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Thoughts from Gayle
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Jan 2012 Thoughts
There’s something about settling into a new role that is like moving into a new home. This past month for me has been about learning and starting to order my priorities. It’s also about learning the rhythms of being in a new organization - like when meetings happen, and how is the organization engaged in the spring versus the fall (the office is emptier when Wikimania happens, for instance).
Engaging with cycles means jumping into the stream of the Foundation’s ongoing cycles. For instance, now WMF is going into its 2012-2013 annual planning process throughout the entire organization. One of my roles is to support that process, in having some of the conversations with organizational leaders about how org structure and design helps us execute to the organizational strategy that we lay out. I’m very pleased to be partnering with Garfield, our CFO, who is creating the financial planning structure and processes.
An early priority of mine was to get the core of my team in place. We have experienced, thoughtful human resource professionals who are well versed in issues key to WMF employees, like benefits. We hired a Director of HR, Joady Lohr. She comes to us from IDEO and BSR. Between Joady and Janice Tud (our HR generalist), it’s great to be building our in-house capabilities as we scale as an organization to make sure our people are taken care of.
One key project I’m delighted to impact early is our jobs site. The recruitment and engagement of high-quality folks who are mission-driven to work for the organization is one of my priorities. Check out jobs.wikipedia.org. We want to make it as welcoming as possible, and it will undergo more iterations. For example, next week, we’re doing a focus group with community members because we’ve gotten the feedback that from job descriptions and the jobs site, it wasn’t clear that we welcome having community members apply to staff. I’d like to change that, and make it very clear that community members are welcome to apply for roles in the organization and that community experience is considered an asset. On the internal side, we’re trying to make the hiring process more transparent and streamlined for managers, including helping managers in the organization think about what characteristics make for a great staff member.
Next up on my agenda as related to externally facing websites is the Staff and contractors page. I’ve gotten some great feedback from User:Thehelpfulone about how to make it more accessible, so it’s clear how the organization is structured and that there’s a good, accessible sense of what people do and who they are. Everyone I’ve met who works for the Foundation is passionate about our mission and has some unique aspect to their background and their hobbies. I think it’s important for those things to be more visible to the community.
One highlight of this week was to meet members of the WMF family from Brazil and India. As we start thinking about processes like “onboarding”, its worth making sure that contractors - especially our international ones - all have access to some of the same learning set. For example, Philippe did a fabulous talk this week on the structure of the movement and we plan to have Erik do a talk on Open Source and how core it is to WMF functioning, and that’s important for everyone to be grounded in.
There are a lot of other things I’m really excited about, and particularly passionate about, like leadership and staff development. Helping people be even more successful in their roles is ultimately what I think this job is all about, paying as much attention to the staff and their needs in the way that staff tries to pay attention to the needs of the community. I really couldn’t be happier to have this job!
Feedback, input, and questions are welcome. I’m still settling in and getting comfortable, so sometimes it may take me a bit to find an answer or develop them. We’re just starting to look at refreshing and re-articulating a lot of policies because they have to inherently be a bit different for a 100+ person organization than a 20 or 30 person org, but I aim to be available and will be doing things like blogging and publishing to make visible what I do.
Welcome!
[edit]Gayle, welcome onboard! So glad you're here. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:06, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Reminder! Women's History Month edit-a-thon
[edit]Just a friendly reminder about the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Women's History Month :)
Date: Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (PT)
Location: Wikimedia Foundation Offices 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105
Bring: Your laptop and charger (we'll have some extra computers available), your questions, and your friends!
What to expect: A fun, laid-back environment with food, drink, a great mix of people, and a wealth of knowledge and resources.
Public transport: BART to Montgomery station and walk 1 block down New Montgomery St.
Reminder: The St. Patricks Day parade will be starting at 11:30 on Market Street. Market street will most likely be closed to cars so please plan your journey accordingly ;-)
When you arrive: A volunteer will be at the front of the building to greet everyone arriving 12:40 - 1:20. You will take the elevator up to the 6th floor.
