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Siko Bouterse

Director of Community Resources, Wikimedia Foundation

About me

I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2011, first as Head of Community Fellowships, then moving into grantmaking focused on individuals, and today leading the Community Resources team. I like to build new projects and help others do the same. I've worked with global online communities for nearly 10 years now, and am particularly interesting in cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration. Before WMF, I worked with organizations like hi5.com, where I built a crowd-sourced community translation program to localize the site into not nearly as many languages as Wikimedia has, and Meedan.org, where I built online community focused on English-Arabic dialogue. I have a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in Middle East History from the American University in Cairo. These days, when I'm not online, I prefer to be at the beach.

My work

I work with a team of program officers to support the Wikimedia community with the resources (funding, mentorship, connections, etc) it needs to make great things happen. I also spend time thinking about ways to address Wikimedia's gender gap whenever I can, am a fan of new experiments in online community organizing, and generally take responsibility for dreaming up ways we can support more community members in partnership with the rest of the Community Engagement team. The best part of my job is learning from community members what we can do together to make this movement even more amazing.

Some projects I've co-created, in partnership with other staff and volunteers, include:

Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend 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: sboutersewikimedia.org
Talk page: Meta wiki and English Wikipedia as Siko (WMF)
Seeeko is my volunteer account on English Wikipedia

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-| hover text = Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants
+| hover text = Siko Bouterse, Director of Community Resources
-| job title = Head of Individual Engagement Grants
+| job title = Director of Community Resources
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-| short quote =  Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” - [[w:Hafez|Hafiz]]
-| about me =  I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2011, first as Head of [[m:Wikimedia Fellowships|Community Fellowships]], and later moved into [[m:Grants:Start|grantmaking]] for individuals.  I like to build new projects and help others do the same.  I've worked with global online communities for some time now, and am particularly interesting in cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration.  Before WMF, I worked with organizations like hi5.com, where I built a crowd-sourced community translation program to localize the site into not nearly as many languages as Wikimedia has, and Meedan.org, where I built online community focused on English-Arabic dialogue.  I have a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in Middle East History from the American University in Cairo.  Now, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and when I'm not online hanging around with people, I like to be outside somewhere beautiful, hanging around with people.
+| about me =  I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in June 2011, first as Head of [[m:Wikimedia Fellowships|Community Fellowships]], then moving into [[m:Grants:Start|grantmaking]] focused on individuals, and today leading the Community Resources team. I like to build new projects and help others do the same. I've worked with global online communities for nearly 10 years now, and am particularly interesting in cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration. Before WMF, I worked with organizations like hi5.com, where I built a crowd-sourced community translation program to localize the site into not nearly as many languages as Wikimedia has, and Meedan.org, where I built online community focused on English-Arabic dialogue. I have a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in Middle East History from the American University in Cairo. These days, when I'm not online, I prefer to be at the beach.
-| about my work =  As Head of [[m:Grants:IEG|Individual Engagement Grants]], my primary responsibility is to support Wikimedians to complete intensive projects (building, organizing, piloting, creating, improving, researching or facilitating things) that benefit the Wikimedia movement.  I also founded the [[m:Grants:IdeaLab|IdeaLab]], am WMF's representative for the [[m:Participation:Support|Participation Support Program]], spend time thinking about the Wikimedia gender gap when I can, am a fan of new experiments in online community organizing, and generally take responsibility for dreaming up ways we can support individual community members in partnership with the rest of the [[wmf:Staff_and_contractors#Grantmaking|Grantmaking team]].  The best part of my job is learning from community members what we can do together to make this movement even more amazing.
+| about my work =  I work with a team of program officers to support the Wikimedia community with the resources (funding, mentorship, connections, etc) it needs to make great things happen. I also spend time thinking about ways to address Wikimedia's gender gap whenever I can, am a fan of new experiments in online community organizing, and generally take responsibility for dreaming up ways we can support more community members in partnership with the rest of the [[wmf:Staff_and_contractors#Community Engagement|Community Engagement team]].  The best part of my job is learning from community members what we can do together to make this movement even more amazing.
-Some current projects I work on, in partnership with other staff and volunteers:
+Some projects I've co-created, in partnership with other staff and volunteers, include:
-*[[m:Grants:IEG|Individual Engagement Grants]]
 *[[m:Grants:IdeaLab|IdeaLab]]
+*[[m:Grants:Inspire|Inspire Campaign]]
-*[[m:Participation:Support|Travel and Participation Support Program]]
+*[[m:Grants:IEG|Individual Engagement Grants]]
 *[[m:WikiWomen's Collaborative|WikiWomen's Collaborative]]
 *[[:en:Wikipedia:Teahouse|Wikipedia Teahouse]]
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 | contact me =
 * E-mail: sbouterse{{@}}wikimedia.org
-* Talk page: Meta wiki and English Wikipedia as [[:m:User:Siko (WMF)|Siko (WMF)]]
+* Talk page: Meta wiki and English Wikipedia as [[m:User:Siko (WMF)|Siko (WMF)]]
 * [[:en:User:Seeeko|Seeeko]] is my volunteer account on English Wikipedia
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