User:Sj

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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. de-2 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf fortgeschrittenem Niveau. es-2 Esta persona tiene un conocimiento intermedio del español. fr-2 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances intermédiaires en français. he-1 משתמש זה יודע עברית ברמה בסיסית. zh-1 这位用户的中文达到初级水平。 ar-0 هذا المستخدم ليس لديه معرفة بالعربية (أو يفهمها بصعوبة بالغة).
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Welcome to my page! I am Samuel Klein, wikipedian, linguaphile and, hoom, inclusionist. I am currently working on platforms for community-owned publishing of research and data. In the past I worked on a national digital library, at a "purpose of the Internet" research group, directed part of a global education project, and served as a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Currently summarizing some cross-wiki thoughts + conversations about project + community design as design chats.

Currently working on matchmaking people with ideas. My writing background consists of a few journals and newsletters, doggerel on the back of exams, broadsheets on telephone poles, philosophical essays, and marked-up drafts of [others'] texts in red and blue. My academic background includes physics, mathematics, algorithms and language. In the Wikiverse: you can find me on the English Wikipedia, and occasionally on Wikibooks, Wiktionary (see also mod-wiktionary), the OLPC wiki, and previously on some smaller language wikis (Nahuatl, Swahili) or taking collab notes on Hypothesis XXX - synchrony across annotation systems for all sorts of knowledge (e.g., via hypothes.is and open annotation).

Recent peering: User:Sj/peer | Challenges | Federated knowledge | Design chats

To contact me: My talkpage · meta.sj (gmail) · +1 ... 529 4266

Movement thoughts: roles / fundraising / Chapter-WMF | North American Wikimedians
Wikipedia Zero | International grantmaking and US Executive Order 13224‎‎

If you need assistance: Please leave me a message or request.

• Steward handbook · Requests · Special:Log/rights · Special:userrights · Steward activity
• privacy · 'sample articles' maintained by MarsRover
• See also: WikiDC, GLAM/OKFN

17 new pages on meta:

24 December 2024

• 02:3302:33, 24 December 2024 WikiConference Kerala 2024/Schedule (hist | edit) [698 bytes] Manojk (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {| class="wikitable", width="100%", style="text-align:center; font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif !important;" |- style="font-weight:bold; vertical-align:middle; color:#434343;" ! colspan="5" style="font-size:24px; background-color:#c0c0c0;" | 28 December 2024 |- style="font-weight:bold; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#efefef;" | style="font-size:22px;" | Time | colspan="3" style="font-size:22px;" | Sessions | style="font-size:22px;" | Type |- style="vertica...")
• 02:0202:02, 24 December 2024 Karavali Wikimedians/Events/Tuluvas Aati Month Documentaion (hist | edit) [1,966 bytes] Bharathesha Alasandemajalu (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Karavali Wikimedians User Group and Tulu Wikimedians, with support from the Wikimedia Foundation, are in the process of documenting "Tuluvas' Aati Month" through audio, video, articles, and photographs. This initiative showcases the overall progress and final stages of the project in collaboration with the community. The program was held at the AJ Grand Elite Hotel, Mangalore ==Venue and date== # Venue: :AJ Grand Elite Hotel, Mangalore # Date: 25.12.2025, Wednesday")
• 01:5401:54, 24 December 2024 QW2024/ja (hist | edit) [2,103 bytes] YShibata (talk | contribs) (Created page with "QW2024は、クィアと盟友がウィキに集い、行動する必要性から生まれた一連の年次活動の一つです。当初は2020年に通常の会議形式として計画されましたが（パンデミックにより中止）、2020年から2023年まで形を変え続け、私たちも変化しました。")
• 01:1401:14, 24 December 2024 WikiMedistas Wayúu/Reportes/Tejiendo Wikipeetia y Wikipütchimaajatü con la comunidad wayúu (hist | edit) [5,484 bytes] Leonfd1992 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<div style="display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap; gap:3ex; text-align:center"> <div style="flex:1 5 10ex">200px</div> <div style="flex:5 1 45ex"> <div style="font-size:1.8em">'''Tejiendo Wikipeetia y Wikipütchimaajatü con la comunidad wayúu'''</div> <div style="font-size:1.8em">Reporte de actividades</div> <div style="font-size:1.8em; border-bottom:6px solid #440000;">Julio de 2023 hasta 30 de junio de 2024</div> </div> <div style="margin...")

