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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:

• 11:07, 21 May 2013 ‎Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Amical Wikimedia - May 2013/es (hist) ‎[2,329 bytes] ‎Maor X (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Considerando que:")
• 08:56, 21 May 2013 ‎Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Amical Wikimedia - May 2013/ca (hist) ‎[2,218 bytes] ‎Arnaugir (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Amical Wikimedia - May 2013")
• 08:49, 21 May 2013 ‎Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Amical Wikimedia - May 2013/en (hist) ‎[2,150 bytes] ‎FuzzyBot (talk | contribs) (Importing a new version from external source)
• 08:43, 21 May 2013 ‎Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/Amical Wikimedia - May 2013 (hist) ‎[2,312 bytes] ‎Raystorm (talk | contribs) (+ resolution. Felicitats!)
• 07:21, 21 May 2013 ‎Tech/News/2013/21/fi (hist) ‎[5,277 bytes] ‎Nikerabbit (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tech/Uutiset/2013/21")
• 01:57, 21 May 2013 ‎Requests for comment/Global bits and pieces (hist) ‎[774 bytes] ‎MZMcBride (talk | contribs) (new page; content from https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia.org&oldid=5294673)
• 01:50, 21 May 2013 ‎The Wikinewsie Group/Newsletter/1 (hist) ‎[55,767 bytes] ‎LauraHale (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-------------------------Banner across top of page------------------------------> {| style="width:100%; margin-top:1em; border:1px solid #ccc;" |<!------------"Welcome to Wi...")
• 01:46, 21 May 2013 ‎The Wikinewsie Group/Newsletter (hist) ‎[2,721 bytes] ‎LauraHale (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-------------------------Banner across top of page------------------------------> {| style="width:100%; margin-top:1em; border:1px solid #ccc;" |<!------------"Welcome to Wi...")
• 00:58, 21 May 2013 ‎Requests for new languages/Wikivoyage Tarifit (hist) ‎[1,131 bytes] ‎Syphax Amaynu (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{New wiki request | status = open | language_code = Rif | language_code3 = Rif | language_English = French | language_native = Tarifit | new_language = no...")
• 00:57, 21 May 2013 ‎Book tool/Help/Books/ast (hist) ‎[6,793 bytes] ‎Oriciu (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Message | type = attention | Por favor, vea la guía de despliegue de book tool pa información detallada de como preparar la so wiki pa usar esta estensión. ...")
• 23:09, 20 May 2013 ‎Wikimedia Uruguay/List of members/Archive 01 (hist) ‎[2,754 bytes] ‎Andreateletrabajo (talk | contribs) (archiving old list of members)
• 21:38, 20 May 2013 ‎Tech/News/2013/21/hu (hist) ‎[5,656 bytes] ‎Bdamokos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tech/Hírek/2013/21")
• 21:31, 20 May 2013 ‎Flow/uk (hist) ‎[9,697 bytes] ‎Ата (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Flow")
• 21:15, 20 May 2013 ‎Tech/News/2013/21/lb (hist) ‎[5,108 bytes] ‎Robby (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Technesch Neiegkeeten 2013 21. Woch")
• 20:20, 20 May 2013 ‎Tech/News/2013/21/uk (hist) ‎[7,053 bytes] ‎Ата (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Тех/Новини/2013/21")
• 19:46, 20 May 2013 ‎Tech/News/2013/21/ast (hist) ‎[5,447 bytes] ‎Xuacu (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Noticies téuniques. Selmana 21, 2013")
• 19:17, 20 May 2013 ‎Tech/News/2013/21/en (hist) ‎[5,062 bytes] ‎FuzzyBot (talk | contribs) (Importing a new version from external source)

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)