If you are early: If you expect to come earlier than 12:40 to help set-up, please let us know, so we can give you a contact number.
If you arrive later: No problem. There will be a phone number posted to the front door of the office building. A volunteer will run down and let you in.
We can't wait to see you on Saturday! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
HighBeam
[edit]Hello, I am sending this message to editors who signed up for the Women's History Month Edit-a-thon. Please help spread the word. HighBeam Research--an online, pay-for-use search engine for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines and encyclopedias has agreed to give free, full-access, 1-year accounts for up to 1000 Wikipedia editors to use. HighBeam has access to over 80 million articles from 6,500 publications, most of which are not available for free elsewhere on the internet. Aside from a free 7-day trial (credit card required), access to HighBeam would cost $30 per month or $200 per year for the first year and $300 for subsequent years, so this is a wonderful, free, no-strings-attached opportunity. To qualify, editors must have at least a 1 year-old account with 1000 edits. Please add your name to the WP:HighBeam/Applications account sign-up page if you are interested. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 18:38, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia! Drop by the Teahouse anytime for a cup of tea, or some help with editing!
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Hello! GYoung (WMF),
you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! Sarah (talk) 23:15, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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| I, Tomasz "odder" Kozłowski, hereby award you, Gayle, this Real Life Barnstar as a thank-you for those inspiring minutes we've spent chatting during the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. I really enjoyed our talk, and will be looking forward to meeting you again soon -- maybe at Wikimania in D.C.? Have a happy weekend! odder (talk) 20:08, 7 April 2012 (UTC) |
Thank you!! :) My very first barnstar. I enjoyed our conversation too and I will most definitely be in D.C. and I look forward to seeing you there! :) Thank you. Gyoung (talk) 14:31, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
You're invited: San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2!
[edit]| San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2! You are invited! | |
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The San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2 will be held on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! This event will be specifically geared around encouraging women to learn how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia. Workshops on copy-editing, article creation, and sourcing will be hosted. Bring a friend! Come one, come all! |
San Francisco Wiknic 2012
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You're invited! - Wiki Loves Monuments - San Francisco Events
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Hi! As part of Wiki Loves Monuments, we're organizing two photo events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Yosemite National Park. We hope you can come out and participate! Feel free to contact User:Almonroth with questions or concerns.
There are three events planned:
- September 15, Saturday - A bike ride along San Francisco's waterfront
- September 22-23rd, Saturday-Sunday - Wiki Takes Yosemite
- September 29, Saturday - A sunset and harvest moon bridges, palace, boats and tower tour
We look forward to seeing you there!
You are receiving this message because you signed up on the SF Bay Area event listing, or have attended an event in the Bay Area. To remove yourself, please go here. EdwardsBot (talk) 00:42, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
WikiWomen's Collaborative
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Hi Gyoung! I just wanted to let you know that the WikiWomen's Collaborative have launched! You can read all about it on this quick blog that I wrote! Do be sure to participate in the Facebook page and Twitter if you can, and suggest that your friends do as well. If you'd like to be a made an admin on Facebook, just let me know! Also, we've got our own blog channel now, so let's start getting those blogs rolling :) Happy to have you involved - let's do this! SarahStierch (talk) 22:51, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the Google Event
[edit]Hi Gayle. Great event at Google. Just wanted to say hi in Cyberspace. (I was the one asking you if you dealt any with the character assassination incident; I think it was the Seigenthaler incident I was referring to). —Mu Mind (talk) 00:59, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco
[edit]You're invited! Ada Lovelace Day San Francisco
[edit]| October 16 - Ada Lovelace Day Celebration - You are invited! | |
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Come celebrate Ada Lovelace Day at the Wikimedia Foundation offices in San Francisco on October 16! This event, hosted by the Ada Initiative, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Wikimedia Foundation. It'll be a meet up style event, though you are welcome to bring a laptop and edit about women in STEM if you wish. Come mix, mingle and celebrate the legacy of the world's first computer programmer.
