משתמש:Ovedc/Involvement

Involvement of Ovedc in home wiki or the broader Wikimedia movement:

Online Activities:

Wikipedia

Please look at my Hebrew file for all of my contributions to the Israeli Wikipedia: my contributions page in the Hebrew Wikipedia.

• Please look at my Global CrossActivity at: crossactivity.
• Appreciated contributor to Hebrew Wikipedia: Editor for 11 years, WikiGnome more than 9 years, more than 115,000 edits, and ranks as number 6 among the most contributing Hebrew Wikipedians. Please look at my statistics page on Wikipedia: my statistics page in the Hebrew Wikipedia.
• Contributed Hundreds of new articles, 38 of them are for Nobel Prize Winners. Improving thousands of articles.
• 5 years Administrator (since April 2013) and 8 years Patroller (since April 2010). Thousands of Administrator's activities (Block, protect, delete etc.). Among the first five among the 45 Admins (Admins). Please look at my statistics page on Wikipedia: my statistics page in the Hebrew Wikipedia.
• Contributor of more than 9,000 high quality images, both to the Hebrew Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons. Many of the photos added to articles. Some photos used by parties outside Wikipedia. One of my photos got 5th prize at the Israeli Wiki-Love-Monuments 2013!
• I was the Leader-and-Coordinator of the Hebrew Orphanage WikiProject, for 3 years. This responsibility included collaboration with the Wikipedians community. More details at the answer for the next questions.
• Frequent participant in Notability discussions, improving dozens of articles, with collaboration with the Wikipedians community.
• I proposed more than 200 Featured Pictures for the Hebrew Wikipedia main page. That means, that every month for the lasts years, two or more of the Featured Pictures presented, were proposed by me.
• One of the "Welcoming Team" for collaboration with new Wikipedians. - Make it easier for new editors to engage. Helping new wikipedians with the manners of Wikipedia. I am giving help for years, On-line and Off-line.
• More than 7 thousands "Thank You" massages sent to colleague Wikipedians users. Please look list: Ovedc-Thanks.
• Very good relations with other fellow wikipedians, in Israel and abroad (Not even once warned or blocked). Please look at my Rewards page on Wikipedia: my stars page in the Hebrew Wikipedia.
• Made dozens of new wiki-template, improving the ability for editors to be more productive on-wiki.
• Made dozens of Wiki-categories.
• Managed the Wiki-Project of Categorizing articles, which involved 30 Wikipedians that categorized more than 11,300 articles, at 2016 and 3,700 at 2017! Please look at Wiki-Project of Categorizing articles.
• participating in WikiProjects, like: WIkiWomen, Women in Red, Asia month etc.
• Enriching my home wiki community with the views and news from Wikimedia conferences, including Wikimania: Teaching fellow Wikipedians about new tools shown, and helping them use it well.
• Member of the Hebrew Wikipedians Facebook Page and a major contributor.

Wikidata

• More than 260 new pages and more then 3,200 of WikiData contributes (WikiData contributes).

Wiktionary & WikiSource

• Administrator in the Hebrew Wiktionary.
• Wrote more than 20 Wiktionary articles. Have more than 1,700 edits. (Please look at Ovedc Wiktionary)
• Participated in 3 Article Writing Contests.
• Contributed more than 5 texts to WikiSource. (Please look at Ovedc WikiSource)

Commons

• Contributor of more than 9,300 high quality images uploaded to Wikipedia Commons. (Please look at Ovedc commons])
• 200 of the photos added to 300 articles. (Please look at Photo by Ovedc used in projects). Some photos used by parties outside Wikipedia.
• One of my photos got 5th prize at the Israeli Wiki-Love-Monuments 2013!
• enriching my home wiki community with the views and news from Wikimedia conferences, including Wikimania: Show the Hebrew Community the new tools of Commons presented in Wikimania, and help them use it well.

Offline Activities:

Please also look at my Hebrew file for all of my contributions to the Israeli Wikimedia Chapter: my contributions to the Israeli Wikimedia Chapter (WM-IL).

At the Israeli Wikimedia Chapter Team:

• I am a member of the Israeli Wikimedia Association for 8 years. Participated in all the General Assembly meetings.
• Member of the Audit committee of the Israeli Wikimedia Association for 7 years.
• Participating regularly in the Chapter Board meetings.
• Participating regularly in the Israeli Wikimedia Board Mailing List.
• Collaboration with the CEO of Wikimedia Israel, Acting advisor in accounting issues.
• Presenting the annual Audit committee report at the General Assembly, for the years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Volunteering at the Israeli Wikimedia Chapter:

• Leader of the "Bringing back retired Wikipedians" team, which tries to contact well known retired wikipedians, that know the wiki-grammar, but quitted editing, and tries to get them back to editing. Until now, about 10 skilled editors returned, due to these actions. More details at the answer for the next questions.
• Participating regularly in the Israeli Wikimedia meetings and events: twice each year (continuously from 2011) for the Hebrew Wikipedia birthday and for the global Wikipedia birthday.
• Participated as volunteer in more than 12 meetings.
• Participated and volunteered in the Israeli Wikimedia Chapter Seminar for making the Mission, Vision and Strategy Plan for the Chapter
• Participated and volunteered in the "Wikimedia 1,000 Miles" project: more than 20 tours. I acted as manager for few tours. Encouraged people to join tours and contribute pictures to Commons. I personally added more than 9,300 high quality pictures for the Commons, many of them added to articles.

