Hi folks,
I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia's collaborative strategy development project, which was first discussed here on this list a few months ago, will be led by Eugene Eric Kim.
Eugene is principal and co-founder of Blue Oxen Associates http://blueoxen.com/, a San Francisco-based socially-conscious consulting firm that focuses on understanding and improving how people collaborate. He's worked at all levels of the collaborative process, from strategy development to facilitation. His past clients have included People for the American Way, NASA, the Institute for International Education, Socialtext, and the Sierra Club.
Eugene is also a long-time member of the Wiki community. He is the co-author of PurpleWiki, he spoke at the first Wikimania in Frankfurt, he was a keynote speaker at WikiSym 2006, and he was one of the instigators of the first RecentChangesCamp.
Eugene will start today, July 13. He'll work in our San Francisco office. He will report to me, and the project's Facilitator and Research Analyst will report to him.
I expect he'll take the first few weeks to catch up on the thinking that's been done so far, and you'll start hearing from him soon. We expect planning to take a few months, and the project itself will likely formally kick off shortly after Wikimania.
I am thrilled to have Eugene join us for the strategy project, the Wikimedia Foundation's top priority in 2009-10. His wealth of experience and his deep understanding of our world make him a perfect partner to lead this project on our behalf. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming him. Also, my thanks to Erik Moeller and Jennifer Riggs for sitting on the hiring committee.
Thanks, Sue
This is fantastic news! I've met Eugene a couple times through RecentChangesCamp and other venues, and he is just the man for the job. You couldn't have picked someone better.
Steven Walling
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi folks,
I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia's collaborative strategy development project, which was first discussed here on this list a few months ago, will be led by Eugene Eric Kim.
Eugene is principal and co-founder of Blue Oxen Associates http://blueoxen.com/, a San Francisco-based socially-conscious consulting firm that focuses on understanding and improving how people collaborate. He's worked at all levels of the collaborative process, from strategy development to facilitation. His past clients have included People for the American Way, NASA, the Institute for International Education, Socialtext, and the Sierra Club.
Eugene is also a long-time member of the Wiki community. He is the co-author of PurpleWiki, he spoke at the first Wikimania in Frankfurt, he was a keynote speaker at WikiSym 2006, and he was one of the instigators of the first RecentChangesCamp.
Eugene will start today, July 13. He'll work in our San Francisco office. He will report to me, and the project's Facilitator and Research Analyst will report to him.
I expect he'll take the first few weeks to catch up on the thinking that's been done so far, and you'll start hearing from him soon. We expect planning to take a few months, and the project itself will likely formally kick off shortly after Wikimania.
I am thrilled to have Eugene join us for the strategy project, the Wikimedia Foundation's top priority in 2009-10. His wealth of experience and his deep understanding of our world make him a perfect partner to lead this project on our behalf. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming him. Also, my thanks to Erik Moeller and Jennifer Riggs for sitting on the hiring committee.
Thanks, Sue
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Thanks for the welcome, Sue, and the kind words Steven! I'm glad to be participating.
As Sue mentioned, I'll be ramping up for the next few weeks. As part of that, we'll be setting up spaces for conversations. In the meantime, don't hesitate to contact me with your thoughts, questions, or simply just to say hi. I'm anxious to hear your thoughts and ideas about the process and the hoped-for outcomes.
Thanks again!
=Eugene
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sue Gardnersgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia's collaborative strategy development project, which was first discussed here on this list a few months ago, will be led by Eugene Eric Kim.
Eugene is principal and co-founder of Blue Oxen Associates http://blueoxen.com/, a San Francisco-based socially-conscious consulting firm that focuses on understanding and improving how people collaborate. He's worked at all levels of the collaborative process, from strategy development to facilitation. His past clients have included People for the American Way, NASA, the Institute for International Education, Socialtext, and the Sierra Club.
Eugene is also a long-time member of the Wiki community. He is the co-author of PurpleWiki, he spoke at the first Wikimania in Frankfurt, he was a keynote speaker at WikiSym 2006, and he was one of the instigators of the first RecentChangesCamp.
Eugene will start today, July 13. He'll work in our San Francisco office. He will report to me, and the project's Facilitator and Research Analyst will report to him.
I expect he'll take the first few weeks to catch up on the thinking that's been done so far, and you'll start hearing from him soon. We expect planning to take a few months, and the project itself will likely formally kick off shortly after Wikimania.
I am thrilled to have Eugene join us for the strategy project, the Wikimedia Foundation's top priority in 2009-10. His wealth of experience and his deep understanding of our world make him a perfect partner to lead this project on our behalf. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming him. Also, my thanks to Erik Moeller and Jennifer Riggs for sitting on the hiring committee.
