I congratulate all the elected members. Best Regards, Rajeeb. (U: Marajozkee) (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity)
> On 13-Jul-2020, at 2:58 AM, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight > <rosiestep.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Subject line: Affiliations Committee 2020 Mid-Term Election results > > Dear everyone, > > We are happy to share that Başak Tosun, Bunty Avieson, Jeffery Keefer, > Ravan Al-Taie, and Suyash Dwivedi are new members who have been appointed > to the Affiliations Committee, while Camelia Boban has been re-appointed. > > Here are Başak Tosun, Bunty Avieson, Jeffery Keefer, Ravan Al-Taie, and > Suyash Dwivedi, in their own words: > > > 1. > > Başak Tosun: > I have been a contributor to Wikimedia projects since 2005. I mainly > contribute to Turkish Wikipedia. For a long time, I was only an online > contributor; I discovered that contributions to free knowledge could go > beyond editing after I joined an international WikiCamp in 2015. Then I > contacted fellow wikipedians to form a user group in Turkey and became one > of the founder members of Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey. I took the > responsibility of Wikipedia Education Programs in the group and organised > Education Programs in several courses at 8 different universities. > Additionally, I take part in organising edit-a-thons, partnership search, > organising local contests. > > > > 1. > > Bunty Avieson: > I am a media academic at University of Sydney and a member of Wikimedia > Australia. I learned to edit at an Art & Feminism event in March 2017 and > immediately followed up with an online course. I have since hosted > edit-a-thons in Sydney and Bhutan, but my interest goes beyond editing to > the larger goals of the Wikimedia movement, particularly around knowledge > equity and diversity. I’m currently leading two research projects to build > smaller language Wikipedias. One is a collaboration with Tata Institute of > Social Sciences in Mumbai to train two groups of retired Tamils, in both > Sydney and Mumbai, to edit Tamil Wikipedia. The other is a three-year > project funded by the Australian Research Council, to train Bhutanese to > publish on both English Wikipedia and also develop their Dzongkha site. I'm > an active member of Women Write Wiki and Women In Red. > > > > 1. > > Jeffery Keefer: > I serve as a Wikimedian in Residence for the Patient-Centered Outcomes > Research Institute (PCORI). I started editing Wikipedia three years ago > while attending an open education conference in London where I went to a > workshop and was challenged to learn to try editing Wikipedia. Between then > and now Wikimedia has become my online home, where I edit and teach > students how to use our Wikimedia projects, am active across all three > types of Affiliates, and was one of the writers of the Movement Strategy > Recommendations. I have a PhD in educational research. I am or have been > involved in a number of Wikipedia + Wikimedia projects across the Movement: > Wikimedia Movement Strategy: Integrator, Writer, and Co-Coordinator of the > Capacity Building Working Group; Election Facilitator for the > Affiliate-Selected Board Seats (ASBS) election, 2019; Member of the Board, > Wikimedia New York City; Member, Project Grants Committee; AffCom Reporting > Representative, LGBT+ User Group; Member, Editorial Board of the > WikiJournal of Humanities; Member, Wikimedians in Residence Exchange > Network; Member, Wiki Project Med Foundation Member; WikiConference > North America User Group. > > > > 1. > > Ravan Al-Taie: > I am Ravan Al-Taie. I'm the founder of Iraqi Wikimedians User Group. I > am an engineer, working as a professional in the Oil industry. I started > editing Wikipedia in 2008, edited Arabic wikipedia and became an admin in > 2013 for more than 6 years. In 2015, My mother language is Arabic, but I > speak Kurdish language fluently as well, that's why I helped in Kurdish > Wikipedia and currently helping other colleagues to correctly start Kurdish > Wikipidian user group as per the foundation process because I strongly > believe the more diverse we are the best to be in representing the global > knowledge heritage. I've led several offline activities such as organizing > WLM for 3 years in Iraq, as well as starting the first editathon and > learning workshop in all Iraq with great success. After that, I've focused > on bringing more women to the movement in order to decrease the big gender > gap that we have in Arabic Wikipedia. > > > > 1. > > Suyash Dwivedi: > I have done my graduation in Electronics Engineering and have been a > Wikimedian since 2013. Mostly I edit on Commons, Hindi, English, Wikidata, > GLAM, Wikivoyage and sometimes on other Wikipedia projects. I have > organized many outreach activities, including conferences and edit-a-thons. > I am the founder member of Hindi Wikimedians User Group. Apart from Hindi, > I also contribute to English Sanskrit, Marathi, and Punjabi language > Wikimedia projects. I was the Lead Organizer of Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 > in India, hosted Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Salon in Bhopal, > organized Wikipedia Asian Month for Hindi and Sanskrit languages in > 2016-2017-2018 and 2019 (for Sanskrit). I have also worked on a short term > contract with the Trust and Safety team as ‘Universal Code of Conduct > Facilitator’. Currently, I am working on the Internet in a Box (IIAB) > hardware to make this device easy to install and control in public places. > I also contribute to various other projects like-Creative Commons, ‘Common > Voice’ by Mozilla. Raspberry Pi Foundation (JAM organizer), OSM, OpenCon, > and Internet Archive. I am volunteering in various UN Environment Programme > and campaigns, Google Local Guides (Level 9) and a member of the National > Ataxia Foundation. > > > Please join me in welcoming the newly-appointed members of AffCom. > > Respectfully, > > Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her) > > Chair, Affiliations Committee > _______________________________________________ > 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>
