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參選者概覽
Candidates have until 23:59 Saturday, June 23, 2007 (UTC) to list themselves alphabetically here.
參選者自述
The acceptance of candidates for the Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, 2007 opens from 0:00, June 10, 2007 (UTC) is closed.
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User:Ausir
In other languages: català (ca) česky (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Esperanto (eo) español (es) suomi (fi) français (fr) italiano (it) 日本語 (ja) norsk bokmål (nb) Nederlands (nl) polski (pl) Piemontèis (pms) português (pt) русский (ru) 中文 (zh) [edit]| 用戶 | Ausir |
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| 真名 | 帕維·登博夫斯基 (Paweł Dembowski) |
| 所在地 | 波蘭格沃古夫(Głogów) |
| 年齡 | 24 |
| 用戶頁 | 元維基，波蘭語維基百科，英語維基百科，維基共享資源 |
| 開始參與維基媒體 | 2004年2月 |
| 參與計劃 | 我主要活躍在波蘭語維基百科、英語維基百科和維基共享資源，也有在其他波蘭語、英語以及部分其他語言的計劃。 |
| 使用語言 | 波蘭語、英語，基礎俄語和德語 |
| 貢獻 | 波蘭語維基百科，英語維基百科，元維基，維基共享資源 |
| 參選宣言 | 我自2004年2月起在維基百科和其他維基媒體計畫上作貢獻，並且已經在波蘭語(主要的)、英語維基百科以及維基媒體共享資源有二萬次編輯。我在這三個計畫都是管理員，且是波蘭語維基百科的CheckUser、維基共享資源的行政員、維基媒體的監管員(steward)。我是波蘭維基媒體協會的創會會員之一。坦白說，我在過去幾個月減少了我在維基媒體上的活動量，我期望可以恢復活動。
我現在弗羅茨瓦夫經濟大學(the Wrocław University of Economics)修讀市場和管理學，並為兼職自顧英語-波蘭語翻譯師 (我曾為微軟和Adobe工作)。 我覺得維基百科應該保持開放和自由，因此我支持限制非自由內容(如合理使用圖像)的使用，越少越好。我也基本上支持維基百科的各個姊妹計劃，但我認為部分計劃的出發點並不是好主意，因此我認為，並非所有計劃都要受到同等關注。我同時深信語言多邊主義(multilingualism)並且支持地方社群以及來自(西)歐美以外地方人士參與維基媒體事務。 |
| 問答 | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Ausir/questions |
User:Danny
· العربية (ar) · català (ca) · česky (cs) · Deutsch (de) · English (en) · español (es) · suomi (fi) · français (fr) · italiano (it) · 日本語 (ja) · norsk bokmål (nb) · Nederlands (nl) · polski (pl) · Piemontèis (pms) · português (pt) · русский (ru) · 中文 (zh)| 用戶 | Danny | |
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| 真名 | 丹尼·沃爾 (Danny Wool) |
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| 所在地 | 美國佛羅里達州 聖彼德斯堡 | |
| 年齡 | 43 | |
| 用戶頁 | 英語維基百科 | |
| 開始參與維基媒體 | 2001年底，2002年初註冊帳號 | |
| 參與計劃 | 活躍於英文維基百科和維基文庫，我參與了很多其他英語計畫(包括創始 wikijunior)和其他語文版本的計畫。 | |
| 使用語言 | 流利的英語和希伯來語，1970年代曾在加拿大安大略省的高中裡學了一些法文。 | |
| 貢獻 | 英語維基百科，英語維基文庫，維基共享資源，希伯來語維基百科, 希伯來語維基文庫. | |
| 參選宣言 | Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (拉丁語: 誰來監察那些監察者？)
2006年11月，理事會、辦公室職員和地方分會代表曾在德國法蘭克福舉行過三天的會議，討論基金會的未來。 7個月過去了，我們做到了甚麼呢？ 對，我們增加了職員人數，但這令一直存在的問題顯得更加尖銳：籌款策略在哪裡？技術路線圖在哪裡？ 甚麼是可持續發展的計劃？國際間的擴張和合作雖然更加刺激，但理事會的任務是關注核心問題，保護基本資產和確保計劃繼續充滿生機和切合主題的。我希望能集中力量在這些方面。 我自2002年初便是維基百科的註冊用戶，因此幫助規畫了一些基本規則。我曾為基金會籌款，且令更多善款得其門而入。我曾在基金會辦公室工作近20個月，因此熟悉內部運作。 現實世界裡，我曾在牟利及非牟利組織裡工作，甚至擔當過印刷版百科全書的專業編輯工作。我對自己依然活躍於數個計劃感到自豪。 |
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| 問答 | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Danny/questions | |
User:DragonFire1024
