Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Project Proposal: Wikimath

[Kiril Simeonovski]

Hi,

I agree with James. This could fit within Wikiversity and its scope has the
potential to activate the project. My opinion is that we should try to
activate all Wikimedia projects before starting new ones.

Best regards,
Kiril

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:21 AM, James Heilman  wrote:

> Looks like it would fit nicely within Wikiversity no?
>
> J
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:38 PM, rj bear  wrote:
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> > Hey guys! I've started a project proposal for a project called Wikimath.
> > Proposal:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimath
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Project Proposal: Wikimath

[James Heilman]

Looks like it would fit nicely within Wikiversity no?

J

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[Wikimedia-l] New Project Proposal: Wikimath

[rj bear]

Hey guys! I've started a project proposal for a project called Wikimath.
Proposal:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimath

-rboneseveneight
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Danish Wikipedia turns 15

[Àlex Hinojo]

Happy birthday!
El dj, 2 febr 2017 a les 0:47 Asaf Bartov  va
escriure:

> Congratulations, dawiki! :)
>
>   A.
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:23 PM attolippip  wrote:
>
> > Happy Birthday! ;)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
> >
> > 2017-02-02 0:03 GMT+02:00 Johan Jönsson :
> >
> > > It's Danish Wikipedia's turn to turn 15. (:
> > >
> > > In those 15 years, the Danish community and passers-by have together
> > > created a bit over 223000 articles. They had a small meet-up in
> > Copenhagen
> > > to celebrate a few hours ago, and some of the attention from the Danish
> > > media is collected here:
> > > https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presse_2017
> > >
> > > //Johan Jönsson
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[Wikimedia-l] Save the dates: WikiCite 2017 • Vienna, May 23-25, 2017

[Dario Taraborelli]

It's been a while since the last official WikiCite update but I am thrilled
to announce that we have dates confirmed for *WikiCite 2017
*.

*WikiCite 2017* is a 3-day conference, summit and hack day hosted in
*Vienna* on *May 23-25, 2017* (back to back with the Wikimedia Hackathon
).

It expands efforts 
that started last year in Berlin with WikiCite 2016
 towards the creation of a
bibliographic repository to serve open knowledge.

WikiCite 2017 will be a venue to:

   1. present on progress of existing and new initiatives around citations
   and bibliographic data across Wikimedia projects (day 1: conference)
   2. discuss technical, social, outreach and policy directions (day 2:
   summit)
   3. get together to hack on new ideas and applications (day 3: hack day)

For a summary of what was accomplished last year, you can read our report
.

Additional details on the event, the application process for prospective
participants, travel support requests, and information about the venue will
be posted shortly on Meta 
and via the mailing lists, but we wanted to share the dates as early as
possible so you can save them in your calendar.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Dario
on behalf of the WikiCite 2017 organizers




*Dario Taraborelli  *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

[Pete Forsyth]

I strongly support keeping messages without a clear connection to
Wikimedia's purpose off this list -- especially when multiple people have
already objected to a certain topic.

I am as worried about world politics and the future as anybody on this
list, but Wikimedia has a fairly clear mission and purpose, and I do not
see how this topic fits here.

The best way IMO to work on these issues is to improve Wikimedia *content*
relating to, e.g., U.S./China relations. But one factor which may strongly
contribute to what's going on here, and which may be unknown to many on the
list: the originator of this thread (and I'm deliberately avoiding names)
has been banned from English Wikipedia for many years. Perhaps that's why
we keep getting messages here that might be more appropriate for article
talk pages.

But, in short, I concur with what's been said. We've heard enough about
this topic on this list. The passion is admirable; please direct it toward
a more effective venue.

-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

[Michael Peel]

Have you seen Katherine's statement at:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/ 

?

I know gmail has an option to hide email threads, but it's not a standard email 
application feature, and it's not a good excuse for sending these repeated 
emails.

