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Ferry in use as a parking spot for bikes.
Fixing a fountain at Herengracht 518


My hobby is house and occupant research of canal houses in Amsterdam. Of some canal houses much is known, but in general I collect relevant information in tax books, stored in the Amsterdam City Archives, in the literature or on internet. Research provided details on an Amsterdam mayor Albert Burgh, my first lemma here and recently on Andries Bicker. Further I listen to baroque operas. That interest has led to many lemma's on the Dutch Wikipedia, here I added to Christina, Queen of Sweden and Georg Frideric Handel, etc.

I also have an interest in Dutch bankers from the 18th century, like Hope & Co., Leendert Pieter de Neufville, and the Bank of Amsterdam.

  • I like to disentangle things and knot them together again.

Various: Maximilien Robespierre (2,319 changes), Germaine de Staël and the September Massacres, Grigori Rasputin ( 1,947 changes), but my version disappeared and is visible on my website. I was involved in articles on Ivan Ilyin, and the House of Golitsyn, recently on Peter the Great. I liked to work on revolutionaries as John Skey Eustace and Chevalier de Saint-Georges which had 450,000 pageviews in April 2023 before the movie came out.

  • Today I got the impression that Wikipedia manipulated the number of page views at the end of March and beginning of April 2024. The number of page views rose a few weeks before the movie Chevalier was released on 21 April. It reached more than 450,000 page views within four weeks. No longer Wikipedia is a reliable source.04:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
  • I noticed this manipulation also in an article on Nicolas Steno around 11 January 2012.

When working on the French invasion of Russia and the Battle of Krasnoi I used ChatGPT for refinement. I started more than 100 articles, edited almost 3,000 pages and made 34,000 changes under this user name; 25,000 edits under my real name, T. Tichelaar.

Babel user information
nl-N Deze gebruiker heeft het Nederlands als moedertaal.
en-3 This user has advanced knowledge of English.
fr-2 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances intermédiaires en français.
de-3 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf hohem Niveau.
fy-N It Frysk is de memmetaal fan dizze meidogger.
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"... the monolingual lifestyle, for me, is the saddest, the loneliest, the most boring way of seeing the world.[2]

"According to Zhuang zi, a Tao philosopher, life is limited and knowledge to be gained is unlimited.'[3]

"Maybe the time has come for Wikipedia to amend its famous slogan. May be it should call itself "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit on the condition that said person meets the requirements laid out in Wikipedia Code 234.56, subsections A34-A58, A65, B7 (codicil 5674), and follows the procedures specified in Wikipedia Statutes 31 - 1007 as well as Secret Wikipedia Scroll SC72 (Wikipedia Decoder Ring required).[4]

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References

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  1. ^ http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/08/rise_of_the_wik.php
  2. ^ Babbel
  3. ^ http://ctext.org/zhuangzi/nourishing-the-lord-of-life
  4. ^ Nicholas Carr (2010) "Questioning Wikipedia". In: Critical point of view. A Wikipedia Reader edited by Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacs, Inc Reader #7, p. 200.[1]
inclThis user is an inclusionist.