wow..congrtz Tanvir.. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Siko Bouterse <[email protected]>wrote:
> It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the > Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang. > > Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and > globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of > Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he holds administrator rights on > multiple projects and he was elected a steward in 2011. He also > volunteers on the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, the Countervandalism > Network, as an OTRS agent, and is a translator for translatewiki. > Tanvir helped found Wikimedia Bangladesh and organizes local outreach > activities to raise awareness for Wikimedia and bring new editors to > the projects. > > In his fellowship project, Tanvir will be experimenting with on-wiki > strategies to encourage and grow the editing community on small > language versions of Wikipedia, with specific focus on the Bengali > Wikipedia. Smaller projects have different needs and challenges than > the large language communities and may require different approaches to > engage with editors. By focusing on a community like Bengali > Wikipedia, which has about 50 active editors per month and sees 10 new > editors per month, Tanvir hopes to learn more about the basic editing > infrastructure needed to encourage new editors in new or small-scale > projects. > > Steven Zhang is a Wikipedian with a passion for resolving on-wiki > disputes and helping others do the same. He has been contributing to > the English Wikipedia since 2008 and has been particularly active in > dispute resolution forums, including the Wikipedia Mediation Cabal. > Steven is studying a Certificate IV in Mediation at Open Colleges, and > over the past year he has made it his mission as a volunteer to > recruit more editors to join dispute resolution efforts. In 2011, he > helped create the dispute resolution notice board, an entry point for > mediating disputes on the English Wikipedia. Steven has noted that > there aren’t enough active participants to resolve all of the disputes > that arise on Wikipedia each day, and he believes that dispute > resolution processes could be streamlined to make them more accessible > and efficient to all editors who need them. > > For his fellowship project, Steven will be analyzing community > feedback and dispute resolution activity in order to build a deeper > understanding of what is effective and what needs improvement in the > current systems. He will also be developing a guide for new editors > who want to get involved in resolving on-wiki disputes. > > Steven and Tanvir will be documenting their work on-wiki and on the > Foundation blog. You can learn more about their projects and how to > get involved by visiting: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Fellows > > Welcome, Tanvir and Steven! > > -- > Siko Bouterse > Head of Community Fellowships > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Best Regards, *Nurunnaby Chowdhury* *User: nhasive*
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