaannad |
| Italiano | Unattimodaltro |
| Limburgs (Mestreechs) | Evegetaanders |
| Norsk / Nynorsk | Enstundnoeannet / Eitbelnokoanna |
| Polski | chwilowocośinnego |
| Português | Agoraalgodiferente |
| Română | Altcevadeastădată |
| Српски / Srpski | натренутакнештодруго |
| Svenska | företögonblicknåt |
| Українська | Нахвилькущосьінше |
| עברית | לשםשינוימשהואחר (l'shem shinui masheu acher) |
| Gujarati | અશાશ્વત (uh-shaa-shvuh-t) |
| Hindi | अनित्य (uh-nit-yuh) |