· العربية (ar) · català (ca) · česky (cs) · Deutsch (de) · English (en) · español (es) · suomi (fi) · français (fr) · italiano (it) · 日本語 (ja) · norsk bokmål (nb) · Nederlands (nl) · polski (pl) · Piemontèis (pms) · português (pt) · русский (ru) · 中文 (zh)| 用戶 | DragonFire1024 | |
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| 真名 | 賈森·薩佛汀 (Jason Safoutin) |
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| 所在地 | 美國紐約州水牛城 | |
| 年齡 | 26 | |
| 用戶頁 | 英文維基新聞、英文維基百科、維基共享資源. | |
| 開始參與維基媒體 | 維基新聞：2006年1月9日
維基百科：2006年1月21日 維基媒體共享資源：2006年1月14日 |
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| 參與計劃 | 維基新聞、維基百科、維基媒體共享資源 | |
| 使用語言 | 英語 | |
| 貢獻 | wikinews:en:special:contributions/DragonFire1024, w:en:special:contributions/DragonFire1024, commons:special:contributions/DragonFire1024. | |
| 參選宣言 | 我相當積極投入在英語維基新聞的貢獻，而且還是那裡的管理員。自2006年1月加入英語維基新聞以來，發表了450篇報導，還提供了數篇獨家訪問報導。另外，我還參與了 視像維基新聞 2.0和維基天氣服務 (BETA)的開發。我還為維基新聞製作了2套推廣短片，並且發起並開始組織維基天氣服務的第一人，並且一直與另外一位維基人合作更新並維持這個計劃的內容。我希望能吸引更多維基人參與視像維基新聞和維基天氣服務的錄製和廣播。
我在維基媒體的最大目標是嘗試聯合在不同計劃貢獻的維基人，在某個特定議題和點子上合作，最終望能有助於發展收集資訊和更有效發放訊息到全世界的新方法。 我相信所有維基媒體計劃在關於政策/財政等方面的決策時，應該受到同等關注，而且這些政策需盡可能照顧到各個計畫的所需和目標。我同時相信基金會在作出會相當影響各個計劃運作的決定時，各個計畫的社群應該有更多參與。 |
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| 問答 | Board elections/2007/Candidates/DragonFire1024/questions | |
User:Eloquence
· العربية (ar) · català (ca) · česky (cs) · Deutsch (de) · English (en) · español (es) · suomi (fi) · français (fr) · italiano (it) · 日本語 (ja) · norsk bokmål (nb) · Nederlands (nl) · polski (pl) · Piemontèis (pms) · português (pt) · русский (ru) · 中文 (zh)| 用戶 | Eloquence | |
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| 真名 | 艾力克·默勒 (Erik Möller) |
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| 所在地 | 德國柏林 | |
| 年齡 | 28 | |
| 用戶頁 | 元維基、英語維基百科、德語維基百科、維基共享資源、英語維基新聞 | |
| 開始參與維基媒體 | 2001年12月 | |
| 參與計劃 | 維基百科、維基新聞、維基共享資源、元維基和語音維基文庫 | |
| 使用語言 | 英語、德語(偶爾作貢獻) | |
| 貢獻 | 見上 | |
| 參選宣言 | 作為社群代表，我已在理事會服務了9個月，(參見我的政綱2006)。在此期間，我擔當了理事會的行政祕書。這理事會見證了基金會史上好幾個最重大的改變。作為一個組織，我們已經
其他各方面的進程一直在升溫(許可證的兼容性、與其他機構的合作如《生命大百科》、尋找常任的行政總裁、下次籌款的計畫等等)。我希望我可以繼續在這些和其他方面的工作。:-) 請詳閱「9個月的維基瘋狂」，裡面有我對自己在理事會供職期間的個人感受和我對未來的希望。謝謝！ |
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| 問答 | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Eloquence/questions | |
User:Frieda
· català (ca) · česky (cs) · Deutsch (de) · English (en) · español (es) · suomi (fi) · français (fr) · italiano (it) · 日本語 (ja) · norsk bokmål (nb) · Nederlands (nl) · polski (pl) · Piemontèis (pms) · português (pt) · русский (ru) · 中文 (zh)| 用戶 | Frieda | |
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| 真名 | 芙烈達·布里奧斯基 (Frieda Brioschi) |
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| 所在地 | 意大利羅馬 | |
| 年齡 | 30 | |
| 用戶頁 | Frieda, w:it:Utente:Frieda | |
| 開始參與維基媒體 | 2003年5月13日 | |
| 參與計劃 | 我主要在意大利語維基百科、維基辭典和維基文庫活動，也偶有在其他意大利語的維基媒體計畫、英語維基百科、元維基和基金會違紀編輯 | |
| 使用語言 | 意大利、英語並能閱讀一些西班牙語和葡萄牙語 | |
