Concept VisualEditor Edit-a-Thons Actions Communication WikiProject EditorsOpen Source MediaWiki LGBT Wikidata Open Culture Innovation Behaviour Teahouse Content Women Edit Learning Resources Collaboration Participation Guidelines Encouragement Education Broadening Community Gender Change Strategies ToolsetWikimedia Global South Diversity Conference Dialogue WikiQueer Indigenous Languages Research Volunteers Free Knowledge Reducing Barriers Technical Developments Challenges & Opportunities Outreach IdeaLab Initiatives Equality Feedback Quality November 9 -10, 2013 Berlin

WIKIMEDIA DEUTSCHLAND Welcome to the Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2013!

To empower and engage people around experience what has worked and what the world to collect and develop educa- has not and how these projects can be tional content is the mission of the glob- taken further. Beyond that, we will work al . But we are on new ideas on reducing barriers that still in our infancy. Many languages and keep people from taking part in our cultures are not adequately represented projects. We will exchange ideas about in the different Wikimedia projects, many diversity and an inclusive culture in the people shy away from participating in Wikimedia projects during working ses- our projects and sharing their know- sions. Let us start to talk about projects ledge with the world. Particularly striking and let us create new ideas! is the low proportion of women. To gain the knowledge and commitment, for Wikimedia Deutschland is proud to be example of underrepresented groups, the host of the Wikimedia Diversity to increase the pool of knowledge in the Conference. We would like to thank the Wikimedia projects, and to further a , Wikimedia UK heterogeneous, colorful, diverse com- and Wikimedia Netherlands for their munity, is the goal of our work. support throughout the process. Our staff and volunteers have worked dili- Wikpedians, Wikimedians and experts gently during the past months to make from all over the world join this confer- this event happen. During the confer- ence to follow the vision of free access ence they will be available at the loca- to the sum of all human knowledge for tion and provide you with any assistance every person. This opportunity gives us you may need. the unique chance to share our know- ledge and understanding of diversity topics. For the next two days, we will Welcome to Berlin! engage in discussions about our work in the field of gender diversity and geo- graphic diversity. At the conference, you Pavel Richter will learn more about existing projects Executive Director in the Wikimedia movement; you will Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

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Time Lounge Room 112 Time lounge room 112 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Registration ANNA LENA SCHILLER // Welcome and intro 9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - Pavel Richter // Welcoming words Best Practice IV 9:30 a.m. Anna Lena Schiller (facilitator) // Intro & get to know each other 9:30 a.m. - Alyssa Wright // Collaborating Ting Chen // The economy of Best Practice I 9:55 a.m. with other open source communities diversity 9:30 a.m. - Ilona Buchem // Promoting gen- Best Practice V 9:55 a.m. der diversity through open innovation 10:00 a.m. - Silvia Stieneker // Women edit Best Practice II 10:55 a.m. – from a small local initiative to a 10:00 a.m. - Netha Hussain // Diversifying Andrés Maggese // Preservati- Valerie Aurora // Diversity nationwide network 10:55 a.m. India through outreach among women on of indigenous languages through initiatives that worked in other open Wikipedia communities Emily Temple-Wood // Women John Andersson // Thematic scientists and philosophers on English edit-a-thons as a way to reach new Nemin Wang // Editor diversity on Wikipedia groups Chinese Wikipedia Best Practice VI Best Practice III 11:00 a.m. - Tim Moritz Hector // The 11:00 a.m. - Dumisani Ndubane // Wiki Indaba 11: 55 a . m . Teahouse – why and how we interna- Gregory Varnum // LGBT Out- 11: 55 a . m . and the African agenda tionalize it reach Gerard Meijssen // Wikidata as a tool to bring initial information T Vishnu Vardhan // So many lan- Sydney Poore // Mentoring: how Katie Chan // Where‘s the T in guages: Challenges and opportunities to mentor women and older people in Wikimedia Diversity? for the Wikimedia movement in India the Wikimedia movement 12:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Lunch Lunch 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - Ask a board member // Questions and discussion with Alice Wiegand and Ideas & Action III 1:25 p.m. María Sefidari, moderated by Anna Lena 1:00 p.m. - Alolita Sharma // The question Siko Bouterse // Ideas into Ideas & Action I 2:30 p.m. of culture: changing the diversity equa- action: IdeaLab Diversity working tion of open source session 1:30 p.m. - Jake Orlowitz // Inviting diversity: M. Flaschen, J. Zimmerman, V. 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. A playful approach to broadening our Bamba, P. Giner // Engaging new Coffee break community editors by reducing barriers 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. - Closing panel & sum-up Coffee break 3:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. - Round-up & next steps Ideas & Action II 4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Ilona Buchem and netha Alyssa Wright and Siko Bou- Social program 5:30 p.m. hussain // Design Diversity terse // Creating a toolset for impact n.n. Sum-up first day 5:40 p.m. Round-up 7:00 p.m. - Social program n.n. 4 5 Sessions On Saturday Sessions On Saturday

