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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:

21 May 2026

• 21:0521:05, 21 May 2026 Tajik Wikimedians User Group/Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026 (hist | edit) [635 bytes] Zolfeqar Fatihzadeh (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026 is scheduled to take place in Cluj Napoca from September 17th to 20th. The Tajik Wikimedians UG has designated User:Zinhor Nasrin and Zolfeqar Fatihzadeh as the delegate for this event. To formalize this decision, our members are kindly requested to vote and show their support on this page. == Comments == * {{Support}} -- User:Zolfeqar Fatihzadeh (talk) 22:05, 21 May 2026 (UTC)")
• 18:5218:52, 21 May 2026 Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2026/Vote now/cs (hist | edit) [985 bytes] Rebulka (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Univerzální kodex chování/Koordinační výbor/Volby/2026/Hlasujte nyní")
• 18:1918:19, 21 May 2026 Ombuds commission/2026/Disclosure of CU data/de (hist | edit) [2,090 bytes] Ameisenigel (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ombudskommission/2026/Offenlegung von CU-Daten")
• 17:4817:48, 21 May 2026 R@/Bibliothécaires III (Suite) (hist | edit) [1,287 bytes] Azogbonon (talk | contribs) (Created blank page)
• 17:3517:35, 21 May 2026 CentralNotice/Request/itWikicon 2026 Submissions (hist | edit) [2,278 bytes] Ilario (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{subst:CentralNotice/Request/Source |Name= {{subst:SUBPAGENAME}} |campaigndescription=Banner to collect submissions to the programme of the Italian Wikicon 2026 |from =<!--- Date-Month-Year: 1st January 1900 ---> 15th June 2026 |to =<!--- Date-Month-Year: 1st January 1900 ---> 29th June 2026 |projecttarget = <!--- Wikipedia/Wikibooks/Commons etc. ---> All |languagetarget = <!--- One Language (English) / Multiple Languages (Farsi/English/Malay etc.) ---> Italian and...")
• 17:2317:23, 21 May 2026 CentralNotice/Request/itWikicon 2026 Scholarships (hist | edit) [2,252 bytes] Ilario (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{subst:CentralNotice/Request/Source |Name= {{subst:SUBPAGENAME}} |campaigndescription=Banner to collect scholarships for the Italian Wikicon 2026 |from =<!--- Date-Month-Year: 1st January 1900 ---> 4th June 2026 |to =<!--- Date-Month-Year: 1st January 1900 ---> 18th June 2026 |projecttarget = <!--- Wikipedia/Wikibooks/Commons etc. ---> all |languagetarget = <!--- One Language (English) / Multiple Languages (Farsi/English/Malay etc.) ---> Italian a...")
• 17:0317:03, 21 May 2026 Affiliations Committee/News/Issue 6/ht (hist | edit) [14,319 bytes] ~2026-30603-52 (talk) (Created page with "Your tr anslation in H a l t lan Cr eolExplain your Changes ( Optional)Publish translation Skip to next") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 16:0016:00, 21 May 2026 ESEAP Conference 2026/Report/B20180 (hist | edit) [405 bytes] B20180 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{under construction}} == ESEAP Conference 2026 Report from B20180 == === Things learned at the conference === === Things the participant contributed or participated in or since the conference === === Plans after the conference (from what was learned or contributed in the conference) === === Comments / suggestions about the conference === Category:ESEAP Conference 2026 reports")
• 15:5915:59, 21 May 2026 Wiki Workers United/zh (hist | edit) [20,547 bytes] 魔琴 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "维基工人联盟")
• 14:1914:19, 21 May 2026 Egypt Wikimedians User Group/Calendar (hist | edit) [22 bytes] Ibrahim.ID (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''May 2026''' * * * *")
• 13:3613:36, 21 May 2026 Wiki Workers United/en (hist | edit) [19,283 bytes] FuzzyBot (talk | contribs) (Updating to match new version of source page)
• 13:1413:14, 21 May 2026 Wiki Third-Party Verification on Telegram (hist | edit) [2,768 bytes] GoldenJDM (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{New sister project proposal | status = discussion | project_name = Wikimedia Third-Party Verification on Telegram | tagline = Verified Wikimedia Contributors on Telegram | project_description = Allowing the Wikimedia Foundation to become a Third-Party Verifier on Telegram so it can issue official custom verification badges (purple W icon + "This user was verified by organisation 'wikimedia'") to active editors, official accounts and trus...")
• 12:3312:33, 21 May 2026 Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026/Submissions/Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (hist | edit) [2,507 bytes] NSzafran-WMF (talk | contribs) (+)
• 12:1812:18, 21 May 2026 Igbo Wikiquote 200 WikiQuote Challenge/project Resources (hist | edit) [73 bytes] Akwugo (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Welcome,_newcomers Welcome New comers]]")
• 11:5811:58, 21 May 2026 Wiki Loves Iran 2026/Participate/uz (hist | edit) [1,290 bytes] Panpanchik (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Viki Eronni Sevadi 2026/Ishtirok etish")
• 11:5311:53, 21 May 2026 Wiki-N'zuñdeuh/Wikiclubs/IBAI/WNF 17/05/2026 (hist | edit) [2,205 bytes] Zra Josue (talk | contribs) (création de la méta page de la session de formation portant sur Wikidata du 17 mai 2026 à l'IBAI de Garoua)
• 11:5011:50, 21 May 2026 ItWikiCon/2026/Budget (hist | edit) [1,952 bytes] Dorine Barth (WMCH) (talk | contribs) (Riepilogo dei costi dell'evento (i costi non sono ancora definitivi, la tabella verrà aggiornata progressivamente))

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...

(General no te : soughameter optional)