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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
25 June 2026
- 20:5020:50, 25 June 2026 Wikimedia CH/Grant apply/Mehr Präsenz für Frauen auf Wikipedia 2026/02 (hist | edit) [2,480 bytes] Sabine Hagmann (talk | contribs) (neuen Antrag ausgefüllt für 2. Jahreshälfte 2026)
- 20:3820:38, 25 June 2026 Web2Cit/data/com/arcgis/services/templates.json (hist | edit) [735 bytes] ~2026-36867-71 (talk) (Add temporary generic template for GIS service lookup) Tag: New article without categories or templates
- 20:3620:36, 25 June 2026 Web2Cit/data/com/arcgis/templates.json (hist | edit) [735 bytes] ~2026-36867-71 (talk) (Add temporary generic template for GIS service lookup) Tag: New article without categories or templates
- 20:3520:35, 25 June 2026 Web2Cit/data/gov/hawaii/geodata/templates.json (hist | edit) [735 bytes] ~2026-36867-71 (talk) (Add temporary generic template for GIS service lookup) Tag: New article without categories or templates
- 20:3120:31, 25 June 2026 Web2Cit/data/com/arcgis/use1-geocode/templates.json (hist | edit) [735 bytes] ~2026-36867-71 (talk) (Add temporary generic template for ArcGIS geocoder endpoint testing) Tag: New article without categories or templates
- 20:2420:24, 25 June 2026 14e anniversaire de Wikidata à Porto-Novo et formations lexème (hist | edit) [4,606 bytes] J.kolade (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<div style="background-color: #0f0; color:white; text-align:center; font-size:2.5em; padding: 0.3em 0">'''14e anniversaire de Wikidata à Porto-Novo et formations lexème'''</div> L'événement '''« 14e anniversaire de Wikidata à Porto-Novo et formations lexéme »''' est un événement communautaire de six jours organisé à Porto-Novo, au Bénin, pour célébrer le 14e anniversaire de Wikidata et renforcer la représentation des langues locales sur Wikidata grâce au...")
- 18:5918:59, 25 June 2026 Wikimedia Apps/Newsletter/Second quarter of 2026/ar (hist | edit) [11,850 bytes] Gerges (talk | contribs) (Created page with "تطبيقات ويكيميديا/النشرة الإخبارية/الربع الثاني من سنة 2026")
- 18:5318:53, 25 June 2026 Reports:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Report/From Zero to Editor: Building a Sustainable Wikimedia Community in Rivers State (hist | edit) [5,689 bytes] Wilhelmmarvel (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Goals== ''Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?'' We got new Editors We successfully brought in a diverse group of new contributors who had never edited Wikipedia before. Through targeted outreach and hands-on workshops, we demystified the editing process and lowered the barrier to entry. We created a dedicated WhatsApp communication channel and paired experienced editors with newcomers for initial mentorship. I am happy with how the projec...")
- 18:0518:05, 25 June 2026 WikiConference India 2026/Programme/Submissions/button (hist | edit) [185 bytes] Athulvis (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{center|{{Template:Cdx-button|label=Call for Submission is Open|disabled=|size=large|weight=primary|action=progressive|url=https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/wikicon/india26/cfp }}}}") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 17:2417:24, 25 June 2026 Strengthening hausa wikipedia editors for greater impact (hist | edit) [1,988 bytes] Mahuta (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= Strengthening Hausa Wikimedia Editors for Greater Impact = == Overview == ‘’‘Strengthening Hausa Wikimedia Editors for Greater Impact’’’ is a community training workshop organized under the ‘’‘Hausa Wikimedia User Group’’’. The event is designed to strengthen the skills and capacity of Hausa Wikimedia editors, improve the quality of contributions across Wikimedia projects, and encourage active participation within the Wikimedia movement. The w...")
- 17:2217:22, 25 June 2026 WikiConference India 2026/Programme/Submissions (hist | edit) [3,430 bytes] Athulvis (talk | contribs) (add theme and proposal format)
- 16:1116:11, 25 June 2026 Health Challenge 2026/Rules/sk (hist | edit) [2,802 bytes] KuboF Hromoslav (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Výzva zdravie 2026/Pravidlá")
- 16:0516:05, 25 June 2026 Health Challenge 2026/Participate/sk (hist | edit) [402 bytes] KuboF Hromoslav (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Výzva zdravie 2026/Zúčastnite sa")
- 16:0316:03, 25 June 2026 Health Challenge 2026/Focus articles/sk (hist | edit) [1,973 bytes] KuboF Hromoslav (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Výzva zdravie 2026/Prioritné články")
- 15:4415:44, 25 June 2026 Health Challenge 2026/Prizes/sk (hist | edit) [3,114 bytes] KuboF Hromoslav (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Výzva zdravie 2026/Ceny")
- 15:4415:44, 25 June 2026 Wikimedia Foundation Legal and Safety Contacts FAQ/as (hist | edit) [17,944 bytes] Pranamikaadhikary (talk | contribs) (Created page with "বহু দেশত আইনী আৰু সুৰক্ষাৰ কাৰণে ৱেবছাইটত স্পষ্ট যোগাযোগৰ তথ্য দেখুৱাব লাগে। ৱিকিমিডিয়া প্ৰকল্পসমূহে এইটো পৰিৱৰ্তনশীলভাৱে নিয়ন্ত্ৰণ কৰিছে, যাৰ ফলত অসামঞ্জস্য আৰু পুৰণি বা...")
- 15:3815:38, 25 June 2026 Health Challenge 2026/Infobox/sk (hist | edit) [813 bytes] KuboF Hromoslav (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Detaily súťaže")
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
- improve key sites: Wikimedia website(Main, Fundraising, GFDL), http://www.wikimedia.org redirection page
- improve key meta pages: Goings-on(t), Meta:Babel(t, Interorg relations.)
- move meta-discussions to meta:, from en: and other subprojects.
- 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, ...
- unify discussion: power structures within WM and across WP-instances (covering Ver ein/ Wreader and es: split issues as well as the mundane)
- help propose new projects: Wikifamily, Wikinews, Pa/Pr/Fu, Media, Prufing, Review...
- design a few feature improvements
- help people who reuse wikimedia content recognize the projects the content came from
- help others and future selves see what I see
- 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.
Overviews+ WM-wide mesh ('organization chart', 'project map', 'topic map', 'discussion counter', 'Wikipedia languages') |
Toolchain+ My MediaWiki feature requests
Law+ (c): Jamesday on #wp, en:Wikipedia:Copyright...
Review+ New pages, Article validation, villi... |
(General no Category:Former Board of Trustees members te : soughameter optional)