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This is the last week for the formal strategic planning process for the Wikimedia Foundation. There are three newish summary pages worth noting: An overview of movement priorities, which the project asks for help editing and refining A call for action, or continued involvement in the process And a page about the role of the [...]

Philip Neustrom and Mike Ivanov created the DavisWiki back in 2004, as UCD students — and it is now one of the most vibrant city wikis in the world, with amazing local participation. In their words: On a given day, about 1 in 6 residents visits the site. Over the course of one week, nearly [...]

If you have not already registered for WikiSym 2010, to be held in Gdańsk, Poland on July 7-8-9, 2010, just before Wikimania 2010 (July 9-10-11), this is the last week to do so! WikiSym is the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, now in its sixth year. Keynote speakers include Cliff Lampe and Andrew [...]

My friend Liam Wyatt is the inaugural “Wikipedian in Residence” at the British Museum. He is there for a month (until Wikimania), and is building a program of outreach to the community and connections within the British Museum to improve Wikipedia articles related to the Museum and its contents. He hopes to make it a [...]

I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the process of the chapters seats lately. This is only the second time this process has happened, and by all accounts it’s much more organized this time than last. But there are still bugs. As a candidate, I’m finding it surprisingly frustrating to be a part of such [...]

Per my last post on the subject, I am standing as a candidate in the chapters seat selection process for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. (I don’t think there’s a shorter way to put that, which may indicate the unwieldyness of the process itself). Anyway, as I mentioned, it’s a closed process; only the [...]

Tomorrow is the primary election in California. Go vote! Few enough people turn out in primaries that, particularly in your local elections, you can likely make a difference. And remember that when you have a long-ass, intimidating ballot like we do (my ballot is 5 pages!!) you can just vote on the stuff you care [...]