Thanks,
Mike

> On 1 Feb 2017, at 22:56, James Salsman  wrote:
> 
> I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management
> and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in
> response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances.
> 
> 
> Top officials from the US and China say war between the nations is "no
> doubt" a "reality."
> 
> 
> http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/29/us-china-war-increasingly-a-reality-chinese-army-official-says.html
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/01/trumps-chief-strategist-steve-bannon-no-doubt-the-us-will-be/21704928/
> 
> 
> If those of you who find my requests uncomfortable do not know how to
> program your email clients to hide them from you, I will gladly help you
> off-list.
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[Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

[James Salsman]

I can not in good conscience refrain from asking the Foundation management
and Board to please take an exceptional, public, very visible stand in
response to these extraordinarily exceptional circumstances.


Top officials from the US and China say war between the nations is "no
doubt" a "reality."


http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/29/us-china-war-increasingly-a-reality-chinese-army-official-says.html



https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/01/trumps-chief-strategist-steve-bannon-no-doubt-the-us-will-be/21704928/


If those of you who find my requests uncomfortable do not know how to
program your email clients to hide them from you, I will gladly help you
off-list.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Danish Wikipedia turns 15

[Asaf Bartov]

Congratulations, dawiki! :)

  A.

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:23 PM attolippip  wrote:

> Happy Birthday! ;)
>
> Best regards,
> antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
>
> 2017-02-02 0:03 GMT+02:00 Johan Jönsson :
>
> > It's Danish Wikipedia's turn to turn 15. (:
> >
> > In those 15 years, the Danish community and passers-by have together
> > created a bit over 223000 articles. They had a small meet-up in
> Copenhagen
> > to celebrate a few hours ago, and some of the attention from the Danish
> > media is collected here:
> > https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presse_2017
> >
> > //Johan Jönsson
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Danish Wikipedia turns 15

[attolippip]

Happy Birthday! ;)

Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv

2017-02-02 0:03 GMT+02:00 Johan Jönsson :

> It's Danish Wikipedia's turn to turn 15. (:
>
> In those 15 years, the Danish community and passers-by have together
> created a bit over 223000 articles. They had a small meet-up in Copenhagen
> to celebrate a few hours ago, and some of the attention from the Danish
> media is collected here:
> https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presse_2017
>
> //Johan Jönsson
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Danish Wikipedia turns 15

[Nabin K. Sapkota]

That's a great news.  Congratulations!!

Cheers,
Nabin Sapkota
Wikimedians of Nepal

On Feb 2, 2017 3:48 AM, "Johan Jönsson"  wrote:

> It's Danish Wikipedia's turn to turn 15. (:
>
> In those 15 years, the Danish community and passers-by have together
> created a bit over 223000 articles. They had a small meet-up in Copenhagen
> to celebrate a few hours ago, and some of the attention from the Danish
> media is collected here:
> https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presse_2017
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Danish Wikipedia turns 15

[Johan Jönsson]

It's Danish Wikipedia's turn to turn 15. (:

In those 15 years, the Danish community and passers-by have together
created a bit over 223000 articles. They had a small meet-up in Copenhagen
to celebrate a few hours ago, and some of the attention from the Danish
media is collected here:
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presse_2017

//Johan Jönsson
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Delegation of policy-making authority" resolution

[Rogol Domedonfors]

The ostensible rationale for this change, according to the Board chair was
"Basically it's making the legal team life's easier when they need to do
small and/or quick changes. They don't have to go through the whole
resolution process to change a comma."

The new donor privacy policy has been explicitly enacted by the ED under
this dispensation.  The new policy is twice the length of the old one.
That's a lot of commas.


