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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:

9 aug 2026

• 11:009 aug 2026 11:00 Web2Cit/monitor/com/straitstimes/www/log (gesch | bewerken) [510 bytes] Web2cit-monitor-bot (overleg | bijdragen) (Update domain check)
• 11:009 aug 2026 11:00 Web2Cit/monitor/com/straitstimes/www/results (gesch | bewerken) [1.065 bytes] Web2cit-monitor-bot (overleg | bijdragen) (Update domain check)
• 10:529 aug 2026 10:52 Web2Cit/data/de/adventurecorner/www/templates.json (gesch | bewerken) [2.186 bytes] Matthias M. (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "[ { "path": "/reviews/8640/the-fall-mutant-city-review", "label": "Reviews", "fields": [ { "fieldname": "itemType", "required": true, "procedures": [ { "selections": [ { "type": "fixed", "config": "webpage" } ], "transformations": [] } ] }, { "fieldname": "title", "required": tr...")
• 10:479 aug 2026 10:47 Web2Cit/data/de/adventurecorner/www/tests.json (gesch | bewerken) [710 bytes] Matthias M. (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "[ { "path": "/reviews/8640/the-fall-mutant-city-review", "fields": [ { "fieldname": "itemType", "goal": [ "webpage" ] }, { "fieldname": "title", "goal": [ "The Fall: Mutant City - Review" ] }, { "fieldname": "authorLast", "goal": [ "Tobias Maack" ] }, { "fieldname": "date", "goal": [ "2012-01-0...")
• 10:009 aug 2026 10:00 Web2Cit/monitor/com/channelnewsasia/www/log (gesch | bewerken) [510 bytes] Web2cit-monitor-bot (overleg | bijdragen) (Update domain check)
• 10:009 aug 2026 10:00 Web2Cit/monitor/com/channelnewsasia/www/results (gesch | bewerken) [1.056 bytes] Web2cit-monitor-bot (overleg | bijdragen) (Update domain check)
• 09:289 aug 2026 09:28 Meetup/Oxford/125 (gesch | bewerken) [3.493 bytes] Redrose64 (overleg | bijdragen) (create page for next meetup)
• 09:149 aug 2026 09:14 Web2Cit/data/com/channelnewsasia/www/templates.json (gesch | bewerken) [2.296 bytes] BenTanXiaoMing (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "[ { "path": "/singapore/national-day-awards-sundaresh-menon-eddie-teo-order-temasek-6300406", "fields": [ { "fieldname": "itemType", "required": true, "procedures": [ { "selections": [ { "type": "citoid", "config": "itemType" } ], "transformations": [] } ] }, { "fieldname": "title",...")
• 08:479 aug 2026 08:47 Wikipedia/tum (gesch | bewerken) [5.892 bytes] Viyowoyero-vya-Malaŵi (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "Wikipediya")
• 08:479 aug 2026 08:47 Web2Cit/data/com/straitstimes/www/templates.json (gesch | bewerken) [1.783 bytes] BenTanXiaoMing (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "[ { "path": "/singapore/chief-justice-former-head-of-council-of-presidential-advisers-receive-top-national-day-honours", "fields": [ { "fieldname": "itemType", "required": true, "procedures": [ { "selections": [ { "type": "citoid", "config": "itemType" } ], "transformations": [] } ] }, { "f...")
• 08:459 aug 2026 08:45 Web2Cit/data/com/straitstimes/www/tests.json (gesch | bewerken) [433 bytes] BenTanXiaoMing (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "[ { "path": "/singapore/chief-justice-former-head-of-council-of-presidential-advisers-receive-top-national-day-honours", "fields": [ { "fieldname": "title", "goal": [ "Chief Justice, former head of Council of Presidential Advisers receive top National Day honours" ] }, { "fieldname": "date", "goal": [ "2026-08-09" ] } ] } ]")
• 08:429 aug 2026 08:42 Web2Cit/data/com/channelnewsasia/www/tests.json (gesch | bewerken) [415 bytes] BenTanXiaoMing (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "[ { "path": "/singapore/national-day-awards-sundaresh-menon-eddie-teo-order-temasek-6300406", "fields": [ { "fieldname": "date", "goal": [ "2026-08-09" ] }, { "fieldname": "title", "goal": [ "Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, former CPA chairman Eddie Teo receive Singapore's highest civilian honour" ] }, { "fieldname": "authorLast", "goal": [...")
• 08:399 aug 2026 08:39 Web2Cit/data/com/channelnewsasia/www/patterns.json (gesch | bewerken) [0 bytes] BenTanXiaoMing (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "[ { "pattern": "" } ]")
• 06:139 aug 2026 06:13 Wikimedia Thailand/WikiCamp Chiang Mai University 2026 (gesch | bewerken) [778 bytes] Manop (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "'''WikiCamp Chiang Mai University 2026''' * วันเวลา: TBA * สถานที่: Chiang Mai University == ผู้สนับสนุน == <div align="center"> <big>ดำเนินการโดย / Organizer</big><br> 150px<br> [https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaThailand Wikimedia Thailand Facebook]<br> กลุ่มอาสาสมัครจาก / Volunteers from [...")
• 06:049 aug 2026 06:04 Wikimedia Thailand/WikiCamp Mahidol University 2026 (gesch | bewerken) [729 bytes] Manop (overleg | bijdragen) (Created page with "'''WikiCamp Mahidol University 2026''' * วันเวลา: 1 September 2026 เวลา 10:30-12:30 * สถานที่: Mahidol University * Wikipedia Event Page: Event:WikiCamp Mahidol University 2026 == ผู้สนับสนุน == <div align="center"> <big>ดำเนินการโดย / Organizer</big><br> 150px<br> [https://w...")
• 06:039 aug 2026 06:03 Glossary/kjp (gesch | bewerken) [93.927 bytes] FuzzyBot (overleg | bijdragen) (Updating to match new version of source page) Label: Koppeling naar doorverwijspagina
• 06:039 aug 2026 06:03 Glossary/tt (gesch | bewerken) [93.970 bytes] FuzzyBot (overleg | bijdragen) (Updating to match new version of source page) Label: Koppeling naar doorverwijspagina

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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