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Hello, I am Samuel Klein, wikipedian, linguaphile, and inclusionist. I currently direct outreach and community content for a global education project. I am a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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 some smaller language wikis: Nahuatl and Swahili. Currently taking collab notes on Hypothesis XXX - synchrony across annotation systems for all sorts of knowledge (e.g., via hypothes.is and open annotation).

To contact me: My talkpage · meta.sj <at> gmail · +1 617 529 4266 · metasj (Skype)

Thoughts on Current movement roles / fundraising / Chapter-WMF discussions
Wikipedia Zero | International grantmaking and US Executive Order 13224‎‎

If you need assistance: I also help monitor edits to smaller projects. 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:

• 16:58, 20 May 2013 ‎Flow/fr (hist) ‎[9,504 bytes] ‎Guillom (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''''Flow''''' est un projet d'amélioration des pages de discussion du logiciel MediaWiki. Ce n'est '''pas''' LiquidThreads, qui est utilisé sur cer...")
• 16:55, 20 May 2013 ‎Flow/en (hist) ‎[9,416 bytes] ‎FuzzyBot (talk | contribs) (Importing a new version from external source)
• 15:18, 20 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2013/hu (hist) ‎[6,706 bytes] ‎Bdamokos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Wikimédia Alapítvány választások/Kuratóriumválasztás/2013")
• 13:52, 20 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Bolivia/Actividades/Editatón Museo SF (hist) ‎[3,239 bytes] ‎200.87.151.67 (talk) (Created page with "== Editatón Wikipedia en el Museo San Fransisco == Esta actividad forma parte del la conmemoración "Wikipedia 1 millón" ==== Fechas Tentativas ==== Primer o segundo sába...")
• 13:19, 20 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/How and why I ended up at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö (hist) ‎[13,650 bytes] ‎Abbedabb (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{draft/en}} THIS POST IS CURRENTLY BEING TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH == Hur och varför jag hamnade på Eurovision Song Contest i Malmö == 26 maj 2012 sändes finalen av Eurovis...") originally created as "Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Hur och varför jag hamnade på Eurovision Song Contest i Malmö"
• 10:15, 20 May 2013 ‎Requests for comment/Scope of Ombudsman Commission/nl (hist) ‎[6,007 bytes] ‎Mathonius (talk | contribs) (Dutch translation of the top three sections of Requests for comment/Scope of Ombudsman Commission (oldid 5495564; written by Deskana; CCBYSA-3.0))
• 01:52, 20 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/download problem (hist) ‎[397 bytes] ‎64.253.11.135 (talk) (Created page with "{{draft/en}} == Title ==download problem == Notes == <!-- Once published, please remove the above category, and uncomment the below category. --> <!-- Category:Archived b...")
• 20:51, 19 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Help us design our next-generation discussion system (hist) ‎[3,401 bytes] ‎Jorm (WMF) (talk | contribs) (create)
• 20:25, 19 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Bolivia/Proyectos/WLM (hist) ‎[3,775 bytes] ‎Alhen (talk | contribs) (traslado el trabajo de la wiki de wikimediabolivia.org)
• 16:42, 19 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Committee/en-gb (hist) ‎[2,123 bytes] ‎Ayo99cp (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The 2013 Wikimedia Foundation elections will be held from 1–15 June 2013. Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect candidates for three positions: Th...")
• 10:59, 19 May 2013 ‎FDC portal/Proposals/2013-2014 round1/Wikimedia Australia/Letter of intent (hist) ‎[3,290 bytes] ‎Steven Zhang (talk | contribs) (Filing letter of intent for Wikimedia Australia)
• 10:47, 19 May 2013 ‎FDC portal/Proposals/2013-2014 round1/Wikimedia Australia (hist) ‎[349 bytes] ‎Steven Zhang (talk | contribs) (start)
• 02:32, 19 May 2013 ‎Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science/Tab header/Tab-inactive (hist) ‎[173 bytes] ‎Daniel Mietchen (talk | contribs) (from http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedian_in_Residence_on_Open_Science/Tab_header/Tab&oldid=4898275)
• 01:02, 19 May 2013 ‎Single User Login finalisation announcement/zh (hist) ‎[1,564 bytes] ‎石 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "維基媒體基金會的開發團隊目前正對帳戶運作持續作出調整，以努力為用戶提供更新更好的工具（例如跨維基通知）。這代表用戶於...")
• 00:59, 19 May 2013 ‎Single User Login finalisation announcement/Personal announcement/zh (hist) ‎[1,448 bytes] ‎石 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "單一註冊用戶落實公告/個人公告")
• 23:15, 18 May 2013 ‎WikiBunk/supporters (hist) ‎[232 bytes] ‎KenjiCrosland (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==People interested== <!-- Add your name to the end of the list with #~~~ --> {{div col}} #~~~ Kenji Crosland <!-- Add your name above this line --> {{div col end}}")
• 22:48, 18 May 2013 ‎WikiBunk (hist) ‎[2,233 bytes] ‎Qoncept (talk | contribs) (created page)

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

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

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

My favorite - but why wasn't this #1?

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...

(general note : soughameter optional)