User:Dick Bos

• 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!

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

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

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

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

We are "On Expedition" again!

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

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

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

• 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)

• 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.

• [Wikimaps Warper]

• 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"

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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.

 

 

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