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| Wikimedia movement experience = Ba da gudummawa ga Wikipedia na Bengali, galibi ta hanyar fassara labarai daga Wikipedia ta Turanci; Shirya labarai cikin Bengali, Ingilishi da sauran yaruka; Ba da gudummawar hotuna a cikin Wikimedia Commons; Wani lokaci ina gyara Wikidata da sauran ayyukan Wikimedia. |
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Wannan shafin yana ƙunshe da maganganun 'yan takarar da ke neman takarar Movement Charter's Drafting Committee. An gayyaci masu sha’awar sha’awa su gabatar da kansu a wannan shafin daga 2 ga Agusta zuwa 14 ga Satumba 2021 AoE ( UTC). Ana sa ran Kwamitin zai fara da mutane 15.
Kira don gabatarwa yanzu an rufe. An shirya gudanar da zaben tsakanin 11 zuwa 24 ga Oktoba 2021 AoE ( UTC – UTC). Dangane da set up process, manyan 'yan takarar bakwai mafi girma a zabukan za su sami gurabe. Sauran 'yan takarar da suka nema a nan za su kasance masu alaƙa da Wikimedia Foundation za su zaɓa yayin wani tsari na daban a daidai wannan lokacin. Ƙara takardu
Kasashen masu neman takara
| Ƙasa | Ƙidaya | Labarin ƙasa | Yankunan Wikimedia[Country 1] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aljeriya | 2 | Arewacin Afirka | Gabas ta Tsakiya da Arewacin Afirka |
| Ostiraliya | 1 | Fasific | Gabas, Kudu maso gabashin Asiya, da Fasific (ESEAP) |
| Belgium | 1 | Yammacin Turai | Yammacin & Arewacin Turai |
| Brazil | 1 | Kudancin Amurka | Latin Amurka da Karibiyan |
| Burundi | 1 | Gabashin Afirka | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| Kamaru | 1 | Afirka ta Tsakiya | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| Kanada | 2 | Arewacin Amurka | Amurika da Kanada |
| Kolombiya | 1 | Kudancin Amurka | Latin Amurika da Karibiyan |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 4 | Yammacin Afirka | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| DR Congo | 3 | Afirka ta Tsakiya | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| Faransa | 1 | Yammacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Jamus | 1 | Yammacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Ghana | 2 | Yammacin Afirka | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| Haiti | 1 | Karibiyan | Latin Amurika da Karibiyan |
| Hungary | 1 | Tsakiyar Turai | Tsakiya da Gabashin Turai da Asiya ta Tsakiya |
| China | 2 | Gabashin Asiya | Gabas, Kudu maso gabashin Asiya, da Fasific (ESEAP) |
| Indiya | 9 | Kudancin Asiya | Ƙungiyar Asiya ta Kudu don Hadin Kan Yanki (SAARC) |
| Indonesia | 1 | Kudu maso gabashin Asiya | Gabas, Kudu maso gabashin Asiya, da Fasific (ESEAP) |
| Iraki | 1 | Gabas ta Tsakiya | Gabas ta Tsakiya da Arewacin Afirka |
| Italiya | 1 | Kudu maso Yammacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Mexico | 1 | Amurka ta tsakiya | Latin Amurka da Karibiyan |
| Maroko | 1 | Arewacin Afirka | Gabas ta Tsakiya da Arewacin Afirka |
| Netherlands | 2 | Yammacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Najeriya | 4 | Yammacin Afirka | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| Falasdinu | 1 | Gabas ta Tsakiya | Gabas ta Tsakiya da Arewacin Afirka |
| Peru | 1 | Kudancin Amurka | Latin Amurka da Karibiyan |
| Philippines | 2 | Kudu maso gabashin Asiya | Gabas, kudu maso gabashin Asiya da Pacific |
| Poland | 3 | Tsakiyar Turai | Tsakiya da Gabashin Turai (CEE) da Tsakiyar Asiya |
| Portugal | 1 | Kudu maso Yammacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Koriya ta Kudu | 1 | Gabashin Asiya | Gabas, Kudu maso gabashin Asiya, da Fasific (ESEAP) |
| Rasha | 2 | Gabashin Turai + Arewacin Asiya |
Tsakiya da Gabashin Turai da Asiya ta Tsakiya |
| Ruwanda | 1 | Gabashin Afirka | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| Slovakia | 1 | Tsakiyar Turai | Tsakiya da Gabashin Turai (CEE) da Tsakiyar Asiya |
| Spain | 1 | Kudu maso Yammacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | Kudancin Asiya | Ƙungiyar Asiya ta Kudu don Hadin Kan Yanki (SAARC) |
| Sweden | 1 | Arewacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Taiwan | 3 | Gabashin Asiya | Gabas, Kudu maso gabashin Asiya, da Fasific (ESEAP) |
| Tanzania | 1 | Gabashin Afirka | Kasashen Saharar Afirka |
| Trinidad da Tobago | 1 | Karibiyan | Latin Amurika da Karibiyan |
| Ukraine | 1 | Gabashin Turai | Tsakiya da Gabashin Turai da Asiya ta Tsakiya |
| Ƙasar Ingila | 3 | Arewacin Turai | Yammacin da Arewacin Turai |
| Amurka | 8 | Arewacin Amurka | Amurika da Kanada |
| Venezuela | 2 | Kudancin Amurka | Latin Amurka da Karibiyan |
Candidates
Muna rufe wannan sashe don sarrafa fassarorin. A sakamakon haka, ba za a iya yin ƙarin gyara ga bayanan ɗan takarar ba.
