Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence/Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

 * Organisation: National museum with more than 8,000 works of art from Dutch and further European history, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer and Vincent van Gogh.
 * Address: Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam

=Wikimedia activities=
 * Rijksmuseum supervisor: Geert-Jan Koot, Head Librarian. Wikipedian in special residence: Arie Sonneveld
 * Period: October 1 – November 30, 2014

2014

 * Two Wikipedia Workshops for museum staff on November 3 and 14, 2014, in the Ateliergebouw, for about 30 personnel.

Results

 * Two planned Wikipedia workshops for staff were cancelled due to lack of registrations.
 * ARIA, a previous Rijksmuseum database of art history texts for public consultation in the museum, could be reviewed in search of reusable material for Wikipedia articles.
 * The Rijksmuseum collection on Wikimedia Commons was checked against various lists of Rijksmuseum masterpieces, to search for missing images to upload, including
 * Six volumes.
 * Rijksmuseum Masterpiece Top 114 kindly supplied by a curator.
 * Rijksmuseum XL100 collection with 177 masterpieces.

Wikipedia articles, edited and new
In Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr) and German (de), including
 * 1 地中海, Adriaan van Stalbemt, Anna Visscher, Anna Roemers Visscher, Arnoud van Halen, Battle of the Sound, Battle of Waterloo, Battle of Wimpfen (Snaijers Veldslag),
 * 10 Carel Visser, Collectie_Six, Cornelis Calkoen (1696-1764), Emanuel de Witte, Geschichte Englands, Geschiedenis van Leeuwarden, Glorious Revolution, Glorious Revolution, (Hercules, better version uploaded), Jan Willem Pieneman,
 * 20 (Jakarta, best version Beeckman unclear), James II of England, Jewish views on marriage, Johannes Tavenraat, Johann Philipp Lemke, Laut Tengah, Leeuwarden, Liste der Herrscher Englands, Maurice, Prince of Orange, Mediterranean Sea,
 * 30 Meindert Hobbema, Netherlands (portraitr of William of Orange, also Pieneman: Diponegoro, in Colonialism as well), Marriage (painting by Jozef Israëls: A Jewish Wedding), Officiers généraux et organisation du commandement général britanniques pendant les guerres de la Révolution et du Premier Empire, Paulus Potter, Paulus Potter, Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam,
 * 40 Rijksmuseum Research Library, Rijksmuseum Research Library, Sephardi Jews, Sinterklaas, Six_konstsamling, Slaget_vid_Waterloo, Slag in de Sont, Spanish Empire, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, Speed skating,
 * 50 The Troubles, Thirty Years' War (Snaijers Veldslag), Willem II, William III of England, ..

Images on Wikimedia Commons: new uploads or improved metadata

 * Categorisation by painter of the paintings in w:c:Category:Paintings in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: 100+, w:c:Category:Paulus Potter (clean up), linkfixes supplying permanent handles to Rijksmuseum online collection
 * Better versions of extant images or uploading of missing art work (N = new):
 * 1 w:commons:File:Engraved rummer - Vincens tu - Anna Roemers Visscher - Rijksmuseum - BK-NM-8186.jpg N, w:commons:File:Engraved rummer - Sic Soleo Amicos - attributed to Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher - Rijksmuseum - BK-NM-10754-50.jpg N, w:commons:File:Engraved berkemeyer - Vincens tu - Anna Roemers Visscher - Rijksmuseum - BK-NM-8186.jpg N, w:commons:File:Schaatswedstrijd voor vrouwen op de Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden - 21 januari 1809 - Nicolaas Baur - 1809 - SK-A-5020 - Rijksmuseum.jpg N, w:commons:File:Cornelis Calkoen op weg naar de audiëntie bij sultan Ahmed III Rijksmuseum SK-A-4076.jpeg, w:commons:File:Frans Hals, De magere compagnie.jpg, w:commons:File:De slag bij Terheide - The Battle of Schevening - August 10 1653 (Willem van de Velde I, 1657).jpg, w:commons:File:Mariamagdalena grt.jpg, w:commons:File:Interieur van de Portugese synagoge te Amsterdam Rijksmuseum SK-A-3738.jpeg,
 * 10 w:commons:File:Hortense de Beauharnais.jpg, w:commons:File:Hendrik Goltzius - De reus Hercules.jpg, w:c:File:Traankokerijen bij het dorp Smerenburg Rijksmuseum SK-A-2355.jpeg
 * Categories created:
 * 1 w:c:Category:Diponegoro (1785-1855), w:c:Effie Deans, w:c:Category:Johannes Tavenraat, w:c:Category:Julius Henricus Quinkhard, w:c:Category:Meester van de Heilige Elisabeth-Panelen, w:c:Category:Paintings by Anonymous in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, w:c:Category:Pieter van den Broecke, w:c:Category:Willem Jodocus Mattheus Engelberts


 * Link to this Rijksmuseum project report in Dutch.