Thanks, Sue
Hoi, There is one question that is obvious for me to ask.. What will the role be of language, internationalisation and localisation in the strategy of the WMF and how will it be possible to measure this ? Thanks, GerardM
PS Welcome
2009/7/13 Eugene Eric Kim eekim@blueoxen.com
Thanks for the welcome, Sue, and the kind words Steven! I'm glad to be participating.
As Sue mentioned, I'll be ramping up for the next few weeks. As part of that, we'll be setting up spaces for conversations. In the meantime, don't hesitate to contact me with your thoughts, questions, or simply just to say hi. I'm anxious to hear your thoughts and ideas about the process and the hoped-for outcomes.
Thanks again!
=Eugene
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Sue Gardnersgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia's collaborative strategy development project, which was first discussed here on this list a few months ago, will be led by Eugene Eric Kim.
Eugene is principal and co-founder of Blue Oxen Associates http://blueoxen.com/, a San Francisco-based socially-conscious consulting firm that focuses on understanding and improving how people collaborate. He's worked at all levels of the collaborative process, from strategy development to facilitation. His past clients have included People for the American Way, NASA, the Institute for International Education, Socialtext, and the Sierra Club.
Eugene is also a long-time member of the Wiki community. He is the co-author of PurpleWiki, he spoke at the first Wikimania in Frankfurt, he was a keynote speaker at WikiSym 2006, and he was one of the instigators of the first RecentChangesCamp.
Eugene will start today, July 13. He'll work in our San Francisco office. He will report to me, and the project's Facilitator and Research Analyst will report to him.
I expect he'll take the first few weeks to catch up on the thinking that's been done so far, and you'll start hearing from him soon. We expect planning to take a few months, and the project itself will likely formally kick off shortly after Wikimania.
I am thrilled to have Eugene join us for the strategy project, the Wikimedia Foundation's top priority in 2009-10. His wealth of experience and his deep understanding of our world make him a perfect partner to lead this project on our behalf. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming him. Also, my thanks to Erik Moeller and Jennifer Riggs for sitting on the hiring committee.
Thanks, Sue
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Hi Gerard,
Thanks for the welcome! There are really two questions here: The importance of language, internationalization, and localization in the context of the plan itself, and the importance of all of these things in the context of the strategic process. They'll be important for both.
What specifically are you interested in measuring?
=Eugene
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, There is one question that is obvious for me to ask.. What will the role be of language, internationalisation and localisation in the strategy of the WMF and how will it be possible to measure this ? Thanks, GerardM
PS Welcome
Hoi, With some 50% of our traffic in other languages then English it is obvious that languages, internationalisation and localisation are of a profound importance to the WMF. There are over 250 Wikipedias and we support over 300 linguistic entities at translatewiki.net where our internationalisation and localisation is located. When a strategic plan for the WMF is to be made, addressing the needs for these other languages is consequently as important as the needs for the English projects.
When you look at the investments and the projects of the WMF, the other 50% hardly feature. The Usability Initiative is about improving the English Wikipedia, the new project for Commosn is to improve the ability of getting images in while you need to know English to get images out of Commons. When we get 100.000 images from the Tropenmuseum, how will we support Indonesian and English when the annotations are Dutch? What if there are over 200 GLAM in the Netherlands alone ??
The LocalisationUpdate extension is imho the most relevant piece of software to improve the localisation of our projects and to motivate our localisers, it was developed outside of the WMF. The MediaWiki software does not support African languages well. We know what the problem is but we fail African languages.
When I ask for measurments, I ask for numbers that show how the WMF implements its strategy for other languages. How long does it take for localisations to go life. What is the relation between the popularity of our projects for a language and the localisation. What are is the amount of WMF money spend on exclusively English language projects compared to the amount of money exclusively earmarked for the other languages. How many words are used in the annual reports on issues that are English vs the issues for the other languages.
I have been pushing the cause of the "other languages" for quite some time. I would like to see that the "other languages" have as much traction as English in the WMF because I believe the "other projects" have a potential that is bigger then the English Wikipedia. Thanks, GerardM
2009/7/14 Eugene Eric Kim eekim@blueoxen.com
Hi Gerard,
Thanks for the welcome! There are really two questions here: The importance of language, internationalization, and localization in the context of the plan itself, and the importance of all of these things in the context of the strategic process. They'll be important for both.
What specifically are you interested in measuring?
=Eugene
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, There is one question that is obvious for me to ask.. What will the role
be
of language, internationalisation and localisation in the strategy of the WMF and how will it be possible to measure this ? Thanks, GerardM
PS Welcome
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