On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> Hi Christophe,
>
> Now that the end-of-Western-year holidays are behind us, I'm bumping this
> thread in the hope that you'll respond to the points that I made in my
> email from December 23rd.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Pine W  wrote:
>
> > Hi Christophe,
> >
> > Thank you for responding to my questions.
> >
> >
> >> First, the resolution and its context. "Supervising" the ED is indeed a
> >> board duty, but this supervision must not become micro-management. That
> >> resolution provides staff the liberty to do their work more efficiently.
> >> It
> >> doesn't remove our duty of oversight.
> >>
> >> I feel like you think delegating negates ones ability to provide
> >> supervision, I would tend to think otherwise as delegating free time and
> >> energy to focus on the core roles of a board.
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps you could explain further how a resolution which says:
> >
> > *"*Resolved, the Board hereby delegates the authority to adopt, alter,
> and
> > revoke policies to the Executive Director, who may further delegate such
> > authority to Wikimedia Foundation staff as they deem appropriate;
> >
> > "Resolved, the Board may continue to review and approve policies for the
> > Wikimedia
> > Foundation upon request to the Executive Director or as required by law."
> >
> > amounts to removing micro-management. To me this looks like a sweeping
> > delegation of authority. Under this resolution, policy changes that the
> ED
> > and/or his or her delegates make are not subject to advance review by the
> > Board, the Legal Department, the community, or anyone else. This seems
> > highly inadvisable, and I feel that this opens up WMF to legal and
> > reputational risks that are of far greater concern than the value of
> > sparing
> > a few minutes of the Boards' time at meetings to review supposedly
> > minor changes to policies.
> >
> > I would expect the Executive Director to have the authority to execute
> > plans
> > and manage his/her staff as permitted by the policies and resolutions
> > adopted
> > by the Board and as allowed by law, and to create and modify managerial
> > policies for staff (for example, salary schedules and hiring procedures)
> > that are compatible with the Board's policies and resolutions and with
> the
> > law.
> > I wouldn't expect the Executive Director to have the authority to
> > unilaterally
> > change policies that were adopted by the Board, nor to have the authority
> > to
> > further delegate the authority to change policies that were adopted by
> the
> > Board.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Second, the requirements to answer the community. I'm sorry, here I
> >> answered quite spontaneously, you are right nothing forces us to.
> >>
> >> But, as I've said in my candidacy and in public some time I believe we
> >> have, as WMF board, a leadership duty. And I also believe you lead by
> >> example. I've always believed, in the movement, we are all partners. We
> >> need each other to push forward our mission. You treat partners the way
> >> yourself want to be treated by them. That is why I believe it is
> important
> >> to communicate. It doesn't mean we have to see eye to eye on everything
> >> but
> >> that when a question rise we should answer as much as we can. That's
> >> something I've said to nearly everyone who reached out to me in the past
> >> few month privately, my answer perhaps won't be the one you want, but at
> >> least there will be an answer and an explanation every time I can. Like
> >> right now actually :D
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for your efforts to communicate and cooperate. You and Natalia
> have
> > been helpful in improving communications between the community and the
> > Board in 2016. (I agree with Rob that Dariusz was admirably responsive
> and
> > civil in public in 2015 in difficult circumstances, while others
> weren't.)
> >
> > I would like to see further developments in this area, such as
> developments
> > that prevent the community from being surprised by Board resolutions such
> > as the one that we are discussing here.
> >
> > Also, I would like to see consideration of changing WMF to a membership
> > organization as a part of the upcoming strategy process.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Finally, regarding board governance review, Natalia, as chair of the
> BGC,
> >> published minutes of our meetings[1], and that is a key topic we address
> >> and not push aside. That being said it will be a board review, not one
> on
> >> 

[Wikimedia-l] Updates to Wikimedia Foundation Donor Privacy Policy

[Aeryn Palmer]

Hello All,

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is pleased to announce updates to our Donor
Privacy Policy . We
have also published a blog post
 with a
brief overview of the policy.

This does not represent a dramatic change in our practices, but gives
donors more information about how we handle the data we collect from them
when they make a donation or otherwise interact with Wikimedia donation- or
fundraising-related sites, banners, and emails.

The policy had not been updated since 2011, so some of our processes have
changed as relevant technologies evolved and the new policy reflects these
changes. But the main difference from the old policy is that the new
version is simply more detailed to give more information to donors. It
lists the types of information we collect, both personal and non-personal,
and reiterates our commitment to keep it confidential except under certain
limited circumstances, which it also describes (for example, we can share
information with payment processors). It explains the specific ways in
which we may use donor data, including maintaining our internal records and
complying with applicable U.S. law. The policy also informs donors about
our use of cookies, and recommends ways they can disable cookies if they
wish to do so.

The Executive Director has approved the updated Donor Policy under the
terms of a Board resolution delegating policy-making authority to her, with
a process for Board review
.
The Board was fully briefed on the updates to the policy at its November
2016 meeting. The updated policy goes into effect today, February 1, 2017.

For more details about this update, we invite you to read the blog post
 and
the full policy itself
. If you have
questions about the policy, please email us at priv...@wikimedia.org. Thank
you.

