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 Cette personne 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:

25 May 2026

• 02:1402:14, 25 May 2026 Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Cases/2026/Request for Investigation into Irregularities, Harassment, and Double Standards in the Japanese Wikipedia Bot Approval Process (hist | edit) [5,654 bytes] 碧いうさぎ (talk | contribs) (New U4C request) Tag: New article without categories or templates
• 00:0500:05, 25 May 2026 Steward requests/Global/2026-w21 (hist | edit) [9,886 bytes] MajavahBot (talk | contribs) (Bot clerking)

24 May 2026

• 23:2223:22, 24 May 2026 Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2026/Candidates/pt-br (hist | edit) [13,880 bytes] Eduardoaddad (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Candidatos ==")
• 21:2621:26, 24 May 2026 Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026/Submissions/Photos taken at matches (hist | edit) [2,340 bytes] Zafer (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- DO NOT USE THE TRANSLATION TOOL <nowiki><translate></nowiki> -->{{WMCEEM 2026 sub form/submissions/Full |show = {{{show|Full}}} |id = <!-- Please leave empty. To be completed by the organizing committee --> |title = Photos taken from matches to red carpet |username = Zafer |Affiliation = WikiPortraits |type of submission = lecture |slide = <!-- Please add a link to the slides of your presen...")
• 20:4820:48, 24 May 2026 Rapport Financier annuel WikiFranca 2025; 2025-2026 (hist | edit) [16,127 bytes] Falilou224 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:Rapport Financier annuel WikiFranca 2025; 2025-2026}} [[Category:WikiFranca{{#translation:}}|Micro-financement]] <!-- En-tête de navigation --> <div style="background:#f8f9fa; border:1px solid #a2a9b1; border-radius:4px; padding:10px 14px; margin-bottom:16px; font-size:0.92em;"> '''Navigation :''' Volet I – Rapport Financier Annuel 2025 · Volet II – Programme de Microfinancement 2025–2026 · #conclusion|Conclusion Gén...")
• 19:3919:39, 24 May 2026 Wikimedians of Yemen User Group/meetings/May 15, 2026 (hist | edit) [1,066 bytes] RASHEEDYE (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<noinclude>{{Wikimedians of Yemen User Group/start}} <!-- MAIN START--> {{Wikimedians of Yemen User Group}} <div class="ye-card ye-span-full"></noinclude> === Highlights === *''' Place:''' Sana'a *'''Request:''' Monthly meeting *'''Status''': {{Done}} === Audience === *{{User|رشاد}} *{{User|Mr. Ibrahem}} *{{User|RASHEEDYE}} === Target === * '''Meeting with Farida:''' Discussing the outcomes of the meeting with Farida and exploring areas of collaboration. * '''Wik...")
• 18:5618:56, 24 May 2026 Wikimedia South Africa 2026-2027 Administrator Opportunity (hist | edit) [1,891 bytes] Herschal Jackson (WMZA) (talk | contribs) (Creating Meta page for 2026-2027 Administrator opportunity.)
• 18:4418:44, 24 May 2026 Wikimedia South Africa/2026-2027 Administrator (hist | edit) [4,478 bytes] Herschal Jackson (WMZA) (talk | contribs) (Created Meta page for 2026-2027 Administrator position)
• 15:2115:21, 24 May 2026 Wikimedia CEE Hub Steering Committee Election 2026/Candidates/Wojciech Pędzich (hist | edit) [4,610 bytes] Wojciech Pędzich (talk | contribs) (new candidacy)
• 14:4614:46, 24 May 2026 Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026/Submissions/AffCom meets community (hist | edit) [2,530 bytes] Mehman (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- DO NOT USE THE TRANSLATION TOOL <nowiki><translate></nowiki> -->{{WMCEEM 2026 sub form/submissions/Full |show = {{{show|Full}}} |id = <!-- Please leave empty. To be completed by the organizing committee --> |title = <!-- Please add the title of your presentation --> |username = {{U|Mehman}} |Affiliation = Affiliations Committee |type of submission = lecture |slide = comming soon |Abstra...") originally created as "Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2026/Submissions/AffCom meet community"
• 11:4411:44, 24 May 2026 Enhancing Wikipedia Editing Skills of Women Wikipedians in Gombe State (hist | edit) [17,760 bytes] Ojewuyib (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= Enhancing Wikipedia Editing Skills of Women Wikipedians in Gombe State = == Project Summary == '''Enhancing Wikipedia Editing Skills of Women Wikipedians in Gombe State''' is a community-driven initiative designed to address the low participation of women in Wikipedia editing within Gombe State, Nigeria. The local Wikimedia editing community remains largely dominated by men, resulting in both a shortage of female contributors and limited coverage of women-related top...")
• 11:4411:44, 24 May 2026 Wiki Workers United/ja (hist | edit) [5,306 bytes] USSR-Slav (talk | contribs) (Created page with "ウィキ労働者連合")
• 09:1009:10, 24 May 2026 Wikimedia Italia/Programmi di finanziamento/Microgrant/2026/Proposte/Partecipazione a fiera LevanteFor 2026 (hist | edit) [2,848 bytes] Ferdi2005 (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{Wikimedia Italia/Riquadro microgrant |stato=richiesta |anno=2026 |titolo=Partecipazione a fiera LevanteFor 2026 |inizio=30 maggio 2026 |termine=31 maggio 2026 |proponente=Ferdi2005 |budget=400 euro |budget approvato=<!-- a cura della commissione microgrant --> |note= |nome utente Wikimedia=<!-- senza wikilink --> |nome utente OpenStreetMap=<!-- se esistente, senza link --> }} == Scopo del progetto == ;Spiega brevemente cosa vuoi ottenere con questo proget...")
• 06:4506:45, 24 May 2026 Citrausada (hist | edit) [3,564 bytes] Candramawa99 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Citrausada/Header}} <div style="font-size: 2.3em; width: 70%; margin: 10px auto 0 auto; padding-bottom: 15px; border-bottom: 2px solid #006699; color: #006699; text-align: center;">")
• 06:1806:18, 24 May 2026 Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2026/Participants/sammmm23 (hist | edit) [473 bytes] Sammmm23 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Hindi Wikipedian (Indic language) == [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345678381 Looking at Women Looking at War]: + 7526 bytes, suggested article, new translation=10+7=17 points [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342935237 Two Colours (song)]:+15657 bytes, suggested article, new translation=10+15=25 points [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334708503 Lost in Living]:+4902 bytes, suggested article, new translation=10+4=14 points") Tag: New article without categories or templates
• 04:0504:05, 24 May 2026 Bridging Access:Mapping Maternal & Child Health Facilities in Ikwerre LGA Rivers State/Participants (hist | edit) [527 bytes] Lucy Iwuala (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Event/Bridging Access:Mapping Maternal & Child Health Facilities in Ikwerre LGA Rivers State/Header}} TBD") Tag: 2017 source edit
• 04:0504:05, 24 May 2026 Bridging Access:Mapping Maternal & Child Health Facilities in Ikwerre LGA Rivers State/Worklist (hist | edit) [966 bytes] Lucy Iwuala (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Event/Bridging Access:Mapping Maternal & Child Health Facilities in Ikwerre LGA Rivers State/Header}} TBD") Tag: 2017 source edit

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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