User talk:KStineRowe (WMF)

Thank you for helping to create the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations

		Wikimedia 2030
		Thank you for joining me and the core team on this journey and for your work and commitment to build our movement’s future. I am grateful for everything you've done to create the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations! --Nicole Ebber (WMDE) (talk) 17:12, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Consultations

Hi there,

I just thought I'd introduce myself (I think we may have actually passed each other in the wind before on the strategy bit in meta, but I can't remember any discussions we've had).

Is your role about how the WMF runs consultations with the communities on different areas? I wasn't quite sure as "movement consultations" sounds more like consultations about our general mission as opposed to specific projects/changes, but not sure if that's just a naming bit.

Asaf and Whatamidoing and I have had some good discussions about agreeing what the particularly common flashpoints are and why WMF/community projects seem to snarl up into failure, so explosively, so regularly. Which obviously is not really beneficial to anyone.

Don't want to launch into a summary of that, or questions, or symphony-length summaries of my own viewpoints until I'd checked that has anything to do with your field!

Cheers, Nosebagbear (talk) 16:07, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello back! I think we're a little familiar, yes, but thank you for reaching out. Your summary hits at the emphasis of my role - helping teams across WMF consult communities (broadly defined) on specific projects/changes. Asaf and WhatamIdoing are great thought partners, and I talk with them and others about many recurring flash points, as well as approaches that do work well that we can build on. Overall, I'll be working on things like coordination support, communications guidance, and sharing best practices. Suffice to say it's a new role and the general focus is internal support, though I'm still scoping out where to focus my time. I'm also trying to attend some of Asaf's Community Clinics - hope to see you there. :) --KStineRowe (WMF) (talk) 16:37, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Tools of the trade!

Please help translate to your language

Tools of the trade!

Thank you for learning about MassMessage and CentralNotice in today's session. Here is your certificate of completion!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 16:36, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021 submission

Dear Kelsi,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submission "WMF Communications Department Roundtable" has been accepted as a discussion, and it was scheduled for 17:00 (UTC) on Saturday, 6 November (see the draft schedule). Considering that the conference will have language interpretation from English into Russian and vice versa, you have the choice between English and Russian as a language that you will use in your session. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please follow the instructions on this page. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 08:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Sunday October 31 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

A swan reflects.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June, July, and September SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter Drafting Committee Set Up Process, Next Steps for Brand Work, 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday October 31, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:30 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call a half-hour later in UTC time due to WikidataCon*.)--Pharos (talk) 01:41, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Well played Kelsi

🎶 Thank you! 🎶

Your support and participation were instrumental to the Wikimedia Sound Logo contest. Thank you for playing a major role in the global call for the Sound of all Human Knowledge!

The Sound Logo Team

MPourzaki (WMF) (talk) 16:32, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

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You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.

This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.

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RamzyM (WMF) 22:53, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

7 Days Left to Submit Your Program Proposal for WikiIndaba 2025!

Hello KStineRowe (WMF),

Just a friendly reminder — there are only 7 days left to submit your session proposal for WikiIndaba 2025!

If you’ve been thinking about sharing a project, idea, tool, research, or story that can inspire or support the African Wikimedia movement, now is the time! Whether you're based in Africa or in the diaspora, your voice matters.

Submission deadline: 20th July 2025

Submit your proposal now

Let’s shape an inclusive, diverse, and impactful conference together! 💡 Tell a friend, remind a colleague — let’s make WikiIndaba 2025 unforgettable.

Warmly,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
On behalf of the WikiIndaba 2025 Organizing Team

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11:08, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Only 3 Days Left to Submit Your Program Proposal for WikiIndaba 2025!

Hello KStineRowe (WMF),

Just a quick reminder — there are only 3 days left to submit your session proposal for WikiIndaba 2025!

If you have a project, idea, tool, research, or story that aligns with and uplifts the African Wikimedia movement, now is the time to share it. We welcome contributions from across the continent and the diaspora.

📅 Submission deadline: 20th July 2025

Submit your proposal now

Need help with your submission?

Join our Programming Office Hour happening today at 1:00 PM UTC (starting in 1 hour and 30 minutes). We’ll be there to assist you with your questions or if you're having any challenges filling out the submission form.

