User:Sj

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Hello, my name is Samuel Klein. To reach me: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sj&action=edit§ion=new talk page messages] will receive the fastest response. If you have suggestions about how to improve aspects of the Projects or Wikimedia as a whole, please share them on the Meta wiki. You can also send me email ( [mailto:metasj@gmail.com meta.sj@gmail]).

I was a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for three terms, and sometimes think about project-wide issues.

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I am a Wikipedian, a one laptop per child [http://drupal.ceibaljam.org organizer], a Crimson mathematics and physics geek, a compulsive proofreader, and a long-time Bostonian. Currently working on an [https://iii.pubpub.org innovation information initiative]. I thought Wikipedia Zero was the best thing since Wikipedia One. I edited How Wikipedia Works (published with no starch[http://nostarch.com/wikipedia.htm]), a GFDL book aimed at reducing community barriers to entry for new Wikipedians. I [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_curiositate*.html aspire] to [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2012/12/09/new-research-venture-curiositate-research-agitates-for-change/ curiositate]. See my [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj blog] for more.

My favorite page remains+ the Wikipedia:Backlog.

I work to help groups improving the open Internet find legal and technical support in all jurisdictions, and to extend Wikidata-style knowledge bases into [https://underlay.org open knowledge networks].

I have had this account since [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20040127222756&target=Sj early 2004], when WP officially became more interesting and instructive than Universities and coursebooks. I am an administrator here and on the Nahuatl and Swahili Wikipedias, and was a steward for the other Wikimedia projects at one point; if you need assistance with a small project that does not currently have active administrators, you can ask me for help or find a steward or global sysop.

I sometimes speak and write about Wiki[p|m]edia, and organizing local, continental, and international community events. We have great opportunities to grow through related projects, and supported or participated in a special projects committee, community-run communication and grant-writing processes, and data analysis. Curious about: Indexing lists of [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hU7Snj4KZ-ppyy388l-sV4I26n4yGVb8xYnygPOS-5k/edit#gid=0 reliable sources]

Outside of the wikis, I work with other collections of knowledge: expanding citations and [https://iii.pubpub.org innovation] catalogs, improving global annotations ([https://hypothesis.hackpad.com/Hypothesis-XXX-M12IosmxaGe hypothesis:] [https://www.booklooker.de/B%C3%BCcher/Angebote/titel=Nick+Knatterton+%22Kombiniere+Ich+bin+komplett+%22+-+Alle+aufregenden+Abenteuer noch nicht komplett]), identifying and freeing large data repositories and publications owned by well-meaning but copyright-confused people and groups. In 2018 I co-founded the [https://kfg.mit.edu Knowledge Futures Group]. In 2013 I became a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In 2011 I started working on the Digital Public Library of America, which borrowed much of its free-knowledge focus and transparent participatory governance model from Wikipedia. In 2006, I became director of content for the One Laptop per Child foundation, helping to distribute access to these collections and the ability to contribute to them. I also enjoy synchronizing translations and bringing together translators to work on global projects. My Erdős–Bacon number is 8. I have an xdi [http://public.xdi.org/=sj sj]-entity, but no .sj domain (Svalbard and Jan Mayen still does not seem to allow registrations. If you know of exceptions to this policy, or Norwegian royalty that need heroic feats accomplished, let me know.).

Things I love: physics, CSP, language, The City++++++, perma-tools, music, poetry, color, nature,

meta-lists, stub-sorters, Life, F*C, Cups

Things I loathe: simple dichotomy, navels, myopia, wanton arrogation, stasis addiction, discorporation.

Things I miss: all-hands public debates about the projects, quartile updates, GFDL flamewars, single-page VfD (sic), Rambot debates, writing contests, corporate entities flaming Wikipedia, weekly Tilman-style updates, universal Wiktionary, multilingual wikipedia-l threads, the promise of multilingual talk-pages.

Things I am not:

SJ, [http://slashdot.org/~SJ /SJ], [http://www.e-sj.org/ e-SJ], [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/ sj],

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Sjakkalle Sjakkalle], Sjc([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Sjc +]),

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Sjc196 Sjc196], [http://www.sjk.de/ SJK], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=SJK SJK]', SJKissane,

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Sjorford Sjorford], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Essjay Essjay], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Essjay-R -R], a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Hazard-SJ Hazard], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Keplersj Kepler], a [http://www.sjphone.com sj phone], bearded woodsman [http://www.sjklein.com/home/index.html sjklein],

[http://sj.se Swedish rail],

a [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuiten Jesuit society], [http://www.gambrohealthcare.com/gambro/sj_klein.cfm Gambro's CIO], [http://www.pepysdiary.com/about/history/ an antique diarist],

a My-Br temperament, an [http://www.norid.no/domenenavnbaser/bv-sj.html arctic isle], a [http://www.citypaper.net/articles/Archived/2002-03-28/canon.shtml moral lawyer], a Burgess bird, a department store, a [http://www.athleticreporter.com/articles/article.ph7?id=516&issue=84 fabricated Sox fan], racter, a [http://www.sjgiants.com/ Giant], [http://sharks.nhl.com/ Shark], [http://www.sjlibrary.org/ library], a [http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3adoi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002446 Wodak], a [http://www.facebook.com/sjtuckermusic musical Tucker], a [https://beerconnoisseur.com/users/s-j-klein beer judge], or ED of a [http://coexistencetrust.org/index.php/who-we-are/staff Coexistence Trust]. I do not recall publishing [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3884916 hospice research with Jimbo], nor [http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/10/god-hates-rallies.html attending Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity dressed as a tea bag]. I do hoard Klein bottles, and look snappy in a trenchcoat, but did not model for Levine's detective [http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes/sam_klein.html Sam Klein] or Harry's [https://www.amazon.com/Underlay/dp/B00BW3J76M Underlayer].