Best,

Aeryn Palmer

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: Abraham Taherivand appointed permanent Executive Director

[Abraham Taherivand]

Dear all,

thank you for all the kind wishes and congratulations!

I especially thank our Board for their confidence and their deliberate
handling of the transition process. Now I am looking forward to continuing
to work in this movement together with you and with our great staff and
communities here at Wikimedia Deutschland.

Best regards,
Abraham


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2017-18 Ombuds Commission

[Sydney Poore]

Congratulation to Vogone, Lankiveil, Góngora, Richwales, Krd for their
appointment to Ombuds Commission, and to returning as members Pajz,Alan,
Rubin16, Polimerek.

And thank you to the outgoing members, NahidSultan, Taketa, Gnom, Huji, and
Barras, for your service.

I appreciate the time that you put in doing this important work.

Warm regards,
Sydney

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians,
Co-founder WikiWomen User Group,
Co-founder WikiConference North America
Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation,
Member of Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee





On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Karen Brown  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It is time to announce the new and returning members of the 2017 Ombudsman
> Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
> about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
> use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
> Board of Trustees.
>
> [1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_
> the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
>
> I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
>
> The application period for new commissioners for 2017 recently closed. The
> Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
> insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.
>
> As it has for the past few years, this year’s OC will consist of seven
> members, with a two-member advisory team who will guide the new commission.
>
> I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2017 OC. First, the new
> members are:
>
> Vogone
>
> User:Vogone has contributed to Wikimedia projects since early 2012. While
> they began their involvement on the German Wikipedia, they quickly branched
> out to Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, and Wikiversity. They were the
> first bureaucrat on the Wikidata project. Vogone has worked heavily
> assisting our smaller projects as a global rollbacker, global sysop, and
> member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team. They have experience in
> translation administration, both on Meta and translatewiki.net.  Vogone
> has
> shown a keen interest in the technical side of user privacy, including
> contributing to MediaWiki software around edit suppression.
>
> Lankiveil
>
> Lankiveil is a long-term user, admin, and oversighter on the English
> Wikipedia, having made his first edits in 2004.  He serves as a clerk to
> the English Wikipedia Arbcom and as an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes
> edits at Irish Wikipedia and Commons. He is a native speaker of Australian
> English and is a member of Wikimedia Australia.
>
> Góngora
>
> Góngora, J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff, who primarily edits Spanish
> Wikipedia, Catalan Wikipedia and Norwegian bokmål Wikipedia. He has been an
> administrator and bureaucrat on the Spanish Wikipedia since 2007, and an
> administrator on the Catalan Wikipedia since 2009, where he is also a
> CheckUser.  He was a member of the Spanish ArbCom in 2008, before it was
> dismantled. He was a board member of Wikimedia España in 2011. He is
> currently a member of Wikimedia Norge.
>
> Richwales
>
> User:Richwales has been an active Wikimedian since 2005. He is an
> administrator, oversighter, and sockpuppet investigation clerk on the
> English Wikipedia. Richwales also served on the now-defunct Audit
> subcommittee, which served a similar role to the Ombudsman Commission.
>
> Krd
>
> User:Krd, who is primarily active on German Wikipedia and Wikimedia
> Commons, and also serves at the Volunteer response team as agent and OTRS
> admin, and was a prior member of German Wikipedia Arbcom for more than
> three years.
>
>
> In addition, the following experienced OC members will be returning as
> members
> of the Ombuds Commission:
>
> Pajz
>
> User:Pajz is a Wikipedia editor. He was a Wikipedia administrator between
> 2007 to 2016 and is a member of the Volunteer Response Team ("OTRS team").
> He served as one of the OTRS administrators from 2013 to 2015, before being
> first appointed to the Ombudsman Commission in 2016.
>
> Alan
>
> User:Alan has been a registered Wikimedian for more than three years, but
> an anonymous editor since 2006, working primarily across Spanish language
> projects. He is a global sysop and global rollbacker, an administrator on
> Commons, as well as having been an OTRS volunteer for ~4 years. In the past
> he has served as an administrator and bureaucrat on Spanish Wikivoyage.
>
> And the following experienced OC members will be returning as advisors to
> the commission (this advisory role provides expertise when needed, but does
> not participate in all discussions):
>
> Rubin16
>
> User:Rubin16 primarily edits the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a
> bureaucrat and administrator. He is formerly a member of their Arbitration
> Committee. He is an administrator on Wikimedia Commons and is a Central
> Notice and translation admin on Meta. (He is also a translation admin 

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2017-18 Ombuds Commission

[Karen Brown]

Hello all,

It is time to announce the new and returning members of the 2017 Ombudsman
Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
Board of Trustees.

