Thanks the coordinators. I do not know everybody on the list, but I
recognize there names of many excellent people.
I also see there a name which has rung a bell for me, and the sound of the
bell was somewhat alarming. I checked and found indeed that the coordinator
has a sizable block log on the Russian Wikipedia, their home project, for
actions which include trolling and disruptive editing, and at some point
had to be placed under a topic ban. The most recent block is one and half
years ago. Which poses a natural questions whether the candidates were
actually screened.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Welcome. Thank you for joining us and offering your
talents.
/a
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Welcome all! I am so grateful for your
participation and perspective as
we
begin this work.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 00:46 Tanweer Morshed <wiki.tanweer(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Welcom to all the 19 Wikimedians! I see, most of
the names are familiar
to
> me. Thank you all for your dedication for the movement.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tanweer
>
>
> Regards,
> Tanweer
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Guillaume Paumier <
> gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > As most of you are aware, the Wikimedia movement has embarked on an
> > ambitious initiative to discuss our collective future and determine a
> > movement-wide strategic direction. [1]
> >
> > The movement is composed of people in many different roles, notably
> > individual contributors who may not be affiliated with any organized
> > group. It can be challenging to reach individual contributors and
> > involve them in strategy discussions, since they may not monitor the
> > usual communication channels, and they may not think that strategy
> > discussions are relevant to them.
> >
> > For this year’s movement strategy process, the Wikimedia Foundation
> > has decided to hire 19 part-time discussion coordinators to better
> > bridge the gap between the strategy discussions and local communities
> > of contributors.
> >
> > Today, I am thrilled to announce that we have concluded the search
and
> > assembled a stellar team of 19
long-time Wikimedians, who have agreed
> > to join the movement strategy efforts in this capacity.
> >
> > As you go through the team’s page on Meta-Wiki, you will see many
> > familiar names. [2] The team is composed of Abbad, Bohdan, Chico,
> > Gereon, Jonatan, Ran, Marco, Nahid, Niccolò, Tomasz, Robin, Samuel,
> > Satdeep, Szymon, Oleg, Takashi, Todd, Tuan, and Venus. Because of the
> > team’s geographic distribution, Jan Eissfeldt, from the Foundation’s
> > Support and Safety team, has agreed to help lead the day-to-day
> > activities of the group of Asian language coordinators.
> >
> > All the coordinators started on Monday for a 3-month contract, and
> > they have already been hard at work, translating materials on Meta
and
> > organizing the outreach to their local
communities. [3] Some will
> > focus their efforts on specific language communities [4], and others
> > will support an array of smaller communities.
> >
> > If you are interested in working with the coordinators to bridge the
> > gap with your local communities, I invite you to take a look at the
> > description of the coordinator role, and sign up using the form on
> > that page. [5] You can also contact them directly via their talk
page.
> >
> > I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who was involved
in
> > this ultra-fast hiring process, most
notably the Foundation’s Talent
&
> > Culture team, who handled the
recruiting and administrative
onboarding
> > masterfully, and the Community
Engagement department, who reached out
> > to their contacts, thoroughly reviewed applications, and made this
> > ambitious wave of recruiting ridiculously easy for me.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming Venus, Tuan, Todd, Takashi, Oleg, Szymon,
> > Satdeep, Samuel, Robin, Tomasz, Niccolò, Nahid, Marco, Ran, Jonatan,
> > Gereon, Chico, Bohdan, and Abbad in their new role.
> >
> >
> > Guillaume Paumier
> >
> >
> > [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
> >
> > [2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > movement/2017/People/Strategy_coordinators
> >
> > [3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > movement/2017/Track_B/Outreach/Map
> >
> > [4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > movement/2017#Language_list_in_development
> >
> > [5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> > movement/2017/Toolkit/Discussion_Coordinator_Role
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Paumier
> >
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