Wahlen der Wikimedia Foundation/2024/Kandidierende/Victoria Doronina
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| Vorstellung des*der Kandidat*in | 
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| Die Wortzahl für die gesamte Bewerbung (verpflichtende und freiwillige Antworten) beträgt 1000 Wörter. | ||
| Verpflichtende Fragen | ||
| Warum bewirbst du dich für das Kuratorium der Wikimedia Foundation? Was für einen Beitrag würdest du leisten? Worüber möchtest du gerne mehr lernen? | Ich bewerbe mich für das Kuratorium, um die entscheidende Arbeit fortzusetzen, die ich bei meiner Wahl 2021 begonnen habe. An diesem Wendepunkt in der Geschichte unserer Bewegung brauchen wir unbedingt Trustees mit Erfahrung und nicht solche, die erst noch einiges zu lernen haben. Wenn wir es nicht schaffen, uns in den nächsten zwei bis drei Jahren an die neue Realität anzupassen, könnte Wikipedia ein altmodisches Artefakt aus einem früheren Internetzeitalter werden, ähnlich wie MySpace.
Als jemand aus dem globalen Süden, die weiß, wie es ist, unter einem totalitären Regime zu leben, und als erfahrene Wissenschaftlerin hoffe ich, dem Kuratorium eine wichtige Perspektive anzubieten. In den vergangenen drei Jahren habe ich in meiner Funktion im Kuratorium mit der Wikimedia-Bewegung kommuniziert, mit der CEO zusammengearbeitet und der WMF strategische Handlungsempfehlungen gegeben. Ich möchte diese Erfahrung weiter vertiefen, um das Verhältnis zwischen WMF und Wikimedia-Bewegung zu verbessern. | |
| Bitte beschreibe deine Wikimedia-Erfahrung (etwa Beiträge zu den Wikimedia-Projekten, Mitgliedschaften in Wikimedia-Organisationen oder -Affiliates, Tätigkeiten als Organisator:in in der Wikimedia-Bewegung oder Beteiligung an einer mit der Wikimedia-Bewegung verbündeten Organisation). | Ich habe 2007 begonnen, zur russischen Wikipedia beizutragen, und wurde bald darauf Administratorin. Ich war die zweite Frau, die ins Schiedsgericht der russischen Wikipedia gewählt wurde, und die erste, die zwei Amtszeiten ausübte. Ich bin seit langer Zeit Mediatorin für einige der umstrittensten Themen, etwa LGBTQIA+, moderiere die Artikelauszeichnungen und bin inoffizielle Koordinatorin des „Schon gewusst?“-Projekts der russischen Wikipedia.
2011 wurde ich eine Wikimedia Community Fellow. Ich war auch im Funds Dissemination Committee. | |
| Was sollten in den kommenden 5–10 Jahren die Prioritäten der Wikimedia Foundation sein und warum sind diese in deinen Augen besonders wichtig? | * Technologie: Fortwährende Verbesserung der technischen Infrastruktur, um mit zunehmenden Zugriffszahlen umzugehen, die Verlässlichkeit und die Benutzungserfahrung zu verbessern, einschließlich Optimierung für Mobilgeräte. Investitionen in Forschung zu und Entwicklung von neuen Technologien wie KI und maschinellem Lernen, um Aufgaben zu automatisieren und die inhaltliche Qualität sowie die Benutzungserfahrung zu verbessern.
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| 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. | In 2021 I was elected to the WMF Board of Trustees. I serve on the Product and Technology Committee, Executive Committee, and the Community Affairs Committee, where I lead the Sister Projects Taskforce. I was an interim Vice Chair in 2022. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | After completing my PhD in molecular biology (University of Edinburgh, UK), I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at several Russell Group (UK Ivy League) universities, specialising in protein translation. I’m a coauthor of tens of publications in international high-impact scientific journals. I’m also an award-winning science communicator in English and Russian. For the last nine years, I have worked as a Technical Officer (Biology Education and, recently, Food Microbiology) at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. | |
| 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? | After being seconded from the Faculty of Education to the Department of Food Nutrition as a Microbiologist and an interim Technical Team Manager, I concentrated on boosting the team morale, participating in Personal Development Reviews, and successfully recruiting and inducting an apprentice. I provided 1-2-1 regular meetings with the apprentice and liaised with the Technical Services Development Manager. The apprentice completed her probation and was later appointed Assistant Technician. | |
| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | I have a University degree in Microbiology from the Belarusian State University and a PhD in Molecular Biology (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom). I am also an Associate Member of the Advance Higher Education Academy, UK.
I have solid training in governance and leadership. I finished three programs tailored for board members: “Non-Profit Board Leadership Agent of Impact” (2023) (by Board Veritas), "Value Creation through Effective Boards"(2022, IESE Business School) and "Team Dynamics for Boards" (2023, IMD). | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | * I'm happy to connect with wikimedians on LinkedIn
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| 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). | After being elected to the WMF Board, I liaised between the wider Movement and Wikimedia affiliates and communities, especially Russian-speaking communities, representing wikimedians from several Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries. I’m trying to be a bridge or at least a buffer between the Russian and Ukrainian communities.
I’m also a Board liaison to the Language Committee, which approves and closes sister projects in different languages | |
| Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience? | I was involved in creating and changing several policies on the Russian Wikipedia, for example, ru:Википедия:Оформление статей (флаги). My proudest achievement is creating a mediation system for long-running content disputes.
I’m a Lead on the Siblings Projects Taskforce, which is developing a policy on the lifecycle of the Sibling (non-Wikipedia) Wikimedia projects. The board's Community Affairs Committee approved the draft policy, and now there’s an ongoing public consultation, which everybody can participate in. | |
| How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard? | The first step to empowerment is minorities visibility. I started editing Wikipedia with a male-sounding username but switched to my first name, which most people recognise as female. I always encourage minorities to participate in the Movement governance online and offline and provide 1-2-1 mentoring. As trustees, Rosie and I took part in the Wikiwomen Camp in Dehli in 2023, where we did our best to encourage the participants. I'm also the first representative of Russian language Wikimedia projects on the Board, so they can be heard. | |
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | ||
| 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? | I think that the Movement is doing well in terms of diversity. We are a global movement where hundreds of languages and ethnicities are represented. We are also neurodiverse. We have several initiatives addressing the gender gap, and the Universal Code of Conduct hopefully will help minorities - of which I'm one - feel more protected.
As for the WMF Board, considering that an average board member worldwide is a white man in his 60s and 70s, the WMF Board is doing well on several diversity parameters. We have 50% women, a good age range (30s - 70s), representatives of the LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse people. In my opinion, we are not doing well enough regarding the geographical and the Global South representation, with most board members being from various parts of Europe and the US. While we have India (Raju Narisetti) and South America (Luis Bitencourt-Emilio) representatives among the Board-selected trustees, as far as I know, we didn’t ever have a representative of sub-Saharan Africa or ESEAP. Considering the movement is less established there, which means fewer voters, we cannot expect anybody from the region to be elected to the Board shortly. I recently wrote a letter to the WMF Board Executive Commity outlining the problem and possible solutions, and the letter is being discussed. If re-elected, I’ll continue pursuing this question. | |
| Bestätigung | Die Identitätsverifikation wurde durch Angestellte der Wikimedia Foundation vorgenommen, die passive Wahlberechtigung wurde durch das Wahlkomitee geprüft. | |
Wahlberechtigung:  BestätigtBestätigt durch: KTC (talk) 19:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
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