The event is October 16, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm, everyone is welcome! You must RSVP here - see you there! |
Edit-a-thon tomorrow (Saturday) in Oakland
[edit]Hi, I hope you will be joining us tomorrow afternoon at the Edit-a-thon at Tech Liminal, in Oakland. We'll be working on articles relating to women and democracy (and anything else that interests you). It's sponsored by the California League of Women Voters, Tech Liminal, and me.
If this is the first you are hearing of this event, my apologies for the last-minute notice! I announced it on the San Francisco email list and by a banner on your watchlist, but I neglected to look at the San Francisco invitation list until this evening. If you can't make it this time, I hope to see you at a similar event soon! -Pete (talk) 04:44, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Wiknic 2013
Sunday, June 23rd · 12:34pm · Lake Merritt, Oakland
Theme: Hyperlocal list-making
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This year's 2013 SF Wiknik will be held at Lake Merritt, next to Children's Fairyland in Oakland. This event will be co-attended by people from the hyperlocal Oakland Wiki. May crosspollination of ideas and merriment abound!
Location and Directions
[edit]- Location: The grassy area due south of Children's Fairyland (here) (Oakland Wiki)
- Nearest BART: 19th Street
- Nearest bus lines: NL/12/72
- Street parking abounds
You're invited...
[edit]to two upcoming Bay Area events:
- Maker Faire 2013, Sat/Sun May 18-19, San Mateo -- there will have a booth about Wikimedia, and we need volunteers to talk to the public and ideas for the booth -- see the wiki page to sign up!
- Edit-a-Thon 5, Sat May 25, 10-2pm, WMF offices in San Francisco -- this will be a casual edit-a-thon open to both experienced and new editors alike! Please sign up if on the wiki page if you can make it so we know how much food to get.
I hope you can join us at one or both! -- phoebe / (talk to me) 20:08, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
July 2013
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Thank you. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:44, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reminder! Gyoung (talk) 06:56, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
(the e-mail)
[edit]I am young... 19 to be exact. Think you for the e-mail, and deleting my user page. I occasionally do stupid things when I'm upset, and I think you for oversight. The point, however stands. Depression does hurt... and I'm scared to tell anyone, as nobody knows my real name. I appreciate it. I will reply to your e-mail shortly after I complete this post, and it contains the private information that addresses it, and I cannot post it publicly. --Lesbiangirl123 (talk) 04:31, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
You're invited: Art & Feminism Edit-a-thon
[edit]| Art & Feminism Edit-a-Thon - You are invited! | |
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| Hi GYoung (WMF)! The first Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon will be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014 in San Francisco. Any editors interested in the intersection of feminism and art are welcome. Wikipedians of all experience levels are invited! Experienced editors will be on hand to help new editors. | |
You're invited! WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley
[edit]| Saturday, April 5 - WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon at the University of California, Berkeley - You are invited! | |
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The University of California, Berkeley's Berkeley Center for New Media is hosting our first edit-a-thon, facilitated by WikiWoman Sarah Stierch, on April 5! This event, focused on engaging women to contribute to Wikipedia, will feature a brief Wikipedia policy and tips overview, followed by a fast-paced energetic edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Please bring your laptop and be prepared to edit about women and women's history! The event is April 5, from 1-5 PM, at the Berkeley Center for New Media Commons at Moffitt Library. You must RSVP here - see you there! SarahStierch (talk) 23:23, 13 March 2014 (UTC) |
You're invited! Litquake Edit-a-thon in San Francisco
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The Edit-a-thon will occur in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Writers from all over the Bay Area and the world will be in town during the nine day festival, so the timing is just right for us to meetup and create/translate/expand/improve articles about literature and writers. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. This event will include new editor training. RSVP →here←. --Rosiestep (talk) 03:07, 27 September 2014 (UTC) | ||||||||||
SF edit-a-thons on March 7 and 8
[edit]| ArtAndFeminism (3/7) and International Women's Day (3/8)! | |
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  Dear fellow Wikipedian, In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending! First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works! Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course! I hope to see you there! Rosiestep (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about SF meetups, please remove your name from this list. | |
Bay Area WikiSalon series kickoff, April 27
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The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts in the San Francisco Bay Area will gather to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. We have two brief presentations lined up for our kickoff event in downtown San Francisco:
- The Nueva Upper School recently hosted the first ever high school Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will hear what interests them about Wikipedia, what they have learned so far, and what they hope to achieve.
