User:Laurier



Hi everyone!

I'm Dutch, and live in The Netherlands, near Utrecht.

My main interests and themes in real life and of course also on Wikipedia are literature and intersectional feminism.

On 1 May 2020, this edit on the page Body positivity was my 500th edit, which seems to be a big(ish) deal for Wikipedia; this made my account an extended confirmed user. Statistics can be found here.

I fully support the essay Hate is disruptive.

Wiki's
I am active on the following wiki's:

It would be very very convenient if there was a en:WP:Cross-wiki watchlists for all Wikimedia-wiki's a user has ever edited pages on.

Pages I created

 * I've translated the page Hadley Irwin from Dutch to English.
 * Hans van Houwelingen
 * Jan Zadoks

Ping
If you want a Wiki user to get a notification about a comment you post on a talk page, you can use this wiki-code: and then the message. For instance: message. After publication, this will look like message, and the user will get a notification of your post.

Backup

 * In October 2021 it was proposed and decided to merge the page New Pride Flag into Rainbow flag (LGBT) (see Talk page). I wanted to make sure no information or sources will get lost during the process, so I made a backup.

Meta-wiki
You can find my global user page on Meta-wiki.

Gendergap on Wikipedia
WikiProject Women in Red

Utrecht University Edit-a-thon
A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (editing marathon) is a sprint-like event, where Wikipedia editors edit and improve a specific topic or type of content. The first Utrecht University Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was on 26 January 2021 between 1-5 pm, the second one was on 8 March 2021. It is a collaboration between Young Women of Geoscience (YWOG) and Women in Information and Computing Sciences (WICS). You will find more information and a list of participants on the Project page.

Utrecht University Wikipedians
At Utrecht University, we created a Wikipedia-team, where Wikipedia editors (Wikipedians) can discuss editing Wikipedia, teach and help each other, and where we can organize Wikipedia Edit-a-thons (editing marathons); sprint-like events, where Wikipedians edit and improve a specific topic or type of content.

You will find more information on UU-Wikipedians.

Welcoming a new editor
There are several templates to welcome a new editor, but I don't really like them. I put a Welcome-message on the Talk page of a new user today, by editing a template and the introduction page for new editors, and plan to use it again in the future. This is it:

Welcome!
Hi ***username***, welcome to Wikipedia!

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