| 貢獻 | w:it:Speciale:Contributi/Frieda, Special:Contributions/Frieda, s:it:Special:Contributions/Frieda, commons:Special:Contributions/Frieda | |
| 參選宣言 | 我自2003年5月開始參與維基百科和其他維基媒體計劃，且是意大利語維基百科的首位管理員。2005年6月，我成為意大利維基媒體協會的創會會員，並有幸擔任其首任主席至今。我是意語維基百科、新聞、文庫和辭典的行政員，同時是特別計劃委員會的成員，但並不活躍，同時是OTRS的管理員和意語維基百科的媒體聯絡人。
這是我的主張的要點：
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| 問答 | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Frieda/questions | |
User:Kate
· العربية (ar) · česky (cs) · Deutsch (de) · English (en) · español (es) · suomi (fi) · français (fr) · italiano (it) · 日本語 (ja) · norsk bokmål (nb) · Nederlands (nl) · polski (pl) · Piemontèis (pms) · português (pt) · русский (ru) · 中文 (zh)| 用戶 | Kate | |
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| 真名 | 利弗·塔內爾 (River Tarnell) |
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| 所在地 | 英國牛津 | |
| 年齡 | 23 | |
| 用戶頁 | User:Kate, w:en:User:Kate | |
| 開始參與維基媒體 | 2004年6月6日 | |
| 參與計劃 | 英語維基百科、元維基 | |
| 使用語言 | 英語 | |
| 貢獻 | 元維基、英語維基百科 | |
| 參選宣言 | 若我當選為理事，我將令基金會回到其核心目標：出版一部用戶可編輯的網上百科全書。我會支持重置或關閉維基百科以外的媒體計劃。我會反對任何基金會以其他方式出版計畫內容的嘗試，如將計畫內容結集成書。不過我認為，出版我們計劃的內容十分重要，因為可以令這些資料有更多受眾，如沒法連上互聯網的人。我會積極尋找能達成此目標的夥伴組織。
我將削減基金會的日常開支到最少，儘量把最多的資源投放到網存空間上。在用戶捐獻、撥款、贊助和廣告以外，我會尋求其他資金來源。 我會從幾方面改善我們的技術表現，如聘請額外的技術人員，和確保我們清楚理解如何擴張以配合對我們的內容的需求。 我自2004年起是MediaWiki的開發人員和維基媒體的系統管理員。我相信這給我獨特的管點，了解我們的組織運作的技術層面，和悟出我們需甚麼轉變以維持成功。 |
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| 問答 | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Kate/questions | |
User:Kim Bruning
· česky (cs) · Deutsch (de) · English (en) · español (es) · suomi (fi) · français (fr) · italiano (it) · 日本語 (ja) · norsk bokmål (nb)| 用戶 | Kim Bruning | |
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| 真名 | 金·布魯寧 (Kim Bruning) |
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| 所在地 | 荷蘭 奧爾堡的維克 (Wijk en Aalburg) | |
| 年齡 | 29 | |
| 用戶頁 | 英語維基百科(主要)、(還有很多其他計畫 ... ) | |
| 開始參與維基媒體 | 2001年第一次有記錄編輯，自2003年養成編輯習慣 | |
| 參與計劃 | 英語維基百科，還在一些其他計畫提供建議 | |
| 使用語言 | 英語、荷蘭語、懂德語、高中程度的法語和拉丁語 | |
| 貢獻 | 英語維基百科 | |
| 參選宣言 | 你好，我名叫金·布魯寧。我在英語維基百科負責過一點兒紛爭後維持和恢復秩序的事情。我現在一般按計劃行事，偶而也會幫助處理緊急事態。另外我還在幫助今年創始的Omegawiki脫離困境，規範上面的章程。
基金會方面，日常管理中顯現的議題、伺服器和社群都重要。我相信大家都同意，那讓我們看看一個另類議題： 現在維基媒體轄下有用250多種語言創作的700多個違紀，這些違紀之間實際上並無聯絡，令當中的維基人很難互相認識。 例子：
我們也應該考慮與其他非牟利組織多作交流，它們可能已經經歷過我們現在所面對的問題。 因此日常管理和內部和對外傳訊的改善是我在將來兩年欲努力的方向。若你想助我實現上述目標，請投我一票，或與我聯絡，或兩項皆做！ |
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| 問答 | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Kim Bruning/questions | |
User:Kingboyk
| User | Kingboyk |
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| Real name | Stephen Kennedy |
| Location | Gloucestershire, United Kingdom |
| Age | 34 |
| User page(s) | Main: English Wikipedia. Others: Wikipedia in other languages, Meta, Commons, Mediawiki, Wiktionary. |
