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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Eye of Freedom

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:

30 March 2025

• 22:4722:47, 30 March 2025 Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Reports/Wikimedia Portugal participation on Strategy process in 2019/ja (hist | edit) [8,329 bytes] 126.248.99.9 (talk) (Created page with "==イベント==")
• 22:4322:43, 30 March 2025 Esperanto kaj Libera Scio/Reports/2024/en (hist | edit) [17,188 bytes] Sahaquiel9102 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Annual report 2025 of the Wikimedia User Group Wikimedia EO (also known as ''Esperanto and Free Knowledge'') approved during the General Assembly Meeting on February 9, 2025.")
• 21:5221:52, 30 March 2025 Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Transition/Proposal: Drafting a Movement Charter/ja (hist | edit) [13,274 bytes] 126.248.99.9 (talk) (Created page with "=== 1. IGCの範囲と責任を運動憲章起草グループに限定する ===")
• 21:0621:06, 30 March 2025 CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/Reader’s digest (April 2025)/ru (hist | edit) [4,727 bytes] TRistovski-CEEhub (talk | contribs) (new page) Tag: 2017 source edit
• 21:0321:03, 30 March 2025 CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/Reader’s digest (April 2025) (hist | edit) [3,075 bytes] TRistovski-CEEhub (talk | contribs) (new page) Tag: 2017 source edit
• 20:5720:57, 30 March 2025 CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/Wikimedia International Update Corner (April 2025)/ru (hist | edit) [4,416 bytes] TRistovski-CEEhub (talk | contribs) (new page) Tag: 2017 source edit
• 20:4620:46, 30 March 2025 CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom/Wikimedia International Update Corner (April 2025) (hist | edit) [2,742 bytes] TRistovski-CEEhub (talk | contribs) (new page) Tag: 2017 source edit
• 19:5219:52, 30 March 2025 Wikipedia on Aruba/Agenda/en (hist | edit) [955 bytes] FuzzyBot (talk | contribs) (Updating to match new version of source page)
• 18:4618:46, 30 March 2025 Global Resource Distribution Committee/Creation of the interim GRDC/Candidates/Shahadusadik (hist | edit) [2,001 bytes] Shahadusadik (talk | contribs) (application) Tag: 2017 source edit
• 17:1417:14, 30 March 2025 Maithili Wikimedians User Group/Events/International Mother Language Day Event in 2024 (hist | edit) [1,220 bytes] Biplab Anand (talk | contribs) (+IMLD 2024)
• 16:5716:57, 30 March 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Global trends and strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view/he (hist | edit) [8,654 bytes] Drork (talk | contribs) (Created page with "לוח ההודעות של חבר הנאמנים של קרן ויקימדיה/מגמות גלובליות וחיזוק נקודת המבט הניטרלית של ויקיפדיה")
• 16:5016:50, 30 March 2025 Wikimedia Foundation/Chief Executive Officer/Updates/January 2025 Update/id (hist | edit) [23,709 bytes] Rachmat04 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Halo semua,")
• 15:2515:25, 30 March 2025 Tech/News/2025/14/uk (hist | edit) [7,192 bytes] Ата (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Тех/Новини/2025/14")
• 14:3314:33, 30 March 2025 Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases/ar/شكوى (hist | edit) [3,472 bytes] جودت (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!--YOU MAY WRITE IN ANY LANGUAGE --> {{subst:U4C case request |filing user= جودت |party2= <!-- This template accepts up to 5 parties entered in the same fashion as the above, just add |party3= etc IMPORTANT: If your case request has only one party (yourself) you must remove the unused party (party2) from the list.--> |problem= The Arabic Wikipedia is under the control of administrators. These users in the Arabic Wikipedia have higher rights. One of the problems...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit originally created as "Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases/ar/شكور"
• 12:4812:48, 30 March 2025 Tech/News/2025/14/he (hist | edit) [6,402 bytes] IKhitron (talk | contribs) (Created page with "ידיעות הטכנולוגיה 2025 – גיליון 24")
• 12:1512:15, 30 March 2025 Tool doc template (hist | edit) [8,915 bytes] Jonang ulrich killian (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== {TOOL_NAME} == This tool helps you do {_______}. It does {_______} so that you can {_______}. Project status: actively maintained | not maintained | ... other __TOC__ === Basic functionality === {TOOL_NAME} is intended for use by {target user}. It is meant to help {target user} do {main objectives}. ''Give a basic description of what the tool does and how it does it, but leave technical details for later.'' {TOOL_NAME} uses {_______} to do {_______}. It takes...")
• 11:4811:48, 30 March 2025 User:Ebakocornelius/WikiBooster tool (hist | edit) [8,265 bytes] Ebakocornelius (talk | contribs) (Created page with " Tool Name WikiBooster tool Documentations This tool helps you boost editing and managing content on wikis,it does this by streamlining workflows, repetitive tasks and enhancing the user experience so that one can focus on creating quality content with less effort. Basic functionality WikiBooster is intended to be use by content creators, collective teams and even wiki administrators it is helping this users improve in their different domai...") Tag: New article without categories or templates originally created as "Ebakocornelius/WikiBooster tool"

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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