User:Ziko

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de-N Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.
eo-3 Ĉi tiu uzanto kapablas komuniki per alta aŭ flua nivelo de Esperanto.
nl-3 Deze gebruiker heeft uitstekende kennis van het Nederlands.
en-3 This user can read and write fluently in English.
fr-1 Cette personne sait contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.
la-1 Hic usor simplice Latinitate contribuere potest.

Hello, I am Ziko van Dijk, a German who lives in the Netherlands. Before SUL I was Ziko-W at Meta, and Ziko-C at Commons. My primary user page is my German Wikipedia Benutzerseite which I created in 2003.

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[edit] Person and Wikimedia

Ziko van Dijk

As a historian (PhD) and Wikipedian my subject is the history of the 20th century (Germany, the Netherlands, international relations). Besides, I try to make the Wikipedia articles easier to understand and improve the help pages.

In Wikimedia I am interested in organizational structures and public relations. I am a member of Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. and Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland.

When I am at a convention I usually take pictures, for example:

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Picture I took in Hoek van Holland

Although I am registered at many Wikimedia projects, my user pages I visit more or less frequently are (links to my user page there):

I mostly edit on German Wikipedia, second in Esperanto Wikipedia. In Dutch and English I have only a few edits. You can contact me the best by writing on the talk page here or sending an E-mail.

[edit] Educational and promotional work

Wikipedia Youngsters

On German Wikipedia I am a mentor, and I have written a German Wikibook for the self learner who wants to become a Wikipedian: „Meine Beiträge“.

For Wikimedia promotion I took pictures of pupils in the Netherlands, presented at Commons as Wikipedia Youngsters. I am flattered that Wikimedians sometimes use these pictures or pictures I took at conventions.

For Esperanto Wikipedia I have designed this flyer (pdf) which we spread among Esperanto speakers at the World Congress in 2008. And there is the booklet Vikipedio por vi.

[edit] Multilingual Wikipedia

Under the name Multilingual Wikipedia I have build up some content about the fact that Wikipedia has many editions in different languages. If you want to get some tips, you can have a look at this Manual for small and new Wikipedias. If you want to tell us about your language edition, you can tell us about your Wikipedia here (and read about others).

On my German user page I have published Handbuch der Vielsprachigen Wikipedia.

[edit] Wikipedia research

Me at Esperantology Conference, Rotterdam 2008

I did research about Wikipedias in small or "weak" Wikipedias (Third World, planned languages, small Germanic languages and dialects). My question is why some Wikipedias do better than others, what factors make them grow or keep them small, like number of speakers, economics, status, linguistic factors, a culture of knowledge and support from the linguistic community.

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