| Wikimedia participant since | September 2005 |
| Projects in which I participate | Wikipedia En, and others. I am also an AutoWikiBrowser developer. |
| Languages in which I participate | English, very basic French |
| Link to user contribution pages | En |
| My candidate statement | I want to see a stronger and more democratic Foundation, better guidance and assistance for volunteers, and a sharpened focus on our core goals. The Foundation needs to be stronger, in terms of its vision, its leadership of our volunteer community, its brand, and its accountability.
As a Board member, I will advocate a roadmap for our future development. I will also focus on expanding our reach outside Europe and North America, and improving collaboration and idea-sharing between wikis. We have much to learn from each other! I will respectfully promote my view that all board members should be elected. I have been a Wikipedian for 2 years. I'm an administrator on the English Wikipedia, an AWB developer, and I have co-written several Featured Articles. I have experience at a similar level to this role, having been a member of the Student Union Council and the Finance Committee at Brunel University. I live on a small farm in England. This is a condensed version of my personal statement. Per the election rules, I have prepared a private personal platform statement which I invite all voters to read. Thank you. |
| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Kingboyk/questions |
User:Michael Snow
| User | Michael Snow | |
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| Real name | Michael Snow |
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| Location | Seattle, Washington, United States | |
| Age | 33 | |
| User page(s) | English Wikipedia user page | |
| Wikimedia participant since | December 2003 | |
| Projects in which I participate | Wikipedia, Meta (occasionally also Wikinews and Wikimedia Commons) | |
| Languages in which I participate | English (occasionally French and German, which I also speak) | |
| Link to user contribution pages | English Wikipedia, Meta (for my work elsewhere I have not necessarily registered accounts) | |
| My candidate statement | I respect what the Wikimedia Foundation has accomplished so far with limited resources and many forces pulling on it. I want to fill some of the gaps and make it a more functional organization. Finances are a constant issue, as Wikimedia must bring in more money and find new donation sources. Brand name value can help support operating funds, but this must be done carefully to preserve neutrality and also protect brands from outsiders trying to exploit them. Relationships with each project and its diverse participants need to be cultivated. The board must listen carefully to reflect the will of the community and not just the loudest voices.