9:30 - 9:55 a.m. lounge 10:00 - 10:55 a.m. Lounge John Andersson Thematic edit- 10:00 - 10:55 a.m. Room I12 a-thons as a way to reach New Ilona BucheM Promoting gender Netha Hussain Diversifying groups Andrés Maggese Preservation of diversity through open innova- India through outreach among indigenous languages through tion women The presentation will give an overview about Wikipedia what Wikimedia Sverige has done so far The presentation focuses on outlining the Wikimedia’s gender gap is more pronounced with regard to edit-a-thons. First, it will give The presentation will focus on Andrés approach, development steps and preliminary in the Indian Wikimedia Community where examples followed by a general discussion Maggese’s work with school children in results of the project “Wikipedia Diversity” only 3% of the participants of the editor sur- on what can be learned from these. Wikime- Argentina. Many children are of Guaraní conducted by Beuth University of Applied vey (2011) were female as opposed to 9% dia Sverige had three edit-a-thon events in or Quechua descent and still speak these Sciences Berlin and Wikimedia Deutschland globally. The presentation will focus on the 2012 and 2013 focusing on different topics. languages besides Spanish, but most of them e.V. The project focuses on enhancing gen- context-specific barriers and challenges faced By means of a survey among the partici- did not know about Wikipedia’s existence der diversity in the German Wikipedia and by Indian women in editing Wikipedia and pants, they will be evaluated in order to find in their native languages. Over the last few follows the principles of open innovation. Its how the Wikimedia community in India has common denominators. The question is if months, Maggese and his partner have intro- aim is to engage the attempted to bridge the gender gap. It will carefully chosen thematic topics can help to duced them to these language versions of in devising new, creative and effective ways focus on the designs of outreach programs get more women involved and if there is a Wikipedia and taught them how to edit. The of approaching gender diversity, especially conducted in India for targeting different need to change the format of an edit-a-thon presentation will show the steps they took, related to such questions as: How can we population groups, and the cultural aspects to reach a successful outcome. Thus, the idea the ensuing results so far and their expecta- establish a welcoming culture which is invit- that are to be addressed while conducting of the presentation is to share Wikimedia tions for the future. ing to female contributors? How can we outreach. Sverige’s experiences with edit-a-thons and communicate in an inclusive way and solve to get valuable input from others to continue Andrés Maggese, Wikipedian since 2012, has conflicts constructively? How can we develop Netha Hussain is a medical student from work in this area. been working in schools in Argentina since awareness of gender issues without provok- , India. She began editing Wikipedia last year. He currently works as a teaching ing gender wars? in 2010, contributing to the English and Ma- John Andersson is a project manager at assistant, focusing on Wikipedia in the class- layalam Wikipedia. She has been involved in Wikimedia Sverige and has worked with the room. With his partner, a sysop, he focuses Ilona Buchem is professor for Digital Media women topics and coordinated two edit-a- two projects Europeana Awareness and the on teaching children how to use and edit and Diversity at Beuth University of Applied thons in India to increase the representation Open Database of Public Art in up Wikipedia in Spanish, Guaraní and Quechua. Sciences in Berlin, Germany. Her courses of women in Wikipedia and the coverage of until the second half of 2013. Since July, he focus on how digital media change current articles about women in India. She is also an has also also been working with Wikipedia in Nemin Wang Editor diversity On practices in education and business. In her re- active blogger and has published various blog education and has been involved in a project Chinese Wikipedia search, she explores how to design and apply posts about Wikipedia and women. directed at immigrants who study Swedish. digital media to support open learning, col- He has been an active contributor to Wiki- Although Taiwan does not have the same laboration, creativity, diversity and inclusion. pedia and other free knowledge projects for population level as mainland China, 39% about seven years and an administrator for of all editors on Chinese Wikipedia come the Swedish Wikipedia for six years. from Taiwan. Only 19% of them come from mainland China and 26% come from Hong

