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Michelle van Lanschot

MichellevL (WMNL)

vanlanschotwikimedia.nl

Best way to connect: Via email

Wikimedia Nederland

Participating as: For my whole organisation or group

Netherlands • Northern and Western Europe (NWE) region

Preferred times: Monday, Tuesday (8 - 12 UTC, 12 - 16 UTC)

Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per Month

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia → encyclopedia, Wikimedia Commons → media repository, Wikidata → knowledge database, MetaWiki: central site for coordinating all projects and the Wikimedia community

Areas of interests: Education, Diversity, Education

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: I participated in the OpenRefine cours on WikiLearn: https://app.learn.wiki/learning/course/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/home

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: By being mentored by an organization with more experience, Through formal training

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Leadership growth and sustainability

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others

Interpersonal skills: Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Use various tools related to community health • Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki

Programatic and tactic skills: Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Innovations in culture and heritage • Designing and developing educational programs

Wiki tech skills: Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts • Identifying topics of impact • Lua scripting

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Accompanying a person or a group for a certain period of time (mentoring), Conduct formal training (develop courses)

Organization skills: Program/project implementation • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki • Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Community development, capacity building and skills development

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Event organising • Creating, managing and sharing tutorials and resources

Wiki tech skills: Basic Wikidata  • Handling image donations

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience; we are currently in the proces of setting up a train the trainer programme and any pointers or experiences we can learn from in this light are very very welcome. Innovations in culture and heritage: I am mainly interested in the knowledge equity part of this skills, and exploring methods for decolonisation and engaging groups that are working in this field to participate on Wikimedia projects in a inclusive way. We have been running the 'Wiki goes Caribbean' 'Gendergap/LHBTIQ' and 'Netherlands and the world' projects at Wikimedia Nederland for some time now, and these projects have mainly been focused on content but we would like to make the shift to engage more people and organisations from these communities. Designing and developing educational programs: at the moment we are do not have our own educational programme at Wikimedia Nederland and I believe it would be a great opportunity for us to develop one in. the future.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

Event organising: WMNL host an annual large event (WikiCon NL or hack a thon) were I was the responsible projectcoordinator. Creating, managing, and sharing tutorials and resources: in 2022 I coordinated the launch of the Wikimedia Nederland kennisplatform (kennisplatform.wikimedia.nl), were new editors can find easy FAQs about working with Wikimedia. Small editing events, campaigns and contests: as project coordinator I supported the organising of three editions of Wiki Loves Monuments organised by new organisations working with Wikimedia located remotely in Suriname and Sint Eustatius.