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Who I am and what I do.
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the [http://translatewiki.net Betawiki] localisation effort.
<small>[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Commons] - [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM Meta] - [http://nl.wikiwoordenboek.org/wiki/Gebruiker:GerardM nl:WikiWoordenboek] - [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/user:GerardM en:Wiktionary] - [[User:GerardM/Kladblok|Kladblok]]</small>


In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in other languages suffers.
My name is Gerard, I am from the Netherlands. I am intrested in cacti and succulent plants and have created a database on them. The information is largely based on info from [[IPNI]], ([http://www.ipni.org IPNI website]), created in Microsoft Access and is open source.

Because of this work I am interested in things like taxonomy. I am interested in ecology, have written some articles about area's that are important like the "Oostvaarderplassen" and the "Gelderse poort". (both are in the GOOGLE top 5). My MO is to have a topic and make sure that it relates to a lot of additional pages; the "Gelderse poort" is about rivers and fish, so I started my native fish project.

===Projects===
*nl:Wikipedia
**[[:nl:Lijst van zoetwatervissen in de Benelux|Native fish in the sweetwaters of Belgium and the Netherlands]]
**[[:nl:Lijst van natuurlijk hout in de Benelux|Native trees in Belgium and the Netherlands]]
**[[:nl:Wikipedia:Wikiproject planten|Project to describe plants in our language, a milestone is currently every 250 new articles]]
*nl:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.
*en:WikiWoordenboek (Wiktionary in the Dutch language)
**To have a word for every language and create a tool to copy translations between the various wiktionaries.

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Thanks, Gerard

====Skype====
I can be found as gerardmeijssen on [[w:Skype|Skype]]. :)

====Blog====
:[http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/ Blogspot]
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Hoi, I have been active in the WMF since 2003, my main activities are language related. As such I am a member of the language committee and am involved in the Betawiki localisation effort.

In my opinion the WMF needs to spend more effort in supporting languages. It is roughly 50% of our traffic and without giving language support priority, our effort in other languages suffers.