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Kong. These facts result in a really special edit- Katie Chan Where’s the T in 11:00 - 11:55 a.m. room 112 models on how each language could poten- ing environment. Neutral point of view has Wikimedia Diversity? tially contribute to other Wikipedia language become more important and popular than Dumisani Ndubane Wiki Indaba versions. The presentation will critically look verifiability and original research. The central When the Wikimedia community talks about and the African agenda at the following questions: Could language question is: How do people with different diversity issues, a lot of thoughts and bits diversity diversify and develop an Indian ideologies improve Wikipedia? are given to the low proportion of female The topic of this session will be the merits language version of Wikipedia? Is there really editors, global south and attitudes towards of Wiki Indaba and how the event is hoped unity in diversity? Nemin Wang is an administrator and local lesbian, gay and bisexual editors and article to be the first organized response to the community coordinator of Chinese Wikipedia. subjects. What is often not addressed are question of community building in Africa. T Vishnu Vardhan is the program director In the past three years, he has hosted more transgender issues, how they affect those The session will focus on diversities to be en- “Access to Knowledge” at CIS since February than 25 offline activities in five cities in China. of our editors that are concerned by these countered in dealing with Wikimedians and 2013. His experience spans across academ- issues, and whether our approach towards organizations from different parts of Africa. ics, industry (media) and not-for-profit 11:00 - 11:55 a.m. lounge transgender issues and subjects on our pro- sectors. Over the last eleven years, he has jects involve appropriate sensitivities. When Dumisani Ndubane is the president of worked in various capacities as a researcher, Gregory Varnum LGBT Outreach transgender related discussions do occur, Wikimedia South Africa and proponent of grant manager, teacher, project consultant, many of the participants often demonstrate Wiki Indaba. He has been a Wikimedian information architect and translator. The session will focus on online and offline a critical lack of understanding of the issues since 2008 and has experience with small outreach to LGBT communities and wiki involved. This presentation will focus on language communities in South Africa. He 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. lounge users by Wikimedians and Wikipedians. It will transgender and gender nonconforming top- has managed various projects for WMZA include a presentation on conducting effec- ics, Wikimedia projects’ coverage of it, and including and Joburg- Jake Orlowitz Inviting diversity: tive LGBT outreach, a brief update on exist- discuss possible initiatives to improve Wiki- pedia. A playful approach to broaden- ing LGBT outreach by Wikimedia projects, media movement treatments of this area. ing our community and conclude with a group discussion. T Vishnu Vardhan So many lan- Katie Chan currently works as a volunteer guages: Challenges and oppor- Like other open-source projects, Wikipe- Gregory Varnum‘s online work includes support organizer for Wikimedia UK. She tunities for the Wikimedia move- dia’s culture can seem complicated, inacces- founding and serving as the lead administra- joined the Wikimedia movement in 2004 ment in India sible, or even intimidating to newcomers. tor of WikiQueer, a Wikipedia style wiki for contributing to the , before This impression can work against our aim the LGBT communities; advising Netroots branching out into other projects in more Due to the large number of languages that for diversity. A series of experiments use Nation LGBT outreach; volunteering for the recent times. Within the Wikimedia move- exist in India, the country has more than welcoming social interaction to see how Wikimedia movement – including serving on ment, she has previously served on the 20 different Wikipedia language versions. changing tone can increase diversity in the Affiliations Committee, on the Foundation Election Committee in 2008 and However, most of them are neither signifi- communities like English Wikipedia and Program Committee, as a Hackathon coordi- 2013, the Grant Advisory Committee and cant in size nor in quality. The presentation Meta-Wiki. This session will explore four nator, MediaWiki developer, and doing offline Wikimania 2013 Scholarship Committee. She looks at the challenges and opportunities the strategies: invitation, acknowledgement, outreach; and serving as a consultant to politi- is currently an administrator on the English language diversity in India presents to the showcasing people, and playful design, which cal, educational, and direct service organiza- Wikipedia and a volunteer on OTRS. Indian Wikimedia movement. An attempt will have been used in projects like The Wiki- tions doing LGBT advocacy or outreach. also be made at speculating about possible pedia Adventure, Wikipedia’s Teahouse,

