User:Dan Koehl

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This user contributes to Wikipedia Asian Month. tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. This user has AutoWikiBrowser rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has new page reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user is in position #XXX on the leaderboard of the STiki anti-vandalism tool. This user fights vandalism with Huggle and Twinkle. Sometimes simultaneously... During August I am busy correcting typos with AWB and JWB, on new pages and recent pages, as well as patrolling with Stiki and Huggle as well as reviewing new pages. Enwiki Wikiprojects: Organizing and refreshing the meta:Wikiproject Genealogy project, adding to Wikiproject Zoo, and importing and translating articles about zoos from other languages. Other projects: Updating articles with factbox, as well as patrolling on dawiki, and deleting files on Wikispecies. presently fighting vandals and hunting typos on english Wikipedia with Wikipedia:AWB. Join the Wikipedia:Typo Team!

Dan Koehl
id nr 5705

— Patroller ♂ —
Name	Dan Albert John Koehl
Born	Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Country	Cambodia
Current location	Siem Reap, Cambodia
Languages	English, German, Swedish
Time zone	UTC+07:00
Blood type	O−
Family and friends
Marital status	single
Children	4
Siblings	4
Education and employment
Occupation	Tourist informer, Sea captain, Zookeeper, elephant trainer consultant, webprogrammer
Employer	Kulen Elephant Forest
Education	Zookeeper (1976-1979)
High school	Enskede Gård, Stockholm
University	Stockholm University
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Hobbies	Boating, genealogy
Aliases	User:Koehl
Interests
Biology, animals and Zoos, History, Archeology and Genealogy, travel, ships and boating. I am member in Swedish Naval Volunteers
Contact info
Website	www.elephant.se
Blog	dankoehl.blogspot.com
ICQ	4046787
Skype	DanKoehl
IRC	DanKoehl
Facebook	dan.koehl
Instagram	danalbertkoehl
LinkedIn	dankoehl
Twitter	dankoehl
YouTube	DanKoehl/
Dan Koehl subpages
Sandbox Templates Articles Planned articles About vikings
Account statistics
Joined	2002-09-30
First edit	2002-09-30
Autopatrolled	2015-03-03
File mover	2016-06-02
MMS	2017-01-31
New page reviewer	2016-11-22
Page mover	2017-01-26
Pending changes reviewer	2014-12-12
Rollbacker	2014-11-22
Edit count	+ 39. 000
Permissions	AutoWikiBrowser, OTRS and Page mover
Signature
Userboxes
This user has publicly declared that he has a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles: Dan Koehl Swedish Wikipedia Skansen Kolmården Zoo Airavata Elephant Foundation Edouard Dieffenbach Tiergarten Schönbrunn Albert Köhl Birger Nordholm But respecting COI rules This user edits using their real name, and has verified their identity. This user is identified to the Wikimedia Foundation. (verify) This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years—since September 30, 2002. This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years. This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years (21 years, 8 months, and 22 days). Location This user lives in Sweden. This user lives in Cambodia. This user's time zone is GMT+7. User rights This user has been a new pages reviewer since 22 November 2016 (7 years, 6 months, 4 weeks and 2 days). (verify) This user has mass message sender rights on the English Wikipedia. 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Statistics This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 8 months and 22 days. 2150 This user is ranked 2150 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits. 23 This user has imported and translated 23 files from International Wikipedia This user has classified XXXX edits using the STiki anti-vandalism tool. This user is in position #XXX on the leaderboard of the STiki anti-vandalism tool. This user has created 3 userboxes on Wikipedia. This user has been awarded 06 Barnstars on Wikipedia.  35  This user has moved 35 pages on the English language Wikipedia.  39,000  This user has made 39,000 edits to the English language Wikipedia.  45  This user has created 45 active template pages on the English language Wikipedia.  28  This user has created 28 active categories on the English language Wikipedia.  15  This user has created 15 active redirect pages on the English language Wikipedia.  0.00097%  This user has created 66 of the 6,838,991 articles on the English language Wikipedia. 16+ This user has made more than 16 reports to Requests for page protection. 