Hakanan muna roƙon 'yan takarar da su tabbatar da "babban aikin wiki" da ayyana ƙwarewar su ta hanyar sanya sunan aikin da zaɓar fannoni 3 na ƙwarewa daga respective matrix. Muna rokon 'yan takarar da su aiko da wannan bayanin zuwa 3 ga Oktoba, 2021 zuwa strategy2030
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Gilbert Ndihokubwayo (Gilbert Ndihokubwayo)
Gilbert Ndihokubwayo (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Co-kafa na Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi, East Africa strategy summit, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Pages Wanting Photos. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Tattaunawar dabarun Gabashin Afirka, Taron dabarun Yankin Yammacin Afirka, Tattaunawar Dabarun motsi, Wikimedia Community User Group, Wikimedians na Afirka (rukunin telegram), Vikimedio en Esperanto (ƙungiyar telegram), Duscussing Wikimedia's Strategy process. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ni mutum ne mai son kai, kuma ina jin daɗin hidimar gidauniyar Wikimedia. A cikin karatuna na ilimi, na sami ilimi a Sadarwar Tallafin Ci gaba; Na sami ilimin fannoni daban -daban da hanyoyin sadarwa, gami da sadarwar ƙungiya, sadarwar haɗin gwiwa, shawarwarin al'umma, da sadarwa tsakanin al'adu.
Ina nan don wannan aiki kuma na yi alƙawarin yin aiki don fa'idar motsi na Wikimedia, dangane da Dokar Conaukaka ta Duniya, da bin Shawarwarin Jagoranci da Shawarar dabarun motsi. A zahiri, bayan sa hannu daban -daban a cikin abubuwan motsi na Wikimedia, Ina haɓaka ƙwarewa a cikin ayyukan Wikimedia kuma ina shirin girma. A cikin ayyukan kwararru na cika madaidaitan bayanai, don daidaita 'yan wasan daban -daban, don samun sasantawa. Ayyuka na sun taimaka min wajen gwada iyawa ta na tsarawa, da mai da martani da kirkire -kirkire, na kuma gwada iyawata na ganin gibin da ke bukatar rufewa, ikon tattaunawa da bangarori daban -daban. | |
Christophe Henner (schiste)
schiste (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Team collaboration experience | I had many collaboration experiences during both my wikimedian and proffessionnal lives, some key ones:
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | The drafting committee will have to ensure that the whole process respects the recommendations from the Wikimedia 2030 strategy. The recommendations are to explore and set-up how we can move from a centralized movement to a decentralized and truly global movement. That move will require all of us to be able to have all the discussions that we need to have and never hide behind how the way are today, but find solutions to design what we need to become. In that endeavor, I did show across my Wikimedian life that I have no problem challenging the status quo to improve the movement.
To me, the main role of the drafting committee will be to structure the work to allow for community collaboration all across the writing process and not just at the end for the ratification. On top of that, to also ensure we don’t take the easy path to conserve things as they are but that everything we keep as it is today is kept that way because it actually contribute to the movement being global and decentralized. As for my vision, I do strongly believe that we should be having those discussions very directly and not shy away to open tough discussions and options. And have them by always trying to find ways to apply a subsidiarity principles. The discussion we are about to address are key, important and sometime very emotional topics. Through the different hats I wore (editor, chapter chair, Wikimedia Foundation chair) and my professional curriculum (which has been about governance and running organizations for almost ten years and the last two in the size range of the Foundation staff-wise) I believe I also will be able to bring not only experience or knowledge, but also perspectives. As I have sat at the different side of the table I can empathize with the different stakeholders of that discussion. Finally, the charter will become our guiding document to ensure we have shared alignment on where we go, trust and empowerment in the institutions and processes so that we can focus on making the world a better place and not on “how do we disseminate funds?”. | |
Pepe Flores (Padaguan)
Padaguan (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I have been member of Wikimedia Mexico's board since 2013. I was an ordinary board member from 2013 to 2018, and vicepresident since 2018. I helped as organizer in Wikimania 2015, and represented my chapter at Wikimedia Conference (2015, 2016), WikiConference North America (2016, 2019) and Wikimania (2015, 2019. My main activities in Wikimedia Mexico are focused in outreach, communications, advocacy, regional affairs and community building. | |
| Team collaboration experience | As Communications Officer in a digital rights organization, I'm used to work with interdisciplinary groups regarding regulatory and policy discussions, collaborative writing, and legal analysis. I'm capable of working with global stakeholders in different parts of the world, and I'm flexible about time zones and schedules. I have also experience working with related to open culture movements, as part of the Creative Commons Global Network and member of Creative Commons Mexico. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Community is the backbone of the Wikimedia Movement. I'd like to offer my expertise as part of the digital rights community to ensure that the Charter is diverse, inclusive, and respectful of all the different backgrounds. I'd like to promote central discussions regarding privacy, freedom of speech, among other human rights in the drafting process. As Latin American, I'd also want to ensure that the Movement Charter reflects the cultural diversity of my region. | |
Anupam Dutta (Anupamdutta73)
Anupamdutta73 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Ba da gudummawa ga Wikipedia na Bengali, galibi ta hanyar fassara labarai daga Wikipedia ta Turanci; Shirya labarai cikin Bengali, Ingilishi da sauran yaruka; Ba da gudummawar hotuna a cikin Wikimedia Commons; Wani lokaci ina gyara Wikidata da sauran ayyukan Wikimedia. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Ya yi aiki a matsayin Sakatare kuma Shugaban Rotaract Club na Tollygunge (ƙarƙashin Rotary Club na Tollygunge) | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Fatan kasancewa cikin Haƙƙin Tarihi ta hanyar haɗin gwiwa tare da duk masu sha'awar Wikipedians masu sha'awar da ƙirƙirar daftarin wanda zai zama "Reference" ga duk Wikipedians su bi. A lokaci guda, yakamata ya zama mai sassauƙa don yin nuni da wucewar lokaci. | |
Sameera Lakshitha (Sameera94)
