User:Dick Bos
Appearance
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 01:15 where this user lives. |
This user has been working on the Dutch Wikipedia for 20 years, 254 days and on the English for 20 years, 233 days |
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This user is interested in economics. |
This user is an economist. |
This user is interested in Economic History |
This user has an active interest in Social 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- User:Dick_Bos/ThePettyProject
- For a list of pages I contributed (to), see: Contributions
News
[edit]Wikimania 2021 online
[edit]2021-08-13 to 17: see: Wikimania:User:Dick Bos, for some interesting things like the WikiJournals, CiteQ etc. etc.
May 2019 Maastricht
[edit]2019-05-08: Help Annemiek and Lies at Maastricht University, Marble class of FASOS, with Romaine.
January 2019 Amsterdam
[edit]Introduction for students at UBA-UvA - special collections on 28 January.
Spring 2018 Maastricht
[edit]We are "On Expedition" again!
25 May 2016 Maastricht
[edit]"On Expedition" with Romaine to Ernst and his students.
6 November 2015 Maastricht
[edit]start of the module Be Bold for two groups of students of Maastricht University. The module takes three weeks.
Interesting pages
[edit]- For a list of interesting pages, see: Interesting pages
Interesting projects
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Useful links
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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"
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.