Beyond working on Wikipedia articles, my Wikimedia experience has covered a variety of areas. For many, if you recognize my name it may be because I started The Wikipedia Signpost at the beginning of 2005. Although not intended as a universal news source for Wikimedia issues, it's perhaps as useful as any other source, and it has many readers from languages and projects other than just the English Wikipedia. My other Wikimedia involvement has included serving as chair of the Communications committee. As a lawyer, I have also given occasional advice to the Wikimedia Foundation, when its legal needs coincide with my ability to help. I believe that I understand the challenges and would bring a valuable perspective to the board. |
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| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Michael Snow/questions | |
User:Mindspillage
| User | Mindspillage | |
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| Real name | Kathleen Walsh |
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| Location | Herndon, Virginia, USA (a suburb of Washington, DC) | |
| Age | 24 | |
| User page(s) | en.wikipedia, en.wikinews, meta, foundation | |
| Wikimedia participant since | June 2004 | |
| Projects in which I participate | English Wikipedia, English Wikinews, Meta, limited participation on various other projects. | |
| Languages in which I participate | English, basic Spanish | |
| Link to user contribution pages | en.wikipedia, en.wikinews, meta | |
| My candidate statement | I found Wikipedia in 2004 and began quietly writing about classical music, wondering what kind of crazy person spent so much time on it. A year later I was on OTRS, a press contact, and a founding member of the Communications Committee; I was then appointed to the Board in December 2006.
I'm currently in law school, where I staff a law and economics journal. I am an intern for a nonprofit online legal education project, and a classical musician. While on the board I worked with issues including licensing policy, free content and free culture advocacy, public relations, and strategic decisions such as branding and partnership; I hope to see some of these issues through beyond the short term I've already served. My interest is for the Board to act with a long-term view of its mission in mind, and not to take actions which might compromise WMF's future. To do this we must have a clear picture of what our values are and what our mission is, and we must maintain our commitment to being a free resource so the content does not need WMF to survive. Beyond this, I see us pursuing partnerships with like-minded organizations to carry our mission beyond the scope of what Wikimedia can do. |
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| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Mindspillage/questions | |
User:Oscar
| User | Oscar | |
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| Real name | Oscar van Dillen |
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| Location | Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Age | 49 | |
| User page(s) | User:Oscar, foundation:User:Oscar, commons:User:Oscar, nl:User:Oscar, de:User:Oscar, en:User:Oscar, es:User:Oscarami, fr:User:Oscar, it:User:Oscar, tr:User:Oscar, zh:User:Oscar, and more; also pages on dutch language wikibooks, wikinews among others. | |
| Wikimedia participant since | february 2004 | |
| Projects in which I participate | basically many but nlwikipedia and metawiki have most of my edits. | |
| Languages in which I participate | i am fluent in dutch, english, german and french, and speak more languages more or less, yet my main contributions are in the dutch-language projects and metawiki. | |
| Link to user contribution pages | some direct links from my main projects: nlwikipedia edits, nlwikipedia logs, metawiki edits, metawiki logs, nlwikimediawiki edits, nlwikimediawiki logs, but also enwikipedia edits, commonswiki edits... | |
| My candidate statement | i am a professional composer and teacher at the rotterdam conservatory, in my professional career i have been an interim manager for years as well. having been appointed as an elected community-member to the expanded board of trustees in december 2006, i had the honor to serve a 6 month term since (see further explanation). having grown up from the projects, i became a sysop at nlwiki in may 2004, on meta in april 2005, and have been a steward since june 2005; i was founding and first president of wikimedia nederland, a member of the now dormant special projects committee, and currently chair of the audit committee. i have tried my best to still keep in touch with as many of basic things as possible going on in the projects, not an easy job for a busy board member. in the frankfurt board retreat of 2006 (see my report) i compared wikimedia to a giant with feet of clay, this has been my main worry and concern: to consolidate the organisation of volunteers (like i myself am) with a core of newly hired skilled people, which supports our further growth into the future and remain an independent organization. since this is only partly accomplished, i would like to further contribute to the next steps, which will enhance our growth and outreach, our quality and stability, our independence and responsibility. |
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| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Oscar/questions | |
User:UninvitedCompany
| User | UninvitedCompany | |
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| Real name | Steve Dunlop |
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| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | |
| Age | 41 | |
| User page(s) | meta, en, commons | |
| Wikimedia participant since | March 27, 2003 | |
| Projects in which I participate | Wikipedia, Meta, with minor involvement at commons and Wikibooks | |
| Languages in which I participate | English | |
| Link to user contribution pages | en, meta | |
| My candidate statement | I've been involved for over four years, now, and have held a variety of volunteer posts with ENWP and with the Foundation. I was probably best known for my OTRS work up until my recent election to the ENWP arbitration committee. I work as a software development manager and as a semiprofessional musician in addition to my volunteer work.
