User:Ipigott

""It is a difficult task to give novelty to what is old, authority to what is new, brilliance to the common-place, light to the obscure, attraction to the stale, credibility to the doubtful...""

- Pliny's encyclopedia

Ipigott is short for Ian Pigott. Born in Newcastle in the north east of England in 1943, I am now retired and share my time mainly between Denmark and Luxembourg where I have lived since 1973. Before that, I was in Montreal, Canada.

My principal interests are IT and culture in the widest sense as well as multilingualism, machine translation, history, new energy resources, public speaking, walking, cycling and exploring the quieter areas of Europe, in particular - but not exclusively - in Denmark, France and Luxembourg. I also try to encourage ordinary citizens to participate in building up knowledge resources on the web. Wikipedia is a great catalyst in this connection. I am fluent in Danish, French, German and Spanish and have a good reading knowledge of the other Scandinavian, Germanic and Romance languages but prefer to spend most of my editing time on the English Wikipedia in view of its extensive readership.

I always appreciate reactions and additional contributions to the articles I have started. If you wish to contact me by email on items you would not like to discuss on Wikipedia or on other Wikimedia pages, you are welcome to write to my Wikipedia user name at yahoo dot com.

Contributions
Main areas of interest have included:


 * a series of top-down cultural articles on Denmark: Architecture of Denmark, Church frescos in Denmark, Culture of Denmark, Danish art, Danish sculpture, Music of Denmark, Photography in Denmark, Danish Culture Canon, Skagen Painters and the related P. S. Krøyer's paintings of Marie; and Luxembourg: Architecture of Luxembourg, Luxembourg art, Photography in Luxembourg and Music of Luxembourg as well as expansion of the List of castles in Luxembourg and related articles
 * biographies and background articles related to the above, including expansion of the articles on the Danish composer Carl Nielsen and his major compositions, on the novella Ved Vejen and on the Danish architects Jørn Utzon and Bjarke Ingels and their principal works
 * Kolyma in the Russian Far East and related topics
 * Douarnenez and surroundinings in Brittany, France, including Pont-Aven and its school of painters
 * towns and villages in Luxembourg including Mamer where I live
 * several articles on places in Denmark, especially about the islands of Møn, Bornholm, Lolland and Falster, as well as expansion of the articles on Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Odense, Roskilde and Skagen (together with Port of Skagen)
 * Solvang, California and its Danish connections
 * Women in architecture, List of female architects, and many related biographies
 * Women in dance, List of female dancers, and many related biographies
 * Women in photography, List of women photographers, and many related biographies
 * several other lists including List of women neuroscientists, List of women in mathematics, List of women classical pianists and List of Sami women
 * dozens of biographies and Lists in connection with women writers in the hope that someday we'll get round to Women in literature
 * active participation in WikiProjects on women, especially Women writers, Women and Women in Red (supporting editathons on leadersip, architecture, science, religion, music, black women's history, art, Jewish History, entertainment, indigenous women, polar women, nursing), assistance with  Sue Bailey Thurman,  Malouma,  Fatima Massaquoi,  Inès de Bourgoing,  Maymie de Mena,  Nina Simonovich-Efimova,   Mary Hayley,  Carmen Casco de Lara Castro,  Vera Gedroits,  Margot Fonteyn,  Lola Álvarez Bravo,  Oei Hui-lan,  Eugénie Hamer,  Addie Brown and  Inter-Allied Women's Conference.
 * Neoclassical architecture in Milan and related topics
 * articles on Swedish art and architecture including Uppsala Cathedral, several churches especially those with frescos and a number of biographies (e.g. Anna Palm de Rosa)
 * a large batch of articles on Bremen's landmarks including House of the Seven Lazy Brothers, Die Glocke and Forum am Wall
 * general assistance with translation, mainly from Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, including Cortina d'Ampezzo and Claudia Cardinale
 * developed the Jean Sibelius article in connection with his 150th anniversary on 8 December 2015, and helped a bit with his tone poem The Oceanides

See here for a list of the pages I started (the most recent appear at the top). I say "started" advisedly as the better articles have all benefited from the work of other editors. If you are more interested in my most recent additions, you can find them here. For those interested in statistics, you can find my overall edit counts here.