Sameera94 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Active contributor on Sinhala Wikipedia | |
| Team collaboration experience | I am so glad to contribute to makes the internet better. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I am a Sri Lankan wikimedian and I edit English and Sinhala wikipedia, since 2019. | |
Zhong Juechen (三猎)
三猎 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I contribute to several Wikimedia projects, maily zh.wikipedia. I'm proud to be one of few editors in zh.wikipedia who keeps writing articles on their own instead of translating from other projects without checking references. I review articles and call on the community to realize the seriousness and importance of revewing, which was the main reason I recieved the Awards for Professionalism of Instruction. I try my best to help newbies (to some extent, we're all newbies), online and offline. I visted meetups held in various cities of Mainland China and Taiwan to learn experiences, and now I hold meetups in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Also, as a PhD candidate in sociology, I study zh.wikipedia (nationlism, colonialism, gender issues, bureaucracy, knowledge as power, and the wall between veterans and newbies / editors and readers) and published a paper on Taiwan Sociology Association Meeting of 2019. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I am used to collaborate with people on an article, a programme, a document. However, I don't treat these experience as team collaboration, but peer to peer collaboration instead. I tell good jokes. In Chinese, though. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | As someone who truly believes that the administrative system of Wikimedia should be taken as *not a big deal*, I could'nt imagine my self being a candidate here. But I just changed my idea, realising that there are thousands of people around the world keeping writing articles, spreading free knowledge, and not caring Wikimedia politics at all, just like me. They may not care, but should be cared. So here I am. My objective is to represent the idea of decentralization. There're flowers in my home, just beside my computer. I grow flowers, or flowers grow? I think the latter way. | |
Galahad (Galahad)
Galahad (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Sysop of eswikivoyage since 2013, member of Ombuds Commission since 2019. Organizing some events focused on less developed wikimedia projects. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Founder of Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish, member of Wikimedia Venezuela. I've participated in the movement strategy conversation and served as election volunteer on 2021 board election. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | The movement is changing and requires new perspectives. From my work supporting less developed projects, I consider it vital that all communities are read, because from them emanates the knowledge that the Foundation hopes to protect. | |
Félix Guébo (Ivcom)
Ivcom (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na kasance mai ba da gudummawa ga Wikipedia tun 2015. Na shiga cikin ƙungiyar masu amfani da Wikimedia User Group Côte d'Ivoire a shekarar da na zama mai ba da kai. A cikin 2016 an sanya ni a matsayin mai sadarwa a cikin al'umma, galibi a matsayin mai zanen hoto. Dangane da wannan take ina kula da fadada duk wani tallafin sadarwa na gani da gani a cikin al'umma a cikin ƙasarmu. A shekarar 2021, na shiga kwamitin zartarwa na Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire, a matsayin Mataimakin Babban Sakatare, inda nake kula da Sakatariyar al'umma. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Musamman a Wikimedia, na yi aiki a cikin ƙungiyar gida na aikin Wiki Loves Africa don zaman 2015, 2016 da 2017. Matsayi na ya ƙunshi taimakawa tare da tabbatar da shirye -shiryen ayyuka, haɓaka abun ciki don bugawa, gudanar da ƙungiyoyi don ɗaukar hotuna, horarwa da tallafi ga masu sa kai zuwa aikin, kasancewa cikin layi tare da dabarun jagoranci da shawarwarin na Manajan Shirin. Wannan yana da manufar amintacce kuma cikakken watsa kayan sadarwa, taimakon masu ba da gudummawa na gida akan Commons kuma a ƙarshe ganewa da gyara rahotannin ayyukan aikin. Manajan Ayyukan Ƙasa ne ke kula da aikin. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Tare da shekaru 20 daga ranar haihuwarsa, Wikipedia ta tsinci kanta a matsayin babbar tashar da take da hatimin amincewa. Mun yi abubuwa da yawa, kuma muna da sauran abubuwa da yawa da za mu yi, idan aka ba mu cewa shekaru 6 kacal suka rage mana burin Wikimedia 2030. Don haka, idan aka yi la’akari da tsananin burin da ake son cimmawa da kuma ƙarfin aikin da za a yi, yana da mahimmanci a shigo da ingantattun albarkatun ɗan adam don cim ma abubuwa da yawa. Sabili da haka, buƙatar samun mutanen da ke da ilimin motsi yana da mahimmanci. Ni kaina, dangane da gogewa da aka samu a ƙasata da kuma ƙwarewar da aka samu a matsayin memba mai aiki a cikin aiwatar da aikin kan dabarun Wikimedia 2030 da aka aiwatar a Côte d'Ivoire, na ba da gudummawa don ganin an tsara zanen. Yarjejeniyar motsi ta Wikimedia. | |
Jastin Boniventure Msechu (Justine Msechu)
Justine Msechu (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Tun lokacin da na shiga wikipedia na koyi abubuwa da yawa kamar ƙirƙirar, gyara da fassarar labarai. Na kuma halarci zaman wikipedia daban -daban musamman Yarjejeniyar motsi. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Ina shiga shirya shirye -shiryen swahili daban -daban na wikimedia a nan Arusha. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ni mutum ne mai saukin kai da basira. Ko da lokacin da abubuwa ke canzawa a cikin mintina na ƙarshe, Ina iya daidaitawa daidai da saduwa da tsayayyun lokacin ƙarshe. Don haka ina ba da babbar dama ta kasance cikin Kwamitin Shirya Tsarin Yarjejeniyar don yadda za mu iya don mu iya haɓaka wikipedia da cimma burin nan da 2030 da kuma raba ƙwarewata da koya daga wasu. | |
Ad Huikeshoven (Ad Huikeshoven)
Ad Huikeshoven (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Experience in the Wikimedia movement: Online:
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Familiarity with the Wikimedia movement strategy:
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| Team collaboration experience | Experience with team collaboration:
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Imagine a world in which all editors of Wikimedia projects are happy, and have found balance in their lives. The reality here and now is different. You are addicted to editing one or more of the Wikimedia projects. It's not your fault nor are you to blame that you're addicted: it's quieting the pain of a childhood trauma.
