Time to review my progress again, and this has been about as a productive quarter as Q3 (which is much less than Q1 and Q2). This quarter was less travel but higher intensity in work which gave kept spare time fairly low. There were also some fun events happening, like the mini hackathon and WikiConNL but that also didn’t make progress on my goals.

The purpose of this review is to give more room for reflections on the themes I chose for 2025. For ease of reference, I have added this quarter’s goal for each theme. I will make an additional blog post for the entire year and reflect on how the system has worked as a whole there. (EDIT: it’s here.)

Sustainability

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development 🟡

• Goal: Follow up on all other annual goals and nudge them towards completion.

I did do some nudging on the goals, and even some sprinting on the goals I had advocated for, but there was few people joining in and thus they are mostly far from completion. The collaboration with Klimatkollen on getting emissions data onto Wikidata and Wikipedia made the news, although I am only mentioned in the press release.

Office of Carbon Omission 🔴

• Goal: Publish an op-ed on the theme of OCO.

With the misses from last month, not having a clear introduction video nor a social media account, I wasn’t inspired to work on this.

Openness advocacy

Open By Default 🟢

• Goal: Learn about and deploy (locally) an open source AI model.

I did quite some research to find something open source that I could run locally. It wasn’t easy, and I am not 100 % sure I succeeded either. In the end, I installed Ollama as a framework, and so far so good. The more challenging part was to find a model that both complies with the OSI AI definition and could be run on Ollama. From what I can figure out, SmolLM v3 does comply even though the training data seems a bit obscure to me. I would have loved to find a model using the CommonCrawl data sets but I couldn’t find a framework / model combination that I could run.

Govdirectory 🔴

• Goal: Refine funding ask.

While I managed to give Govdirectory a lot of time and attention this quarter, I didn’t manage to direct it to the funding ask. However, on the good side, the community is slowly growing and the community call has almost often had guests popping in, some are even new regulars. On Wikidata there has also been increased activity, with some real spikes on certain focus weeks. To top it all out, Govdirectory was presented with the Award for Projects of Social Benefit by FSF.

Wikipediapodden 🟡

• Goal: 14 episodes published.

This got fairly close with 11 episodes published, considering we had to take a pause while clearing up the trademark with Wikimedia Foundation.

Book project 🔴

• Goal: Book proposal done.

Unfortunately I couldn’t focus anything at all on the book this quarter. I will be giving some talks somewhat related to the general topic next year which at least will keep my research flowing.

Learning

German 🟡

• Goal: Reach B1 level in the CERF scale.

I kept using the Nachrichtenleicht which I find really useful. I feel like can follow along really well and would like to find more similar resources. However, I still think I am weak in my grammar and haven’t looked for an actual test yet.

Climate change

• Goal: –

While I didn’t have any goals, I kept the article 2025 in climate change on Swedish Wikipedia mostly in sync with the English version, which at least kept me up-to-date on current events and science.

Artificial intelligence 🟢

• Goal: Learn about and deploy (locally) an open source AI model.

See Open By Default above.

Health

Running and hiking 🟢

• Goal: 912.5 km (averaging 5 km/day)

This quarter went well overall, but in December I did feel some pain in my left leg. A quick pause and keeping it light I think saved me from getting any serious injury. Overall this has been astonishing, and it is the longest distance I have logged running in a year (but I suspect I have some years in my youth when I didn’t keep track that were surpassing this). (Total: 1,365 km (October: 131 km, November: 147 km, December: 134 km))

Eating 🟢

• Goal: Average 19 in the Daily Dozen app

As I was mostly home this quarter , this was mostly easy and I feel that this is getting into good habits, and the app still helps me stay motivated and reminded. (October: 22.10, November: 22.37, December: 21.71)