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 * Denelezh gender gap stats
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 * The most popular articles in many areas can be accessed from Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject.
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 * New WiR user box: "User:Kingsif/WIR userbox|#": "This user has made # women blue"
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 * AfC women's biographies
 * Interesting: User:Dreamy Jazz Bot adds WPBIO with rating on basis of year of birth cat
 * User Innisfree987 has offered assistance with DYKs
 * WiR Members: log by date of joining
 * Meta Women's Day link
 * Listeria on SKBL (Swedish biographies of women)
 * New WiR members by category check
 * Access to Wikipedia Library
 * meta:Celebrate Women/Events
 * Wikipedia in the press
 * Template:WikiProject banner shell (can also contain class)
 * Most-redlinked women
 * WIR mailing lists
 * Archiving sources: add  to ref

Editing guides

 * Editing Wikipedia brochure
 * Creating women's biographies
 * WIR essays
 * Art+Feminism Quick guide to editing
 * University of Edinburgh training sessions
 * Video tutorial on writing about women
 * Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

DYKs
Most recent first:


 * 1) Bertha McNeill
 * 2) Eugénie Hamer
 * 3) Abby Day Slocomb
 * 4) Cora Slocomb di Brazza
 * 5) Helene Scheu-Riesz
 * 6) Kae Miller
 * 7) Erna P. Harris
 * 8) Enriqueta Medellín
 * 9) Laura Bergt
 * 10) Tove Birkelund
 * 11) Enriqueta Legorreta
 * 12) Avelina Carrera
 * 13) Fausta Labia
 * 14) Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier
 * 15) Adalgisa Gabbi
 * 16) Louise Janssen
 * 17) Ursula Sillge
 * 18) Eliane Morissens
 * 19) Olena Shevchenko
 * 20) Wilhelmine Holmboe-Schenström
 * 21) Paula Lizell
 * 22) Liva Järnefelt
 * 23) Magna Lykseth-Skogman
 * 24) Germaine Bailac
 * 25) Rose Delaunay
 * 26) Stella Madzimbamuto
 * 27) Miriam Soljak
 * 28) Unity Dow
 * 29) Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware
 * 30) Gerda Höglund
 * 31) Susan B. Anthony II
 * 32) Milagros Benet de Mewton
 * 33) Kateryna Skarzhynska
 * 34) Dorothy Thomas (entrepreneur)
 * 35) Angelina Atyam
 * 36) Grace Kodindo
 * 37) Marie Rennotte
 * 38) Rosika Schwimmer
 * 39) Sara Braun
 * 40) Sara Wesslin
 * 41) Józefa Joteyko
 * 42) Adele Zay
 * 43) Alicja Iwańska
 * 44) Aletta Jacobs
 * 45) Oei Hui-lan
 * 46) Inter-Allied Women's Conference
 * 47) Goldberg Variations (play)
 * 48) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
 * 49) Lola Álvarez Bravo
 * 50) First World Congress of Jewish Women
 * 51) Women in Iceland
 * 52) Eusebia Cosme
 * 53) Athalia Schwartz
 * 54) Vera Gedroits
 * 55) Astrid Medina
 * 56) Elisabeth Munksgaard
 * 57) Nina Simonovich-Efimova
 * 58) Lilian Brøgger
 * 59) Lucie Ingemann
 * 60) Maymie de Mena
 * 61) Furra
 * 62) Maria Eugenia Bozzoli
 * 63) El Progreso, Jutiapa
 * 64) Inès de Bourgoing
 * 65) Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
 * 66) Charlotte Hanmann
 * 67) Inger Hanmann
 * 68) Hannah Chaplin
 * 69) Amanda Sidwall
 * 70) Suzette Holten
 * 71) Paulette Poujol-Oriol
 * 72) Fatima Massaquoi
 * 73) Carmen Souza
 * 74) Malouma
 * 75) Laurence Tubiana
 * 76) Jean Sibelius
 * 77) Ragnhild Sundby
 * 78) Eva-Maria Neher
 * 79) Beatriz del Cueto
 * 80) Azita Shariati
 * 81) Azita Raji
 * 82) Sue Bailey Thurman
 * 83) Saint Lucius, Brugherio
 * 84) Villa Sormani
 * 85) María Teresa Ferrari
 * 86) Carl Nielsen works
 * 87) Claudia Cardinale
 * 88) Per Holknekt
 * 89) Stallerhof
 * 90) María Luisa Elío
 * 91) Cortina d'Ampezzo
 * 92) Zíbia Gasparetto
 * 93) Julia Nava de Ruisánchez
 * 94) Elena Torres
 * 95) Margarita Sharapova
 * 96) Amelia Denis de Icaza
 * 97) Þórdís Gísladóttir
 * 98) Doris Mühringer