The Wikimedia Foundation shamelessly exploits the fruits of your unpaid volunteerism. You put so much time into it that it comes at the expense of caring for your family, your friends, your job or your school. In case you are financially independent or retired, you are free to spend all your time as you wish - if you do not forget to drink, eat and sleep on time. As long as you are not yet financially independent, you could expect the Wikimedia movement to look after you and provide guidance and support where you need it most. The Charter for the Wikimedia Movement is the place to establish the rights of unpaid volunteers. I want to work to ensure that locally, in all countries, there is professional support for local volunteers in their own language, which meets the local needs of those volunteers. This includes translation to (and from) local languages of (news) reports about the Wikimedia projects, localization of templates and gadgets, organization of community activities, and what you need to become happy, and find balance in your life. My intention is to contribute to the drafting of a text that will be endorsed by the communities. This, I believe, will need to be an iterative process of community consultation. The committee will produce texts in several rounds and gather feedback from the communities - and other stakeholders. I will work to ensure that it will be an open consultation process based on making consent decisions. In the feedback rounds, anyone may object to parts of the text. For the Charter to eventually be ratified, the committee must have resolved any insurmountable objections before anyone is asked to ratify the text. | |
Dušan Kreheľ (Dušan Kreheľ)
Dušan Kreheľ (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | The Tech / News translation brought my attention to the global existence of the Wikipedia Movement. This global movement can be beneficial and enriching for a person and the movement can function as another dimension in addition to just contributing and editing some articles in some local Wikipedia. Technology serves man, not man technology. Technology is a means. What will happen in the future depends on today's actions and not only actions with short term effects or just looking at oneself and one’s actions. I like to have a perspective on the whole whole, ie. What are the trends and what are the characteristics. Just as technology and the presence of articles are needed in the Movement, so are people. Young people are our gift / opportunity. | |
Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan)
Ravan (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Through the last 13 years, I've gained a very wide & diverse experience in various Wikimedia projects as a volunteer, an admin, an AffCom member and recently a part time Contractor. I have almost 19,000 edits and around 850 articles created and translated by me. I've founded the Iraqi Wikimedians User Group back in 2015, the first user group in Iraq, I also co-founded Wikiwomen Prize Competition in 2015. I've created and managed various editathons and workshops, as well as helped in founding Sorani Kurdish User group. I organized WLM competition for Iraq for 3 years. I'm very well engaged in the movement current strategy implementation discussions, further more as I worked for last year a contractor in the foundation, I've gained valuable knowledge about what communities need and where the movement need to get directed? | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have been a supportive team member in several teams within Wikimedia movement. I've coordinating projects for Wikimedia Iraq for several years. On wider level, I was an admin in Arabic Wikipedia for 3 years & have served as an Affcom member engaging with different affiliates and communities. As I participated since 2008 in more than 15 local and international Wikimedian conferences, I've gained amazing friends from around the globe. therefore, according to accumulative and continuous discussions, I've built a valuable skill of collaboration with different cultures effectively. On a professional & personal level, I have a 10+ years professional experience of managing teams & projects. I have worked in projects in Telecommunications, Oil & gas Industry, NGO organizations, Electronics companies around the world. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I believe the 2030 strategy will be a great success for many years to come, and my extensive expertise will help ensure that the charter is written according to that strategy. My time spent in this movement has prepared me for such an opportunity, and I sincerely hope I can contribute in drafting the most important document in the future of the movement. I have wide and detailed knowledge about underrepresented communities which I believe it will be very crucial in the process of bringing all the point of views on the table while drafting the charter. It will be an honor to participate in this drafting committee and I'm fully committed to help on that. | |
Irvin Sto. Tomas (Filipinayzd)
Filipinayzd (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | In my leadership role, I actively represented PhilWiki Community and presented at the Wikimedia Conference (2017-2018) and Wikimedia Summit (2019), Wikimedia+Education Conference (2019), ESEAP Conference (2019), and the Global Conversations (2020). As a community coordinator and organizer, I represented and served as a presenter at the Philippine WikiConference (2012-2013). Currently, I am the Board Treasurer and the committee chair in GLAM and Education. Prior to this, I have served as a community coordinator (2012-15; 2015-2017), and chairman/president of PhilWiki Community (2018-2020).