In essence, the purpose of my candidacy is to bring a higher degree of professionalism to the Board of Trustees and the daily operations of the Foundation. The Foundation needs to attract large donors to maintain solvency without resorting to advertising. To attract large donors, the leadership of the Foundation from the Board on down must be professional and responsible, and must be able to reconcile the unique values of the constituent projects with the expectations of the donor community. This will involve bylaws changes to assure donors that future boards will be well qualified. It will also require that we make the Executive Director position an attractive one to the top-flight talent we want. That will mean more delegation and will require a board that is comfortable leading rather than doing. As a member of the Board of Trustees, my work would be directed almost exclusively towards making these changes. |
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| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/UninvitedCompany/questions | |
User:WarX
| User | WarX | |
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| Real name | Artur Jan Fijałkowski |
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| Location | Mikołów, Poland | |
| Age | 23 | |
| User page(s) | w:pl:user:WarX, commons:user:WarX, pl:chapter:user:WarX | |
| Wikimedia participant since | 17 jan 2005 | |
| Projects in which I participate | pl.wiki, commons | |
| Languages in which I participate | pl, en | |
| Link to user contribution pages | pl.wiki, commons | |
| My candidate statement | I have been a Wikimedia contributor for nearly 2.5 years. Since then I have made thousands of edits and deletions both on commons and pl.wiki. Now my direct contributions in projects are low, but I'm working on getting photo-passes on different events for making photos for Wikimedia (eg. the Metalmania festival) which consumes lots of time. In December 2006 I was elected for Board Member of Wikimedia Polska Association. I am the author of the Wikimedia Community Logo, used as the logo of Planet Wikimedia  . My goal in the Board would be to make it more aware of the situation in post-communist countries, being not as rich as the western countries which dominate in the current Board. |
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| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/WarX/questions | |
User:Yann
| User | Yann | |
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| Real name | Yann Forget |
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| Location | Annemasse, France | |
| Age | 42 | |
| User page(s) | fr.wiki, en.wiki, Commons, en.wikisource, fr.wikisource | |
| Wikimedia participant since | 24 December 2002 | |
| Projects in which I participate | Wikipedia (fr, en, hi, gu), Commons, Wikisource (fr, en, sa, hi), Wiktionary (fr, hi, gu) | |
| Languages in which I participate | fr, en (3), hi (2), gu (1) | |
| Link to user contribution pages | fr.wiki, commons, Wikisource | |
| My candidate statement | I have been involved in Wikimedia projects since December 2002 (4.5 years), mainly on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Commons and Wikisource. I am one of the early contributors of Wikisource, from when it was still called Project Sourceberg. I am admin on about a dozen Wikimedia projects and steward since June 2005. I proposed the creation of Wikimédia France in November 2003, of which I was secretary in 2004-2005.
