To contact me, you can use my public user talk page or send an email to lionel{arobase}scheepmans{dot}be. You can also call the number +32 486 060 016 by phone, Signal, Telegram or Whatsap, with a personal preference for signal.
Originally trained as a technician in forestry, I then approached by my studies or following various professional experience, areas of tropical agriculture, cartography, animation and aeronautics. I had thereafter an artistic career in the fields of music, circus, and theater just before returning to university studies at 38 years old.
After my college graduation, I deepened my knowledge of video editing and politics. I was active in the Pirate Party of Belgium for almost three years before realizing that our political systems, based on elections and interparty competition, are at the root of the current governance crises. Following this experience, I developed a reflection through a personal independent studies named Trilogie pour un monde juste et sain, then got involved more actively in community projects and fatherhood.
From this thesis, a first book based on the first three chapters of the doctoral work was done to provide a general presentation of the Wikimedia movement in the context of the digital revolution. It is entitled : Le mouvement Wikimdia : Une rvolution culturelle oublie. Up the following chapters, a second book is planned in order to provide a more detailed ethnographic analysis of the movement. Its title is still to be defined. In the meantime, I'm teaching in the university, various lessons and a digital anthropology course.
Within the Wikimedia movement, I am particularly interested in anthropological, ethical and political issues. Mostly active on Wikiversity where I publish all my work, while intervening in the management of the site as administrator from 2015. My contributions to the foundation's other projects are more modest and are made as I read. At the beginning of 2013 and following my participation in Wikimania 2014, I started to take an increasing participation and interest in off-line Wikimedia activities and finally became founding member of the association Wikimedia Belgium and board member since 2017 to 2019.
For more information about me, you can also read my detailed background on this page.
Alain Lecomte & Lionel Scheepmans, SOWEI de la socit secrte Sande. Mend, de Sierra-Lone, de Guine et du Libria, edition A. Lecomte, Paris, juillet 2022 (ISBN : 9782954416755) Article concerning the book.
Introduction la bricologie (2010) : anthropological reflections starting from the metaphor of do-it-yourself in a material and ideological articulation of the constraints and resources specific to the human being and his environment.