🔗 Join here: meet.google.com/hpb-ywbg-fqk

Let’s shape an inclusive and impactful WikiIndaba 2025 together. Don’t wait — share your idea!

Warmly,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
On behalf of the WikiIndaba 2025 Organizing Team

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11:30, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

One More Week to Submit Your Proposal for WikiIndaba 2025!

Hello KStineRowe (WMF),

Good news! The WikiIndaba 2025 program submission deadline has been extended to July 27, 2025!

We are especially looking for more poster session proposals. Have a project, research, or initiative you’d love to present visually? Poster sessions are a great way to highlight your work and start engaging conversations with fellow Wikimedians.

Submit your proposal today and be part of shaping the future of free knowledge in Africa!

👉 Submit here:

Submit your proposal now

Let’s make WikiIndaba 2025 inspiring, inclusive, and unforgettable!

The WikiIndaba 2025 Program Team

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Bonjour KStineRowe (WMF),

Bonne nouvelle ! La date limite pour proposer une session pour WikiIndaba 2025 est prolongée jusqu’au 27 juillet 2025 !

Nous recherchons en particulier plus de sessions d'affiches. Avez-vous un projet, une initiative ou une recherche à partager ? Les affiches sont une belle façon de valoriser visuellement votre travail et d'engager la communauté.

👉 Soumettez votre proposition ici :

Submit your proposal now

Construisons ensemble un WikiIndaba 2025 mémorable et inspirant !

Le comité du programme WikiIndaba 2025

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,KStineRowe (WMF) مرحبًا

يسرّنا أن نعلن تمديد الموعد النهائي لتقديم الجلسات في مؤتمر WikiIndaba 2025 حتى يوم 27 يوليو 2025!

نحن نبحث بشكل خاص عن مزيد من جلسات الملصقات. هل لديك مشروع، أو مبادرة، أو بحث ترغب في مشاركته؟ جلسات الملصقات تتيح لك عرض أفكارك بشكل بصري ومميز.

👉 قدّم اقتراحك الآن عبر:

Submit your proposal now

فلنُسهم معًا في إنجاح WikiIndaba 2025 بإبداعاتنا الجماعية!

— لجنة برنامج WikiIndaba 2025

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09:26, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

WikiIndaba Hackathon 2025 Registration Open!

Hello KStineRowe (WMF),

Registration for the WikiIndaba Hackathon 2025 is now open! If you are excited to join in person or virtually, this is your opportunity to collaborate, code, and create with Wikimedians across Africa and beyond.

• Dates: November 21–23, 2025
• Registration open until: November 23, 2025
• WikiIndaba Hackathon

Don’t miss out—be part of building the future of Wikimedia!

Learn more about the Hackathon: WikiIndaba Hackathon

Warm regards,
WikiIndaba Hackathon 2025 Organizing Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk)
16:07, 03 October 2025 (UTC)

WikiIndaba Hackathon 2025 Registration Open!

Hello KStineRowe (WMF),

Registration for the WikiIndaba Hackathon 2025 is now open! If you are excited to join in person or virtually, this is your opportunity to collaborate, code, and create with Wikimedians across Africa and beyond.

• Dates: November 21–23, 2025
• Registration open until: November 23, 2025
• WikiIndaba Hackathon

Don’t miss out—be part of building the future of Wikimedia!

Learn more about the Hackathon: WikiIndaba Hackathon

Warm regards,
WikiIndaba Hackathon 2025 Organizing Team

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16:07, 03 October 2025 (UTC)

Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello KStineRowe (WMF),

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

Register for the Event here

If you can’t join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.

Strengthen your collaboration through CapX

We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.

CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.

Whether you’re an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.

Sign up to CapX

More information

→ Explore the CapX platform: capx.toolforge.org
→ Read: User Guide & FAQ
→ Watch: Meet the Capacity Exchange video
→ Join our Telegram community chat: CapX Telegram Group

If your community, usergroup or affiliate would like to have a CapX organization profile, please reach out at capx@wmnobrasil.org, and we’d be delighted to support you.