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WikiWomen’s Collaborative, and IdeaLab. ways to contribute. as epistemic activity which provides insights Siko Bouterse works for the Wikimedia Does this approach contribute to diversity into the situation to be changed. Participants Foundation as Head of Individual Engage- in meaningful ways? Are there pieces of it Matthew Flaschen is a Software Engineer will work in small groups and use a variety of ment Grants and started the Wikimedia that could be used in other projects? on the Wikimedia Foundation’s Growth materials including pictures, objects, blocks IdeaLab, where she encourages people to Team. He has been part of the Wikimedia etc. to build and visualize ideas. turn ideas into action. She worked on pro- Jake Orlowitz has been editing English community since he joined Wikipedia in jects like the WikiWomen‘s Collaborative Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki for five years. He 2004. At the Foundation, he has been a For Ilona Buchem’s CV, please see page 6. and the Wikipedia Teahouse. focuses on outreach to new editors and all developer on several projects focused on of the ways we can help attract and engage new editors. Jared Zimmerman is Director For Netha Hussain’s CV, please see page 6. For the past five years,Alyssa Wright them. He has been an IRC channel opera- of User Experience (UX) for the Wikimedia has worked in the open source geospatial tor in the wikipedia-en-help channel for Foundation and responsible for the look 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. room 112 industry as Vice President of Civic Programs three years, a Wikipedia Teahouse host and and feel of the foundation and its projects at Boundless. Prior to her direct involve- organizer, a creator of guides for new users, in conjunction with the community. Vibha Alyssa Wright and Siko Bouterse ment in open source, she was a graduate and the designer and builder of a learning Bamba is a Senior User Experience designer Creating a toolset for impact student at the MIT Media Lab and a research game for new editors called The Wikipedia for the Wikimedia Foundation and currently affiliate with the MIT Center for Civic Media Adventure. works on VisualEditor, Wikipedia Mobile, Setting up experiments and demonstrating where she studied technologies as tools for and User Identity for overall editor growth the impact of diversity (and lack thereof) can empathy. 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. room 112 and retention. Pau Giner is a User Experi- help us communicate the importance of it and ence designer for the Wikimedia Founda- make progress towards equitable representa- Matthew Flaschen, Jared Zim- tion and currently works on Editor Growth tion in our community. But fear and inertia merman, Vibha Bamba, Pau Giner and Retention, Language Engineering, and can stop us from trying new things. Measur- Engaging new editors by redu- Multimedia. ing diversity, from current demographics to cing barriers initiative outcomes, can be in tension with 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. lounge the ethos of privacy found at the heart of the Everyone learns and participates in different open source movement. How do we track ways. This session focuses on how under- Ilona Buchem and Netha Hussain demographics to improve diversity within a represented groups of users face inordinate Design Diversity context of privacy we want to preserve? How barriers to entry to becoming and remain can we work towards diversity in ways that editors. The current system favors a very In this workshop, the participants will engage don’t alienate the existing community, and small segment of users. Contributions from in designing concepts for actions targeted yet still demonstrate the impact of our ap- women and the global south are under- towards fostering diversity in Wikipedia. proaches? The goal of this interactive session represented, leading to a lack of diversity These actions can be interactive formats, is to develop a common toolset for diversity in the user population and the content that networks, events, learning resources, re- experimentation and measurement which users are exposed to. We’ll look at some of search and projects of any kind. “Design as balances community concerns with grounded the projects both underway and planned, to enquiry” will be used as a method to inspire strategies for implementation. increase participation and reduce friction of innovative solutions. “Design” is meant here

