User:Sj

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About me

Update: I edited parts of How Wikipedia Works (online @ No Starch Press), a GFDL book which will hopefully tear down the community barriers to entry for a new generation of Wikipedians. Now I can't wait for the on-WP version.

This user seeks the peaceful resolution of disputes.

Retro Sj

Greetings. I am sj, or Samuel Klein. I am a Wikipedian, a one laptop per child organizer, a mathematics and physics zealot, a clutch proofreader, and a long-time Bostonian. See my blog, SJ's Longest Now, and the OLPC Wiki for more. I have an xdi sj-entity, but no .sj domain (Svalbard and Jan Mayen having decided not to allow registrations). I have been here since January 2004. I am currently an administrator here and on the Nahuatl Wikipedia, and a steward for other Wikimedia projects; if you need assistance with a small project that does not currently have active administrators, feel free to ask for help.

I often communicate about what Wiki[p|m]edia does, and organizing local and international community events. I enjoy working on related projects: I am the secretary of the special projects committee, and have a server dedicated to analyzing and running regular statistics on Wikipedia data.

I work to expand the world's collection of free knowledge: identifying and freeing large data repositories and publications owned by well-meaning but copyright-confused people and groups. As of this August, I am the director of content for the One Laptop per Child association; helping to distribute access to these collections and the ability to contribute to them. Over the past two years I have worked at synchronizing Wikipedia-wide translations and bringing together translators from across the projects. You can also reach me by phone : +1 617 529 4266.

Things I love: physics, language, The City++++, perma-tools, music, poetry, color, nature, meta-lists, stub-sorters, Life, F*C,
Things I loathe: simple dichotomy, navels, myopia, wanton arrogation, addiction to stasis.
Things I miss: all-hands public debates about the projects, quartile updates, GFDL flamewars, single-page VfD, Rambot, writing contests.
Things I am not: SJ, /SJ, e-SJ, sj, SJK, Sjc(+), SJK, SV, Sjc196, Sjorford, Essjay, -R, SJ Phone (sjphone.com), bearded woodsman sjklein, a Jesuit society, Gambro's CIO, Samuel the diarist, a My-Br temperament, an arctic isle, a moral lawyer, a Burgess bird, a department store, a fabricated Sox fan, or a hiding girl. I do hoard Klein bottles, look snappy in a trenchcoat, but did not model for Levine's detective Sam Klein.

Status

☎ to me!
Reflection: Iterative; manic; covered in mail (10% inbox growth per month) ~ full of choice
Writing: Quarto, , Rec log, Touched pages (briefly: v), Sj-mesh
Reading: Essays , Fun , History , Meta-Lists;
brilliant!, wanted, menial & stats | original research | contests

Events: Wikimania was grand (back for more) |  Meetups : Boston, New York ||
Projects: True | Fun | Promo | Peace(1,2,3,4,5 ) | Newpage stats | Missing images (Faceblob) || and potential groups | Anonymity, name changes, & attribution | css (edit) | js (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: (releases, coverage, awards), , Policy(Tank,Block,IP,Long), Ext Syntax, Approval, ...