This user is between 70–80 years old and still has all their marbles
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Kudpung, Wikimania, Barbican, London 2014 Photo: JarrahTree
Kudpung is a seventy-something 1940s native of Worcestershire, England. A retired university lecturer and published author, he is widely travelled and has lived abroad for nearly 50 years including stays of well over a decade in Germany (Niedersachsen and Berlin), France (Avignon), and Thailand where he now lives since 2000 (with several short periods in India). His interests that influence his Wikipedia contributions are in linguistics, teaching methodology, teaching English for Medecine in medical schools in France, music, (classical, Bebop, and Fusion), French avant-gard theatre, 19th century English and French theatre and literature, UK television's Britcom, wine (Côtes du Rhône and Burgundy), and German and French cuisine.
He joined Wikipedia in 2006 and was made an administrator in 2011. His focus was on reforms of RfA and co-developing new page quality control systems. He created and provided content mainly for articles on Malvern related settlements and Rhône Valley wines, biographies (especially of women) and musicians. He coordinated the large WikiProject Schools and its associated articles for a decade, the WikiProject Worcestershire, and and occasionally did translations from other Wikipedias to English of important missing articles of all kinds. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Wikipedia newspaper The Signpost for which he has also written many articles. He attended several Wikimania, and meetups on several continents. In order to maintain reliable sources for articles, Kudpung donates to the Internet Archive.
People often ask where the name Kudpung (IPA: /ˈkəd ˈpʌŋ/) comes from: 'While my house was being built in a small remote settlement near Udon in 2006, the local council was erecting a new village name sign on the road in front of my land. 'Kudpung' it said, and as I sat down to register a Wikipedia account a few moments later, it was the first word that came into my mind.' (the district council has since changed the Romanised spelling to Kut Phueng)
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