Wauteurz
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Hoi, I am Wauteurz, a Dutch student of archaeology. Uni is my main priority, hence why my activity here is best summarised as "varyingly active". You will mostly find me here, as well as NLWikipedia and Commons from time to time. I don't often go far from home, and am not much of a globetrotter myself. I mostly limit myself to edits around the Netherlands and Luxembourg for that reason, but may contribute to other (Western) European articles from time to time. The free time I have available for Wikivoyage is time I either spend covering Wikivoyage in pagebanners or maintaining and updating {{Rint}}, which as it stands, has been largely developed by me. At this moment, roughly 3.6% of all pagebanners on ENWikivoyage have been made by me (~800).
Contributions
— A roughly chronological overview of what the hell I've been up to.
Like most, I started editing what I know best, my hometown Doetinchem.
A lot of the articles for Luxembourg have been created by me around '16/'17. I started articles for the subregions, Mersch, Land of the Red Rocks, Grevenmacher, Mondorf, Beaufort and Consdorf.
Rail-interchange, "RINT" to friends, is a project I took the initiative for, that also saw me adapt {{RbE}} for its current use.- In 2017 I created and since have expanded upon and maintained Rail travel in the Netherlands, which is a strong contender for what I'd call my favourite contribution.
I spent a lot of time covering many (predominantly) European articles with banner images, but haven't made many for a few years now.- My inability to see some things through to the end mean that I have a few published static maps, and a whole bunch of ones I never finished or published.
Belgian coast by tram is another one of my favourite contributions. Considered it for a long time, and eventually started it after an article request. Made in August '22, guide'ed in September '22, starred on June fifth, a month before being featured as FTT.
Concept and planning board
— An overview of what the hell I hope to get up to.
- Destinations and Travel Topics
Mölndal – Industrial town south of Gothenburg, with many (former) watermills along a waterfall.- Rail travel in Belgium – What it says on the tin (probably including Luxembourg as well?). Belgian trains for as far as my experience with them go, are decent and a good way to get where you're going ...though anything beats the ring of Antwerp.
- Guide-ifying Dutch cities - Most prominently Rotterdam, The Hague, Alkmaar, Maastricht, Delft, Nijmegen, Leeuwarden.
- National parks - Adding more information and articles for large National Parks and other landscape-based regions the likes of the Meinweg NP, Maasduinen NP, Gelderse Poort NP
- Small cities - The likes of small cities Thorn, Ravenstein, Heusden, Woudrichem &c.
- Overlooked east - Eastern destinations that've been overlooked such as Hardenberg, Oldenzaal, Steenwijk &c.
- Off the beaten path - Small destinations that seem promising for tourism: Schin op Geul, Itteren, Elspeet, Hellendoorn, Havelte, Borger.
- Subdividing regions - Overijssel into Kop van Overijssel, Salland and Twente; Drenthe into Westerveld en Wolden, Drents Platteau and Hondsrug; Limburg into Noord, Midden, Oostelijke- and Westelijke Mijnstreek.
- Reinstating regions – In specific the Rijnmond and Haaglanden regions, which have been merged into the Metropoolregio, which is far too unwieldy.
- History and curiosities
- Atlantikwall – Defensive system of over 5,000 kilometres (3,100 mi) spanning the coasts of Northern Norway all the way to the south of France, built to defend the Third Reich.
- Batavian Repubic and the Kingdom of Holland – Republic and subsequent monarchy set up by the Bonapartes consisting of the modern-day Netherlands, plus and minus some bits.
Dutch Revolt – Spurred on by high taxation, loss of privileges and many more woes, the Dutch Revolt had an irreversible effect on all of Europe, and resulted in the creation of the first successful major post-Mediaeval republic.
Grands Traveaux Inutiles – The Great Useless Works of the BeNeLux. Especially Belgian politics of the second half of the 20th century led to some questionable investments in public infrastructure. This is a list of them.- Mills of the Netherlands – Many of them, as well as the profession of miller, are UNESCO-listed, so this classifies on those grounds. Besides, my master thesis is on Dutch watermills, so if anyone's going to write it, it'd be me.
Notable timestamps
— These are snapshots of the important and non-important things I've been up to.
- 2016 ― 2017
- Edit #1: Doetinchem June 29th, 2016 (21:59): Starting off page by translating content from nlwikivoyage.
- Edit #100: Talk:West Frisian phrasebook July 23rd, 2016 (16:06): →Intelligible with English?
- Edit #1000: Remich July 3rd, 2017 (17:35): Adding content to Get in.
- Edit #2000: Terschelling November 18th, 2017 (21:16): Added listing for [redacted]
- Edit #1:
- 2018 ― 2019
- First barnstar, for Rail travel in the Netherlands, Awarded by ThunderingTyphoons! on January 28th (19:11)
- Edit #3000: Wikivoyage:Travellers' pub March 9th, 2018 (11:02): →RINT, Routeboxes and more: new section
- Edit #4000:
Rastatt October 26th, 2018 (21:15): +Custom banner
- 2020 ― now
- First featured article: Rail travel in the Netherlands: Featured Travel Topic of June 2020.
- Edit #5000: Wikivoyage:Travellers' pub September 1st, 2021 (00:13): → How to color a map: A loooong answer and some more thoughts.
- Second featured article: Deventer, Off The Beaten Path of August 2022.
- Third featured article: Belgian coast by tram, (Planned) Featured Travel Topic of July 2023.
- Edit #6000: Public transport in Stockholm County June 26th, 2023 (18:39): →Pushing overhaul from my userspace.
Travellog
— Where I've been and what I've seen.
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