Michael Jahn WMDE
Joined 25 June 2013
I am an employee of Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., the German Wikimedia chapter. This user account is used exclusively for edits in my role as a Wikimedia employee and communications team staff member.
My Wikimania tags
- #reporting
- no, seriously, ask me about documentation, knowledge sharing via reports and self-assessment! I mean it. Reporting is both a service to others and to ourselves. It makes life easier. It's the best way to reward ourselves for all the effort and enthusiasm we devote to our time and projects.
- #perspectives
- My prerogative is AGF. And no, that's not because nice people ought to believe in the willingness of others to treat them nicely, too. (They should!) Rather, it's the only feasible way of communicating thoughtfully and successfully. People have their reasons, whatever the issue may be. AGF is the way to approach any kind of conflict, although I must admit that my interpretation is a very specific one that includes, among further aspects, the four-sides model and other communication theory standards.
- #wiki culture
- ...for whatever that means. What is the wiki principle? Ask four different people and you'll get five different answers. Test it! Is Wikipedia's success to be seen from a holistic perspective, making it the astounding product of a community? Or is it to be interpreted reductionistically, highlighting individual effort and what editing means from a micro perspective? In short, pinch me if you're in for scrutinizing some fundamental vocabulary!
My preliminary Wikimania schedule
Friday:
- Flow + roundtable on messaging and discussions
- Wiki ecology
- AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK: Speed geeking I'll do an experiment and try to plant the seed of the four-sides model (see above) in anybody I'll be speed-geeking. It'll be fun! :D
- The VisualEditor session
Saturday:
- MORNING COFFEE BREAK: Meet-up I'll be hosting a meet-up entitled Let's put the port in reporting! I hereby confess to be the very author of the punchline and I dare you to find out that there's lots of hands-on management basics behind the joke.
- FDC session, plus Global South strategy
- AT THE WMDE TABLE (CHAPTERS' VILLAGE)
- Wikimedia storytelling
- Wikidata
Sunday:
The 4-ears-speed-geeking
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