Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites. Jan, who made his first contributions to the German language Wikipedia in early 2004 and works on modern philosophers on the Spanish language project, will help us with his specialized academic background. Jan holds a German BA in social science and philosophy with an intercultural profile. His main theme - carried over into MA studies - is argumentation theory. This combination of being rooted in the editing community and providing analytical skills will help us to better understand the German and Spanish projects, and to serve our non-English language communities in general. English language folks might have come across his name during 2012 as he edited the Signpost's feature News & Notes.
The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects, and facilitates strategic change by providing knowledge and skills about communities that the Foundation increasingly interacts with through the Engineering team's frequent technical improvements, through grant-making, our legal work, and the other activities of the Foundation. In our attempts to learn more about these communities, get their input during the formation of initiatives, and figure out how best to deliver initiatives to them, Jan will be joined by one more hire (soon to be announced, I hope).
Jan will work from his home in Germany, will report to me, and will also work closely with Maggie, who will serve as his mentor and will help to organize and lead our community advocates as they are hired.
Please welcome Jan to the Foundation, though he's been a part of the movement for years!
pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe@wikimedia.org
Welcome Jan!
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites. Jan, who made his first contributions to the German language Wikipedia in early 2004 and works on modern philosophers on the Spanish language project, will help us with his specialized academic background. Jan holds a German BA in social science and philosophy with an intercultural profile. His main theme - carried over into MA studies - is argumentation theory. This combination of being rooted in the editing community and providing analytical skills will help us to better understand the German and Spanish projects, and to serve our non-English language communities in general. English language folks might have come across his name during 2012 as he edited the Signpost's feature News & Notes.
The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects, and facilitates strategic change by providing knowledge and skills about communities that the Foundation increasingly interacts with through the Engineering team's frequent technical improvements, through grant-making, our legal work, and the other activities of the Foundation. In our attempts to learn more about these communities, get their input during the formation of initiatives, and figure out how best to deliver initiatives to them, Jan will be joined by one more hire (soon to be announced, I hope).
Jan will work from his home in Germany, will report to me, and will also work closely with Maggie, who will serve as his mentor and will help to organize and lead our community advocates as they are hired.
Please welcome Jan to the Foundation, though he's been a part of the movement for years!
pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
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Congratulations to both Jan and the Community Advocacy team. :-)
Risker
On 25 April 2013 16:40, Santi Navarro santiagonavarro@wikimedia.org.eswrote:
Welcome Jan!
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites. Jan, who made his first contributions to the German language Wikipedia in early 2004 and works on modern philosophers on the Spanish language project, will help us with his specialized academic background. Jan holds a German BA in social science and philosophy with an intercultural profile. His main theme - carried over into MA studies - is argumentation theory. This combination of being rooted in the editing community and providing analytical skills will help us to better understand the German and
Spanish
projects, and to serve our non-English language communities in general. English language folks might have come across his name during 2012 as he edited the Signpost's feature News & Notes.
The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up
the
Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects, and facilitates strategic change by providing knowledge and skills about communities that the Foundation increasingly interacts with through the Engineering team's frequent technical improvements, through grant-making, our legal work,
and
the other activities of the Foundation. In our attempts to learn more about these communities, get their input during the formation of initiatives, and figure out how best to deliver initiatives to them, Jan will be joined by one more hire (soon to be announced, I hope).
Jan will work from his home in Germany, will report to me, and will also work closely with Maggie, who will serve as his mentor and will help to organize and lead our community advocates as they are hired.
Please welcome Jan to the Foundation, though he's been a part of the movement for years!
pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
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Great news! Congratulations and welcome, Jan!
Patricio
2013/4/25 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
Congratulations to both Jan and the Community Advocacy team. :-)
Risker
On 25 April 2013 16:40, Santi Navarro santiagonavarro@wikimedia.org.eswrote:
Welcome Jan!
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites. Jan, who made his first contributions to the German language Wikipedia in early 2004 and works on modern philosophers on the Spanish language project, will help us with his specialized academic background. Jan holds a German BA in social science and philosophy with an intercultural profile. His main theme - carried over into MA studies - is argumentation theory. This combination of being rooted in the editing community and providing analytical skills will help us to better understand the German and
Spanish
projects, and to serve our non-English language communities in general. English language folks might have come across his name during 2012 as he edited the Signpost's feature News & Notes.
