User:Dick Bos



You can find me on:
 * [[Image:wikisource-logo.svg|16x16px|alt=wikisource logo]] Wikisource: en:User:Dick Bos or nl:Gebruiker:Dick Bos
 * Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg Dutch wikipedia: my Dutch user page
 * Wikimedia.meta: User:Dick Bos (with the most up to date list of all my userpages)
 * Wikimedia nederland.svg Wikimedia.nl: Gebruikerspagina Dick Bos
 * Commons-logo.svg Wikimedia Commons: User:Dick Bos, or User:WJV&DB - images of Wilma and me
 * Wikidata-logo.svg Wikidata: user:Dick Bos





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

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
 * 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!
 * WikiProject Philately (2020-10-06; perhaps a place to ask questions on copyright!)
 * WikiProject Birds/Article requests/People - handy!
 * User:Citation bot/use = 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)
 * 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
 * Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * Policies and guidelines on en-wiki: List_of_policies and List_of_guidelines
 * Sandbox: Sandbox
 * Manual of Style: Manual of Style
 * Conversion template: Template:Convert; example: 641 acre gives: 641 acre
 * ISSN template: Template:ISSN; example: gives:
 * Interwikimedia Links: 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 [[Image:wikisource-logo.svg|16x16px]] 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!

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