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Hello, I am Samuel Klein, wikipedian, linguaphile, and inclusionist. I am currently working on a national digital library, and at a "purpose of the Internet" research group. I recently directed outreach and community content for a global education project. I am a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Currently working on Matchery to help groups improving the open Internet find legal help in all jurisdictions. 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

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:

• 14:09, 1 October 2016 ‎Wikimedia Finno-Ugric Collaboration/ru (hist) ‎[6,749 bytes] ‎Frhdkazan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Финно-угорское сотрудничество в рамках Викимедиа")
• 13:52, 1 October 2016 ‎Wikimedia Armenia/ru (hist) ‎[7,452 bytes] ‎Frhdkazan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{languages}} {{Infobox Wikimedia Chapter |name = Викмедиа Армения |image = Wikimedia Armenia-Logo.svg |image_border = |size = 150px |al...")
• 11:39, 1 October 2016 ‎Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Hutsul (hist) ‎[1,390 bytes] ‎Talasgat (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{New sister project proposal | status = discussion | project_name = Hutsul Wikipedia | tagline = | project_description = I propose a version...") originally created as "Hutsul Wikipedia"
• 10:39, 1 October 2016 ‎Tech/News/2016/40/cs (hist) ‎[3,230 bytes] ‎Matěj Suchánek (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Technika/Novinky/2016/40")
• 09:29, 1 October 2016 ‎Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/lb (hist) ‎[27,642 bytes] ‎Robby (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== 2015 ==")
• 08:17, 1 October 2016 ‎Wikimedia Nepal/Wiki-a-thon 2016 (hist) ‎[1,435 bytes] ‎राजा उप्रेती (talk | contribs) (Wiki- a-thon 2016)
• 04:58, 1 October 2016 ‎Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Nataoran (hist) ‎[880 bytes] ‎47.150.68.26 (talk) (Created page with "{{New wiki request | status = open | language_code = ais | language_code3 = ais | language_English = Nataoran | language_native = kix | language_Wikidata= |...")
• 00:31, 1 October 2016 ‎Non-free content/es (hist) ‎[79,804 bytes] ‎Ks-M9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "administrador")
• 00:10, 1 October 2016 ‎Steward requests/Username changes/2016-11 (hist) ‎[179 bytes] ‎SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ {{archive header}} Category:Steward requests archive/Username changes == Simple rename requests == == Requests involving merges, usurps or other complication...")
• 00:10, 1 October 2016 ‎Steward requests/Miscellaneous/2016-11 (hist) ‎[53 bytes] ‎SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ {{archive-header}} == Manual requests ==")
• 00:10, 1 October 2016 ‎Steward requests/Bot status/2016-11 (hist) ‎[205 bytes] ‎SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ {{archive-header}} Category:Steward requests archive/Bot status == Global bot status requests == == Removal of global bot status == == Bot status requests =...")
• 00:10, 1 October 2016 ‎Steward requests/Global permissions/2016-11 (hist) ‎[317 bytes] ‎SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ {{archive header}} Category:Steward requests archive/Global permissions == Requests for global rollback permissions == == Requests for global sysop permissio...")
• 00:10, 1 October 2016 ‎Steward requests/Checkuser/2016-11 (hist) ‎[94 bytes] ‎SteinsplitterBot (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOINDEX__ {{archive header}} Category:Steward requests archive/Checkuser == Requests ==")
• 23:11, 30 September 2016 ‎The Wikipedia Library/New branches setup guide/fa (hist) ‎[16,192 bytes] ‎Arian Ar (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''کتابخانهٔ ویکی‌پدیا'''")
• 20:00, 30 September 2016 ‎CentralNotice/Request/Wiki Loves Pride Featured Picture drive (hist) ‎[2,197 bytes] ‎Fæ (talk | contribs) (DRAFT)
• 19:53, 30 September 2016 ‎Tech/News/2016/40/sq (hist) ‎[3,413 bytes] ‎Liridon (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Teknologji/Lajmet/2016/40")
• 19:06, 30 September 2016 ‎Fundraising/2015-16 Report (hist) ‎[55 bytes] ‎Neil P. Quinn-WMF (talk | contribs) (Soft redirect to original page on WMF wiki) (Tag: Visual edit)

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

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 note : soughameter optional)