User:Jonathanischoice

Jonathanischoice

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Name	Jonathan
Country	New Zealand
Current location	Wellington
Time zone	NZST
Account statistics
First edit	30 July 2004
Edit count	34,269
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About Me This user thinks you can learn a lot by editing an encyclopedia. 21Y This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on July 30, 2004 (21 years, 10 months and 2 days ago). 34,269+ This user has made over 34,269 contributions to Wikimedia projects. This user was identified as an awesome Wikipedian on 2 May 2023. This user account is secured with a unique committed identity. This user has written 9 good articles on Wikipedia. This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. This user is a member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. This user is from Wellington. This user went to Wellington WikiCon 2026 and had a great time! This user plays the bass trombone. This user plays the contrabass trombone. This user plays the cimbasso. This user plays the serpent. This user tunes in to Wikipedia Weekly whenever it comes out. This user contributes using Firefox. This user adds inline citations quickly and easily with Zotero. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. it-2 Questo utente può contribuire con un livello intermedio di italiano. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. mi-1 E tino hapa ana tēnei tangata ki te reo Māori. py-5 This user is a professional Python programmer. PHP-5 This user is a professional PHP programmer. This user has publicly declared that he has a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Mahara (software).

Interested in lots of things.

Musical Instruments:

• Contrabass trombone GA
• Cimbasso GA
• Ophicleide GA
• Serpent GA
• Soprano trombone GA
• A-flat clarinet GA
• Soprillo GA
• Euphonium GA
• Tenor horn GA
• Baritone GAN
• Tuba GAN
• Bass trombone (GA prep)
• Sopranino saxophone
• Contrabass saxophone
• Subcontrabass saxophone
• Tubax
• Keyed bugle
• Keyed trumpet
• Bass trumpet

New Zealand:

• New Zealand wine
• Marlborough wine region
• Hawke's Bay wine region
• An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
• Anthony Whitaker
• New Zealand School of Music
• John Psathas
• Marc Taddei
• Orchestra Wellington
• Dunedin Symphony Orchestra

Good Article reviews:

• Music of The Lord of the Rings film series GA
• Monotron GA
• Analog revival GA
• Nausicaa (opera) GA
• Wellington Botanic Garden GA
• Robsonella huttoni GA
• Megadromus guerinii GA

• August 2023 Backlog Drive:
• White Diamonds GA1
• Tellico Dam GA
• Matiu / Somes Island GA

• October 2025 Backlog Drive:
• Cycad GA
• Upogebia hirtifrons GA
• Ascarina lucida GA
• Adi Meyerson GA1

MediaWiki code:

Score extension: SVG rendering (deployment pending, see T385404)

In 2024 I got a grant from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to take new photos of uncommon instruments not well represented by freely-licensed images, which are now on Commons and illustrate several instrument articles. It was lots of fun and I hope to do more.

Media related to WANZ 2024 instrument photography grant at Wikimedia Commons

• Musical instruments. I said I wouldn't, but the trombone-related articles were in a bad state, so I fixed them up; the types of trombone article wasn't working well, so I moved it back to trombone, and to new articles for contrabass trombone, bass trombone, cimbasso, alto trombone, valve trombone, soprano trombone, and superbone; tenor trombone can mostly defer to the main trombone article. There's still more to do. Most of the sackbut article does not reflect modern scholarship on the instrument and should be reduced, cited and corrected, and probably moved back to the history section of the main trombone article.

I've managed to get quite distracted with brass band instruments, and working on getting tenor horn, baritone horn, tuba, flugelhorn, cornet, and euphonium articles up to GA and eventually FA status.

• Articles about New Zealand, helping out on WP:NZ, and participating in Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington.
• New Zealand conductors, composers and orchestras; there is no article for SOUNZ (Toi te Arapūoru / Centre for New Zealand Music), and it needs to be an authority control source for New Zealand classical and contemporary music; many articles are incomplete and need photos/infoboxes.
• Wine articles, particularly New Zealand wine, but also rare or unusual (often Italian) grape varieties, for example Sagrantino or Corvinone.
• Conifers. I'd like to start work on some favourite and familiar species, starting with getting Pinus radiata up to GA/FA. I'm waiting for a couple of rare books to arrive first.
• Hooking things up in Wikidata.
• Contributing photos to Commons.
• Buffing references and citations in general wherever necessary.

• OpenHub profile