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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 01/10/2026

Citeren van krantenartikelen die door DPG Media zijn gepubliceerd is gefixed voor alle Wikipedianen!

Voor en na van het citeren van een krantenartikel dat door DPG Media gepubliceerd is. Eerder waren er allom errors.

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 29/07/2026

Covid free in the Paris metro last week ✌️ 😷

Vera in metrostation Gare du Nord met twee tassen om, noise-canceling koptelefoon en KN95

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 29/07/2026

Voorkomen is beter dan genezen

Een kat met een N95-masker op met de tekst "mask up" "fight ableism" er omheen

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 19/07/2026

Starting my #Wikimania journey at #Rotterdam Central this morning

Vera dressed in green at a train station. She looks a bit tired and has red lipstick on

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 10/07/2026

Je moet swipen om de foto van Sammy Jo Muller van mij te zien

Vera, een witte vrouw van 37, zit op een bureau in een domstratieve houding en heeft een lichte glimlag terwijl ze recht in de camera kijkt. Ze draagt een groen t-shirt, washed jeans, gympen en een klein kettinkje. Achter haar hangt er een "Wikipedia"-vlaggetje aan de muur. Ze heeft een sportief figuur, kort bruin haar en donkerbruine ogen.

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 19/06/2026

🎉 Today my redesign of CropTool for Wikimedia Commons went live! The update includes a major mobile UI overhaul, improved metadata handling, and several quality-of-life improvements. Try it out via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons... if you haven't already enabled the gadget.

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 10/06/2026

Bereits tausend Beiträge zur deutschen Wikipedia gemacht! 🎉

Meldung, die mich als großartig bezeichnet, weil ich tausend Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Wikipedia geleistet habe.

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 01/01/2026

Ik heb vandaag het leesplankje van aap-noot-mies toevoegd aan Wikipedia, want sinds dit jaar is het publiek domein! Dat stond sinds 2019 op de agenda 🎇 nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leespla...

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 01/01/2026

Kijk @marieke.bsky.social, de tekening van je voorouder Maurice Barbier, die sinds vandaag publiek domein is, staat op Wikipedia fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baorang...

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 19/12/2025

Het is niet onvermijdelijk dat je meerdere keren per jaar ernstig ziek wordt van een virus

Graphic met de Engelse tekst "het is nooit te laat om weer een masker te dragen! Je kan covid-veilige maatregelen altijd weer beginnen! Het maakt niet uit wanneer of waarom je daarmee gestopt bent"

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 29/10/2025

Election day 2025 in Delft, Netherlands 📷 Vera de Kok, cc-by-sa-4.0

People arriving at and leaving Delft City Hall on election day 2025. In front of the historic building is a portico with stairs on both sides and a temporary accessibility ramp fitted over the right staircase. A row of parked bicycles stands in front of the portico, with two cyclists just arriving.

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 09/09/2025

This article on a German opera became a lot more interesting when I added this 19th Dutch photograph of a performance that had the male love interest played by a woman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_sch...

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 09/09/2025

The article on the Shakespearean character of Feste only got a photo added to it back in 2020 when I was tagged the photos from the "Onze Tooneelspelers" ("Our Stage Actors") from 1899. Articles look so much better with a picture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feste

Late 19th century Dutch actor Louis H. Chrispijn dressed up as Feste

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 09/09/2025

By matching archival footage to articles you get to unexpected stories. Like how Albert Pomper got to be a professional organ player despite coming from the most humble backgrounds because he got educated at the Amsterdam Institute for the Blind nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 09/09/2025

You get to explore the world from home by cataloging other people's photos. I got introduced to Kenyan writer Nanjala Nyabola by doing that with those made available by @re-publica.com en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjala... Photo: Jan Michalko / re:publica (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 09/09/2025

In 2017 I got to contribute the photograph of @naomiaklein.bsky.social to Wikipedia when she visited Amsterdam, how cool is that?

