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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. de-2 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf fortgeschrittenem Niveau. es-2 Esta persona tiene un conocimiento intermedio del español. fr-2 Cette personne dispose de connaissances intermédiaires en français. he-1 משתמש זה יודע עברית ברמה בסיסית. zh-1 这位用户的中文达到初级水平。 ar-0 هذا المستخدم ليس لديه معرفة بالعربية (أو يفهمها بصعوبة بالغة).
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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:

10 June 2026

• 13:0113:01, 10 June 2026 Wikimedia movement/cop (hist | edit) [6,288 bytes] ~2026-34363-77 (talk) (Created page with "report") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 12:3012:30, 10 June 2026 Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026/Submissions/Small Grants, Big Workshop: Let's share and publicize our microgrant programs! (hist | edit) [3,994 bytes] I JethroBT (WMF) (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- DO NOT USE THE TRANSLATION TOOL <nowiki><translate></nowiki> -->{{WMCEEM 2026 sub form/submissions/Full |show = {{{show|Full}}} |id = <!-- Please leave empty. To be completed by the organizing committee --> |title = Small Grants, Big Workshop: Let's share and publicize our microgrant programs!<!-- Please add the title of your presentation --> |username = User:I JethroBT (WMF)<!-- Please add your user names...") Tag: Disambiguation links
• 12:2512:25, 10 June 2026 Global locks/ig (hist | edit) [5,682 bytes] Juliegwen (talk | contribs) (Translated from English to igbo)
• 12:0712:07, 10 June 2026 Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026/Submissions/Empowering Local Wikimedia Research Communities: Lessons from Ukraine (hist | edit) [3,191 bytes] MarianaSenkiv (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- DO NOT USE THE TRANSLATION TOOL <nowiki><translate></nowiki> -->{{WMCEEM 2026 sub form/submissions/Full |show = {{{show|Full}}} |id = <!-- Please leave empty. To be completed by the organizing committee --> |title = Empowering Local Wikimedia Research Communities: Lessons from Ukraine |username = MarianaSenkiv |Affiliation = Wikimedia Ukraine |type of submission = Lightning talk |slide = <!...")
• 11:0611:06, 10 June 2026 Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026/Submissions/Iranian Wikimedians Through War and Internet Shutdowns (hist | edit) [2,207 bytes] Darafsh (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{WMCEEM 2026 sub form/submissions/Full |show = {{{show|Full}}} |id = |title = The Iranian Wikimedia Community During War and Internet Shutdowns |username ={{u|Darafsh}}, and {{u|MDehravan (IWUG)}} |Affiliation =Iranian Wikimedians User Group |type of submission = lecture |slide = |Abstract = This presentation explores how the Iranian Wikimedia community continued its activities during...")
• 10:4710:47, 10 June 2026 DE Marginalisiertes Wissen (hist | edit) [15,203 bytes] Christopher Schwarzkopf (WMDE) (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- ============================================================ Teamseite „Marginalisiertes Wissen" – Wikimedia Deutschland Vorgeschlagener Seitentitel auf Meta-Wiki: Wikimedia Deutschland/Marginalisiertes Wissen FARBPALETTE (bei Bedarf gegen offizielle re•shape-Hexwerte austauschen – einfach Suchen/Ersetzen): Violett (Primär): #4F2D7F Magenta (Akzent): #D5367F Amber (Highlight): #FFB81C Sand (Flächen...")
• 10:4110:41, 10 June 2026 Marginalisiertes Wissen (hist | edit) [0 bytes] Christopher Schwarzkopf (WMDE) (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- ============================================================ Teamseite „Marginalisiertes Wissen" – Wikimedia Deutschland Vorgeschlagener Seitentitel auf Meta-Wiki: Wikimedia Deutschland/Marginalisiertes Wissen FARBPALETTE (bei Bedarf gegen offizielle re•shape-Hexwerte austauschen – einfach Suchen/Ersetzen): Violett (Primär): #4F2D7F Magenta (Akzent): #D5367F Amber (Highlight): #FFB81C Sand (Flächen...")
• 10:4010:40, 10 June 2026 Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia/Reports/Wikipedia 25 in Malaysia Booth (hist | edit) [8,157 bytes] Wiki Asmah (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|Volunteers with booth visitors during the second day One of the events related to the Wikipedia 25 celebration in Malaysia was held by having a booth in the Avenue K shopping mall near the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) LRT station. The booth was set up for 2 days from 6th June to 7th June, 2026. ==Representatives== ==Report summary== ==Discussion/Contribution== ==Plans after the event== ==Recommendati...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 09:2209:22, 10 June 2026 Projet:Mission Postale/Notes préparatoires (hist | edit) [2,379 bytes] M0tty (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Photos == ;Suggestions pour améliorer la qualité des photos : * Privilégier les fonds blancs ou gris. Les photos sur fonds noirs sont plus difficiles à réussir et rendent moins bien. * Ne pas hésiter à faire des durées de poses relativement longues (de l'ordre du 10^e de seconde), en réduisant l'ouverture de l'objectif, pour garantir une netteté sur toute la longueur de l'objet. (Exemple) Ce...")
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Breakout Tables (hist | edit) [516 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create session page with Wiki AI template)
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Fun Activity (hist | edit) [326 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create session page with Wiki AI template)
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Empowering Small Wikis (hist | edit) [466 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create session page with Wiki AI template)
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Tools for Reliability and Defense (hist | edit) [417 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create session page with Wiki AI template)
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Building with AI (hist | edit) [368 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create session page with Wiki AI template)
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Community and Culture (hist | edit) [503 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create session page with Wiki AI template)
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Contact (hist | edit) [365 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create Contact subpage)
• 07:5607:56, 10 June 2026 Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI/Resources (hist | edit) [332 bytes] Fuzheado (talk | contribs) (Create Resources subpage)

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...

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