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This is an archived version of this page, as edited by Kylu (talk | contribs) at 00:48, 7 January 2009 (Much of this information is no longer correct.). It may differ significantly from the current version.

Meta-Wiki collects several master lists for communication between project members.

For internal communication there is the multilingual Meta:Babel but be aware that it is not used much. To contact a user on meta-wiki directly you can use his talk page.

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Whom to contact or ask about...


Types of People to ask

  1. Titled positions within the Wikimedia Foundation, created by the Board (generally based on community support and/or voting): Board members, volunteers with Official positions, and Wikimedia Committee chairs.
  2. Big-D Developers, mailing-list admins, and IRC-admins -- community positions based on demonstrated dedication to the project.
  3. Official Wikimedia chapters, and titled positions within them.
  4. Community positions assigned by Jimbo based on community support and discussion, or elected by vote or consensus of community members : The ENWP Arbitration committee and Mediation committee, Stewards, etc.
  5. Community positions assigned to those interested in taking on certain responsibilities: Ambassadors, ...

Those are the easy ones to track down on project wikis. Now for the harder ones:

  1. Unofficial overseers of various WikiProjects -- the Main Page maintainers for each WP, Project organizers, *-of-the-day maintainers, interface designers, self-appointed VfD/Village-Pump/RefDesk maintainers, project-level translation organizers, task-specific bot developers
  2. Unofficial overseers of various MediaWiki and MetaProjects -- detailed patches being coordinated by a small group of like-minded (small-d) developers, grant writers, press releasers, official-text translators
  3. Repositories of information -- people who read everything, and have been around since the Dawn of Time. Valuable and often overlooked as sources of information...
  4. High-availability contributors -- people who can be found within any given 12-hr period, on IRC or via their Talk: page or via email.
  5. Active members of chapters or projects who can be reached whenever organizers or overseers cannot

Wikimedia Foundation proper

(see Organization chart for more, and for a list of official WMF resources) The bylaws are a bit confused, and among other things specify some structures which do not exist as such. This should be worked out in the next bylaws revision.

Other structures within Wikimedia

Active informal structures meriting committees

Fund Raising

Grants, Donation drives, etc. Currently informal; grant materials are being worked on by many including Danny & Gentgeen

Interproject & Interlingual Communications

Ambassadors for different projects and different languages; oversight of interwiki linkage, cross-fertilization, sharing of overhead (policy pages, bots, account info, groups of translators).

Legal Advisors

Evaluating copyright, IP, and incorporation law in various countries. Advising is needed for Wikimedia as a whole, for subprojects like WikiReaders, and for local chapters. Not in touch with the WM lawer.

Public Relations

Responding to inquiries; generating press releases; attending media events. Local press contacts exist for France (via Anthere), Germany (via elian), and China (Fuzheado). See also Terry Foote on the Organization chart.

Welcoming Committee

Coordination of current users to nurture and draw in new contributors and efforts, to gather feedback on the newbie experience, and to promote awareness and tools to reduce newbie casualties.
Also coordination of various sporadically-manned Volunteer Squads: Project-level and up (Volunteer Fire Dept [often crossing language boundaries when there is a transwiki attack], RC squad, New Pages squad, &c.)
(for other suggested org-chart elements, see Wikimedia committees and Official positions.)


Formal groups within and across WM projects

  • Project stewardship: WM-wide Stewards & Developers -- Project-level Bureaucrats -- Project-level Admins
  • Project conflict resolution: Project-level Arbitration committees and mediation committees
  • IRC Administration: IRC channel ops, IRC server-admin contacts (for setting cloaks, &c.)
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