User:Dick Bos

File:On Expedition 2015 MARBLE Maastricht University 2.JPG

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 logo Wikisource: en:User:Dick Bos or nl:Gebruiker:Dick Bos
• 16 px Wikipedia logo Dutch wikipedia: my Dutch user page
• Wikimedia.meta: User:Dick Bos (with the most up to date list of all my userpages)
• 16 px WMNL logo Wikimedia.nl: Gebruikerspagina Dick Bos
• 16 px Commons logo Wikimedia Commons: User:Dick Bos, or User:WJV&DB - images of Wilma and me
• 16px Wikidata logo Wikidata: user:Dick Bos
• 16px Wikiversity logo Wikiversity: user: Dick Bos

 

subpages of this page

 

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:
• ISSN template: Template:ISSN; example: {{ISSN|1171-7033}} gives: Template:Catalog lookup link
• 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 File:Wikisource-logo.svg 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.

 

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Bassel, we will not forget you!