Wonderful; thanks Kelsi and +++ to all the liaisons.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 12:04 PM Kelsi Stine-Rowe <kstinerowe(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hello Wikimedians!
As part of the roll out for community conversations [1] in our movement
strategy [2], I am pleased to share with you that a team of Community
Strategy Liaisons have been hired and begun their new role.
Community Strategy Liaisons [3] are part-time contractors who lead outreach
and discussion about movement strategy among some of our largest language
groups. Their time is spent connecting with Wikimedians on-wiki, in social
media channels, over conference calls, and at in-person meetups to help
explain the movement strategy process and to facilitate discussion on the
content.
This role is in parallel to the volunteer Organizational Strategy Liaisons,
which lead discussions within their organized groups and affiliates about
movement strategy. You can find out more about these two groups on our meta
page [4].
Each of the Community Strategy Liaisons dedicates the bulk of their
contracted time to their dedicated language group. They have formal
responsibilities related to reporting and discussion summaries, as well as
communicating back to their language communities the results of their work.
Given the importance of having broad reach and support across the
community, they will also provide some support to other language
communities from their geographic region. We will also soon be inviting
volunteers from language communities not represented by the team below to
sign up as Strategy Liaisons for their projects.
With this in mind, here is the team!
-
Anass Sedrati [5] is our Strategy Liaison for Arabic. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the Arabic speaking language community
across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He
will
also support outreach to the Swedish, Berber, and Kurdish language
communities, as well as with the French community until an official
Strategy Liaison is hired for this role.
-
Rupika Sharma [6] is our Strategy Liaison for Hindi. Her primary
responsibilities are to engage the Hindi speaking language community
across
Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. She will
also
support outreach to other Indic language communities active on
Wikimedia.
-
Gereon Kalkuhl [7] is our Strategy Liaison for German. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the German speaking language community
across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He
will
also support outreach to the Dutch language community.
-
Liang-chih Shang-Kuan [8] is our Strategy Liaison for Mandarin. His
primary responsibilities are to engage the Mandarin speaking language
community across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement
strategy. He will also support outreach to other language communities
active in east Asia, southeast Asia, and the broader pacific region.
-
Lucas Teles [9] is our Strategy Liaison for Portuguese. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the Portuguese language community across
Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy.
-
Francesc Fort [10] is our Strategy Liaison for Spanish. His primary
responsibilities are to engage the Spanish language community across
Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He will also
support outreach to other language communities that predominate within
Spain as well as to the Italian community.
As a final note, we are still looking to hire candidates in French, Farsi,
and Russian, though other candidates may join the team for additional
languages. You can find out about the latest composition of the team on
meta and connect with the contractor for your language at any time on their
talk pages.
Community conversations are your chance to make your voice heard on
movement strategy. Thank you for joining us!
Best,
Kelsi
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASedrati_(WMF)
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RSharma_(WMF)
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gereon_Kalkuhl_(WMF)
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LShangkuan_(WMF)
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LTeles_(WMF)
[10]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FFort_(WMF)
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