As a project lead, I implemented different campaigns including WikiGap Campaign in the Philippines (2019-2020), Wiki Loves Monuments in the Philippines (2018-2020), Wiki Takes the City (2012 and 2015/16), and the Community celebration of the 20th year of Wikipedia (2020) in Naga City, and Bikol Wikipedia's 1st (2008), 5th (2012), 10th (2017) and 13th year (2020). In the advocacy campaign, I was invited and talked in various fora promoting the activities of the organization and answering relevant issues related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement. Among these engagements are: at the Bicol Region Librarians Council (BRLC)'s Regional Conference on Reinventing Library Management in the 21st Century (2012), Boses ni Lolo guest Wikipedian on DWRN 657khz (2015) and DWRJ 96.1 (2016), Ini An Totoo DWOK 97.5 TV program on the Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education policy under the K-12 Curriculum of the Department of Education (DepEd) and Wikimedia Movement (2019), Language Month episode of Abogado Juan "Hapot mo, Simbag ko" on Home Radio 95.1 (2020), WikiGAP: Closing the Digital Gender Gap discussion sponsored by Developh Community (2021), and Wiki Loves Earth and Wikimedia Commons Workshop at the Pagkarahay Art Festival (2021). I am most active on my local Wikipedia and spend some of my time contributing on Commons and Incubator. I used to be an admin on Bikol Wikipedia and on Bikol Wiktionary. Currently, I am working on Bikol Wikisource and Rinconada Bikol Wikipedia. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I am actively involved in various collaborations on and offline in different capacity. As a project team member, I served as the event manager of Wiki Loves Earth in the Philippines (2018-2020). I also served as a final jury in Wiki Loves Monuments in Armenia (2020), and Wiki Loves Earth in Armenia (2020), and the local coordinator of WPWP Campaign (2020) and Wikipedia Asian Month (2018-2020) on Bikol Wikipedia. In 2018, I was part of the communications committee of the ESEAP Conference held in Bali, Indonesia.
As a mentor and volunteer, I taught new editors and participants at workshops such as at the Open Web Day - University of Nueva Caceres (2013), Rinconada Bikol Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (2016) held at Iriga City Public Library, WikiTutorial (2018) held at Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, a teacher's training workshop of Department of Education - Division of Catanduanes (2019), and WPWP in the Philippines at CBSUA (2021). As a participant, I am proud to have finished 6th over-all in the WikiGap Challenge (2020), and to be recognized among the participants as "meritevoli di menzione" at the Wikipedia 20 concorso di testi poetici by WikiDonne. Together with other global community leaders, I participated in the 2019 Training of Trainers which developed my organizing and leadership skills. Recently, I have been an active participant in the Wiki Loves Art mural painting activities of PhilWiki Community in partnership with Kintab Artists Group promoting Wikimedia and Wikipedia in Education at different public schools and a state university. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | ESEAP has to have representation in the drafting of the Movement Charter. Being deeply involved in the movement for quite some time now, I believe I have something to share. To be part of a diverse, and vibrant pool of passionate advocates of free knowledge, is one great opportunity and challenge. | |
Alek Tarkowski (Tarkowski)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am a member of the Polish Wikimedia Association and consider myself a member of the Wikimedia Movement, although I am not an active editor. My main affiliation in the broader free knowledge movement is with Creative Commons: I co-founded the Polish chapter in 2005, co-chaired the CC Network strategy process review, and am currently on the CC Board of Directors and the CC Network Executive Committee. Since 2018, I have participated in the Movement Strategy process, and in 2018-2019 I was a member of the Partnerships Working Group. I deeply believe that the Wikimedia Movement Strategy requires the participation of partners from the broader open / free knowledge movement - so I also try to personally engage as much as possible.
Furthermore, my main job is as Strategy Director of Open Future Foundation, a think tank for the open movement. Previously, I have led for a decade Centrum Cyfrowe, a Polish open think-and-do-tank, and I have been for many years a member of Communia, the Association for the Digital Domain. Through these work engagements I have been focused on advocacy and policymaking in support of the commons, which I see as a contribution to the Wikimedia movement - by making sure that the policy and regulatory environment in Europe and globally is favorable to Wikimedia, its creators and users. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have extensive experience in strategy building, also as a collaborative process. In the years 2008-2011 I worked on a team inside the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, which led the work on Poland's national long term strategy, "Poland 2030". Afterwards, I have been involved in multiple strategic exercises, including Polish Strategy for Digital Skills, strategic organizing of the Open Education movement (including the "Cape Town Open Education Declaration + 10 years" process), the Creative Commons Network Strategy process (which I co-chaired) and the Wikimedia Movement Strategy Partnerships Working Group (mentioned above). I also have experience in participatory workshop design and facilitation, and I am an alumnus of the Leadership Academy for Poland, an adaptive leadership program with a strong soft skills / team collaboration component. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I believe that Wikimedia is the most important free knowledge / open movement effort, and also a unique service on the internet. It is more than just an encyclopedia with associated free knowledge services - it is also a service that is unique in respecting user rights (in today's toxic online environment) and a community which is one of prime examples of peer production.