Titles I have added:

Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopædia Britannica

outline | [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Bradipus/Chat_with_Jimbo B] | Bibliographic standards project | [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%86%90%E2%86%93%E2%86%91%E2%86%92&redirect=no DanziGdansk Revolution!] | good int'l blocked usernames... wp | dict

clean up: Eleventy-billion pool, World Wide Workshop, MaMaMedia, Seymour Papert | definite articles | BJAODN madness | [http://wiki.laptop.org OLPC wiki] and [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Austria Austrians] | contra oligarchy | BbenY | hww | Article alerts! | Metta-sj? | Ninus | Cites: Stolfi & Zman | Shu ha ri | odd place for it

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Meta: About me and related projects : Physics wikiportal | comm^2 ~ [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Sj&action=edit§ion=new TALK] ☎ to me!

Reflection:

Iterative; manic; covered in mail (8% inbox growth per month) ~ full of choice and commentary

Writing:

Quarto, Random log, Rec log, Touched pages (briefly: v),

Sj-mesh

Reading:

Essays (Iso), Fun ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Best_of_BJAODN BOB], &c.),

History (Congo, Sammy, Sattelite, SS1),

Meta-Lists;

brilliant!, wanted, menial & stats | original research | contests

Events: Wikimania was grand (back for more) |  Meetups : Boston, New York || Contests

Projects: True

| Fun

| Promo

| Peace(1,2,3,4,5

)

| Newpage stats | Missing images (Faceblob) || Thoughts and potential groups | Anonymity, name changes, & attribution | css ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sj/monobook.css&action=edit edit]) | js ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Sj/monobook.js&action=edit edit]) ||

Assessment : Half-decent | Standard | Good articles, Q & Retro, SIGN, 'zine, metalogueing, VOA conversion, Special:Booksources and its header, WM SIGs, translation

Categorization: Articless by cat, WP:Cat, Sj ... || Tools:

Maximize Utils!, Messaging, Comm

Action:

Press(releases, coverage, awards), Translation, Policy(Tank,Block,IP,Long),

[http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_Syntax Ext Syntax], Approval, ...

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:Overview: Community Main | [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Simple Main] | multiling

:Slimming: Sj/mesh | Sj Main

:Community: Structure, Translation, Press

:Semiotics: Naming(dab, salvaging key names), Topics

:Concerns: Disappearing [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=Wikipedia%3ATopic+of+the+week×tamp=20040506234936 revisions], db corruption, lack of widespread [http://downloads.wikimedia.org backups]

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• Architect: Circlehenge of knowledge hanging garden, 2018
• Annotorious, Cambridge syncratic edition, 2015
• First-Rickroll Hall of Fame: Knuth & Penrose, 2014
• Chauffeur: #DSKDRV transportation services, 2012 (sponsored by Fiji)
• Director: XO Jams International, 2008.
• 1st place: Randomized 80-person spymastery, Codex Alimentarius, 2011
• 3rd place: Rasperry Pi-eating contest, Pi-day, 2009
• Manager: proofreader.com
• Conference lead, Prodigal Son of Wikimania, August 2006
• Program co-organizer, Inaugural Wikimania conference, August 2005
• Top 10: Wikinews article contest, March 2005
• 8th/4th/2nd place: French Armada/Setec/++ multiplexed mystery hunt, 2004/5/7
• 5th place: Amateur Eggalchemy awards, for Lemon Souffle, 2003
• 3rd place: Cambridge area vegan cake stable height contest, 2002
• 2nd place: NE Complexity Institute "complicated costume" ball, 2000
• 1st place: High-Energy Metaphysics circle-tour marathon, 1998
• 1st place: MIT Unified Engineering design competition (indoor flight), 1997

In parting: "Humanity will be destroyed in about a billion years due to increasing sun temperature, and in about five billion years we'll be engulfed by the sun. Hopefully by then we will have colonized other planets, but if we haven't, [http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikipedians/17778.html Wikipedia will be destroyed]."

Warning: Please be aware that any information you may find on Wikipedia may be idiotic, misleading, offensive, extraterrestrial, dangerous, or illegal. Wikipedia is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or remove erroneous suggestions they are not obligated to do so. If you need specific advice ( medical, legal, psychosexual, financial, arcane, &c. ) please seek a licensed, bonded, and knowledgable professional. YOUR INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF ANYTHING FOUND IN WIKIPEDIA IS STRONGLY ADVISED.  Love, Sj.