 * 99) Stella Sierra
 * 100) Elise Otté
 * 101) Regīna Ezera
 * 102) Anne Beffort
 * 103) Marie Heiberg
 * 104) Anastasia Gosteva
 * 105) P. S. Krøyer's paintings of Marie
 * 106) Golden Hall (Stockholm City Hall)
 * 107) The North Sea in Stormy Weather
 * 108) Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
 * 109) Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife
 * 110) Sunlight in the Blue Room
 * 111) Will He Round the Point?
 * 112) Launching the Boat. Skagen
 * 113) Skagen Painters
 * 114) Johannes Østrup
 * 115) Josefina de la Torre
 * 116) Aarhus
 * 117) Odense
 * 118) Maia Makhateli
 * 119) Igone de Jongh
 * 120) Ida Brun
 * 121) Sonia Destri Lie
 * 122) Astrid Stampe Feddersen
 * 123) Bernice Coppieters
 * 124) Monique Loudières
 * 125) Myriam Ould-Braham
 * 126) Isabelle Ciaravola
 * 127) Yulia Makhalina
 * 128) Alice Renavand
 * 129) Ludmila Pagliero
 * 130) Isabelle Guérin
 * 131) Bremen Cotton Exchange
 * 132) Flor de María Rodríguez
 * 133) Kirsty Martin
 * 134) Hélène Bouchet
 * 135) Dominique Khalfouni
 * 136) Sofia Golovkina
 * 137) Lucia Lacarra
 * 138) Kim Joo-won
 * 139) María Nieves
 * 140) Kate Marsden
 * 141) Dore Hoyer
 * 142) Olga Smirnova (ballet)
 * 143) Paula Hinton
 * 144) Penelope Spencer
 * 145) Jarmila Jeřábková
 * 146) Clotilde von Derp
 * 147) Susana Agüero
 * 148) Hertha Feist
 * 149) St Petrus House
 * 150) Eduard Scotland
 * 151) Atlantis House
 * 152) Glockenspiel House
 * 153) House of the Seven Lazy Brothers
 * 154) Langenstraße (Bremen)
 * 155) Ludwig Roselius Museum
 * 156) Robinson Crusoe House
 * 157) Deutsche Bank building, Bremen
 * 158) St Catherine's Monastery, Bremen
 * 159) Bremen Main Post Office Building
 * 160) Teerhof
 * 161) Spitzen Gebel
 * 162) Landgericht Bremen
 * 163) Essighaus
 * 164) Port of Skagen
 * 165) Imtiaz Ali Taj
 * 166) Langlade, Gard
 * 167) Malören
 * 168) Skagen Odde
 * 169) Bouillargues
 * 170) Caveirac
 * 171) Comodoro Rivadavia Cathedral
 * 172) Fourques, Gard
 * 173) Aimargues
 * 174) Le Cailar
 * 175) Vauvert
 * 176) Mozart's birthplace
 * 177) Franciscus Pahr
 * 178) Jørgen Olufsen's House
 * 179) Maurice Yvain
 * 180) Jens Bang's House
 * 181) KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
 * 182) Lille Vildmose
 * 183) Diego García de Moguer
 * 184) Ourense Cathedral
 * 185) Stokkemarke
 * 186) Nørreballe
 * 187) Geology of the Pacific Ocean
 * 188) Ivetofta
 * 189) Broholm
 * 190) Rice production in the United States
 * 191) Peter Wickens Fry
 * 192) Toreby
 * 193) Maribo Open-Air Museum
 * 194) Cabañas Department
 * 195) Belén López (actress)
 * 196) Oakley Hall, Hampshire
 * 197) Fishing industry in Denmark
 * 198) Palacio Haedo
 * 199) Cotton production in the United States
 * 200) Johan Ankerstjerne
 * 201) Knuthenborg
 * 202) Bandholm
 * 203) Palacio de las Academias
 * 204) Palacio de Justicia de Caracas
 * 205) Birthplace of Simón Bolívar
 * 206) Knuthenborg Safaripark
 * 207) Palacio Municipal de Caracas
 * 208) Palacio Federal Legislativo
 * 209) Roholte Church
 * 210) Women in photography
 * 211) Palacio de San Carlos (Bogotá)
 * 212) Gisselfeld
 * 213) Grotta di Lourdes
 * 214) Palacio Liévano
 * 215) Corinne Mentzelopoulos
 * 216) Roholte
 * 217) Braaby Church
 * 218) Pieter Goos
 * 219) Freerslev Church
 * 220) Haslev Church
 * 221) Faxe Church
 * 222) Vester Egede Church
 * 223) St. Severin, Keitum
 * 224) Cape Nome
 * 225) Colan Church
 * 226) Plaza Alta (Algeciras)
 * 227) Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Palma
 * 228) Margaret Michaelis-Sachs
 * 229) Fatimid architecture
 * 230) Gertrud Arndt
 * 231) Whalsay Parish Church
 * 232) Musgum mud huts
 * 233) Den Frie Udstilling
 * 234) Rio Grande da Serra
 * 235) Kollafjørður
 * 236) Torre de los Adalides
 * 237) Gedser wind turbine
