위키미디어 재단 선거/2024년/후보자/데온 스테인
Deon Steyn (Oesjaar)
Oesjaar (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)
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| Total word count for the whole application (required + optional questions) is 1000 (one thousand) words | ||
| Required questions | ||
| Why are you running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees? What would you contribute? What would you like to learn more about? | 완전히 아웃사이더로서 아프리칸스어 위키백과는 지난 4년 동안 단 한 명의 정규 직원만을 만났는데, 새로운 관점을 추가하겠습니다. 비즈니스 교육을 잘 받으면 변화를 만들 것입니다. 저는 소규모 위키백과의 권리를 위해 싸우고 싶습니다. 예. 멕시코 시티 위키마니아(2015년)에서 저는 두 가지 문제에 대해 도움을 요청했지만 아무런 답변이나 해결책을 얻지 못했습니다. | |
| Please describe your Wikimedia experience (such as contributions to the Wikimedia projects, memberships in Wikimedia organizations or affiliates, activities as a Wikimedia movement organizer, or participation with a Wikimedia movement ally organization). | 저는 지난 15년 동안 사용자였으며 이미 아프리칸스어 위키백과에 15,700개의 문서를 작성했으며 이미 234,000회의 편집을 수행했습니다. 저는 2014년부터 아프리칸스어 위키백과를 담당하는 위키미디어 ZA 지부에서 봉사하고 있으며, 저의 리더십 하에 위키백과는 비약적으로 성장했습니다. 현재 우리는 69번째로 큰 위키백과입니다. 제 마케팅 전략에는 라디오 인터뷰가 포함되어 있으며 두 라디오 방송국에서 매주 우리와 인터뷰를 진행한다는 사실이 자랑스럽습니다!
저는 또한 남아프리카의 선도적인 식물학자 브람 반 윅 교수로부터 식물에 관한 60,000장의 사진을 얻는 데 성공했습니다. 그는 현재 모든 커뮤니티에서 사용할 수 있도록 모든 사진을 공용에 로드하고 있으며, 완료하는 데 2년이 더 걸릴 것입니다. 작년에 저의 리더십 하에 우리는 고등학교 작문 대회를 시작했으며 2024년 대회를 위해 아프리칸스어 전국 신문인 라포(Rapport)를 파트너로 계약했습니다. 라디오 방송국인 PretoriaFM도 파트너로 등록했습니다. 이는 아프리칸스어 위키백과에 국가적 발자취를 부여합니다. | |
| From your perspective, what should the Wikimedia Foundation be prioritizing over the next 5-10 years, and why do you see these as the most important priorities? | 소규모 위키백과에도 좋은 아이디어가 있으므로 이에 집중하세요. 책 인쇄가 환경에 미치는 영향은 말할 것도 없고 특히 교과서 비용이 급증하고 있으므로 대학 및 학교와의 더 많은 협력에 집중하세요. 거의 모든 사람들이 휴대폰을 가지고 있습니다. | |
| Optional questions - Professional Experience, Skills and Education | ||
| Please describe your experience with governing bodies of organizations (nonprofit or for-profit), mentioning the scope of your responsibilities, as well as the complexity of the organization (in terms of scale of operations, budget, number of people involved, or other meaningful measures) and the size of the board or body. | I am running my own business. My business has to advise clients re safety, compile safety plans for events and present the files to the authorities to obtain the necessary permits.
I have served as a member on the Eng. Council of South Africa where I was part of a team to decide on the Professional Status applications of Technologists. In my last job in the Corporate world I was a project manager for Siemens South Africa, running a R 200 million Signalling project between Kimberley and De Aar. The client was Transtel, South Africa. The duration of the project was two years, I have finished the project on time, within budget and with zero penalties! The permanent staff on site was 50 persons. Monthly meetings where held with the client, Siemens Financial Department, Logistics and the sub contractors. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | I am Technologist (Telecommunicatios) and have worked for Telkom SA for 20 years. I also hold a B.Com. Hons (Fin. Management) and is a qualified Safety Officer. I have also worked for Aberdare Cables (where I became a SME on Optic Fibre), Ericsson South Africa and Siemens South Africa as Project Manager. | |
| Please briefly describe 3 situations that show how you tackled, or advised others on, a complex problem in an organization. How did you work with others to address the situations? | I have run training courses for new users. Due to my vision the Afrikaans Wikipedia has signed a MOU with the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns which give us a base to operate from and visibility.
I have created the Campaigners for the Afrikaans Wikipedia campaign which 13 Afrikaans organisations have signed following 5 years of work. This will give us access to more resources including funding. I just been given permission to do a presentation at the South African Teachers Union Organisation re Wikipedia following three years of persistence. | |
| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | T6 (6 years) Technologist in Telecommunications. BCom Hons (Fin Management). SHEMTRAC - Safety Certificate. | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | https://www.linkedin.com/in/deon-steyn-0a9a952a0/ | |
| Optional questions - Leadership Experience | ||
| Please describe ways in which you have helped to form a bridge between multiple communities (such as by working on projects outside your home wiki, or working on a collaboration between multiple affiliates). | Unfortunately the Afrikaans Wikipedia is cut off from the rest of the World language wize. I have managed to communicate with the Dutch and Belgium Wikipedia's. Communication within Africa is non-existent. | |
| Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience? | Enforce that articles have the necessary sources. South African schools are still skeptical re Wikipedia and have articles with the proper sources are critical to get them to see the light. | |
| How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard? | I started by inviting people for coffee sessions, talk to them re the Afrikaans Wikipedia and listen to their side of the story. Then I have started a FB group where we put up a link to the weekly front page and invited them to become members. Then we fed them more and more info on our FB until they started to take part on Geselshoekie, our version of Village Pump. Most important, we treated their views with respect. | |
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | I remind them to remember where they want to be, the end objective. | |
| Optional questions - Strategic Thinking | ||
| Where do you see the need for greater diversity in the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees or within the movement? What steps would you take to improve diversity on the Board or within the movement? What steps would you recommend the Board take to improve diversity? | The small Wikipedia's are ignored. A decision that works in Europe and America will not necessary works in Africa. | |
| 확인 | 위키미디어 재단 직원이 수행한 신원 확인과 선거 위원회가 수행한 자격 확인 | |
적임:  확인됨입증된: KTC (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
신분, 신분증: 확인됨 입증된: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 07:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC) | |