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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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• ११:५२११:५२, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Wikimedia projects/so (hist | edit) [९,७८१ बाइटानि] ژل آواسی (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Aqoonso mashaariicda Wikimedia)
• ११:२६११:२६, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2024/Menna K.R (hist | edit) [४६ बाइटानि] Menna K.R (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "I am an applicant for Affiliations Committees") Tags: New article without categories or templates very short new page Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• १०:३७१०:३७, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2024/Robertjamal12 (hist | edit) [३,५३१ बाइटानि] Robertjamal12 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (submitted application) Tag: Visual edit
• ०९:५६०९:५६, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ WikiIndaba 2024/Report/Mahmoud Sabir97 (hist | edit) [३,१६७ बाइटानि] Mahmoud Sabir97 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Rapport de participation à WikiIndaba 2024) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• ०७:३६०७:३६, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Tech/News/2024/47/pt (hist | edit) [४,४५४ बाइटानि] Juan90264 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "Tecnologia/Novidades/2024/47")
• ०७:३१०७:३१, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Tech/News/2024/47/pt-br (hist | edit) [४,४२२ बाइटानि] Juan90264 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "Novidades técnicas/2024/47")
• ०७:१६०७:१६, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ CIS-A2K/Community Collaboration/Form/Submitted/Assamese WikiSanjog Conference 2025 (hist | edit) [४,८६३ बाइटानि] Ishanjyotibora (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ == Basic Information == === Name of the Event/Activity === <!---- Please add the name of the event/activity you wish to propose for collaboration ----> * Assamese WikiSanjog Conference 2025 === Type of Event/Activity === <!---- Please add the type of event/activity in the below line ----> *This will be a one-day collaborative event between Assamese Wikimedia Community and CIS-A2K, that is intended as the official closing of the first phase of [https://meta.wik...")
• ०६:५४०६:५४, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Wiki4WorldHearingDay2025/Promote (hist | edit) [१,०५१ बाइटानि] CorraleH (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Creating the Promote page)
• ०६:३५०६:३५, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Wiki4WorldHearingDay2025/Guide/Translate (hist | edit) [३,३०३ बाइटानि] CorraleH (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Creating Translate page)
• ०६:२२०६:२२, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2024/Uncle Bash007 (hist | edit) [३,०५९ बाइटानि] Uncle Bash007 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "<!-- README: Provide the answer in front of each of the "=" sign and delete the questions --> {{AffCom candidate/2024 |username = Uncle Bash007 |name = <!-- [optional question; will display username if left blank] What is your your preferred name? (this could be your user name, full name, or another name you prefer to use) --> |languages = <!-- [required question] What languages do you speak, and at what fluency level? (Please include...")
• ०६:०९०६:०९, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Requests for new languages/Wikivoyage Hausa (hist | edit) [५३२ बाइटानि] El-hussain14 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "{{New wiki request | status = open | comment = | language_code = hau | language_code3 = hau | language_English = Hausa | language_native = Hausa | language_Wikidata= Q | new_language = no | directionality = LTR | project_English = Wikivoyage | project_native = Wikivodič | ns_project = | ns_project_talk = | enable_upload = no | logo = | timezone = Africa/Nigeria | add_namespaces = Wikivoyage (WikivoyageHBS for...")
• ०५:१२०५:१२, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Wiki4WorldHearingDay2025/Topics/Wikidata/Edit (hist | edit) [२,३३८ बाइटानि] CorraleH (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Creating list of Wikidata items)
• ०५:०६०५:०६, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Rapport sur les enjeux de contributions sur Wikipédia : Yokola Capacity (hist | edit) [५,९९७ बाइटानि] Africany (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Création de Rapport de la session sur les enjeux de contributions sur Wikipédia) originally created as "Rapport sur les enjeux de contribution : Yokola Capacity"
• ०४:३२०४:३२, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Wiki4WorldHearingDay2025/Guide/Wikidata (hist | edit) [६७३ बाइटानि] CorraleH (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Creating Wikidata guide page)
• ०३:३६०३:३६, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ The Wikipedia Library/Newsletter/January-February 2021/ko (hist | edit) [५,७६७ बाइटानि] 리듬 (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Created page with "위키백과 도서관/뉴스레터/2021년 1월-2월")
• ०३:०७०३:०७, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Wiki4WorldHearingDay2025/Guide/Commons (hist | edit) [२,६२३ बाइटानि] CorraleH (सम्भासनं | योगदानानि) (Creating Commons guide page)
• ०३:०२०३:०२, १८ नवम्बर २०२४ Wikimedia Indonesia/Dana Wiki/GSF24 Permohonan Komunitas KlubWiki Universitas Brawijaya (hist | edit) [३,८७५ 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 panitia hibah di hibah@wikimedia.or.id untuk bertanya-tanya.--> == Nama kegiatan == == Pelaksana == ; <nowiki>Komunitas: </nowiki> : ; <nowiki>Akun penanggung jawab: </nowiki> : ; <nowiki>Akun anggota: </nowiki> == Kegiatan == === Ikhtisar kegiatan=== {{Hatnote|Ceritakan s...")

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)