With warm regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Upcoming Wikimedia Café meetup regarding the the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan

↠Pine (✉) 03:38, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Wrongly announced at Wikimedia Café/minutes 2019 09 as Saturday 12 April 2026? What is wrong? Saturday, or 12 April? --Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) 09:02, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Geertivp: where did you find a link to Wikimedia Café/minutes 2019 09? That page has archived information. It shouldn't have been linked from any of the recent announcements. ↠Pine (✉) 06:36, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I actually meant this page: Wikimedia Café#April 2026 meeting with a focus on the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan. Thanks to correct the wrong date. Saturday is 11 April; Sunday is 12 April. --Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) 08:27, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

@Geertivp: Now I understand. Sorry for the confusion. The date in most time zones will be 11 April. I'll make a few updates to that page. ↠Pine (✉) 04:56, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Something to consider

Hi Kelsi,

Thanks for attending the 11 April 2026 session of the Wikimedia Café. I'm catching up on many Wikimedia issues in my backlog this weekend, including notes from that call.

Regarding the upcoming Event:Global Call: Annual Planning Around the Puzzle Globe, if WMF would like, and I will completely understand if WMF wouldn't for any of several possible good reasons, I would be willing to put the Café "brand" on that and be the facilitator, which hopefully would free some WMF staff capacity to focus more on substance and less on form during that meeting, and also would align with me doing typical announcements of the event as a Café event in advance which could lead to more participation, if WMF thinks this a good idea. I don't wish to have any unwelcome imposition from me personally or the Café "brand" on what WMF wants to accomplish in that meeting or how WMF wants to run it. I'm merely making an offer in case WMF thinks this offer would be helpful.

If there is a separate May session of the Café then it probably will focus on the Annual Plan in further iterations of the Plan's development, although that Café session can be a separate event that goes into more depth and runs longer than the 1-hour WMF-planned global call. Given that staff participated in the April session which discussed the Annual Plan, I don't expect any staff to spend their time in such a separate call in May, although staff are welcome if they'd like to attend.

Please let me know your preference. I hope that you're having a nice weekend.

Thanks,

↠Pine (✉) 05:23, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer, but we've got facilitation and branding covered. I'll upload the Commons slides when they're ready. Some recent Diff posts relevant to our conversation include https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/10/17/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia/ and https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/. KStineRowe (WMF) (talk) 17:56, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

• Hi Kelsi, is there an update regarding the slides? Also, now that the Annual Plan has more substance, is there a Wikimedia Café-style meeting that you and other WMF teammates would find helpful for later in May or in June? Ideally, a Café meeting in May or June regarding the Annual Plan would be helpful to WMF. I'm thinking that I'd offer a 2-hour session that starts on a Saturday morning (8 AM PT / 11 AM ET), and another 2-hour session that starts approximately 13 hours later for people who are in different time zones and/or have reasons for not attending the earlier session such as work or religious considerations. I'm not necessarily asking WMF to send any representatives to such meetings, and I don't want to have "meetings for the sake of meetings", but this is my current concept of what might be useful from me for Café sessions allowing folks to discuss the more-developed Annual Plan. Thanks, ↠Pine (✉) 05:54, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

  Hello Pine, Manar has replied to you about a next Wikimedia Café meeting and has linked to the deck on Commons (the same one from the global call) on the annual plan talk page. KStineRowe (WMF) (talk) 12:29, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Request for slide deck & readership stats

Hi Kelsi, in Wikimedia Café/Reports/Meeting notes for 2026 04 would you please add a Commons link or thumbnail of the slide deck that you shared? Also, I don't see a recent Diff post regarding readership stats, and I'd appreciate a link to it if you have one, or an update regarding when the post will happen. ↠Pine (✉) 02:58, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Follow up from the 11 April 2026 session of the Wikimedia Café

Hello! Thanks for signing up for the Wikimedia Café meetup of 11 April 2026 at 14:00 UTC, which focused on the the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan.

Notes regarding the discussion are now available on Meta. Where needed, please improve the notes!

Based on the notes, approximately 3 days from today, I plan to add comments on the general WMF Annual Plan 2026-2027 talk page.

The next Wikimedia Café meetup probably will happen in May.

Thanks again,
↠Pine (✉) 03:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

You may be eligible to vote in the U4C election

I am contacting you because you previously voted in elections related to the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). You may be eligible to vote in the current U4C election, which is open now and closes on 2 June 2026. You can find out more about the candidates and the election on the election page on Meta, and from there you can access the vote itself. Your participation in these elections is important to the governance of Wikimedia communities, and your time spent learning about the candidates and voting is appreciated.

-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 17:16, 20 May 2026 (UTC)