Sapfan
Joined 8 February 2013
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Hi! My name is Jan Pešula. I was born and have spent many years in the Czech Republic, but since 1998 I have been working on long assignments in various European countries. On Wikimedia, I mainly edit Czech-language projects.
The focus of my contributions since 2009 is adding biographical data of 19th century personalities, who had a relation with the present-day Czech Republic. This has included:
- Searching for public domain portraits in digitized magazines (also Austrian ones)
- Writing biographies of forgotten celebrities active at the turn of the 19th/20th centruries, using digitized historical books and magazines as a source
- Since June 2020, I have been systematically searching for celebrities in digitized Czech death registers and adding missing dates + references to Wikidata.
- Before corona, I also used to travel around Europe and then uploaded pictures from lesser known locations and secondary railways to Wikimedia Commons. But this is of course suspended for now.
Tourist train in Przewóz, Poland
Slogan of the CDR, Cuba
Train outside Volosyanka (Волосянка), Ukraine
Tourist train in Žacléř, Czechia