Dick Bos

Maastricht University, 2015-05-06. Explaining the principles of Wikipedia for students with User:Taketa (left) and User:Romaine (right)

 

You can find me on:

• Wikisource: en:User:Dick Bos or nl:Gebruiker:Dick Bos
• Dutch wikipedia: my Dutch user page
• Wikimedia.meta: User:Dick Bos (with the most up to date list of all my userpages)
• Wikimedia.nl: Gebruikerspagina Dick Bos
• Wikimedia Commons: User:Dick Bos, or User:WJV&DB - images of Wilma and me
• Wikidata: user:Dick Bos

 

 

This user is from the Netherlands.

It is approximately 12:44 where this user lives.

This user has been working on the Dutch Wikipedia for 20 years, 303 days
 
and on the English for 20 years, 282 days

Wikipedia:Babel

nlDeze gebruiker heeft het Nederlands als moedertaal.

en-2This user can contribute with an intermediate level of English.

de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

fr-1Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

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This user is interested in economics.

This user is an economist.

This user is interested in Economic History

This user is interested in labour history.

This user is interested in philately.

This user is a Bibliophile.

This user is a proud cyclist.

Native Dutchie

• Dutch is my native language. If interested, read my user page at Dutch wikipedia: (in Dutch)
• Native English writers are kindly invited to take a critical look at the texts I contributed, and correct all mistakes!

Contributions

• User:Dick_Bos/ThePettyProject
• For a list of pages I contributed (to), see: Contributions

News

Wikimania 2021 online

2021-08-13 to 17: see: Wikimania:User:Dick Bos, for some interesting things like the WikiJournals, CiteQ etc. etc.

May 2019 Maastricht

2019-05-08: Help Annemiek and Lies at Maastricht University, Marble class of FASOS, with Romaine.

January 2019 Amsterdam

Introduction for students at UBA-UvA - special collections on 28 January.

Spring 2018 Maastricht

We are "On Expedition" again!

25 May 2016 Maastricht

"On Expedition" with Romaine to Ernst and his students.

6 November 2015 Maastricht

start of the module Be Bold for two groups of students of Maastricht University. The module takes three weeks.

Interesting pages

• For a list of interesting pages, see: Interesting pages

Interesting projects

• Wikipedia Weekly Network: Biodiversity Edition
• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure - nice for new users
• Wikipedia podcasts, starting with: "Don't bite the newbies" (2021-12-06)
• WikiProject Climate change (2021-11-22)
• Women in Red (Eventbrite; 2021-11-13)
• check Help:Adding_open_license_text_to_Wikipedia, especially for CC-BY-SA-4.0!!!!!
• Glam Oxford, an interesting "translation" of "Glam": Gardens, Libraries and Museums!
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately (2020-10-06; perhaps a place to ask questions on copyright!)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Article requests/People - handy!
• User:Citation bot/use = Wikipedia:UCB - info about the Citation bot. I really need to look into this soon!
• 1901 in birding and ornithology - example of page. Many years are still completely empty!
• Wikimedia Space - movement news and conversations
• WikiProject Editor Retention (WP:Retention)
• Snuggle - a tool to observe and help newcomers (WP:SN)

Libraries and Books

• About the Notability of Books (WP:NB)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request
• The Wikipedia Library (TWL); see this page in particular.
• Wikipedia and Libraries : Better Together and now: The Wikipedia Library Card Platform (2020-06-19)
• WikiProject Books - see also: Wikipedia articles on books - an introduction for students by Wiki Ed.
• WikiProject Bibliographies
• Monika is WiR at OCLC; see also this message.
• Book sources: Special page to find a book by ISBN.

Maps

• [Wikimaps Warper]

Useful links

• c:File:Open Content - A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences.pdf by Till Kreutzer (dates back to 2014)
• WP:PUS = potentially unreliable sources (2020-10-05)
• check this out: "CiteGen" (2020-08-05)
• Help:Using the Wayback Machine and Help:Archiving a source
• Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
• Policies and guidelines on en-wiki: Wikipedia:List_of_policies and Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines
• Sandbox: Wikipedia:Sandbox
• Manual of Style: Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Conversion template: Template:Convert; example: {{convert|641|acre|km2}} gives: 641 acres (2.59 km²)
• ISSN template: Template:ISSN; example: {{ISSN|1171-7033}} gives: ISSN 1171-7033
• Interwikimedia Links: Wikipedia:InterWikimedia_links
• List of botanical authors: List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation
• Gallery of Userboxes (UBX)
• Redirects and Don't fix links to redirect pages
• Example of a list with multiple Wikidata-links (created by Wittylama 2016-07-18)
• About the so called "Pipe trick"

Subpages

• Handy - Reminder for editing tips and tricks
• About citation
• Concerning WikiSource
• To Do: ToDo and ToDo2
• projects in development: sandbox (rem: remove: User:Dick Bos/Sandbox)
• reference literature: Literature
• About Wikipedia: AboutWiki
• Introductory remarks for new editors: Intro
• About Books: AboutBooks
• Introduction foreign languages: User:Dick Bos/IntroLang
• Tools etc: Tools
• Economists: William Petty
• Synonyms for Plants and Animals: User:Dick Bos/syn

Other users

• Wilma on English Wikipedia: User:WeeJeeVee
• Wilma on Dutch Wikipedia: Gebruiker:WeeJeeVee
• for connection mi <--> en: contact User:Kahuroa
• NZ biodiversity: User:Ambrosia10 (also on wikidata)

"External links"

• Avibase for instance for bird name synonyms (2022-08-08)
• Wikimedia and universities by User:MartinPoulter & Nick Sheppard (2020)
• Thomas Steiner's tool, free in Google webstore.
• Wikipedia@20, the book
• Internet Archive Scholar launched! (2021-03-16)

To Do

• British Critic (2017-09-14): right (full) title (see footnote 1) and images of title pages. See e.g. Google Books - vol. 1.
• 2015-12-18: check this.

 

 

 

Bassel, we will not forget you!