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9:30 - 9:55 a.m. lounge Ting Chen is a long term Wikimedian. Valerie Aurora has more than ten years of Silvia Stieneker currently works as a project He originally started editing the German experience as both an open source devel- manager for “Women edit” at Wikimedia Alyssa Wright Collaborating Wikipedia in 2003 while studying at Braun- oper and an advocate for women in open Deutschland. Prior to that she worked as a with other open source commu- schweig University of Technology but soon source. In January 2011, Valerie co-founded primary school teacher and as a freelance nities changed his focus to the Chinese Wikipedia. the Ada Initiative with Mary Gardiner in journalist, texter, translator and trainer. Ting Chen took part in the first Wikima- order to work full-time on increasing the par- Wikipedia’s community is not the only nia, which took place in Frankfurt in 2005 ticipation of women in open source, Wikipe- Emily Temple-Wood Women scien- technical one tackling questions of diversity and he instructed the Chinese Wikipedia dia, and other areas of open technology and tists and philosophers on English in their ranks. What are other open source Community. He was chair of the Wikimedia culture. Her volunteer work includes several Wikipedia communities doing to address issues of Foundation from 2010 to 2012. years as a lead volunteer for LinuxChix, writ- representation and participation? This work- ing for Geek Feminism, and writing HOWTO The session will cover efforts to correct shop is an opportunity to review research 10:00 - 10:55 a.m. lounge Encourage Women in Linux. systemic bias on the English Wikipedia in two and strategies across communities, including critical biographical areas: scientists and phi- recent work within the OpenStreetMap pro- Valerie Aurora Diversity initia- 10:00 - 10:55 a.m. room 112 losophers. Kevin is working with a group of ject. A fundamental assumption is that we tives that worked in other open academics to address the lack of coverage of cannot move a conversation about technical communities Silvia Stieneker Women edit – women philosophers on ENWP, a gap gen- equity alone, it is only by working together from a small local initiative to erated by the compounding gender imbal- that we can build the alliances, dialogue, Other open culture and technology com- a nationwide network ances of Wikimedia and philosophy. He will support, techniques, and accountability munities have similar diversity problems to cover the details of this discrepancy and how required for technical equity. Wikimedia communities, and some have Wikimedia Deutschland‘s program “Women collaboration between academia and ENWP made significant progress through specific edit” seeks to encourage women to ac- might mitigate it. WikiProject Women For Alyssa Wright’s CV, please see page 11. diversity initiatives. This presentation will tively participate in Wikimedia projects such Scientists is an important initiative to increase outline diversity initiatives from similar as Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, or the abysmal coverage of female scientists on Ting Chen The economy of Diversity world-wide online open „stuff“ communi- Wikivoyage. In November 2012, a monthly English Wikipedia. Of an estimated 3,000+ ties, analyze why they succeeded or failed, meet-up for women in Berlin who are in- notable women scientists, only 1,500 have Nothing is for free, except Wikipedia. Di- and conduct a round-table discussion on terested in editing Wikipedia was initiated. It articles, and only 5 of those are Featured Ar- versity is also not for free. The discussion whether they might work for Wikimedia was soon found that many of the participat- ticles. This session will cover reasons behind aims to answer the following questions: communities. These include: internships, ing women are interested in real-life-contacts this and efforts to expand the project. What is the price? At which cost is the travel scholarships, event anti-harassment with experienced Wikiwomen and other Wikimedia movement ready to pay that policies, codes of conduct for online behav- female newbie-editors on a regular basis – it Emily Temple-Wood is a Wikipedia admin- price? What is the benefit and to which ior, unstructured appeals for civility, pledges, was thus decided to transfer the local idea istrator and the founder of the English Wiki- benefit can the Wikimedia movement get petitions, leadership from event organizers, to other places in Germany. The goal is to pedia‘s WikiProject Women Scientists. She out of that price? leadership from project leaders, keynotes, establish a nationwide network for women has spoken about the project at two scientific editorials, various forms of awareness-rais- editors, who support each other (online and conferences in 2013 and gave a talk at Wiki- ing, and howtos. offline) and tell others that contributing is fun. mania 2013 that covered the project’s history and encouraged audience members to join.

