Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Candidates/Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Rosiestep)

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Candidate details	Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimania Singapore, August 2023) Personal: Name: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Location: Nevada City, California, U.S. Languages: EN-N, ES-2, FR-2, SR-2 Editorial: Wikimedian since: 4 June 2007 Active wikis: EN-WP, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata
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?	Since 2016, I have been invested in what became the ten 2030 Movement Strategy Recommendations and 47 Movement Initiatives. I am running for a second term on the WMF Board of Trustees as I believe that serving on the Board is the best way for me to ensure that these recommendations and initiatives receive strategic support. I have broad experience in the Wikimedia movement; this hasn't slowed down since joining the WMF Board in 2021. These community inroads are important for keeping a pulse on community points of view. I have been and if re-elected will continue to be, committed to being an active Trustee.
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).	- Sibling projects English Wikipedia editor: I am almost a daily contributor, having made 292,000+ edits since 2007. I became an Administrator in 2009. I have created 5,000+ new articles, including En-WP's 6,000,000th new article (Maria Lauder). I am the 7th most active reviewer at New Page Patrol. Wikimedia Commons: Since 2008, I have made 72,000+ edits. This includes uploading 12,000+ images, the majority coming from old Public Domain publications. I've edited Wikidata (56,000+ edits) since 2013; Meta-Wiki (1,400+ edits) since 2009; and Wikisource (300+ edits) since 2009. - Organizer, trainer, committees: here
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?	As some of you know, I wear a bracelet with this inscribed on it: WWHSD? It stands for: What Would Hari Seldon Do? Hari was a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's The Foundation series. His research with large data sets enabled him to predict the future and minimize a period of doom for humanity. I wear it to keep me focused on the far future of our Wikimedia movement: 5-10 years, sure, but 50-100 years, also. For that reason, I believe the WMF should prioritize the following areas. Innovate in Free Knowledge Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt Why? It's what the world needs from us. It's what consumers (readers, etc.), editors, contributors, partners, and donors want from us.
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.	- Women in Red (established July 2015) responsibilities: My role as co-founder is to think long-term and strategically. I handle media inquiries. I talk a lot about Women in Red. scale: All coordination is on-wiki (no website, no Zoom calls, no Telegram/Discord/WhatsApp groups, no Google docs). Since its establishment, there have 33,700+ comments on our talkpage. budget: $0 (since 2015) number of people involved: On En-WP, there are several hundred signed-up members; all genders; all volunteers. There are countless members on the other 32 language Wikipedias. size of the board: 0 - Wikimedia District of Columbia (WMDC) responsibilities: Appointed to the Board in 2016. Elected Vice-President in 2017. Resigned in 2021 after being elected to the WMF Board of Trustees. In my role as V-P, I provided day-to-day support to the President regarding operations. I was responsible for Human Resources and Trust & Safety functions. scale: multi-state programmatic operations of a 501(c)(3) public charity. budget: I don't remember. people: about 100 members size of the board: 9 (when I was a member) - WikiWomen's User Group (WWUG; established 2015) responsibilities: As co-founder, develop a start-up. scale: see here budget: $0 during start-up, when I was involved with it people: currently, 194 size of the board: 0 - WikiConference North America User Group (WCNA UG; established 2016) responsibilities: As co-founder, develop a start-up. I've been a member of the conference's Core Team every year since its establishment. Additional roles have varied: Program Committee, Scholarship Committee, Friendly Space Committee. scale: plan, coordinate, facilitate a conference in different cities of North America every year budget: $130970 (USD) (2024) number of people involved: core team averages 10 people/year; participants, 300+/year size of the board or body: 0
Please describe your professional career experience.	My professional career was in the healthcare industry. It started after high school graduation, as a clerk in a neighborhood hospital's Radiology Department. Starting in 1990, when my youngest child was in kindergarten, I worked for a large company that provided contract healthcare services to military hospitals and healthcare facilities in the U.S., my role being administrator and manager of multi-million USD contracts. In 2001, role shifted to talent acquisition (recruitment) of medical staff (physicians, nurses, ancillary services) for these facilities, for which I hired thousands of contractors. In 2009, my role shifted to recruiting for civilian hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as leading a team of recruiters; the positions recruited for included C-suite. During these years, I was an active member of PMI SHRM, and ERE. In 2016, after 26 years with the organization, I retired. In 2017, I became a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston), Digital Scholarship Group (unpaid position).
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?
Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work.	BA, Business Management; MBA; post-graduate Healthcare Executive Leadership Program certificate; Board Leadership Development Program certificate; Team Dynamics/Board Practice Series certificate; Essential Facilitation certificate.
Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.).	- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosiestephenson/
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).	- Affiliations Committee: elected in 2016; resigned in 2021 after election to the WMF Board of Trustees. Service: Conflicts Committee, 2016-21; Secretary, 2017; Chair, 2020-21. - Community Health Working Group: 2018-20. Our team developed these recommendations for our movement.
Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience?
How have you been able to empower people to make their voices 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?
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