- Photojournalist Kris Schreier Lyseggen, author of The Women of San Quentin: The Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, will tell us about her work and how she researched the topic.
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.
Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.
For further details, see here: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, April 2016
We hope to see you -- and until then, happy editing! - Pete, Ben & Wayne
Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series on May 25
[edit]The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. We will have beverages and light snacks.
Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict on this point.
For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, May 2016
See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, and Checkingfax via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 9 May 2016 (UTC) | Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the SF Meetups notice.
Invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29
[edit]The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
We make sure to allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend. Free Wi-Fi is available so bring your editing devices. We will have beverages and light snacks. We will also have:
- A brief report on Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Publice Library, coordinated by Merrilee:
- What topics might we cover in a follow up?
- Find out more about resources your public library provides to help with editing (hint, it's more than just books!)
- Special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
- Join in on an in person Wikidojo!
- Are you curious how your peers approach writing a Wikipedia article? This exercise, pioneered by Wikipedians Nikola Kalchev and Vassia Atanassova in 2015 and conducted in many places around the world, will help us all - from first-time wiki users to veteran Wikipedians - share ideas, while building an article together. If you have ideas (relating to Bay Area history, ideally) about a new article we could build (stubs and short existing articles are fine), please submit them ahead of time to coordinator Pete Forsyth. (User talk page or email is fine.)
- Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!
Please note: You must register here, and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.
For further details, see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016
See you soon! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and Checkingfax | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:07, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
REMINDER/invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.
[edit]If you cannot join in person or want to view portions later:
We will have:
- Light snacks, and time to mingle
- A brief report on the Pride edit-a-thon recently held at the San Francisco Public Library, that was coordinated by Wiki editor Merrilee
- A special announcement (secret for now but come and find out more!)
- Join in on a brief in person Wikidojo!
- Announcements and impromptu topics are welcome, too!
Please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cjLRrSTlEkGOPTQ-h6A0WvSFI4ZmIUl6jEHp_RYas-E/viewform and bring a photo ID that matches your registration name. The building policy is strict.
For further details, see: Bay Area WikiSalon, June 2016
See you tonight! Pete F, Ben, Stephen and MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC) | (Subscribe or Unsubscribe to this talk page notice)
Late breaking invitation to the Bay Area WikiSalon series, July 27 (Wednesday) - change of venue - tonight
[edit]We hope you can join us today, Wednesday, from 6 p.m. on, at our July Bay Area WikiSalon. This month only, we are going to be at Noisebridge, a hackerspace/makerspace 1.5 blocks from the 16th & Mission BART station (see the link for directions). Some of us will be working on the Wikipedia article on basic income. All info here. Some good news - we do not have to be as strict about advance RSVP at Noisebridge, so bring spontaneous guests! (Registering ahead of time is still helpful, as always, as it will help us plan ahead.)
Come and hang out, have some light snacks. Wi-Fi is available, so please bring your editing device if you plan to edit.
Also, Pete just published a writeup of the Wikidojo exercise we did last month. Your comments welcome, if he missed anything! http://wikistrategies.net/ghost-town-royals-wikidojo
The last Wednesday evening of every month, wiki enthusiasts gather at Bay Area WikiSalon to collaborate, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas. Mark you calendars now.
We allow time for informal conversation and working on articles. Newcomers and experienced wiki users are encouraged to attend.
See you soon! Pete F, Ben Creasy, Stephen and Wayne | (Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this talk page notice here)