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WikiProject Women Scientists has been very space for Wikipedia newcomers where they movement. It includes a focus on encourag- increase participation and diversity. The aim successful in 2013, producing many pieces of can ask questions and receive ideas about ing women and older people to fill on-site of the presentation and following discussion quality content on the English Wikipedia. what to do and how to do it in Wikipedia. and off-site volunteer jobs. is to show what works, what does not and It especially addresses diverse target groups how culture, diversity and open source in- 11:00 - 11:55 a.m. lounge such as the elderly, people with little technical Sydney Poore has been a Wikimedia novation are closely related. experience and women. So far, the project volunteer since 2005 and has served in the Gerard Meijssen Wikidata as a is implemented on the English Wikipedia but Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee Alolita Sharma is Director of Engineer- tool to bring initial information it is planned to adapt it for the German lan- since 2012. She also served in other commit- ing for Internationalisation and Localisation guage version as well. The session will focus tees within the Wikimedia movement such at Wikipedia. She has been working with All suffer from a lack of information on how the Teahouse can help to fill the gap as the Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Advi- open source software and has promoted its about the “global south.” When this informa- between online and offline support and why sory Group (2012), the Wikimedia Ombuds- adoption for almost two decades. Alolita is tion is known in Wikidata, it is relatively easy it works particularly well for women in order men Commission (2011, 2012, 2013), and board member of the Software Freedom to bring this information as a stub to many lan- to increase diversity. It will also highlight the the English Wikipedia Law Center, emeritus board member of the guages. This is already done on some Wikipe- challenges of internationalization and discuss (2007-2009). Open Source Initiative, and a passionate ad- dias. In this presentation, Gerard Meijssen will community-based problems in implementing vocate of Open Source and the Open Web. explain what is needed to bring information it in different Wikimedia-projects. 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. lounge to a language. He will also indicate possibilities 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. room 112 that become possible as Wikidata matures. Tim Moritz Hector is a an editor, mentor Alolita Sharma The question of and administrator on the German Wikipedia. culture: changing the diversity Siko Bouterse Ideas into Action: Gerard Meijssen is a longtime Wikimedian As a volunteer, he is engaging in projects equation of open source IdeaLab Diversity working session and is especially interested in language and at Wikimedia Deutschland with a focus on other cultures. He has been particularly ac- addressing new editors. He conducts courses The culture of open source presents Conferences are best when the connections tive on Wiktionary, the language committee about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia significant barriers to encouraging contribu- we make and conversations we have are fol- and, most recently, on Wikidata. He is also a projects, was at the tions from a diverse community. Many open lowed up by action! Throughout the confer- frequent blogger about subjects like language, #ZDFcheck (ZDF is a public-service broad- source projects believe that contributions ence, we will be gathering a list of projects other cultures and Wikidata. casting television) and supports the German can come from anywhere and everywhere and ideas for improving diversity that come wikiHow as community facilitator. and that they promote the emergence of up over the course of presentations and 11:00 - 11:55 a.m. room 112 innovative software from their communities. discussions. The idea of the workshop is Sydney Poore Mentoring: How However, maintaining an open collaborative to turn some of the best ideas into action- Tim Moritz Hector The Teahouse to Mentor women and older model with a diverse group of contributors able projects. Participants can begin drafting – why and how we internation- people in the wikimedia movement from all over the world is hard. Encouraging project plans in IdeaLab on Meta-Wiki, or alize it and spreading the culture of diversity in open otherwise dive into organizing and getting The presentation gives an overview about source engineering contributions is key to started with work on projects to improve The Teahouse project was started by fellows different approaches for mentoring which will driving innovation. Successful open source diversity in Wikimedia communities. and employees of the Wikimedia Founda- encourage a diverse group of volunteers in projects like MediaWiki/Wikimedia, Firefox/ tion. It provides a suitable, usable and friendly all types of volunteer jobs in the Wikimedia Mozilla have used a variety of strategies to For Siko Bouterse‘s CV, please see page 11.

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