Congratulations Kelsi and to the liaisons. We look forward to working with them. Kayode Yussuf
On Friday, April 19, 2019, 6:45:24 PM GMT+1, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: Wonderful; thanks Kelsi and +++ to all the liaisons. On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 12:04 PM Kelsi Stine-Rowe <kstiner...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello Wikimedians! > > As part of the roll out for community conversations [1] in our movement > strategy [2], I am pleased to share with you that a team of Community > Strategy Liaisons have been hired and begun their new role. > > Community Strategy Liaisons [3] are part-time contractors who lead outreach > and discussion about movement strategy among some of our largest language > groups. Their time is spent connecting with Wikimedians on-wiki, in social > media channels, over conference calls, and at in-person meetups to help > explain the movement strategy process and to facilitate discussion on the > content. > > This role is in parallel to the volunteer Organizational Strategy Liaisons, > which lead discussions within their organized groups and affiliates about > movement strategy. You can find out more about these two groups on our meta > page [4]. > > Each of the Community Strategy Liaisons dedicates the bulk of their > contracted time to their dedicated language group. They have formal > responsibilities related to reporting and discussion summaries, as well as > communicating back to their language communities the results of their work. > > Given the importance of having broad reach and support across the > community, they will also provide some support to other language > communities from their geographic region. We will also soon be inviting > volunteers from language communities not represented by the team below to > sign up as Strategy Liaisons for their projects. > > With this in mind, here is the team! > > > - > > Anass Sedrati [5] is our Strategy Liaison for Arabic. His primary > responsibilities are to engage the Arabic speaking language community > across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He > will > also support outreach to the Swedish, Berber, and Kurdish language > communities, as well as with the French community until an official > Strategy Liaison is hired for this role. > > > > - > > Rupika Sharma [6] is our Strategy Liaison for Hindi. Her primary > responsibilities are to engage the Hindi speaking language community > across > Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. She will > also > support outreach to other Indic language communities active on > Wikimedia. > > > > - > > Gereon Kalkuhl [7] is our Strategy Liaison for German. His primary > responsibilities are to engage the German speaking language community > across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He > will > also support outreach to the Dutch language community. > > > > - > > Liang-chih Shang-Kuan [8] is our Strategy Liaison for Mandarin. His > primary responsibilities are to engage the Mandarin speaking language > community across Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement > strategy. He will also support outreach to other language communities > active in east Asia, southeast Asia, and the broader pacific region. > > > > - > > Lucas Teles [9] is our Strategy Liaison for Portuguese. His primary > responsibilities are to engage the Portuguese language community across > Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. > > > > - > > Francesc Fort [10] is our Strategy Liaison for Spanish. His primary > responsibilities are to engage the Spanish language community across > Wikimedia projects in discussions around movement strategy. He will also > support outreach to other language communities that predominate within > Spain as well as to the Italian community. > > > As a final note, we are still looking to hire candidates in French, Farsi, > and Russian, though other candidates may join the team for additional > languages. You can find out about the latest composition of the team on > meta and connect with the contractor for your language at any time on their > talk pages. > > Community conversations are your chance to make your voice heard on > movement strategy. Thank you for joining us! > > Best, > > Kelsi > > [1] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Participate > > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20 > > [3] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/Community_Strategy_Liaisons > > [4] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People > > [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASedrati_(WMF) > > [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RSharma_(WMF) > > [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gereon_Kalkuhl_(WMF) > > [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LShangkuan_(WMF) > > [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LTeles_(WMF) > > [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FFort_(WMF) > > > -- > > Kelsi Stine-Rowe > > Community Relations Specialist, Movement Strategy > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. 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