User:JoJan

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 7 months and 14 days.

"I reared a monument more lasting than bronze. When I'll die it will not be completely, as part of me will continue to live"

I'm proud having been able to contribute, almost since the beginning, and with many others, to an everlasting monument of human knowledge. An ever-growing monument freely available to everybody, everywhere, anytime.

What we have done for ourselves, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike

"We live in a world that is increasingly focused on what skills and knowledge you have, as opposed to what formal qualifications like degrees you have." ^[1]

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

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

My main interest was originally 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.

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

Besides writing new articles (mainly plants, biographies, articles about art, 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 thousands of photos (many of which were enhanced by me) and over 15,000 photos to the Commons.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Tree of Life.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Plants.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Gastropods.

This user has a page on the nl.wikipedia.

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170,000+

This user has over 170,000 edits in this WP and a total of more than 287,000 edits in all WPs and Commons

This user has created several articles on Wikipedia.

This editor is Ephoros of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to keep this floor plan of The Great Library of Alecyclopedias with magnifying glass, signed by Jimbo with a silver marker, and including its cardboard carrying tube.

This user has been an admin for 19 years, 4 months and 29 days.

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This user is a Wikipedian. en-4 This user can contribute with a near-native level of English. nl Deze gebruiker heeft het Nederlands als moedertaal. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. This user contributes using Firefox.
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This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

I'm also active under the same username on the Commons, nl.wikipedia, fr.wikipedia, de.wikipedia, it.wikipedia and es.wikipedia. I also have a userpage in 95 project pages.