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/Stra...
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B/Out...
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017#Langua...
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit/Dis...
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@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
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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@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@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
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Welcome. Thank you for joining us and offering your talents. /a
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Katherine Maher kmaher@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@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@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
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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@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@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@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@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
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Thank you for your engagenent! I am glad to see that the Francophone rep is from Africa, and I hope we can engage on the representation of women.
Kind regards,
Nattes à chat
Le 10 mars 2017 à 08:48, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com a écrit :
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@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@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@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@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
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Welcome in your new roles Venus, Tuan, Todd, Takashi, Oleg, Szymon, Satdeep, Samuel, Robin, Tomasz, Niccolò, Nahid, Marco, Ran, Jonatan, Gereon, Chico, Bohdan, and Abbad!!!
For years we've been struggling to get involvement from local communities in global processes, and with you we're finally gonna make it! :)
Thanks for your help!!!
Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chenner@wikimedia.org +33650664739
twitter *@schiste* skype *christophe_henner*
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com wrote:
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@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@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@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@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
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
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+1 I'm thrilled to see this group from around the globe.
Sydney
On Mar 10, 2017 2:55 AM, "Christophe Henner" chenner@wikimedia.org wrote:
Welcome in your new roles Venus, Tuan, Todd, Takashi, Oleg, Szymon, Satdeep, Samuel, Robin, Tomasz, Niccolò, Nahid, Marco, Ran, Jonatan, Gereon, Chico, Bohdan, and Abbad!!!
For years we've been struggling to get involvement from local communities in global processes, and with you we're finally gonna make it! :)
Thanks for your help!!!
Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chenner@wikimedia.org +33650664739
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com wrote:
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@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@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@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@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
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
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Hello Yaroslav,
Yes, the Foundation's Community Engagement department, who are the most familiar with Wikimedia communities, reviewed the applications thoroughly. If you have concerns about a specific person, which obviously can't be discussed on a public list, I happy to discuss them with you privately.
2017-03-09 23:48 GMT-08:00 Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com:
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.
Congratulations to everyone.
I notice that some of these users do not have their WMF accounts connected to their user accounts.
Would it be a problem to ask for user and work accounts to reference each other?
Thanks,
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Yaroslav,
Yes, the Foundation's Community Engagement department, who are the most familiar with Wikimedia communities, reviewed the applications thoroughly. If you have concerns about a specific person, which obviously can't be discussed on a public list, I happy to discuss them with you privately.
2017-03-09 23:48 GMT-08:00 Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com:
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.
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Hi Lane,
2017-03-10 8:01 GMT-08:00 Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com:
Congratulations to everyone.
I notice that some of these users do not have their WMF accounts connected to their user accounts.
Would it be a problem to ask for user and work accounts to reference each other?
Not a problem at all; it is probably an oversight. The coordinators have had a lot to do this week with onboarding, translations, and preparations, and it may simply be that they didn't get around to completing their user page. I would suggest leaving them a friendly note on their talk page if you notice something missing.
Thanks Guillaume for your answer. I provided enough info for the Community Engagement to double-check if they want to, and I have no personal interest in the outcome, so I am happy to leave it as it is now.
Cheers Yaroslav
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Yaroslav,
Yes, the Foundation's Community Engagement department, who are the most familiar with Wikimedia communities, reviewed the applications thoroughly. If you have concerns about a specific person, which obviously can't be discussed on a public list, I happy to discuss them with you privately.
2017-03-09 23:48 GMT-08:00 Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com:
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.
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I wish all the Coordinators a good job! :)
Samuele2002
Il 10/Mar/2017 06:09 AM, "Guillaume Paumier" gpaumier@wikimedia.org ha scritto:
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
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Pretty welcome to all :)
K.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Samuele Mantani samuelemantani@gmail.com wrote:
I wish all the Coordinators a good job! :)
Samuele2002
Il 10/Mar/2017 06:09 AM, "Guillaume Paumier" gpaumier@wikimedia.org ha scritto:
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
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