[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing the Fellowship News

[Siko Bouterse]

Ah yes, some more context would have been good in my original post :-)

The fellows decided to put together a monthly digest that rolls together
all their updates from their projects in the past month, because we noticed
that until now everyone in our group shares progress and learning in
different ways for each fellowship project, it can take a lot of hunting to
find it all, and isn't always as transparent as we would like. We wanted a
way to start sharing as a group what the fellows "team" is doing.  I also
like the idea because those who are interested in the fellows program and
browse our meta pages now have a place to sample what fellows actually do
each month.

We do report some of this in the WMF metrics report each month, and that
won't change (it will just make it easier for me to write, since the info
will be compiled already!) - so to some degree, Lodewijk, I think the
fellowship news has always been incorporated into a report with other cool
stuff being done by staff and volunteers.  I would love to see more updates
from others on cool projects, though, and don't want this to be seen as a
split. If this inspires someone to roll this all up together elsewhere that
would be great!  We've got to start somewhere still. If is not of interest
to those on the mailing lists - I know there are a lot of things to read
out there already - we don't need to announce each month though, they can
be watched and subscribed to on-wiki.

Confirming Maggie's thoughts, Richard, this report covers all projects
being worked on by current fellows (which can, indeed, be a varied range of
topics!).

Siko

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> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:43:46 -0400
> From: Maggie Dennis <mdennis at wikimedia.org>
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> I haven't spoken to Siko about this at all (first I'm hearing about it),
> but I imagine, Richard, that it will focus on the work being done on
> fellowships by WMF Fellows.
>
> Lodewijk, I think it would be great to have a newsletter about the cool
> things people are doing around the Wiki World. :) If somebody chooses to
> put something like that together, surely having material to incorporate
> about Fellows would be useful? The content is freely licensed and can be
> reused (and modified) like other material on the projects under the same
> terms.
>
> Maggie
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org
>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > while it is great that you do this responsibly, I am indeed also
wondering
> > how we can make this a worth while read. Because while it is a nice
> > program, there are many other people around Wiki World doing similarly
cool
> > things (no offence) - as are "real" staff members. By splitting this
off in
> > a seperate news section (as we have been splitting off a lot) I'm afraid
> > you might be putting the news actually on a bigger distance than you
would
> > otherwise.
> >
> > Lodewijk
> >
> > 2012/7/6 Richard Symonds <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk>
> >
> > > Thanks Siko!
> > >
> > > Could you explain what exactly this covers? Teahouse, translations,
small
> > > Wikis and dispute resolution is a very wide net - and presumably it
will
> > > change according to which fellows are 'employed' at the time it's
> > written.
> > > Is there an overarching theme?
> > >
> > > Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
> > > On Jul 6, 2012 11:54 PM, "Siko Bouterse" <sbouterse at wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I am pleased to announce that the first monthly edition of the
> > Fellowship
> > > > News is now available on Meta-Wiki!
> > > >
> > > > Come learn what the Wikimedia Fellows have been working on in June:
> > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News
> > > >
> > > > Projects covered in this edition include:
> > > > *Dispute Resolution
> > > > *Gender Gap
> > > > *Help Pages Redesign
> > > > *Small Wiki Editor Engagement
> > > > *Teahouse
> > > > *Translations
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Siko Bouterse
> > > > Head of Community Fellowships
> > > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> > > >
> > > > sbouterse at wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > >
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