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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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I served on the Board of Directors from May 7, 2011 to April 30, 2018.