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 09/09/2025

When you do things right within the Wikimedia projects, the resulting response is typically deafening silence. Thinks are getting better but compared to the dopamine hit social media can be. I got one "thank you" for finding these silos that look like the default Dutch peanut butter jar

Two silos at the side of a river embankment in Rotterdam that have been made to look like Calvé peanut butter jars

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

Delpher, the Dutch newspaper archive, made an website in which you can browse newspaper photos that have been added to Wikipedia. If you browse for politicians you can see many of my finds kbnlwikimedia.github.io/GLAMorousToH...

Big radical beard on a radical politician from the early 20th century

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

I got really into digging up the new portraits out of public domain material in 2019-2020. This early 20th century parliamentarian is so dapper, finding new things like this is so fun. He's nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbertu...

dapper dude in a suit with a big black moustache

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

I've gamified matching photos to individuals described in Wikidata with software I've written myself: the Orator-Matcher can take a list of names and give you an overview of matches. It ranks them by how many language editions of Wikipedia describe them

Screenshot of the Orator-Matcher with Naomi Klein being ranked at 65, Victoria Pedretti at 30, Judit Elek at 11 and Herman Philipse at 8

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

My very best portrait is that of Judit Elek (10 language editions) at the IFFR 2023. It makes me proud to think it will stand as a representation of her through the ages en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_E...

Judit Elek at the launch of her biography during the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023; photo: Vera de Kok (cc-by-sa-4.0)

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

I've taught myself photography by doing this for so long. At the beginning of this year I captured this portrait of American actress Victoria Pedretti (article in 29 language editions) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Victoria Pedretti at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, smiling and looking to the side while holding a microphone in her left hand; photo: Vera de Kok (cc-by-sa-4.0)

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

I've been doing that with press credentials at the International Film Festival Rotterdam since 2015. The photos of the IFFR can be sent on hundreds of articles. www.veradekok.nl/en/2025/03/i...

Graph showing the many places the iffr photos are used.

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

Pretty quickly I noticed I could have a big impact if I also went out and tried to capture photos of notable individuals for Wikipedia. The Dutch philosopher Herman Philipse was photographed by me in 2012. Naomi Klein in 2017 @naomiaklein.bsky.social

Herman Philipse in the academy building of Leiden University; photo: Vera de Kok (cc-by-sa-4.0)

Naomi Klein in Amsterdam; photo: Vera de Kok (cc-by-sa-4.0)

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

I've developed an eye for matching things I encounter to Wikipedia. Twice my phone breaking has been of benefit for the encyclopedia: my broken S2 is the example of a small motherboard, the broken image sensor in my Nokia is the example of a different kind of dead pixel

Vera's hand holding the motherboard of a Samsung s2

Two apartment complexes in a digital photograph that has a weird black blob in the middle

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

The 10 year anniversary of the Dutch Wikipedia in Den Bosch is where I got introduced to the Wikimedia movement, and it's been a fun community to be part of ever since Photo: @ikbendaf.bsky.social (cc-by-sa-2.0)

A woman in her 40s on the left looking to Vera on the right, who is wearing a red coat, big sunglasses and a big smile

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

The way I got into photographing for Wikipedia is by going out and documenting heritage sites. These are two nationally heritage sites I captured in 2011. The chimney is in Westland Museum, a region I grew up in. The mortuary is in Den Bosch, where I went to my first meetup.

Red brick chimney. Photo: Vera de Kok (cc-by-sa-4.0)

Mortuary in Den Bosch; photo: Vera de Kok (cc-by-sa-4.0)

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

My favorite photo from this set is this one of a bumper sticker that demands of immigrants that they speak English. It's very useful to illustrate the abstract concept of the "English-only movement" in the United States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English...

"welcome to America, Now Speak English" sticker featuring Uncle Sam

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

759× that's this photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge, which is used near the bottom of the page in every article about San Francisco on the French Wikipedia. This used to also be the case on the English Wikipedia Photo: CGP Grey, CC BY 2.0

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 04/09/2025

The main way you get there is through batch uploads of course. You can see some big spikes in this graph of edits to Wikimedia Commons in 2018, 2019 and 2022. The highest peak is 28k edits in a month.

