User:James Hare

I am James Hare, the President of Wikimedia DC. I have served on the Board of Directors since May 7, 2011 and as President since March 9, 2013.

In the manner of my colleague User:Econterms I will use this page to take notes about my Wikimedia DC activity.

Wishlist

• Communications committee members Step one complete! and corresponding plan
• Tax exempt status paperwork
• CRM
• Strategic plan interviewing process
• Centralized data collection and storage system (for edit-a-thon data and the like) – perhaps we could use Qualtrics?
• Fundraising plan
• Wiki Loves Monuments plan
• Community outreach and engagement plan (and members for the Community Programs Committee)
• Unified donation/membership workflow under new payment processing system
• Better site / social metrics
• Nicely designed meetup template for Wikipedia; on-Wikipedia signing up for edit-a-thons / workshops
• Completely overhauled WMDC blog with new/revised backend, different branding

Current and future projects

• Various edit-a-thons
• Strategic Plan
• Andrew Lih's Wikipedia class (now finished; we need to study it)
• Building a tech volunteer community (e.g. WikiHack)
• Open Government
• Building volunteer capacity in general
  • Wikipedia for Activists
  • Could Wikimedia DC take on the Generation Wikipedia project?
  • Rewarding volunteers for their work
  • Describing specific volunteer positions
• Emily comes to DC to teach people how to hold editor training workshops
• Library of Congress series of events
• Outreach to government agencies and open-government groups
• Africa Collection digitization
• Taking over education program operations in DC

Conferences we should attend every year

• Community conferences:
  • Wikimania
  • Wikimedia Conference (Chapters Conference)
  • WikiConference USA
  • WikiSym, maybe
• Sunlight Foundation's Transparency Camp (unfortunately, the same dates as WikiCon this year)
• Either Museums and the Web or MCN conference?

WMF grantees of interest

• Peter Gallert: Working on oral citation project in Namibia. Put him in touch with Adriel Luis of Smithsonian APAC, who is interested in an oral citation project for Asian-American immigrants.
• Amanda Menking: Doing a study on women's participation on Wikipedia. Put her in touch with Emily since their projects complement each other very well.
• Jethro (I JethroBT): "Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship," changing how online training of Wikipedians happens. Wikimedia DC's activities should have a strong online complement, so this research is worth observing. We could also help with testing.