Thank you for your engagenent! I am glad to see that the Francophone rep is from Africa, and I hope we can engage on the representation of women.
Kind regards, Nattes à chat > Le 10 mars 2017 à 08:48, Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Thanks the coordinators. I do not know everybody on the list, but I > recognize there names of many excellent people. > > I also see there a name which has rung a bell for me, and the sound of the > bell was somewhat alarming. I checked and found indeed that the coordinator > has a sizable block log on the Russian Wikipedia, their home project, for > actions which include trolling and disruptive editing, and at some point > had to be placed under a topic ban. The most recent block is one and half > years ago. Which poses a natural questions whether the candidates were > actually screened. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Anna Stillwell <astillw...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Welcome. Thank you for joining us and offering your talents. >> /a >> >> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Katherine Maher <kma...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Welcome all! I am so grateful for your participation and perspective as >> we >>> begin this work. >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 00:46 Tanweer Morshed <wiki.tanw...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Welcom to all the 19 Wikimedians! I see, most of the names are familiar >>> to >>>> me. Thank you all for your dedication for the movement. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Tanweer >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Tanweer >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Guillaume Paumier < >>>> gpaum...@wikimedia.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> As most of you are aware, the Wikimedia movement has embarked on an >>>>> ambitious initiative to discuss our collective future and determine a >>>>> movement-wide strategic direction. [1] >>>>> >>>>> The movement is composed of people in many different roles, notably >>>>> individual contributors who may not be affiliated with any organized >>>>> group. It can be challenging to reach individual contributors and >>>>> involve them in strategy discussions, since they may not monitor the >>>>> usual communication channels, and they may not think that strategy >>>>> discussions are relevant to them. >>>>> >>>>> For this year’s movement strategy process, the Wikimedia Foundation >>>>> has decided to hire 19 part-time discussion coordinators to better >>>>> bridge the gap between the strategy discussions and local communities >>>>> of contributors. >>>>> >>>>> Today, I am thrilled to announce that we have concluded the search >> and >>>>> assembled a stellar team of 19 long-time Wikimedians, who have agreed >>>>> to join the movement strategy efforts in this capacity. >>>>> >>>>> As you go through the team’s page on Meta-Wiki, you will see many >>>>> familiar names. [2] The team is composed of Abbad, Bohdan, Chico, >>>>> Gereon, Jonatan, Ran, Marco, Nahid, Niccolò, Tomasz, Robin, Samuel, >>>>> Satdeep, Szymon, Oleg, Takashi, Todd, Tuan, and Venus. Because of the >>>>> team’s geographic distribution, Jan Eissfeldt, from the Foundation’s >>>>> Support and Safety team, has agreed to help lead the day-to-day >>>>> activities of the group of Asian language coordinators. >>>>> >>>>> All the coordinators started on Monday for a 3-month contract, and >>>>> they have already been hard at work, translating materials on Meta >> and >>>>> organizing the outreach to their local communities. [3] Some will >>>>> focus their efforts on specific language communities [4], and others >>>>> will support an array of smaller communities. >>>>> >>>>> If you are interested in working with the coordinators to bridge the >>>>> gap with your local communities, I invite you to take a look at the >>>>> description of the coordinator role, and sign up using the form on >>>>> that page. [5] You can also contact them directly via their talk >> page. >>>>> >>>>> I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who was involved >> in >>>>> this ultra-fast hiring process, most notably the Foundation’s Talent >> & >>>>> Culture team, who handled the recruiting and administrative >> onboarding >>>>> masterfully, and the Community Engagement department, who reached out >>>>> to their contacts, thoroughly reviewed applications, and made this >>>>> ambitious wave of recruiting ridiculously easy for me. >>>>> >>>>> Please join me in welcoming Venus, Tuan, Todd, Takashi, Oleg, Szymon, >>>>> Satdeep, Samuel, Robin, Tomasz, Niccolò, Nahid, Marco, Ran, Jonatan, >>>>> Gereon, Chico, Bohdan, and Abbad in their new role. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Guillaume Paumier >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017 >>>>> >>>>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ >>>>> movement/2017/People/Strategy_coordinators >>>>> >>>>> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ >>>>> movement/2017/Track_B/Outreach/Map >>>>> >>>>> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_ >>>>> movement/2017#Language_list_in_development >>>>> >>>>> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ >>>>> movement/2017/Toolkit/Discussion_Coordinator_Role >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Guillaume Paumier >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>>>> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>>>> wiki/Wikimedia-l >>>>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/ >> mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >>> -- >>> Katherine Maher >>> >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> 149 New Montgomery Street >>> San Francisco, CA 94105 >>> >>> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 >>> +1 (415) 712 4873 >>> kma...@wikimedia.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