Graph from 2010-2014, showing big spikes on 2018, 2019 and 2022 especially

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 12/08/2025

Back in the Netherlands and on a train that will take me straight home

View from a Dutch train: very flat agriculture fields with a row of trees at the horizon

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 06/08/2025

Traveled half way arround the world for #Wikimania this year. Looking forward to seeing my friends again and make new ones

Vera in front of the entrance gate to Wikimania Nairobi, a tiel color that matches her pants. She's also wearing a cute white short sleeves sweater and a watermelon + black cat pin

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 21/06/2025

I'm at Art Basel this weekend as the first Dutch member of the international Wikiportraits team!

Vera in front of the Art Basel conference space

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 30/05/2025

This update has repeatedly reset my accessibility button settings, which I've had linked to the "Reading mode" app - Google's official screen reader.

Navigation bar with "accessibility button" in the top right corner

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 23/05/2025

Today marks 15 years since I made my first edit in the Dutch Wikipedia 🎉

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 07/04/2025

My broken Nokia N79 enabled me to illustrate the article on dead pixels with an example in a defective image sensor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Pi...

Digital photo of Dutch urban housing that has a edgy black dot in the middle

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 13/03/2025

Made a self-portrait today

Vera looking directly to the camera with a neutral expression. She is a mid-thirthies white woman with short thick dark brown hair and dark brown eyes

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 15/02/2025

Added a new inaptonym to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptrony...

Neversink, a town in New York state that was submerged by the [[Neversink Reservoir]] in 1953

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 11/02/2025

I have a very Dutch Nr 2

A bike that's attached to a pole via a lock that one could just remove over the top of the pole

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 03/02/2025

Victoria Pedretti #Wikipedia article now this #iffr photo I made yesterday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Victoria Pedretti in a colorful sweater with a microphone in her left hand smiling brightly and looking to the side

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 02/02/2025

Camera at the ready at the #iffr, pretty good spot to fix a picture for the article about Victoria Pedretti en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

A DSLR camera on a camera bag in front of a room full of people with a stage that announces a Big Tall with Victoria Pedretti and Hanna van Vliet is going to be taking place soon

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 02/02/2025

These pics I made of Lol Crawley can now be found in various Wikipedia articles #wikiportrait #iffr en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lol_Cra...

Lol Crawley (50) on stage at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam at the award ceremony for the Robby Müller Award, which he'd received for his œuvre as a cinematographer

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 01/02/2025

Lol Crawley receiving the Bobby Müller Award at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam #iffr #wikiportrait

Lol Crawley holding up a framed A3 sized Polaroid photo once maid by Robby Müller in LA. He is smiling and looking directly at the camera

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 01/02/2025

Lol Crawley, DP on The Brutalist, explaining how they filmed the Statue of Liberty like no film before had done at the award ceremony for the Robby Müller Award he'd just received #iffr #wikiportrait

Lol Crawley with his hands outstretched above himself while he looks upwards and has a microphone in the other hand while he sits on a stage

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 01/02/2025

Snapping a few pictures at the IFFR today

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 18/01/2025

Op weg naar Assen voor de nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst van @wikimedianederland.bsky.social

Mistig polderlandschap vanuit de stiltecoupe gefotografeerd

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 13/11/2024

Wees solidair met de kwetsbare medemens, draag een masker in het OV

Cartoon met vier panelen waarin een vierkante activist op een podium oproept tot solidariteit. De ronde activist in het het publiek draagt een masker en vraagt het vierkant of die daarmee impliceert dat die weer een masker gaat dragen. Het vierkant schaamt zich in het laatste paneel, waarschijnlijk omdat het besef dat kwetsbare mensen in de steek zijn gelaten doordringt

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 10/07/2024

De raad van Den Haag stemt in met het stopzetten van nieuwe aanmeldingen voor ABA-behandelingen, mede dankzij mijn inmenging www.veradekok.nl/2024/07/haag...

Stemming in de raad van Den Haag op de motie van HSP. 1 "Stop op nieuwe aanmeldingen ABA-behandelingen" met 24 stemmen voor en 21 tegen

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Vera de Kok @veradekok.nl · 06/07/2024

Ik heb de gemeente Den Haag gevraagd ABA-therapie niet meer te financieren via het PGB www.veradekok.nl/2024/07/aba-...

Vera achter een katern in de raadzaal van de gemeente Den Haag

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