I am a computer professional specialized in free software since 1998. Before that I worked for 10 years with NGOs on humanitarian, social and cultural projects. I would like to bring my experience of non-profit organizations and free culture movement to the service of Wikimedia Foundation. I would like the Foundation to be an influential organization, to bring free knowledge far and wide. My main input would be working on financial independence. |
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| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/Yann/questions | |
User:^demon
| User | ^demon | |
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| Real name | Michael "Chad" Horohoe |
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| Location | Richmond, Virginia, United States of America | |
| Age | 19 | |
| User page(s) | On the English Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia participant since | 23 February 2005 (but had been contributing as an anonymous user for some time before that, probably early 2004) | |
| Projects in which I participate | English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons for transwiki work. | |
| Languages in which I participate | English, elementary-level French | |
| Link to user contribution pages | On the English Wikipedia | |
| My candidate statement | Wikipedia is an absolutely phenomenal thing. The Wikimedia Foundation exists to support both Wikipedia and its many sister projects by providing both financial and infrastructural support. It stands to reason that we need people on the Board who understand what we're really here for--providing as much freely-licensed content to as many people as possible in their own native language. The Board of Directors should have, nay, needs to have people who are as closely aligned with this guiding principle as possible. As a board member, I would strive to play towards my individual strengths of management, technical know-how, and my ability to communicate with others. However, none of us must ever be too proud to not stop and ask for help; be it from outside help, developers, local administrators, and even the normal day-to-day contributors--both registered and anonymous. I believe many times those involved "higher-up" in the running of the Foundation can, at times, lose sight of that core policy I highlighted. This is something I promise to never do.
I believe that the Foundation is currently making a major mistake on what has recently to me become a very major issue. The WMF has long held a policy of "No Open Proxies" allowed for editing. The feeling has often been that quite a large amount of vandalism is coming from such proxies. The ability has long existed for us to be able to soft-block those proxies (in that registered users can edit, but anonymous ones cannot). For quite some time, Tor was soft-blocked. However, earlier this year, unilateral action was taken to hard block all of these proxies, preventing even valuable users from being able to contribute. When Board members were contacted, they did nothing. Rather, Jimbo encouraged discussion, which got nowhere due to a set mindset that is impossible to break. In the meantime, other users were mowed down for this same issue. Are we to allow the projects to lose highly valuable and valued contributors simply because the Foundation will not act? If I am elected, I would like to have the issue visited at a Foundation-level. While we may not see the results I would prefer, I would like to see the Foundation at least exert effort to see if this policy does in fact need revising, rather than the lack of action by anyone. |
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| For questions, please post here | Board elections/2007/Candidates/^demon/questions | |
選規
Only Election Committee members may edit the English version of this section. If you are not an Election Committee member, please submit your proposed edits or comments on the talk page. Thanks.
Candidates for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees should present themselves on this page before 23:59 June 23, 2007 (UTC). Three trustees will be elected to a term ending in June 2009.
To be eligible as a candidate, you must have more than 400 edits on at least one Wikimedia project, the edits must all be made with the same account, and the first edit must have been made at least one year prior to 00:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC). Candidates must also be at least 18 years of age and must disclose their real identity. For legal reasons, it is not possible to hold a Board position anonymously or under a pseudonym. Candidates should be aware of the obligations of a Board position (see also FAQ). Also, please be aware that Board membership is not a paid position by definition in Wikimedia bylaws.
In addition to fulfilling the above requirements, candidate must also be endorsed by the required number of voters at Board elections/2007/Endorsements.
For confirmation of their candidacies, candidates must activate their wiki email on meta. Candidates whose candidacy, i.e. identity cannot be confirmed will be disqualified.
It is not possible to hold a Board position anonymously, so please stand only if you are willing to make your real identity known. Candidates will be required to identify themselves fully to Board Election Steering Committee or another designated individual, unless they have already done so for the previous Board election. You will be contacted and given further details. Candidates who have been confirmed by one of the Election committee members or their designees will have their names emphasized by bold font.
As for candidate presentation, the regulations are as follows:
- Each should be 1,200 characters in length at maximum in its original language.
- The Election Committee will try to ensure that the first 1,200 of characters of that presentation are translated to as many languages as possible.
- Candidates may write a personal platform as an additional presentation in their private capacities. The link to that platform can be included to their official presentation.
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Please copy the template and fill in the following information. To avoid giving preference to one candidate over another, please list your nomination alphabetically by username, according to the w:Unicode Collation Algorithm.
Candidate presentation guideline will be helpful to make your presentation comfortably accepted to the global audience. On the other hand, it is an essay representing the views of some members of the election committee, thus not a part of official Election Committee notices and documents. To candidates, please note there is no assurance of translation, since all will depend on volunteers. The Election Committee will do their best to motivate Wikimedia volunteers to be engaged in translations.
Finally, please list your name and all the language(s) in which you submit your statement in the Quick view of candidates.
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