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Welcome to my page! I am Samuel Klein, wikipedian, linguaphile, and 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 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 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).

Recent peering: User:Sj/peer | Challenges | Federated knowledge | Design chats

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

Movement thoughts on roles / fundraising / Chapter-WMF discussions | North American Wikimedians
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:

• 15:15, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Europe/uk (hist | edit) ‎[13,930 bytes] ‎Xnija (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Вікімедіа Європа")
• 15:04, 12 August 2022 ‎ESEAP Conference 2022/Organisers (hist | edit) ‎[1,460 bytes] ‎Exec8 (talk | contribs) (update) originally created as "ESEAP Conference 2022/Organisors"
• 14:23, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/ICOM Workshop (hist | edit) ‎[233 bytes] ‎Janbery (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Navbar}}")
• 14:23, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Contact (hist | edit) ‎[174 bytes] ‎Janbery (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Navbar}} For general information info@wikimedia.cz For institutions eva.vele@wikimedia.cz")
• 14:23, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Suggested Articles (hist | edit) ‎[133 bytes] ‎Janbery (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Navbar}} ''To be created during the conference.''")
• 14:20, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Call for Action (hist | edit) ‎[2,326 bytes] ‎Janbery (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Navbar}} == Wikimedia Commons == If you have knowledge and access to media files and collections depicting objects from categories included in the [https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/RedList_Afghanistan_english.pdf Red List of ICOM regarding the Afghan Antiquities at risk], that are in public domain or available under a CC-BY-SA license please upload them to [https://commons.w...")
• 14:14, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Summit 2022/Schedule (hist | edit) ‎[1,979 bytes] ‎CKibelka (WMF) (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikimedia Summit 2022/Header|2}} Schedule, version 1.0 as of August 12, 2022. == Friday == {| class="wikitable" width="60%" style="text-align:center" !Time in CEST !Time in UTC !Session title |- |10:00 - 12:00 |8:00 - 10:00 |'''Opening Session''' ''Welcome (back) to the Wikimedia Summit, Introduce & refresh: Movement Strategy. Begin to map our work'' |- |12:00 - 13:30 |10:00 - 11:30 |''Lunch'' |- |13:30 - 15:00 |11:30 - 13:00 |'''Regional Mapping''' ''Regional-Focuse...") Tag: Visual edit
• 14:12, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Regulations (hist | edit) ‎[4,779 bytes] ‎Janbery (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Navbar}} '''Main regulations protecting cultural heritage from Southeast Europe.''' This list is non-exhaustive. All instruments and regulations should be read to include eventual amendments and/or implementation acts. == International Instruments ==  ; The Hague Convention of 14 May 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Ratification: Romania (1958)...")
• 13:12, 12 August 2022 ‎Private Incident Reporting System/Timeline and Updates (hist | edit) ‎[1,586 bytes] ‎MAna (WMF) (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Draft}} {{Private Incident Reporting System/Navigation|active = 1}} To get this started here’s some questions we’ve been wondering about: How do you currently deal with inappropriate behavior in your community? What are some of the most common UCoC violations that you notice in your community? How are these currently being reported and processed? Is there a standard approach? Are we missing something? What worries you about this project? One thing that comes up a...")
• 13:10, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk (hist | edit) ‎[6,974 bytes] ‎Janbery (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wikimedia Czech Republic/Red List of Southeast European Cultural Objects at Risk/Navbar}} {{Rquote|left|International cooperation is key in the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural property, and everyone can play a part in protecting the world’s cultural heritage. Help us spread the word and raise awareness about the threat of illicit trafficking in Afghanistan: share this page with friends and professional contacts to ensure that as many people as possible...")
• 12:52, 12 August 2022 ‎Friendly space policies/kcg (hist | edit) ‎[5,873 bytes] ‎Kambai Akau (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Á̱ fa á̱nietnta̱m á̱ ku tak ma̱ng a̱mba ba̱ yok tangka̱i za̱kwa ba̱ na khwi kyang hu á̱ tak ma̱ng a̱mba a̱ni di̱ mi̱n byian jen.")
• 12:19, 12 August 2022 ‎Mr Macaroni Skit for Yoruba Wikipedia/Events (hist | edit) ‎[338 bytes] ‎T Cells (talk | contribs) (Created page with "===Wikimanian 2022===")
• 11:43, 12 August 2022 ‎IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/IP Editing Restriction Study/Farsi Wikipedia/fi (hist | edit) ‎[45,529 bytes] ‎Stryn (talk | contribs) (Created page with "IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/IP Editing Restriction Study/Farsi Wikipedia")
• 11:26, 12 August 2022 ‎Answers/ja (hist | edit) ‎[1,164 bytes] ‎Marimonomori (talk | contribs) (Created page with "回答")
• 10:27, 12 August 2022 ‎Wikimedia Foundation elections/2022/Announcement/Election Compass page, 16-08-2022/ml (hist | edit) ‎[5,139 bytes] ‎Vis M (talk | contribs) (Created page with "വിക്കിമീഡിയ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പുകൾ/2022/പ്രഖ്യാപനം/തിരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് കോമ്പസ് താൾ, 16-08-2022")
• 10:13, 12 August 2022 ‎Content Partnerships Hub/Helpdesk/Content Upload/Template (hist | edit) ‎[974 bytes] ‎Eric Luth (WMSE) (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Content Partnerships Hub/Header|title=<translate><!--T:1--> Content Uploads</translate>|subpage=3}}{{Ptag|WMSE-Content-partnerships-support-2021-Helpdesk}}<div class="plainlinks" style="background: #FFFFFF; padding:1em; font-family:'Gotham','Montserrat', sans-serif; font-size:110%; text-align:justify; max-width:900px; margin:0 auto;"> == Description == == Justification == === On behalf of the requester === * Does it contribute to filling gaps? * Does it help local o...") Tag: Visual edit
• 10:02, 12 August 2022 ‎Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/June 2022 meeting/fr (hist | edit) ‎[5,078 bytes] ‎MPossoupe (WMF) (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Réunion de juin 2022")

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

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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