Tar Lócesilion

Tar Lócesilion

Vice-Chair, Wikimedia Polska

Our great potential requires more management on many levels.

About me

I'm Q65501643. A lawyer and a wikimedian. I live in Warsaw, Poland. I'm interested in a wide range of topics (to some degree, and way below the professional level) including history, geography, urban planning, international relations, management, even philosophy and modern physics. My nick is in quenya.

According to the MBTI personality typology, I'm an ENTP. I recommend to read that section.

I'm sorry if some of my opinions are considered to be slightly too radical—I find nuanced theses good, but inefficient in public space.

My opinion on the state of the Movement

We have a great potential. There are many skilled, devoted Wikimedians with varied backgrounds and healthy behaviour, willing to cooperate. I just love to work in this diverse, multicultural environment.

However, Wikimedia needs more management on many levels, some not recognized, although existing. We communicate poorly, re-invent the wheel too often, and learn by our mistakes too rarely. We need huge investments, particularly in research and software. There are inertia and chilling effects, mixed with chaotic unpredictability and centrisms. We need a clear, well communicated and widely internalized vision, boldly executed by risk-tolerant leaderships.

Some of my formal and informal roles in the Movement (the role continues unless specified otherwise)

Focus ("levels" of involvement)	Year	Wikis	Structures (chapter, WMF)
movement-wide/the structures	2019		Vice-Chair of WMPL Board, overseeing institutional relations, legal matters and communication within Wikimedia
	2018		Independent consultant for WMF (Strategy Process 2018-20, Movement Strategy Process Meta Liaison) WMPL governance & organizational audit participant, and author of the annex on the Strategy Process to the audit report
	2017		Independent consultant for WMF (Strategy Process 2017, MetaWiki Strategy Coordinator)
gradual change	2014	candidate for steward permissions (got 79% support)	WMPL delegate to Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU WMPL delegate to the Open Education Coalition
	2013	pl.Wikipedia ArbCom member (until 2014) pl.Wikivoyage interim admin (until 2015) VisualEditor and Notifications launch liaison on pl.Wikipedia, an active Tech Ambassador on pl.Wikipedia until ca. 2016 pl.Wikipedia Facebook group admin	WMPL micro-grants commission member
wiki management	2012	Wikimedia Polska wiki admin leader of WikiProjects Middle-earth and Law on pl.Wikipedia (both hardly active now)	Wikimedia Polska member informal representative of the Wikimedia community in local media
	2011	pl.Wikipedia admin co-author of a reviewed paper on the use of pl.Wikipedia in Polish administrative courts (after that, I wrote 2 other papers related to Wikimedia and law) pl.Wikipedia R&D group member (leader from 2012, the group's been dormant since ca. 2014) in that group, we were updating, archiving, merging and creating pl.Wikipedia non-article pages, including rules and guidelines, village pump and totally all that is in Wikipedia: namespace, and furthermore: help pages, templates (including a/f/t/o-mboxes), categories and navigation of and within previously mentioned pages, fixing MediaWiki: pages, updating design, and more. Our goal was to make non-article pages useful, meaning: clear, friendly, standard, up-to-date, detailed but sufficient and not too long, effectively suggested to users when needed. That was an adventure! newbie mentor on pl.Wikipedia (until 2015) initiator of WikiProject Middle Ages on pl.Wikipedia (didn't work out)
editing content	2010	editor (home wiki: Polish Wikipedia) I've been editing articles (mainly) about Tolkien, my home city, and law

My talk page here or on Polish Wikipedia

E-mail: tar.locesiliongmail.com

TarLocesilion on IRC

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