For this reason, I want to be involved in the Movement Charter process, which I hope will allow the Wikimedia Movement to further grow and be able to fulfill the goals of the 2030 Movement Strategy. I believe that the Charter will be a key element of the next phase in Wikimedia's history, where it's institutions are thoughtfully redesigned in light of strategic goals, needs of the movement and the broader free knowledge environment, which Wikimedia aims to support. I hope that my extensive experience with strategic work - both at the level of strategy design and at the level of practical team cooperation skills - will be useful in this process. I also want to bring the perspective of a partner movement (Creative Commons), as well as experiences we have with network governance (in which I am actively involved). Finally, I believe that the Movement Charter process should be highly participatory, and that the Drafting Committee should create a methodology and use tools that will enable broad participation of other movement members in the process. I hope to steer the Movement Charter drafting process in the direction of greatest possible participation. There are interesting methodologies that we can employ, so that the Wikimedia Movement does state of the art peer-to-peer work also in this regard. | |
Oleksandr Havryk (Олександр Гаврик)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am active editor Ukranian wikipedia and a member of the Wikipedia movement since 2016. I am a participant and co-organizer of several Wikiconferences in Ukraine, one of the co-authors of a special page for the media, which is designed to provide objective and reliable information about Wikipedia for the Ukrainian media. I am actively involved in advocating for Panorama Freedom and distributing free licenses. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have experience of teamwork both in the Ukrainian Wikipedia community and in public organizations. I am a former member of the Board and a former member of the Audit Commission WMUA. I have experience participating in collegial organizing committees both within and outside the Wikimedia community. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I believe that the main task in building the Movement, along with building institutions, is to establish external and internal communication between all the members of the community. | |
Jaseem Ali (J ansari)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I have been contributing to Wikipedia and its sister projects for more than 5 years. After attending, Hindi wiki conference 2018-19 and WAT 2018, I felt there is a lot of work to do in the field of awareness of Wikipedia among societies and outreach activities so, other than online editing I am more involved in conferences, meetups, GLAM, online and contests like Wiki Love Monuments, Wikipedia Asian Month 2017-18, Wikimedia Tiger project-2018-19, etc.
I was Joined to Wikipedia and Wikimedia as a Reader in the year 2011 but I have registered this account year 2016. After joining the Wikimedia Movement, I led several contests in the form of an organizer in Edit A Than and Offline, Online The event. In which Hindi Wikipedia conference Delhi 2018. And Hindi Wikipedia conference Kolkata 2019 contributed as an organizer in. I am currently contributing to the Hindi Wiki Library and Hindi Wikipedia education program as a coordinator. I am an Advisor in Wikisource GLAM Heritage India Project For Hindi Wikisource. I mainly contribute to the projects of Hindi Wikipedia. Where I have important rights. As I Was a sysop on Hindi wikitionery and Hindi wikivoyage. And I am an autopatrolled, reviewer, Rollbacker on the Hindi Wikipedia. As well as being the most active contributor to Hindi Wikipedia, I have created more than 1400 articles based on geography. Political science etc. I've edit numbers more than 31K. I am the founder member of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group I am a founder member of Hindi wikivoyage and Hindi Wikiversity. I am a translator of the weekly technical newsletter for Hindi Wikipedia.
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | As a Student and a wikimedian I spend more time of my daily exposure on Wikipedia and its sister projects. Which is why I share my experience with social media channels, Whatsapp, telegram, Hangout and Wikipedia. Since joining Wikipedia 2016, at first I thought wikipedia is just a free knowledge sharing mechanism. Im interested in the art of spreading free knowledge globally.I would be happy to participate at the drafting of the Movement Charter for several reasons.an active Wikimedia, and have a lot of experience in Wikimedia movement, this will be great opportunity for me in Wikimedia movement. | |
ellif d.a (ellif)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | For Wikipedia, I had started Korean Wikipedia in Feb 2005. The whole editing experience was dreadful, including several ‘fights’ and block requests from other 'users' until now. A lot of disagreeing with policies in the KO-WP made me afraid of participating with Korean Wikipedia, and I had to start a new one in 2012, for fulfilling the Sum of the Knowledge. And now, I regard myself as a user of the Korean Wikimedia movement, not about Wikipedias. For the Non-WP experience, I have participated with the first day of Wikimedia (South) Korea and photographed most main events in Wikimedia Korea, which one of them are included in the foundation's press release for the WM-KR recognition. And I have initiated several editathons in the Republic of Korea before the COVID-19. The main project is about the participating researchers on humanities into Korean Wikipedia to enhance articles' qualities. Also, I have participated in the recent global conversations by the Strategy team. In these events, I emphasised the importance of including wikimedians with Disabilities and Wikimedians who are not enabled to speak in English. | |
| Team collaboration experience | (Had several projects completed, but not public) For Wikimedia projects, I was an representative for the Wikimedia South Korea before KWA organized, and participated for making Korean Wikimedia Association. I also served one year in the OTRS(2012-2013) for Korean service. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Current Wikimedia movement has several severe problems. First of all, our projects forgot the way to include users, which enable enhance user diversity. For example, many users with disabilities, especially those with Neurodivergent/autistic traits, usually have negative experiences with their communities, making them stop the editing or block them by the Admins. Their experience never researched or covered any Wikimedia movements. Also, many researchers, which has rich knowledge about their research field, are worth participating in the projects, are unwilling with our projects. We also have a few women editors, which the foundation are endeavour for increasing. The foundation has to find the methodology for including these groups.
Secondly, the methodology that blocks the discriminative attacks, aiming to get out users who have different viewpoints with their groups, should be made. The current 2030 strategy or UCoC policy do not have any mention or procedure of it. For an example of KO-WP and JA-WP(See Wikimania:2021:Submissions by Kitamura Sae), some people are making edits with aggressive speeches or argue they are not ‘logical’ or ‘rational’: for intimidating users in opposition with them. These attritional debates, which cause heartbreak to many users, and weaken the community, should handle in this charter. The charter should be the start point of the change that we need. We have to admit our communities are eliminating the diversity in the community, which are essential to thriving our project. I want to participate in this committee for this purpose, for the Wikimedia projects enable to get the sum of the knowledge from all human beings. | |
Yao Kouamé Didier (Didierwiki)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Tun lokacin da na shiga ƙungiyar mai amfani da Wikimedia Group Côte d'Ivoire a cikin 2015 kuma na ci gaba da kasancewa mai ba da gudummawa sosai. Na koyi abubuwa da yawa ta hanyar ci gaba, kamar ƙirƙirar labarin da gyara, horo da sauransu. A matsayina na memba mai ƙwazo a cikin ƙungiyar mai amfani da Wikimedia Group Côte d'Ivoire, an zaɓe ni Babban Sakataren ƙungiyar da kuma Jagoran Shirin Glam-Wiki a cikin wannan shekarar 2021. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Na yi aiki a kan ayyukan gida da yawa cikin cikakkiyar haɗin gwiwa tare da ƙungiyoyin aikin, kamar wikikouman, Glam-Wiki, Wiki Loves Africa. Na shiga cikin kwamitoci da yawa waɗanda suka yi tunani game da kafa dabaru don tabbatar da wasu ayyuka a cikin ƙungiyar mai amfani da Wikimedia Group Ivory Coast, na kasance cikin masu horar da Kwalejin Wiki inda muka yi aiki tare. Ni bangare ne na Kungiyar Wikimania ta 2021. Dangane da aikin sa kai na Wikimedia, ina aiki cikin jituwa tare da sauran Manajojin Aiki. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ina so in zama mai sa kai a cikin tsara Yarjejeniyar motsi na Wikimedia saboda na shiga cikin tsarin dabarun Wikimedia 2030. Shekaru 20 daga ranar haihuwar Wikipedia dole ne mu yi imani cewa muna da abubuwa da yawa da za mu yi don cimma burin mu na Wikimedia 2030. Na yi imani sosai cewa Yarjejeniyar Motsi za ta zama takarda (kamfas) don kyakkyawar makomar motsi. | |
Alice Wiegand (lyzzy)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na fara ne a 2004 a matsayin edita a Wikipedia na Jamusanci. Bayan gyara na kasance mai gudanarwa, ma'aikaci, wakilin OTRS da ƙari. Tun da farko, na fahimci cewa a gare ni akwai abin da ya fi na rubuta labarai. Kasancewata yayin aiwatar da dabarun duniya a cikin 2010 shine farkon abin da na fi mayar da hankali a kai na duniya. Na shiga Hukumar Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) daga 2008 zuwa 2011 kuma na kasance memba a Hukumar Wikimedia Foundation Board daga 2012 zuwa 2018.
A halin yanzu ni memba ne na hukumar Wikimedia Deutschland kuma. A lokacin ci gaban shawarwarin dabarun na 2030 Na kasance memba na Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Dabarun Motsa Jiki. Na bi diddigin dabarun motsi tun daga lokacin kuma na shiga cikin tattaunawar duniya da abubuwan da suka faru don tallafawa tsarin ci gaba. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Dangane da abubuwan da na samu na Wikimedia, na yi aiki tare a matakai da yawa, kamar matsayin motsi a cikin 2010-11 ko ƙungiyar aiki (2018-20) ko, ba shakka, a cikin kwamitoci daban-daban a lokacin zaman kwamiti na. Duk da haka, ina tsammanin muna buƙatar buɗe don yin gwaji tare da sabbin hanyoyi da dabaru don kawo mutane, ra'ayoyi da matakai tare a matakin duniya don gano abin da ya haɗa mu. Abin da ke cikin yankin ta'aziyya na iya zama ba shine mafi kyawun hanyar yin abubuwa ga wasu ba, a wasu sassan duniya da al'adu daban -daban. Anan ne duk muke buƙatar buɗewa kuma kada mu saita namu abubuwan da zato a matsayin cibiyar hikima ɗaya. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | A gare ni Yarjejeniyar Motsi ita ce muhimmiyar tushe don sanya motsin mu, ƙoƙarin mu na ilimi kyauta da samun ilimi kyauta a shirye don nan gaba.
