Tar Lócesilion

Tar Lócesilion

Vice-Chair, Wikimedia Polska

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.

Although I collaborate with the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account are exclusively in my volunteer capacity, that is either my personal or WMPL capacity. See SGrabarczuk (WMF) for anything related to my contracted work.

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	2020		Chair of the Coalition for Open Education Board. Independent consultant for WMF, Community Relations Specialist at the Readers Web Team (part-time)
	2019		Vice-Chair of WMPL Board with focus on "meta-services" for the affiliate. In other words, on the structural capacity building: representation (contracts, high-level relations with partners) support and replacement for the Chair internal knowledge management compliance collaboration with the COO planting ideas of the strategic growth.
	2018		Independent consultant for WMF, Strategy Liaison at the Strategy Process 2018-20 (part-time) WMPL governance & organizational audit participant, and author of the annex on the Strategy Process to the audit report (ended in 2018)
	2017		Independent consultant for WMF, MetaWiki Strategy Coordinator at the Strategy Process 2017 (full-time, ended in 2017)
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 (I also collaborated on the launch of Media Viewer, ORES, and Content translation) pl.Wikipedia Facebook group admin	WMPL micro-grants commission member (until 2020)
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 (ended ca. 2014)
	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 building useful non-article pl.Wikipedia pages. The goal was to make them clear, friendly, standard, up-to-date, detailed but sufficient and not too long, effectively suggested to users when needed. We were restructuring, redesigning, updating, archiving, merging and creating totally all that is not in the main namespace, including: policies and guidelines, village pump subpages, anything in Wikipedia: namespace, help pages, templates with their documentation, categories and navigation, WikiProjects and Portals, MediaWiki: pages, and more. 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

szymon.grabarczukwikimedia.pl

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