User talk:Abbasjnr

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More people from sw:wp should hang out on Meta. we could use a few ambassadors... and say, we need a good Swahili main page for commons.wikimedia.org !—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sj (talk • contribs) .

Conflict of interest

Hi Abbas. I have to ask. How can a position in chapcom construed as being of "conflict of interest" with being a board member? You've baffled me here. notafish }<';> 13:48, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Let me rephrase this. My problem is not in whether or not a board member should be on the chapcom with voting rights, I agree they probably shoulnd't, as Lodewijk pointed out, advising yourself is kind of weird. But conflict of interest is a very strong word to use in that context. So I'm interested what you think might be the benefit or interest a board member would get if they were on the chapcom. notafish }<';> 20:33, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes, your right. Calling it a "conflict of interest" may be overstating the situation. I used it for lack of a better word. My only concern was in the part where Lodewijk would be advising himself. Abbasjnr 09:17, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Err... Aren't their board members already in non-voting position on ChapCom. I agree that COI might be overstating it, but could someone point me to the context of this discussion? Thanks. Theo10011 11:30, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

This discussion resulted because of this Abbasjnr 10:49, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Fellowship idea on editor engagement in small Wikipedias

Hello Abbas, I see you endorsed the idea on editor engagement strategies for new or smaller Wikipedias. Just to let you know that I made brief changes on ideas of the project and elaborated the phases in more specific way. Expecting your valuable opinion to develop it further. Thanks a lot in advance. :-) — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 21:56, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Individual grants committee

Hi! We’re looking for volunteers to serve on a committee that helps select grantees for WMF’s new Individual Engagement Grants program. More info is on the committee's meta page. Siko (WMF) (talk) 22:47, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikichild

Hello!, I am making a new wiki which is called Wikichild since I have saw that the people of children users of Wikipedia became more and more, but I have realised that the words in Wikipedia was really too hard for them and also me to read and understand. So, I want to build a new wiki to collect articles from Wikipedia and change it shorter and simplier for the childrens to read. At last, I hope the you will support this project. Thank you! Chihonglee (talk) 00:25, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Please leave your sign if you love this project: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikichild

Hm, there are two Wikis for youth yet: Wikijunior (see website) and Wikikids. That's why I don't understand that proposial yet - is there anything different? — Allrounder (talk) 00:12, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost

Dear Abbas,

I've emailed you on a Signpost matter.

Kind regards, Tony (talk) 02:55, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

And silly me, I've sent another email to clarify a few things I didn't express very clearly at all in that email. Sorry, and let me know if there's any other point of clarification needed. Tony (talk) 09:22, 18 May 2013 (UTC)