23 December 2024

• 23:4423:44, 23 December 2024 WikiMedistas Wayúu/guc (hist | edit) [12,436 bytes] Leonfd1992 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Waya wanee wayuuirua a'yataashin sünain akumajaa sukuwa'ipa wanee Wikipeetia otta wanee Wikipütchimaajatü süka wayuunaiki. Wamaa eeshi naa ekirajüliikana otta wayuuirua tütüsü sulu'ujee noumain yala wajiirapünaa sulu'u Kolompia otta Wenesuweera.")
• 21:1221:12, 23 December 2024 Education/News/Drafts/Celebrating 10 Years of Wiki Education (hist | edit) [7,131 bytes] Colleen (Wiki Education) (talk | contribs) (Recap of "Celebrating 10 Years of Wiki Education" virtual event)
• 19:4719:47, 23 December 2024 Atelier fon du Jeudi 26 décembre 2024 (hist | edit) [128 bytes] Gbehlon (talk | contribs) (Nouvel événement)
• 17:4217:42, 23 December 2024 Central Asian WikiCon 2025/Scholarship/az (hist | edit) [4,743 bytes] Alpasli (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Mərkəzi Asiya Wiki Konfransı 2025/Stipendiyası")
• 17:4117:41, 23 December 2024 Wikimedia Libya Community User Group/ Wiki Loves Monuments in Libya (hist | edit) [6,930 bytes] Nada.FA (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{| cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" |- |150px|Wikimedia Libya Community Logo |'''Wiki Loves Monuments: Libya’s First Participation''' Wiki Loves Monuments in Libya 2024 is an international photography campaign and competition aimed at promoting historical sites worldwide through Wikimedia projects, particularly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Th...")
• 17:1617:16, 23 December 2024 Réseau @pprendre of French-speaking West Africa Wikimedians User Group/Training (hist | edit) [204 bytes] Nehaoua (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ <div style="font-size:1.1em; margin-left:2em;"> == Training == </div>'''<span style="color:#ffcc00">☛</span> <span style="color:grey">Plan de formation ''' == training documents == Category:Réseau @pprendre") Tag: Visual edit
• 16:1716:17, 23 December 2024 QW2024/sh (hist | edit) [1,796 bytes] Zblace (talk | contribs) (Created page with "QW2024")
• 14:3814:38, 23 December 2024 Stewards/Confirm/2025 (hist | edit) [683 bytes] JrandWP (talk | contribs) (create)
• 13:5713:57, 23 December 2024 Stewards/Elections 2025/Questions (hist | edit) [273 bytes] JrandWP (talk | contribs) (create)
• 13:5613:56, 23 December 2024 Stewards/Elections 2025/Statements (hist | edit) [522 bytes] JrandWP (talk | contribs) (update)
• 13:5313:53, 23 December 2024 Stewards/Elections 2025/Coordination (hist | edit) [1,623 bytes] JrandWP (talk | contribs) (create checklist)
• 13:5213:52, 23 December 2024 Split testing (hist | edit) [370 bytes] Johan (WMF) (talk | contribs) (Working space. Will have the page up during the first half of January.)
• 13:5113:51, 23 December 2024 Stewards/Elections 2025/Guidelines (hist | edit) [590 bytes] JrandWP (talk | contribs) (placeholder for 2025)

Thoughts

News : Managing translations revisited. Long-term strategy for Wikimedia projects is being discussed and planned with some vigor | How Wikipedia Works, a book on using Wikipedia from nostarch press (with cameos by the sister projects) | LSS revived! | coralline ideas for generalized message-distribution : a way around the 100-mailing-list coordination problem. | Pimp your edits! | Mailing lists/cleanup

Interesting : Modern translation and coordination @ the Embassy, pages linked from Requests. A new Stewards noticeboard. A new Main page? Level activity across request types, improve feedback for uses of Special:CentralAuth, improve [[Help:]] pages about cross-wiki special pages/tools. New contributor objections

FDC complaint mid-2015 without clear timeline for response?

