User:SIryn

Michelle van Lanschot

About me

Hi, I'm Michelle, from a little town called Beek in the south of the Netherlands. In 2014 I joined my first edit-a-thon in the Artis library in Amsterdam and made my first article, a translation of an English article about the Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman. I am mainly interested in visual arts and artists from all periods of art history. I am an art historian and cultural heritage scientist. On Wikidata, I enjoy adding the depicts properties of artworks. I'm based in Nijmegen, Netherlands (GMT+1).

My work

Since 2014 I have been editing as a volunteer and Wikimedian-in-Residence. I have been working on digital collections and information management since 2018. From 2019 tot 2026 I worked as Project Coordinator for Wikimedia Nederland, my main projects were the Wiki Goes Caribbean project and theWikipedia on Aruba project, but I also worked on capacity building (especially for GLAMs) through the WMNL Nederland knowledge platform.

From 2017 tot 2019 I worked as a Wikipedian in Residence - although I considered myself more a Wikimedian in Residence- at Erfgoed Gelderland, a provincial organisation that supports small cultural heritage organisations. Goals of the project was on the one hand training 7 small heritage institutions (archives and museums) to independently make their collections available on-Wiki. On the other hand, the project was intended as a pilot to investigated if and how small heritage institutions with little means in terms of time and money, are able to independently work on Wiki.

At CopyClear I worked together with Hanno Lans to make the copyright status of artworks more clear. We have created a tool that enables cultural heritage institutions to automatically determine the copyright status of works in their collections. The tool is based on Wikidata and we also add information we find to Wikidata.

For paid edits I use the account MichellevanLanschot.

Contact me

You can reach me on my talk page:
m:User talk:SIryn

User language

nl-N	Deze gebruiker heeft het Nederlands als moedertaal.

pap-0	E usadó aki no tin dominio di papiamentu (òf ta komprondé ku basta difikultat).

pap-AW-0	E usadó no por papia Papiamento (Aruba) (òf ta komprendé esaki ku basta difikultat).

en-3	This user has advanced knowledge of English.

fr-1	Cette personne dispose de connaissances de base en français.

es-1	Esta persona tiene un conocimiento básico del español.

de-1	Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf grundlegendem Niveau.

it-1	Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello elementare in italiano.

I have completed the WikiLearn course OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics!

Documentation about OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: