Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2025/notafish
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| Preferred name | Delphine Ménard | |
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| What languages do you speak, and at what fluency level? (Please include your English proficiency.) | fr-n, en-5, de-4, es-3 it-2 | |
| What region(s) of the world do you have experience with, and what kind of experience do you have? (“Experience” can mean you have lived or worked there or are currently living or working there; you’re familiar with the culture and language; etc.) | (please note that the answers to these questions are a slight rewrite from my application last year) My name is Delphine Ménard. I live in Germany, I am French. I have a long experience with Europe in General (Western and Eastern Europe), having lived in France, Austria and Germany and having worked the past two years extensively with the CEE Hub as an advisor. I have slightly more remote experience with the rest of the world: I work for a Global Organization where I am the People and Culture Manager for 60 people in 25 countries, with a high majority (80%) of people from the Global Majority (Asia, Africa, Latin America). I have also learned a lot about affiliates all over the world, experience which I have acquired through my long volunteer engagement in Wikimedia and staff work at the Foundation as a Grants Program Officer, working with affiliates from everywhere. I have also worked closely with colleagues from francophone Africa, thanks to my involvement in Wikifranca. I lived in the US for 2 years, and my command of Spanish has allowed me to create a lot of relationships around Latin America. | |
| What Wikimedia project(s) do you actively edit? And in what language(s)? | I do not have active projects I edit (apart from meta), I have been more active offline. | |
| What affiliate(s) are you actively involved with? In what capacity are you involved? Do you serve in a leadership role or have you in the past? | I have been involved with many affiliates and at the beginning of my involvement with Wikimedia (2005) I was on the board of Wikimédia France and Wikimedia Deutschland. My involvement since 2022 when I left the Wikimedia Foundation has been with other entities. I have been an advisor to the CEE Hub since its inception, have been on the board of Wikifranca for a year. I have been appointed to the good governance committee of Wikimedia Österreich as a representative for staff. | |
| Have you served on any committees (movement-related or otherwise)? And what was your role on the committee(s)? | I have served on Affcom a very long time, both as a member and as an adviser, also when I worked for the Wikimedia Foundation. I was one of the first elected members of the FDC where I served a few years before becoming staff support for the Annual Plan Grants. I have been an advisor to the Affcom for two years. Last year I was chosen to be a member of the interim GRDC. One of the reasons why I want to continue being an adviser to Affcom is to continue acting as a link between both committees and bringing insights from one to the other. | |
| Please describe any experience you have with conflict resolution and/or consensus building. | My work as Program Officer at the Foundation has brought me in contact with a lot of affiliates challenges and conflicts, which I have accompanied, working on mediation, fact checking and information gathering. I have also observed in the last two years some of the conflicts the Affcom takes on. My work in Human Resources comes with challenges and conflicts which I have been handling in a professional capacity. Working in Human Resources also brings a lot of need for stakeholder feedback loops that allow for better buy-in for solutions that affect whole organizations. | |
| In your ideal world, what does the affiliate model and ecosystem look like? | I haven't changed my view much from my last application but i have contributed to the affiliate model proposal that Affcom put together, which I consider a first step for discussion. One of the things i have still problem projecting in the future is the "rights and responsibilities" of affiliates, which we have not yet defined in a manner that makes me say "yay! we got it!". I find it's one of the hardest thing to decide, because we keep looking at the past and trying to fit everyone in that we already have, while "redefining" the way we can agree on who/what are the future affiliates. | |
| In your ideal world, what are AffCom’s roles and responsibilities in relation to the movement and affiliates? | I am still hoping Affcom will have a more transparent process for its membership. I think affcom's work should focus on core support to help shape the affiliates ecosystem, guiding prospective affiliates to embrace the most impactful way of working together. | |
| What role within AffCom are you most interested in: advisory or voting member? | advisor | |