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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:

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• २१:४४२१:४४, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wiki Women* Task Force/pt (hist | edit) [१०,६०९ बाइटानि] Anita Braga (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "Grupo de trabalho Wiki Women*")
• १८:३७१८:३७, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ GLAM Wiki 2025 (hist | edit) [९२ बाइटानि] Conbene (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (New page) Tag: New article without categories or templates
• १७:४४१७:४४, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Content Partnerships Hub/Helpdesk/Working Groups/fr (hist | edit) [१६,८८५ बाइटानि] 87.227.104.89 (सम्भासनं) (Created page with "Hub des partenariats de contenu / Service d'assistance/Groups de travail")
• १७:२०१७:२०, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wikimedia Foundation Audit Committee/2024-10-08 (hist | edit) [५,७१७ बाइटानि] 2600:1700:8fd0:6a50:92f:e5fe:98fb:2e68 (सम्भासनं) (Created page with " '''Wikimedia Foundation Audit Committee Meeting''' '''October 8, 2024''' '''Location: Virtual''' '''10:00 - 11:30 am PDT''' '''17:00 - 18:30 UTC''' '''Participants''' ''Committee Members Present:'' ''Audit Committee Chair: Kathy Collins*'' ''Audit Committee Board Members: Raju Narisetti*, Lorenzo Losa*'' ''Audit Committee Alternates: Mike Peel*, Luis Bitencourt-Emilio*'' ''Audit Committee Advisors: Julian Singh'' ''Non-Committee Members Present:'' ''WMF Chief Ex...") Tag: New article without categories or templates
• १५:४६१५:४६, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wiki Women* Task Force/Updates/pt (hist | edit) [३,३५९ बाइटानि] Anita Braga (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "Grupo de Trabalho Wiki Mulheres*/Atualizações")
• १४:२६१४:२६, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wikimedia Foundation/Legal/Community Resilience and Sustainability/Trust and Safety/be (hist | edit) [१३,०८२ बाइटानि] Pavel200071 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "Фонд Вікімедыя/Законны/Устойлівасць супольнасці/Давер і Бяспека")
• १३:३२१३:३२, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wiki for She/Wiki for She/ar (hist | edit) [५,२०९ बाइटानि] Mervat (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "ويكي هنّ\ويكي هنّ")
• १२:४३१२:४३, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Education/News/July 2022/Wikimedia for Illiterate Persons/ko (hist | edit) [६,४१५ बाइटानि] 리듬 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "교육/뉴스/2022년 7월/문맹자를 위한 위키미디어")
• १२:०६१२:०६, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wiki for She/Wiki for She/en (hist | edit) [३,६२० बाइटानि] FuzzyBot (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Updating to match new version of source page)
• १०:३३१०:३३, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wikisource Conference 2025/Submissions/Preserving and Activating Free License books and Manuscripts through Competitions and Training (hist | edit) [१,७६४ बाइटानि] Rahmaziz (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "<languages /> ==Title == Preserving and Activating Free License books and Manuscripts through Competitions and Training ==Abstract/Description== Since 2020 Wikimedia Indonesia have been actively supporting Wikisource communities in Indonesia through competitions and training. These activities invite Wikisource contributors to engage deeper into the myriads of books and literature, ranging from Indonesian books, Javanese, Balinese and Sundanese scripts to Malay-Arabic s...")
• १०:१२१०:१२, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ QW2024 (hist | edit) [१,०८८ बाइटानि] Zblace (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created blank page) Tag: 2017 source edit
• ०९:४५०९:४५, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Resources/Organizers Guide/ko (hist | edit) [३,८१० बाइटानि] 리듬 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "위키백과 도서관/1Lib1Ref/리소스/주최자 가이드")
• ०८:३३०८:३३, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Affiliations Committee/Resolutions/tl (hist | edit) [९,४८४ बाइटानि] Buszmail (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "Affiliations Committee/Mga ''Resolution''")
• ०८:०७०८:०७, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025/Team (hist | edit) [१,२४२ बाइटानि] J ansari (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "==Team==")
• ०३:१७०३:१७, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wikimedia Indonesia/Dana Wiki/GSF24 Laporan Komunitas Wikimedia Denpasar (hist | edit) [३,४९८ बाइटानि] Dimas H (WMID) (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ <!-- Tulisan di dalam tanda panah hanya sebagai petunjuk dan tidak akan muncul saat Anda menerbitkan halaman. Jangan ubah-ubah teks dan koding yang telah ada di dalamnya. --> <!-- Hubungi tim hibah di hibah@wikimedia.or.id untuk bertanya.--> == Nama kegiatan == '''''' == Pelaksana == ; <nowiki>Komunitas: </nowiki> : Komunitas Wikimedia  ; <nowiki>Akun penanggung jawab: </nowiki> : {{u|}} ; <nowiki>Akun anggota: </nowiki> : {{u|}} : {{u|}} : {{u|}} : {{u|}} :...")
• ०३:१७०३:१७, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wikimedia Indonesia/Dana Wiki/GSF24 Laporan Komunitas Wikimedia Padang (hist | edit) [३,४६४ बाइटानि] Dimas H (WMID) (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ <!-- Tulisan di dalam tanda panah hanya sebagai petunjuk dan tidak akan muncul saat Anda menerbitkan halaman. Jangan ubah-ubah teks dan koding yang telah ada di dalamnya. --> <!-- Hubungi tim hibah di hibah@wikimedia.or.id untuk bertanya.--> == Nama kegiatan == '''''' == Pelaksana == ; <nowiki>Komunitas: </nowiki> : Komunitas Wikimedia  ; <nowiki>Akun penanggung jawab: </nowiki> : {{u|}} ; <nowiki>Akun anggota: </nowiki> : {{u|}} : {{u|}} : {{u|}} : {{u|}} :...")
• ०३:१७०३:१७, १९ दिसम्बर २०२४ Wikimedia Indonesia/Dana Wiki/GSF24 Laporan Komunitas Wikimedia Madura (hist | edit) [३,४८३ बाइटानि] Dimas H (WMID) (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ <!-- Tulisan di dalam tanda panah hanya sebagai petunjuk dan tidak akan muncul saat Anda menerbitkan halaman. Jangan ubah-ubah teks dan koding yang telah ada di dalamnya. --> <!-- Hubungi tim hibah di hibah@wikimedia.or.id untuk bertanya.--> == Nama kegiatan == '''''' == Pelaksana == ; <nowiki>Komunitas: </nowiki> : Komunitas Wikimedia  ; <nowiki>Akun penanggung jawab: </nowiki> : {{u|}} ; <nowiki>Akun anggota: </nowiki> : {{u|}} : {{u|}} : {{u|}} : {{u|}} :...")

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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