Wikipedia Love Monuments

• Volunteered as main coordinator and also participated in the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 WLM:
  • Acting as main coordinator at 11 tours,
  • Participating in more than 15 tours.
  • I added more than 3,300 WLM pictures to the Commons, dosens of them added to articles.
    • 107 photos in 2012
    • 953 photos in 2013
    • 626 photos in 2014
    • 466 photos in 2015
    • 966 photos in 2016
    • 336 photos in 2017
  • One of my photos got 5th prize at the Israeli Wiki-Love-Monument 2013!
• Managing 3 annual projects of writing articles about Israeli Monuments (7 at 2015, 19 at 2016 and 14 at 2017) and 3 annual projects of inserting WLM pictures in Articles (209 at 2015, 221 at 2016 and 188 at 2017).

Wikipedia Education Program:

• Lecturing at Wiki-Med (First academic course of Wikipedia in the world) to 40 medical students about editing in Wikipedia. Wiki-Med is a curriculum academic course, which every student had to write a medical article at Wikipedia, to get a score at this course.
• enriching my home wiki community: Lecturing to 50 Wiki-editors at The Annual Israeli Wikimedia Chapter Birthday Meeting 2013 about the Hebrew WikiProject Orphanage (activities to enrich the wikipedians knowledge)
• enriching my home wiki community: One of the Lecturing-to-Wiki-editors at Israeli Wikimedia Chapter (activities to enrich the wikipedians knowledge = organizing editing workshops), examples of subjects: Categories, Orphans, etc.
• enriching my home wiki community: Lecturing to Wiki-editors about FREE MASONS, Via Israeli Wikimedia activities to enrich the wikipedians knowledge. Increases skills of on-wiki contributors.
• participating at the Israel chapter's Wikipedia Academy Israel 2012, 2013 and 2014.
• Motivating Wikipedians to volunteer to Wikimedia Chapter. I also motivated few family members and friends to join Wikipedia (Edited some new articles) and join Wikimedia (Participated with me in the Hong-Kong and Mexico Wikimanias).
• Donating hundreds of hard-copy books to the Israel Wikimedia Chapter and to fellow Wikimedians, including the 30 hard-copy volumes of The Hebrew Encyclopedia!
• Lecturing to FREE MASONS and Students about Wikipedia, Increasing awareness about the Wikimedia project.

Wikimania and global meetings:

• Participated and volunteered in the organizing team of Wikimania 2011 at Haifa.
• Participated and volunteered in the Wikimania 2013 at Hong Kong.
• Participated and volunteered in the Wikimania 2015 at Mexico. Please look at my report to my fellow Wikipedians: My Wikimania 2015 report.
• Participated in the Wikimedia Board Training Workshops 2014 at London: bringing the lessons learned to the Israeli Board. More details at the answer for the next questions.
• Participated and volunteered in the Wikimania 2017 at Montreal. Please look at my report to my fellow Wikipedians: My Wikimania 2015 report.

Other Free- knowledge Non-wikimedia Activities:

• Being head of the Publication committee of the Israeli ISACA Chapter, over 10 years. Spreading free educational articles about IT audit, control and governance.
• Spreading free educational articles about Freemasonry at the web (Internet sites).
• Helping improve the data at many internet free-knowledge international and Hebrew sites, like jdrf.org.il, Waze Street Map, rotter.net, isaca.org.il, maccabi4u.co.il and a lot more.
• Voluntary Public Relations for both ISACA and JDRF Israeli chapters.
• Very active at my society with a long list of volunteering for the community activities:
  • Member of the Students Council at my High School.
  • Volunteering at the BBYO youth movement, as a tutor for an orphan child.
  • Participating in a youth delegation from the Israeli Foreign Ministry – 3 weeks at North America.
  • Activist at the Tel-Aviv University Students Organization.
  • Several roles at the Israeli non-profit ISACA (14 years): Vice President, Treasurer, Member of the Board, Head of the Journal committee, Representative of the Israeli Chapter at the Toronto International ISACA Conference, editing COBIT books, lecturing at annual conferences, etc.
  • Member of the Israeli Juvenile Diabetes Association Board of Directors, Voluntary organizer of the Adult Diabetes Forum.
  • Spokesman for the annually money donation project, Lecturing for students about Juvenile Diabetes, etc.
  • Acting as Worshipful Master of a Freemasons Lodge and a high degree member of the Israeli Grand Lodge of Free Masons, promoter of several volunteering activities for the community.
  • Volunteering at a lower-poverty neighborhood – teaching, etc.