375+ This user has made more than 375 reports to Administrator intervention against vandalism. 700+ This user has logged more than 700 moves or other log actions on Wikipedia. This user has helped translate 24 corresponding articles into English from other-language Wikipedias. Member This user is a Coordinator of Wikiproject Zoo. 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Babel Wikipedia:Babel sv Den här användaren talar svenska som modersmål. en-2 This user can contribute with an intermediate level of English. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. no-1 Denne brukeren/brukaren kan litt norsk. da-1 Denne bruger har et grundlæggende kendskab til dansk. nl-1 Deze gebruiker bezit beginnende kennis van het Nederlands. Search user languages Capacity PHP This user can code PHP. xhtml This user can write XHTML. This user can write Cascading Style Sheets. mysql-2 This user is an intermediate MySQL programmer. This user is a professional Web Designer. This user is a professional Web Developer. Wikipedia Projects This user is a participant in WikiProject Southeast Asia. This user participates in WikiProject Cambodia. This user is a participant in WikiProject Portals. This user is a member of WikiProject Travel and Tourism. This user is a participant in WikiProject Images and Media This user is a participant in WikiProject Templates. - This user is a translator and proofreader from German to English on Wikipedia:Translation. - This user is a translator and proofreader from Swedish to English on Wikipedia:Translation. This user is a translator and proofreader from English to Swedish on Wikipedia:Translate us. This user participates in WikiProject Cambodia. This user participates in WikiProject Animals. Join now! This user is a member of WikiProject Amusement Parks. This user participates in WikiProject Circus. This user is a participant in WikiProject Zoo. This user is a member of WikiProject Birds. This user is a member of WikiProject Aquarium Fishes. This user is a member of WikiProject Fishes. This user is a member of the taxobox task force This user is a participant in WikiProject Stub sorting. tyop typo This user is a member of the Wikipedia Typo Team. 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This user realizes that people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical. This user is interested in the Middle Ages. This user is interested in the History of France. This user is interested in the Habsburg Empire. 1066 This user is interested in the Norman Conquest. This user is interested in Neopaganism. This user is interested in the ancestry of Royal families and creates family trees for Wikipedia. This user is interested in royal and peerage genealogy. This user is interested in maps. This user is interested in Genealogy and has published his family tree online. This user is interested in his or her family history. This user's favourite animal is the Asian Elephant. Personal This user tries not to behave like an angry mastodon. HIV This Wikipedia user suffers from HIV. EW+ This user has experienced edit wars and doesn't wish involvement again. Please be civil; no personal attacks. This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. 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This user enjoys photography. 35 This user has visited 35 of the 208 countries in the world. Tools This user uses reFill to expand bare references. This user used the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books before it broke in July 2021. This user uses WikiBlame. This user is a dedicated user of WPCleaner. This user uses Qui to display their status and work with other users. This user edits with the gadget wikEd. This user is a newpage patroller who uses the New Page Patroller script. This user is a new pages patroller with Twinkle! This user has classified XXXX edits using the STiki anti-vandalism tool. This user is in position #XXX on the leaderboard of the STiki anti-vandalism tool. This user fights vandalism with Huggle and Twinkle. Sometimes simultaneously... This user freezes vandals in their tracks with igloo! This user contributes to OpenStreetMap. This user writes reviews in Tripadvisor. This user is an editor at DMOZ. This user uses Twitter his username is @dankoehl. 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Thank you
Thank you for your interest reading to this point Jumping Irrawaddy dolphin pictured in Mekong river, Kratie, Cambodja, during my visit in 2011. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dan Koehl.

