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Chris Schilling, Program Officer
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
Senior Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
Well, well, well— if it isn't the consequences of my own actions...
About me
Hey folks. Since 2006, my curiosity has kept me engaged with the English Wikipedia under the username I JethroBT. I've contributed and worked together with editors in a variety of areas such as building high quality articles, community building, and developing help spaces. Before working with the WMF, I taught and studied cognitive science and psychology. Since graduating, I've coordinated a number of edit-a-thons and relationships with institutions in the Chicago metropolitan area.
I live in my home state of Pennsylvania in the United States, and previously lived in Chicago for about 14 years. You are likely to find me practicing
taiko
, and I used to be an active
contra dancer
, which are two vibrant folk traditions supported by fantastic communities around the world. Otherwise, I am probably planning my next trip to Japan. 日本語を少しゃべられますが、いつもまだまだです。
I enjoy getting to know the people involved in our projects, the challenges we've faced, and why we are motivated to contribute. Feel free to reach out to me anytime you like.
My work
Currently, I am managing funding programs for communities in the United States & Canada and the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) & Central Asia regions.
I joined the Wikimedia Foundation's
Community Resources
team in 2015. With the Community Resources team, my role is to lead and maintain our
grant programs
, where folks can apply for funding to support ideas, events, and programs that improve Wikimedia projects and benefit the communities who want to use or contribute to them.
In my past work, I supported volunteers to develop initial thinking for events and projects with
IdeaLab
and the related
Inspire Campaigns
, which invited editors to develop ideas to solve important and pervasive needs in our movement along a certain theme.
Here are
most
projects and programs I've been closely involved with. (It gets hard to keep track of everything after awhile.) My involvement has been in my capacity as staff unless otherwise noted:
CEE Hub
, especially related to funding in the region and development of resource distribution processes the Hub maintains.
Wiki Loves Earth
as a proposal co-reviewer with international team representatives from
Wikimedia Ukraine
Wikidata 10th Anniversary
Grants:Regions/North America
Grants:Regions/CEE and Central Asia
Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines
Wikimania 2021 scholarships
#WikiForHumanRights campaign
Wikipedia20
Movement Strategy community and global events
Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021
Simple Annual Plan Grants
Annual Plan Grants
Project Grants
Conference & Event Grants
Dataset Imports on Wikidata
Wikimedians of Chicago User Group
(volunteer)
FormWizard
Grant metrics tool
Rapid Grants
Inspire Campaigns
Towards a New Wikimania
Future IdeaLab Campaigns
Reimagining WMF grants
The Co-op
(volunteer)
WikiProject GLAM/Pritzker Military Museum & Library
(volunteer)
The Teahouse
(volunteer)
Moodbar Feedback
(volunteer)
I've enjoyed contributing to many movement events, including
CEE Meeting 2025
in Thessaloniki, Greece
Wikimania 2025
in Nairobi, Kenya
WikiConference North America 2024
in Indianapolis
CEE Meeting 2024
in Istanbul, Türkiye
Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023
CEE Meeting 2022 in Ohrid, North Macedonia
Wikimania 2021
held virutally
Wikimania 2019
in Stockholm, Sweden
FDC Deliberations 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal
Wikimania 2018
in Cape Town, South Africa
Wikimania 2016
in Esino Lario, Italy
WikiConference North America 2016
in San Diego
Wikimania 2014
in London, UK (as a volunteer!)
I've contributed to the following academic publications:
Im, J., Zhang, A. X., Schilling, C. J., & Karger, D. (2018). Deliberation and resolution on wikipedia: A case study of requests for comments. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), 1-24.
Disclaimer:
I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.
Contact me
E-mail: cschilling
wikimedia.org
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