Fun : SJ Klein with Wikipedian Guy, reprises of old Wikimedia Quarto sidefeatures... like interviews with Ward Cunningham and Larry Lessig.
Pressworthy pages : User:Sj/PR
Village Pumps: ar, da, de, eo, es, fr, it, ja, nl, sv, zh, bab

Projects

A cheerful logo variant

Strategy : w:User:John_Carter/Opinions (2009), 2015?

Top of the desk. Active projects (see also Project map) | Wikiproject group, Digitizing and Translation with MW...   Digest / on en: | Annonces | MP
elian excellence: Incoming tech requests | Wikipedia languages
meta-slimming: Historical Wikipedia pages | statistics, on en:

old pages to slim: The importance of being Wikipedia, ...

older budget thoughts : Long term plans

communication models : the Why Give blog

Mania over time

Deleted pages to watch : <empty>

WMF events future: (see Board agenda; other agenda; &c. Last 2 quarters' planning unexpectedly light; energy drawn into private channels)
WMF events past: WMF.org chat, #wm, Sat July 24 | Vereins-Chat, #wm.de, Fri July 30 | Wikimania, August 2005

WM News, Sept 10+. | W-News | M:HP | Babel/Babylon
21 fahrplan, Dec 26-28

Status, Thoughts

The Dao of Wiki * Quirks of int'l grantmaking

Resolved, that ... WMPH - why did these stop being shared on Meta? Cross-wiki links needed.

I am thinking of ways to

1. improve key sites: Wikimedia website(Main, Fundraising, GFDL), http://www.wikimedia.org redirection page
2. improve key meta pages: Goings-on(t), Meta:Babel(t, Interorg relations.)
3. move meta-discussions to meta:, from en: and other subprojects.
4. improve community:
   • better multilingualism / translation across WM,
   • nuanced interactions with new users, playful trolls, nascent vandals, non-editor readers; article validation
   • meshed ideas, empirics, and [pre]conceived notions relating to community infrastruture, vision-building, interaction, insight and insanity, ...
     • Old essays: Various Wikipedian essays, Wikipedia commentary
     • Old ideas: Send this article to a friend, ...
5. unify discussion: power structures within WM and across WP-instances (covering Ver ein/ Wreader and es: split issues as well as the mundane)
6. help propose new projects: Wikifamily, Wikinews, Pa/Pr/Fu, Media, Prufing, Review...
7. design a few feature improvements
8. help people who reuse wikimedia content recognize the projects the content came from
9. help others and future selves see what I see
10. share test writing and wiki work

Topics belonging uniquely here:

Other Topics

Structure + Developer committee, Finance committee, Editor committee, PR committee -- for helping to coordinate and divide labor in those key areas. + Translation crew for discussing and processing multilingual issues; translation, communication, official languages, &c. + Press Corps for handling press IDs, contacting major events, getting exclusive interviews and photoshoots. See also Wikews. + Other groups to plan for Grants, Collateral, Legal issues, Outreach/User groups, Publicity, Print issues, Partnerships. Overviews + WM-wide mesh ('organization chart', 'project map', 'topic map', 'discussion counter', 'Wikipedia languages')

Toolchain + My MediaWiki feature requests + Division of labor requests + EasyTimeline Law + (c): Jamesday on #wp, en:Wikipedia:Copyright... + Chapters: Verein, Association, EO chapter in France... Review + New pages, Article validation, villi...

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