The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up
the
Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects, and facilitates strategic change by providing knowledge and skills about communities that the Foundation increasingly interacts with through the Engineering team's frequent technical improvements, through grant-making, our legal work,
and
the other activities of the Foundation. In our attempts to learn more about these communities, get their input during the formation of initiatives, and figure out how best to deliver initiatives to them, Jan will be joined by one more hire (soon to be announced, I hope).
Jan will work from his home in Germany, will report to me, and will also work closely with Maggie, who will serve as his mentor and will help to organize and lead our community advocates as they are hired.
Please welcome Jan to the Foundation, though he's been a part of the movement for years!
pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
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Welcome, Jan!
Congratulations, Jan! Looking forward to working with you. :)
Cheers, Nicole
On 26 April 2013 08:37, Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive nh@nhasive.com wrote:
Welcome, Jan!
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On 04/25/2013 10:39 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce the expansion of the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Advocacy team to include our newest hire, Jan Eissfeldt, whose work will be focused on the German and Spanish language sites.
Congratulations Jan!
See you in the lecture on tuesday ;)
-- Tobias
Moin,
Thank you for the warm welcome. I'm looking forward to work with you in improving our mutual understanding across this diverse movement we have created.
See you in the institute, Tobias ;)
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Tobias church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.comwrote:
On 04/25/2013 10:39 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Congratulations Jan!
See you in the lecture on tuesday ;)
-- Tobias
Jan Eissfeldt Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Jan, I add my congratulations to you joining this team.
Sydney
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On Apr 26, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Jan Eissfeldt jeissfeldt@wikimedia.org wrote:
Moin,
Thank you for the warm welcome. I'm looking forward to work with you in improving our mutual understanding across this diverse movement we have created.
See you in the institute, Tobias ;)
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Tobias church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.comwrote:
On 04/25/2013 10:39 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Congratulations Jan!
See you in the lecture on tuesday ;)
-- Tobias
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Philippe Beaudette, 25/04/2013 22:39:
The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects [...]
Never heard this claim before, is it documented anywhere?
Nemo
Yep. Meta.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement
————————— Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc
On Apr 27, 2013, at 1:12 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Philippe Beaudette, 25/04/2013 22:39:
The community advocacy team, you may recall, is an attempt to shore up the
Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects [...]
Never heard this claim before, is it documented anywhere?
Nemo
Philippe Beaudette, 28/04/2013 06:48:
Yep. Meta.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement
I don't remember reading anything like that in that page, and checking again I find only something about "community advisory board"... confusion increases.
Nemo
The annual plan 2012-13, published a couple of months after the announcement mid 2012, provided more explicitation; saying on p. 42:
"..we intend to invest in more thoroughly understanding the non-en-WP communities, and growing our social and political capital. To that end, we will build a team of three community advocates inside the Legal and Community Advocacy department, with the goal of better understanding the non-English language communities, particularly German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, French and Italian."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foun...
And the underlying reasoning also resurfaced in the narrowing focus effort in October 2012:
"Wikimedia's success depends on successful two-way communication across projects and languages. ..[..]..We view this as a necessary core activity, and investments on this front as remedial."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus#How_do_Wikip...
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
Philippe Beaudette, 28/04/2013 06:48:
Yep. Meta.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Legal_and_Community_** Advocacy/LCA_Announcementhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/LCA_Announcement
I don't remember reading anything like that in that page, and checking again I find only something about "community advisory board"... confusion increases.
Nemo
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Jan Eissfeldt, 28/04/2013 11:23:
The annual plan 2012-13, published a couple of months after the announcement mid 2012, provided more explicitation [...]
I remember that passage very well, I know that these positions have been announced a long time ago; I specifically asked documentation of «The community advocacy team [...] is an attempt to shore up the Foundation's knowledge of non-English speaking projects». At this point we can conclude that the documentation doesn't yet exist.
I suggest to work on the page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy A start could be to answer the questions «What does it mean? How can you help? What do we do?» you asked yourself over a year ago at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Community_Advocacy (I assume you found an answer, but it's not communicated).
Nemo
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