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I served on the Board of Directors from May 7, 2011 to April 30, 2018. |
I served on the Board of Directors from May 7, 2011 to April 30, 2018. |
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| − | In the manner of my colleague [[User:Econterms]] I will use this page to take notes about my Wikimedia DC activity. |
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| − | ==Wishlist== |
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| − | * <s>Communications committee members</s> ''Step one complete!'' and corresponding plan |
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| − | * <s>Tax exempt status paperwork</s> |
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| − | * <s>CRM</s> |
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| − | * Strategic plan interviewing process |
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| − | * <s>Centralized data collection and storage system (for edit-a-thon data and the like) – perhaps we could use Qualtrics?</s> |
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| − | * <s>Fundraising plan</s> |
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| − | * <s>Wiki Loves Monuments plan</s> |
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| − | * Community outreach and engagement plan (and members for the Community Programs Committee) |
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| − | * Unified donation/membership workflow under new payment processing system |
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| − | * Better site / social metrics |
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| − | * Nicely designed meetup template for Wikipedia; on-Wikipedia signing up for edit-a-thons / workshops |
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| − | * Completely overhauled WMDC blog with new/revised backend, different branding |
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| − | ==Current and future projects== |
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| − | * Various edit-a-thons |
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| − | * Strategic Plan |
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| − | * Andrew Lih's Wikipedia class (now finished; we need to study it) |
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| − | * Building a tech volunteer community (e.g. WikiHack) |
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| − | * Open Government |
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| − | * Building volunteer capacity in general |
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| − | ** Wikipedia for Activists |
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| − | ** Could Wikimedia DC take on the Generation Wikipedia project? |
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| − | ** Rewarding volunteers for their work |
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| − | ** Describing specific volunteer positions |
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| − | * Emily comes to DC to teach people how to hold editor training workshops |
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| − | * Library of Congress series of events |
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| − | * Outreach to government agencies and open-government groups |
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| − | * Africa Collection digitization |
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| − | * Taking over education program operations in DC |
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| − | ==Conferences we should attend every year== |
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| − | * Community conferences: |
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| − | ** Wikimania |
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| − | ** Wikimedia Conference (Chapters Conference) |
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| − | ** WikiConference USA |
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| − | ** WikiSym, maybe |
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| − | * Sunlight Foundation's Transparency Camp |
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| − | * Either Museums and the Web or MCN conference? |
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| − | ==WMF grantees of interest== |
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| − | * 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. |
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| − | * 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. |
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| − | * 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. |
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Latest revision as of 23:15, 19 August 2018
I served on the Board of Directors from May 7, 2011 to April 30, 2018.