User:Sj

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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 Cet·te utilisateur·rice 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:

7 July 2025

• 23:2123:21, 7 July 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin/2025/12/ko (hist | edit) [11,520 bytes] 리듬 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "위키미디어 재단 게시판/2025년/12")
• 23:1323:13, 7 July 2025 Event:Wiki Loves Earth 2025 République du Congo (hist | edit) [1,017 bytes] Africany (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<div style="float:{{dirright}}"> 300px|link={{fullurl:Special:UploadWizard|campaign=wle-cg}} Flag_of_the_Republic_of_the_Congo|200px|link={{fullurl:Special:UploadWizard|campaign=wle-cg}} </div> Wiki Loves Earth est un concours photographique international annuel. Les participants prennent des photos du patrimoine naturel local de leur pays et les téléchargent sur Wikimedia Commons. Pour...") originally created as "Events:Wiki Loves Earth 2025 République du Congo"
• 22:2822:28, 7 July 2025 AvoinGLAM/Media Art Archiving on Wikimedia Projects (hist | edit) [37,778 bytes] Loz.ross (talk | contribs) (Adding page content)
• 21:5121:51, 7 July 2025 African Wiki Women Leadership and Fellowship Program Charter/Testimonies (hist | edit) [409 bytes] Ojewuyib (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<gallery mode="packed"> File:AWW Fellowship Experience, Okoro Amarachi Doris.png File:AWW Fellowship Experience, Nwonwu Uchechukwu Pascaline.png File:AWW Fellowship Experience, Oluwapelumi Tosin Aina.png File:AWW Fellowship Experience, Timothy Ojewuyi Blessing.png File:AWW Fellowship Experience, Khadija Issa Twahir.png File:AWW Fellowship Experience, NAnteza Divine Gabriella.png </gallery>")
• 21:3821:38, 7 July 2025 African Wiki Women Leadership and Fellowship Program Charter/2025 Fellows (hist | edit) [394 bytes] Ojewuyib (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Cohort 2: April 2025 -September 2025 == '''Applications received:''' '''Review and selection process:''' March-April 2025 === Selected Fellows Names === *Bibisuccess *Andikan Efiok Eduok *Sharon Atyang *Menna K.R *Seimawu Sugri Seidu *Airypedia")
• 21:3421:34, 7 July 2025 Adoption (hist | edit) [452 bytes] Rheabrux (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Adoption is when a child or infant is (almost always) put into foster care and stays in another person's house and lifes there until all paperwork is finished then the childs (usually in a courthouse ) guardian is legaly changed. Many adopted children don't know they are adopted because they were adopted as infants.") Tags: New article without categories or templates Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 21:1121:11, 7 July 2025 African Wiki Women Leadership and Fellowship Program Charter/Mentors (hist | edit) [277 bytes] Ojewuyib (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Cohort 2: April 2025 -September 2025 == '''Applications received:''' '''Review and selection process:''' March-April 2025 === Selected Fellows Names === *Bibisuccess *Andikan Efiok Eduok *Sharon Atyang *Menna K.R *Seimawu Sugri Seidu *Airypedia")
• 21:0721:07, 7 July 2025 African Wiki Women Leadership and Fellowship Program Charter/Pioneer Fellows (hist | edit) [1,301 bytes] Ojewuyib (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|443x443px|Ambassadors Roles")
• 20:2720:27, 7 July 2025 Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases/2025/Administrative abuse on bnwiki (hist | edit) [24,738 bytes] Kaim Amin (talk | contribs) (New U4C request)
• 20:2220:22, 7 July 2025 WikiWomen* Lunch/Wikimania 2025 (hist | edit) [911 bytes] Chinmayee Mishra (talk | contribs) (Updating information  :)) originally created as "WikiWomen Lunch/EduWikimania 2025"
• 19:3019:30, 7 July 2025 WikiConvention francophone/2025/Programme/Résidence Wiki Rema au Burkina Faso: une belle réussite ! (hist | edit) [1,955 bytes] EKokou (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{WikiConvention 2025/Session |show = {{{show|Full}}} |id = <!-- Laissez vide. À remplir par le comité d'organisation --> |title = Retour d'expérience sur la Résidence d'écriture Wiki Rema 2024 au Burkina Faso |timeblock = <!-- Laissez vide. À remplir par le comité d'organisation --> |start = <!-- Laissez vide. À remplir par le comité d'organisation --> |duration = 25 à 30 minutes |description...")
• 19:2419:24, 7 July 2025 Wikimedia Foundation elections/2025/Candidates/Bobby Shabangu (hist | edit) [16,774 bytes] Bobbyshabangu (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Provide the answer in front of each of the "=" sign --> <!-- Total word count for the whole application (required + optional questions) is 2500 (one thousand) words --> {{WMF elections candidate/2025 |name = Bobby Shabangu |username = Bobbyshabangu |image = Wiki Indaba 2023 - Friday 3 November - Bobby.jpg |image caption = WikiIndaba 2023 Agadir, Morocco |location = Johannesburg, South Africa |languages...")
• 19:0519:05, 7 July 2025 North American Wikimedians/News/2025-08 (hist | edit) [707 bytes] Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk | contribs) (Created page)
• 19:0219:02, 7 July 2025 NARWHAL/July 2025 (hist | edit) [2,631 bytes] Chelsea Chiovelli (WMCA) (talk | contribs) (created page)
• 19:0219:02, 7 July 2025 Wiki Debates/Organizing Team (hist | edit) [1,072 bytes] Danidamiobi (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{Wiki Debates/Main navigation|textposition=start|textcolor=white|opacity=50%}} == Organizing Team & Roles == * '''Project Lead''': Oversees implementation, timeline, affiliate coordination * '''Program Coordinator''': Communicates with affiliates, manages scheduling * '''Content Researcher''': Curates and frames each debate topic * '''Moderator''': Facilitates live debates, ensures neutrality and fairness * '''Tech & Streaming Lead''': Handles Zoom setup, live stream...")
• 18:5818:58, 7 July 2025 Wiki Debates/Participate (hist | edit) [457 bytes] Danidamiobi (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{Wiki Debates/Main navigation|textposition=start|textcolor=white|opacity=50%}} == Organizing Team & Roles == * '''Project Lead''': Oversees implementation, timeline, affiliate coordination * '''Program Coordinator''': Communicates with affiliates, manages scheduling * '''Content Researcher''': Curates and frames each debate topic * '''Moderator''': Facilitates live debates, ensures neutrality and fairness * '''Tech & Streaming Lead''': Handles Zoom setup, live streami...")
• 18:5718:57, 7 July 2025 Wiki Debates/Themes (hist | edit) [1,127 bytes] Danidamiobi (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{Wiki Debates/Main navigation|textposition=start|textcolor=white|opacity=50%}} == Proposed Debate Themes == * Should Wikimedia content moderation be decentralized to local affiliates? * Should oral history have equal editorial weight with written sources? * Does paid editing dilute the volunteer ethos of Wikimedia? * Should Wikimedia support blockchain-based verification of sources? * Can artificial intelligence improve neutrality on Wikipedia? * Can arbitration proce...")

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)