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Tomasz Ganicz (Polimerek)[edit]

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Candidate details
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  • Personal:
    • Name: Tomasz Ganicz
    • Age: 50
    • Location: Warsaw and Lodz/Poland
    • Languages: en-3, pl-N, ru-1
  • Editorial:
    • Wikimedian since: 2001
    • Active wikis: pl-Wikipedia, Wikimedia Polska wiki, commons, meta
Statement I am interested in being a member of the FDC as it gives a unique occasion to shape Wikimedia movement in hopefully right direction by financial supporting those entities which have good programs addressing real needs of our communities, no matter from which part of the world they are. In my humble opinion, for mature, big organizations and related to them Wikipedias the key issue is to keep with us existing editors and find effective methods to attract a new ones. This means supporting not only typical outreach and GLAM projects but also works related to current internal issues such as: changing editors attitudes towards newbies, bridging gender gap or addressing the most painful problems in MediaWiki interface. For smaller chapters, especially from regions with lower than global average GNP per capita, the key issue is to wake up people who have already access to internet but never though that they can edit Wikipedia and change the world. In Africa and Asia there are areas inhabited by millions of people speaking languages which have Wikipedias that are edited by less than 10 active editors. So we need to support chapters organizing such events like "Wiki Loves Africa" or extensive education programs such as WikiClubs. I'd like also to help to increase the effectiveness of money spending by checking costs to potential impact ratio in all project proposals by demanding hard, real evidence of achieving the proposed goals.
Compulsory questions 1. What experiences of yours do you think will enhance the work and recommendation process of the FDC?
1.1. Around directing and/or evaluating annual plans and programs?
I was serving as GAC member for several years evaluating around 50 various grant applications. Also, as a president of the Wikimedia Polska board, part of my duties is to help raise new projects, evaluate them and make final decisions of financing them (or not). I also created several preliminary annual budget plans for Wikimedia Polska. As a scientist I was an expert for grant evaluation process for EU CORDIS 6th and also 7th Framework Programme.
1.2. Around grantmaking?
I was involved in preparing financial part of application and then realization of Wiki Loves Earth 2015 on international level. Quite recently I was main applicant for Ethnography of the Carpatians grant. Within Wikimedia Polska I was co-organizing many projects, among others several Wikiexpeditions, Ritual Year with Wikipedia, first edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in Poland etc. As a scientist I headed 2 larger grants from Polish Ministry of Science (for over 250 000 EUR) and several smaller ones - governmental and also from industry.

2. How does your history with Wikimedia make you suited for the FDC?

I joined Polish Wikipedia in 2001 just few weeks after it was established, so I am definitely a wiki-dinosaur :-). For over 5 years I was just an editor of Polish Wikipedia and then uploader of pictures to Commons. In the late 2005 after co-establishing Wikimedia Polska I started to be involved in wiki-world on organizational and international level serving in the Wikimedia Polska board and several WMF committees. So, I had occasion to see the changes and progress of international wiki-community for quite long time, which, I believe, give me a sort of historical, long term perspective, which might be a value for FDC.
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