User:JoJan

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Hi, I'm JoJan (username), I'm retired and live in Belgium.

I'm a native Dutch speaker, but I'm also fluent in English, rather good in French and can make myself understood in German. I used to know Latin, but I have forgotten most of it (however more and more fragments are gradually coming back).

My main interest is the translation of English common names of Flora and Fauna into their Dutch equivalents.

Therefore I'm constantly struggling with the ever changing taxonomy of these plants and animals.

I have more than a thousand pages of Fauna and Flora, built up over many years, to be put gradually on Wikipedia.

This is a time-consuming task.

A little help from other (preferably native English-speaking) taxonomists (professional or amateur) would be most welcome, so as to review new articles and to settle disputes on names and synonyms.

Besides all this, my interests are broad : among them astronomy, cosmology, computers, translation (English -> Dutch) and reading a lot.

Besides writing new articles (mainly plants, biographies and Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods), I have been patrolling the 'Recent Changes', looking for anything that may interest me and needs editing, especially stubs. I have been adding or editing taxoboxes to many pages. Anyway, I intervene whenever I think I can make a positive contribution. I also have taken an interest in writing biographies of biologists who were the authors of new species. I have also been uploading several hundreds of photos (many of which were enhanced by me).

Contents

1 I started contributing 2 WikiProject 3 Biographies 4 Useful 5 Special char chest

I started contributing

on April 9, 2004. First by editing someone else's work. Shortly thereafter I started writing my own entries. And I haven't stopped since. At the moment I have written 319 articles (new or major contributions), which I put on my watchlist, but there are many, many more that I have contributed to and that I even didn't bother to put on my watchlist. Since my articles are mainly scientific, several of them took lots of hours of research, checking and rechecking before uploading. Therefore, the number of articles cannot actually be taken as a criterion for contribution, but it should be the effort in writing those articles that should count. Quality before quantity.

In the List of Wikipedians by number of edits, I was number 239 on April 27, 2005

In the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits I am listed nr. 265 on January 18, 2005

I met and had a chat with Jimbo Wales, Angela and Anthere at the Wikimeeting at Rotterdam on 27.11.04. I made some good Dutch acquaintances, fine people such as GerardM, DanielM, Oscar, André Engels and many others. It is all too clear, the nl.wikipedia is in good hands and will prosper. I'm hoping to meet them again in the future.

WikiProject

Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods was started by me on May 10, 2004. At the moment I'm still the only participant in this enormous undertaking (about 100,000 species !). Up to now I have been working on the Thecosomata and the Gymnosomata, while already looking in the direction of the Nudibranchia.

Useful link to construct taxoboxes : Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Taxobox Usage

Biographies

• C. S. Rafinesque
• Carl Peter Thunberg
• Henri Milne-Edwards (major contribution)
• Thomas Say (major contribution)
• Thomas Brown (naturalist)
• Alice Pruvot-Fol
• Alcide d'Orbigny (major editing)
• Jean Guillaume Bruguière (some editing)
• W.H. Dall
• Tom Iredale
• Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
• Harold E. Robinson
• Alexandre de Cassini
• Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (major contribution)
• Carl Maximowicz
• Christos Sartzetakis (major contribution)

Useful

• The standard botanical author abbreviation J.G.Gmel. is applied to plants described by this botanist, who should also appear on this list.
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate text
• Wikipedia:WikiProject
• Wikipedia:Boilerplate_request_for_permission
• Wikipedia:Utilities

This page is a repository for pages that are useful to "doing things" in Wikipedia. In contrast to the Main Page its focus is more for the benefit of regular editors and contributors, rather than the general public.

• <!--<tr><td align="center">image here</td></tr>--> - place for a future pic
• <br clear="all"> - to make sure tables etc don't overlap
• [[image:name of image.jpg| thumb| 200px| text]] <br> <small> text </small> - inserting an image in text.
• Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources
• In Commons : <gallery> Image : name |caption Image: name|caption </gallery>
• Commons: Plantae by family (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Plantae_by_family)

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Special char chest

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