 * 238) Feistritz an der Gail
 * 239) Municipal Museum of Algeciras
 * 240) Jais Nielsen
 * 241) Frederik V on Horseback
 * 242) Jason with the Golden Fleece (Thorvaldsen)
 * 243) Viggo Stuckenberg
 * 244) Corubal River
 * 245) Ved Vejen
 * 246) Arsenal de la Carraca
 * 247) St. Peter, Syburg
 * 248) Vester Egesborg Church
 * 249) St Martin's Church, Næstved
 * 250) Undløse Church
 * 251) Abel Schrøder
 * 252) Mosconi (restaurant)
 * 253) Falsters Minder
 * 254) Trinitatis Church
 * 255) Kippinge Church
 * 256) Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette
 * 257) Axel Berg (architect)
 * 258) Vilhelm Theodor Walther
 * 259) Marienborg Manor
 * 260) Kalvø, Guldborgsund
 * 261) Torkilstrup
 * 262) Stubbekøbing Church
 * 263) Charles August Selby
 * 264) Orupgaard
 * 265) Nykøbing Castle
 * 266) Peter Hersleb Classen
 * 267) Corselitze Forest
 * 268) Det Classenske Fideicommis
 * 269) Johan Frederik Classen
 * 270) Guldborg
 * 271) Kommercekollegiet
 * 272) Ejegod Windmill
 * 273) Tingsted Church
 * 274) Gedser Odde
 * 275) Patrick Guerrand-Hermès
 * 276) Oluf Høst Museum
 * 277) Rytterknægten
 * 278) Paradisbakkerne
 * 279) Jons Kapel
 * 280) Hammeren
 * 281) Dueodde Lighthouse
 * 282) Dueodde
 * 283) Almindingen
 * 284) Cadi Ayyad University
 * 285) Marrakesh
 * 286) All Saints Church, Lydd
 * 287) Gamleborg
 * 288) 8 House
 * 289) Rønne Theater
 * 290) Schloßborn
 * 291) Retskrivningsordbogen
 * 292) Ettore Petrolini
 * 293) Collecchio
 * 294) Catequilla
 * 295) Castello Barbarossa
 * 296) Chiesa di San Costanzo
 * 297) Anders Christian Lunde
 * 298) Helligdomsklipperne
 * 299) Stumholmen
 * 300) Ropewalk (Karlskrona)
 * 301) St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir
 * 302) Albert André
 * 303) Endre Nemes
 * 304) Augustenborg Palace
 * 305) Anna Heringer
 * 306) Danish sculpture
 * 307) 21er Haus
 * 308) Bellavista housing estate
 * 309) Utzon Center
 * 310) Fredensborg Houses
 * 311) Paustian House
 * 312) Bagsværd Church
 * 313) Photothèque (Luxembourg)
 * 314) Roman Villa Borg
 * 315) Rødkilde Højskole
 * 316) Kristen Feilberg
 * 317) Place d'Armes (Luxembourg)
 * 318) Danish Golden Age
 * 319) Rønne
 * 320) Østermarie
 * 321) Architecture of Luxembourg
 * 322) St. Bendt's Church
 * 323) Architecture of Denmark
 * 324) Celtic Luxembourg
 * 325) Iroise Sea

Awards
NPP Award for 2022

User:SusunW submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
 * I nominate Ipigott to be Editor of the Week for his tireless efforts to improve WP. Ian speaks multiple languages (English Danish, French, German, Spanish, as well as having a working knowledge of Dutch, other Scandinavian and romance languages) and is an amazing resource for other editors in helping with translations and sourcing. He has been extremely active in creating articles focused on Scandinavia, Luxembourg, music, art, architecture, literature and women. Truly a Renaissance man, his expertise in many areas is staggering and his contributions to GA have included over 20 entries, not the least of which were creation of Malouma, the improvement of Jean Sibelius for his 150th anniversary and improvement of Carl Nielsen which he later promoted to FA. Besides creating over 6,000 pages and bringing over 200 articles to DYK, he is a tireless behind the scenes editor, sending invitations and thank yous for editathons, helping source newly created articles, creating lists to eliminate orphaned articles, adding categories, and in general encouraging and supporting other editors. Ipigott is reliable, authentic, bright, and articulate. If he says he's going to do something, he does it. A polyglot, his translation assistance is invaluable. A champion of the Women in Red project.

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