I am Dan Koehl, a Swedish man, 🐘 elephant lover and trainer, php-programmer and website developer, living and working in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

During summer 2002, I started to contribute to wikis like Meatball and Nupedia, and made my first edit September 29, 2002, 5:32 pm, to a Wikimedia project as not registered user with ip: chello062178255091.7.12.vie.surfer.at on article sv:Medeltid on the Swedish Wikipedia and 2,5 hours later an edit on sv:Biologi as registered User:Koehl. (link to source with archived page for http://sv.wikipedia.com)

The next day, 30 September 2002, I made my first edit on the English Wikipedia on my user page User:Koehl, and made my first article edit 11 October 2002 as User:Koehl on the article Proboscidea, which make me the 90th earliest user still 'active', and not the 106'th stated on this list..

During 2002, a Swedish Wiki community developed around a Swedish wiki, called Susning.nu, since the Swedish Wikipedia was more or less inactive. After an advertising banner was exposed on Susning.nu 21st November, I moved permanently to Wikipedia and brought a number of very active editors with me, in order to develop the svwiki. Susning.nu closed later, partly due to less traffic, after Swedish users started to use the Swedish Wikipedia more. I also made my first edit here 21st November 2002 as User:Dan Koehl with Wikipedia id nr 5705.

My main interests has since then been biology, taxonomy and animal related articles such as Zoos, freshwater aquarium fish species, as well as genealogy and ancestry for Middle Ages biograpies of knights, kings, Nobility and other medieval people. I founded Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy 9 December 2002‎, where I am now coordinator, and Im also coordinator for Wikiproject Zoo and try to maintain the Portal:Zoos and aquariums.

I have joined the Typo Team and I hunt typos with AWB, and adopted Sweeden, Scandanavia. I have also spent some time fighting vandalism with STiki and other anti-vandalism tools, and make reports to Administrator intervention against vandalism in case of persistent vandalism, Edit warring, and Requests for page protection. I also review new pages and tried to decrease New Pages Feed backlog and participated as AfC reviewer.

I also own and manage a couple of wikis and other websites on my own, already in 1995 I started my first website http://www.elephant.se which has developed into the worlds largest elephant database, which has been used also a source for scientific research.

• 2014: 21st Nov I patrolled my first article. In December 2014 I became rollbacker, pending changes reviewer, started to use Twinkle, Huggle and was granted right to use AutoWikiBrowser.
• 2015: I became Autopatrolled and I increased patrolling with Wikipedia:RTRC.
• 2016: In 2016 I received File mover rights and New Page Reviewer, and was 25th October awarded Awesome Wikipedian.
• 2017: Feb 2017 I passed 15. 000 edits, became included in the top 5,000 contributors, became Page mover and Mass message sender, and Feb 10 2017 I started to use the program STiki, in Feb 19 I crossed the 1,000 classification threshold, 25 Feb I was within the 100 users, and in Feb 27 I crossed the 5,000 classification threshold using STiki.
• 2018: In January 2018 I passed 30. 000 edits on the English Wikipedia, became included in the top 2,500 contributors, in 19th Jan I reached position #50 on the leaderboard, and 21st Jan i crossed the 10,000 classification threshold on STiki, as well as being included in Top new article reviewers and AfC reviewers. In September I reached position #45 on the STiki leaderboard and celebrated 16 years service on Wikimedia project with over 180 000 edits as Vanguard Editor (or Lord Gom, the Highest Togneme of the Encyclopedia). My present rank is nr 2150
• 2019: I Contributed with over of arms by User:Dan Koehl 300 heraldry shields of Swedish medieval noble families, which I created with Photoshop, and uploaded on Commons. In September I celebrated 17 years supporting Wikipedia, with an endless amount of hours.
• 2020: Made another of arms by User:Dan Koehl +300 heraldry shields, patrolled new articles, spellchecked, and confirmed my COI in Wikipedia articles Airavata Elephant Foundation, Albert Köhl (grandfather), Dan Koehl (article about me), Edouard Dieffenbach (relative), Ljusterö, Kolmarden Zoo, Skansen, Swedish Wikipedia and Tiergarten Schönbrunn.
• 2021: Reached 600 heraldry shields, uploaded on Wikimedia, and used on articles on different language sections of Wikipedia.

• September 29, 2022: Celebrated 20 years as contributor on Wikipedia.