Featured user: Willeke
– Willeke, 71,306 points, Level 7, 66%
Every so often we, the Yahoo! Answers Team see someone on Answers that goes above and beyond the norm, providing such great contributions that they deserve to be celebrated. Previous contributors in this category include Spellbound, Tunisian Belle, Calimecita and Victor. This time the spotlight turns to Willeke, an expert in travel and… well, perhaps we’ll let her tell you in her own words.
Meet Willeke
“I am Dutch, still live in the village in which I was born. It is not to far from Amsterdam, but completely separate, there are about 5 towns and a city between us and them. I have been a regular visitor in Amsterdam all my live though.”
“I work fulltime, and have some time consuming hobbies besides. One I can combine with going to work, I ride a recumbent trike, as my main transport. For longer distances I often use the train, as I do not have a driving license (out of choice.)”
“My main hobby is tying knots, I have done that ever since I was a child and still spend time on it. I am a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers, which is a world wide organisation devoted to knots, their history, practical uses, new developments and everything else there is to know about it. Here is a link to their website.”
Discovering Answers
“It is through knots that I met Yahoo answers, March 28, 2007, I saw a knot question on the page of a Yahoo group I was (and still am) a member of. I was drawn into Yahoo! Answers by that and am here ever since.”
“When I started I did answer in Hobbies and crafts, knot related but also other crafts. Since then I have moved toward travel more. Netherlands and Other Europe, and train questions in several more spots on the boards. About Europe I answer general questions, about all the places I have been often enough to know what I am talking about. (Although I do use search often to refresh my memory for factual things.)”
“I like helping people, in searching for answers I have learned a lot. I do not ask questions, as most of the things I need information about are very specialist, and I go to where the specialists are. Or they have been asked before and I read the older questions and their answers.”
Some great Best Answers from Willeke
- What’s there to see in Luxembourg?
- How can I travel by train in Europe?
- Is Spain similar to all of her previous colonies?
- Any advice on good cheap hostels in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany?
- I’d like to do the river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest in mid March. What would the weather be like?
- What exactly is the big difference between a hostel and a hotel/motel or a boarding house and where can I find a list of hostels both in the United States and Europe?
Willeke on her fellow Answers contributors…
“I admire most top answerers in the European travel sections, but as there are so many, it is very hard to name only one. All have their knowledge and specialist areas and all are friendly towards each other. But one answerer that stands out to me, who I meet in several categories: Mariner31. Always good answers, friendly advice and mostly out of experience, not just from reading the book or website.”
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Hey!
I know Willeke!
~*Waves*Smiles*~
I don’t travel at all but I can live vicariously through reading Y!A .. and of course Willekes answers.
Have you guys seen the state of some of the travel categories? Something seriously needs to be done about the category trolling.
you are awesome
Wow, sounds a lot like how I got onto Yahoo! Answers. I’ll bet the she’ll have a lot of new fans becuase of the article.
Woohoo!! Way to go Wil!!
Congratulations, you deserve this so much
Hugs,
Cali
yahoo answer is a good teacher,I learn many knowledge and make many friends,thank you,yahoo answer.HOPE WELL.
go,go,come on!
Great article about a really lovely person. It’s really nice to see Yahoo Answers recognising and respecting people like Willeke who contribute an awful lot to the community.
Good job!
Interesting post!
Well done for earning the spot in the “Featured Users” post.
The principles that guide Czenyu are: “Live back to nature” and “Live Within”. It used to be believed that these two were incompatible, that to build and consume without depleting natural resources or utilizing toxic chemicals made you a crazy hippie doomed to scratchy hemp shirts and dim lights.
welcome Czenyu
plz tell me duties & responsibilities of time keeper $ store keeper
did anyone see my question yet?
Hey Wil! Great Blog!
Awesome!
Great job Willeke!
that sound just how i got into answer.yahoo a lttle
How about, instead of pretending to care about some user’s “answering abilities”, you should focus on doing your REAL job by removing content that breaks the guidelines? Sounds good to me!
Congrats Wil!
You deserve it hun! 
Thanks Folks.
And for those that are worried about content that needs to go, please help reporting, that way we can keep the site nice for everybody.
Willeke