[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission

I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)

The application period for new commissioners for 2017 recently closed. The
Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.

As it has for the past few years, this year’s OC will consist of seven
members, with a two-member advisory team who will guide the new commission.

I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2017 OC. First, the new
members are:

Vogone

User:Vogone has contributed to Wikimedia projects since early 2012. While
they began their involvement on the German Wikipedia, they quickly branched
out to Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, and Wikiversity. They were the
first bureaucrat on the Wikidata project. Vogone has worked heavily
assisting our smaller projects as a global rollbacker, global sysop, and
member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team. They have experience in
translation administration, both on Meta and translatewiki.net.  Vogone has
shown a keen interest in the technical side of user privacy, including
contributing to MediaWiki software around edit suppression.

Lankiveil

Lankiveil is a long-term user, admin, and oversighter on the English
Wikipedia, having made his first edits in 2004.  He serves as a clerk to
the English Wikipedia Arbcom and as an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes
edits at Irish Wikipedia and Commons. He is a native speaker of Australian
English and is a member of Wikimedia Australia.

Góngora

Góngora, J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff, who primarily edits Spanish
Wikipedia, Catalan Wikipedia and Norwegian bokmål Wikipedia. He has been an
administrator and bureaucrat on the Spanish Wikipedia since 2007, and an
administrator on the Catalan Wikipedia since 2009, where he is also a
CheckUser.  He was a member of the Spanish ArbCom in 2008, before it was
dismantled. He was a board member of Wikimedia España in 2011. He is
currently a member of Wikimedia Norge.

Richwales

User:Richwales has been an active Wikimedian since 2005. He is an
administrator, oversighter, and sockpuppet investigation clerk on the
English Wikipedia. Richwales also served on the now-defunct Audit
subcommittee, which served a similar role to the Ombudsman Commission.

Krd

User:Krd, who is primarily active on German Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Commons, and also serves at the Volunteer response team as agent and OTRS
admin, and was a prior member of German Wikipedia Arbcom for more than
three years.


In addition, the following experienced OC members will be returning as members
of the Ombuds Commission:

Pajz

User:Pajz is a Wikipedia editor. He was a Wikipedia administrator between
2007 to 2016 and is a member of the Volunteer Response Team ("OTRS team").
He served as one of the OTRS administrators from 2013 to 2015, before being
first appointed to the Ombudsman Commission in 2016.

Alan

User:Alan has been a registered Wikimedian for more than three years, but
an anonymous editor since 2006, working primarily across Spanish language
projects. He is a global sysop and global rollbacker, an administrator on
Commons, as well as having been an OTRS volunteer for ~4 years. In the past
he has served as an administrator and bureaucrat on Spanish Wikivoyage.

And the following experienced OC members will be returning as advisors to
the commission (this advisory role provides expertise when needed, but does
not participate in all discussions):

Rubin16

User:Rubin16 primarily edits the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a
bureaucrat and administrator. He is formerly a member of their Arbitration
Committee. He is an administrator on Wikimedia Commons and is a Central
Notice and translation admin on Meta. (He is also a translation admin on
Commons.) He is a member of Wikimedia Russia.

Polimerek

User:Polimerek primarily edits Polish Wikipedia (where he is an admin and
former arbitrator), Polish Wikibooks and Wikimedia Commons. He also serves
the Wikimedia movement as the president of Wikimedia Poland and on the
Grant Advisory Committee. He is a former Checkuser. Polimerek joined the OC
in 2014.

And finally, please join me in thanking the following *outgoing volunteers*,
who have given substantially of their time to serve the commission:

NahidSultan

User:NahidSultan has been volunteering on Wikimedia projects since 2012. He
is mostly active on Bengali Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Meta, where he
holds administrator rights. Besides these roles, he has also been part of
OTRS, a small wiki monitoring team member and a global administrator. Other
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