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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 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 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:

• 22:39, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikimedia Tunisie/Press (hist | edit) ‎[7,605 bytes] ‎Moumou82 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<languages/> {{Wikimedia Tunisie/menu}} {{Wikimedians of the Levant/title|<translate>Wikimedia Tunisia</translate> (ويكيميديا تونس)}} <translate> == 2000s == === 2008 === </translate> * {{fr}} [https://www.webmanagercenter.com/2008/07/10/44500/la-tunisie-sur-wikipedia-interventions-d-urgence/ La Tunisie sur Wikipédia : interventions d'urgence] (''Webmanagercenter'', {{date|10|07|2008}})...")
• 22:00, 29 January 2023 ‎Goings-on/es (hist | edit) ‎[3,224 bytes] ‎La Mantis (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lo que está pasando")
• 21:38, 29 January 2023 ‎Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multimedia and Commons/Allow access to SDC from other wikis (hist | edit) ‎[2,889 bytes] ‎Dominic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Community Wishlist Survey/Proposal header|1={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}||3}}}} <!-- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE --> * '''Problem''': It is not possible to access Structured Data on Commons data via Lua modules and parser functions from other wikis * '''Proposed solution''': Enable cross-wiki arbitrary access to MediaInfo entity data from wikis other than Commons, in the same wa...")
• 21:19, 29 January 2023 ‎Glossary/uk (hist | edit) ‎[91,869 bytes] ‎Perohanych (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Глосарій") Tag: Disambiguation links
• 21:00, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikigrannies User Group/es (hist | edit) ‎[7,161 bytes] ‎La Mantis (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Grupo de usuarios Wikiabuelitas")
• 20:11, 29 January 2023 ‎Sustainability Initiative/hi (hist | edit) ‎[23,405 bytes] ‎मनीष पँवार (talk | contribs) (Created page with "स्थिरता पहल")
• 19:14, 29 January 2023 ‎Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata/Default collapse statements when they have many values (hist | edit) ‎[2,518 bytes] ‎Ainali (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Community Wishlist Survey/Proposal header|1={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}||3}}}} <!-- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE --> * '''Problem''': Some Wikidata items have a huge number of statements for some properties. A few examples are populations on human settlements and administrative areas (e.g. d:Q183#P1082), versions on software (e.g. d:Q83#P348) and (e.g. d:Q87477462#P1120) but there are many more. This makes these...")
• 18:37, 29 January 2023 ‎Movement Charter/Community Consultation/Summary (hist | edit) ‎[10,073 bytes] ‎Abbad (WMF) (talk | contribs) ((detailed feedback to follow later today or tomorrow)) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 18:07, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikimedia Tunisie/Board/fr (hist | edit) ‎[2,370 bytes] ‎Moumou82 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Wikimédia Tunisie")
• 17:47, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikimedia Tunisie/Reports/fr (hist | edit) ‎[690 bytes] ‎Moumou82 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Wikimédia Tunisie")
• 17:43, 29 January 2023 ‎Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Day of the Dead (hist | edit) ‎[57,354 bytes] ‎Susannaanas (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Main navigation|Elements|$2}} <h1> {{label|Q309256}} </h1> {{Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Element/Data|Q309256}} {{Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Element/Introduction|Q309256}} === Texts === {{Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Element/Wikipedia articles|Q309256}} <!--BEGINREPLACE: When you need to replace the query with an updated version, replace between this and ENDREPLACE with {{subst:Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Elementquery|Q309256}} //--> {{subst:Wik...") Tag: 2017 source edit
• 17:40, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikimedia Tunisie/Participants/fr (hist | edit) ‎[1,852 bytes] ‎Moumou82 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Wikimédia Tunisie")
• 17:38, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikimedia Tunisie/Governance/fr (hist | edit) ‎[429 bytes] ‎Moumou82 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Statuts")
• 17:38, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikimedia Tunisie/Events & Projects/fr (hist | edit) ‎[585 bytes] ‎Moumou82 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Évènements")
• 17:37, 29 January 2023 ‎Wikimedia Tunisie/Contact/fr (hist | edit) ‎[1,205 bytes] ‎Moumou82 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Wikimédia Tunisie")
• 17:24, 29 January 2023 ‎Hausa Wiki Librarians Hub (hist | edit) ‎[1,917 bytes] ‎El-hussain14 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Hausa Wiki Librarians Hub''' is a group of Hausa Wikimedians (librarians and other participants) that contribute to the Hausa Wikimedians Users Group and Wikimedia Foundation Projects. These projects include: Wikipedia, wikidata, Wikicommons, wikitionary, wikiquoate etc. The group is open to collaboration and knowledge sharing with individuals/groups with similar goals. The group is an arm of Hausa Wikimedians Users Group == Aims == #To encourage people to edit W...")
• 17:23, 29 January 2023 ‎Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Articles (hist | edit) ‎[944 bytes] ‎Owee mªthias (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Community Wishlist Survey/Proposal header|1={{subst:#titleparts:{{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}||3}}}} <!-- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE --> * '''Problem''':For many wikipedians,Admins and Patrollers don't leave enough time to do some articles,Me for exemple i create an aricle and 8 minutes after he was deleted. * '''Proposed solution''':Give more time to make articles,maybe 30 minutes * '''Who would benefit''':Anyone who want to do articles * '''M...")

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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