Na yi imani da gaske cewa dole ne mu sake yin tunanin wasu abubuwan da ba mu taɓa yin tambaya da su ba. Adalci cikin yanke shawara shine abin da muke ƙoƙarin nema. Menene wannan ke nufi dangane da nau'ikan ƙungiyoyin da muke ƙirƙira, alaƙar su/dogaro da Gidauniyar Wikimedia da tsakanin juna, da matsayin al'ummomin yanke shawara na duniya? Dole ne mu shiga cikin tattaunawar kuma mu daidaita maslahohi, iko da hakkoki. Yarjejeniyar Motsi za ta kafa harsashin sabbin gine -gine kamar Majalisar Duniya, wanda dole ne ya sake haɗa waɗannan buƙatun tare kuma yana hidimar duka motsi. Ciki har da masu ba da gudummawa da masu sa kai da ƙungiyoyinmu da ma'aikatanmu. A fahimtata, ƙungiyar daftarin aiki tana tattaro binciken da ake buƙata, an riga an yi aiki daga ƙungiyoyin aiki, da ingantaccen tasiri daga Wikimedians. Ya fi gudanarwa fiye da ƙirƙirar. Ina tunanin da'irori masu maimaitawa tare da al'umma, a cikin ƙananan matakai, ba jira har sai komai ya kasance cikin siffa wacce ke da wahalar canzawa. Wannan na iya zama mafi ƙalubalen aikin. Amma na yi imani sosai cewa muna da hikima a cikin motsin mu fiye da gungun 20 da za su iya samu. Kuma muna buƙatar duka yayin da muke ƙirƙirar tushe na gaba don gaba. | |
Richard Knipel (Pharos)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na kasance mai aiki a cikin motsi na al'umma tun 2004, kuma na yi aiki a matsayin shugaba a Wikipedia na Turanci da Meta-Wiki, kuma a da a kan Commons ma. Yankin gyara na na farko shine WikiProject New York City, wanda na fara, kuma labarina na farko shine U Thant Island, game da tsibiri ɗan ƙaramin birni mai cike da tarihi mai ban sha'awa. Na yi ƙoƙarin daidaita daidaiton cikin gida da na duniya, a cikin gyare -gyare na da kuma a cikin shirya al'ummata.
Na kasance mai aiki a cikin ƙungiyoyi masu zuwa, da sauransu:
Na kuma fara waɗannan ayyukan Commons da GLAM:
Dangane da takaddama kan alamar bara, ni da wasu sun taimaka wajen shirya waɗannan dabarun dabarun:
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| Team collaboration experience | Wikimedia ƙungiya ce mai zurfin tunani, kuma ƙoƙarin da nake yi bai kasance na mutum ɗaya ba, amma koyaushe yana cikin haɗin gwiwa tare da koyo daga wasu.
Na taimaka wajen haɗa kan mutane da al'ummomi, kuma na taimaka wajen tara tarurruka da yawa, tushen tushen aikin da tushen ƙasa (hada da WikiConference North America), a yunƙurin haɓaka tattaunawa mafi girma na al'umma. Baya ga ayyukan COLOR da SWAN, na kuma yi ƙoƙarin haɓaka fahimtar al'ummomin duniya ta hanyar Wikipedia Weekly Network a cikin shekarar da ta gabata, kuma musamman don bikin cika shekaru 20 da Wiki 20 Countdown/Asia-Pacific da Wiki 20 Countdown/Africa. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Muna buƙatar motsi na gaskiya da demokraɗiyya, kuma na yi imanin zan iya kasancewa cikin matsayi don taimakawa ci gaban wannan burin. Muna buƙatar takaddar yarjejeniya wacce ke ba da tabbacin 'yancin kai da albarkatu ga al'ummomi. Zan yi amfani da ƙwarewar wannan shekarar da ta gabata tare da wasiƙar COLOR da tarurrukan duniya na SWAN, kuma zan yi aiki don ɗaukar 'yan wasan motsi don yin lissafi tare da takaddun ma'ana da aiwatarwa. Dabarun game da rabon iko ne kuma bai kamata mu yi kamar ba haka ba. Abin da muke dubawa shine hanya madaidaiciya ta rarraba albarkatu da kafa yarjejeniya tsakanin abubuwa da yawa na motsin mu a duniya.
Don haka, na ba da kaina ga waɗannan ƙa'idodin:
Na yi imani a cikin tsarin da ke kan hanyar wiki na al'umma, ba wani abu da aka rubuta a cikin akwatin baƙar fata a cikin ɗaki mai duhu. Zan yi alƙawarin tabbatar da waɗannan ƙa'idodin a cikin tsari da samfuran, kuma na yi imanin ina da ƙwarewa, diflomasiyya, da nuance don yin tasiri a cikin wannan aikin. | |
Marie-Louise Aembe (WINEUR)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na shiga harkar tun shekarar 2018. A halin yanzu ni mai bayar da gudunmawa ce ta Wikipedia | |
| Team collaboration experience | Hakanan muna haɗin gwiwa a cikin UG ɗin mu idan yazo don gudanar da ayyukan kamar yadda muke zaune a birane daban -daban. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | A yau, Wikipedia ta cika shekara 20 kuma muna da shekaru 9 kacal daga Wikimedia 2030. Wannan ba shekaru ne da suka rage ba idan aka yi la’akari da yawan aikin da har yanzu ake buƙatar yi don gaishe da shekarar 2030. Don haka, muna buƙatar mutane masu ɗan ƙarami sanin dabarun motsi da waɗanda ke samuwa don taimaka mana ci gaba a wannan matakin aiwatarwa. Na shiga cikin dabarun (a DRCongo) da mai halarta (a Gabashin Afirka, Uganda). | |
Galder Gonzalez (Theklan)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I started as a wikimedian really early, in 2006. I have been mainly collaborating at my main wiki, but since 2017 I have been involved in the Wikimedia movement. I'm currently an staff member at the Basque Wikimedians User Group, where I work mainly on our education program. As a devoted wikimedian on education, I was part of the team which organized the first Wikimedia+Education conference. I have been part of the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy team, focusing on Diversity. I have volunteered in other Wikimedia events, such as Wikimania. As a volunteer, I also like to help small Wikipedias to work with automatic templates from Wikidata, a project where I also spend some volunteering time. I have organized the WLM contest three times in the Basque Country and I have a broad knowledge about how we are organized. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have worked on communications before, especially co-ordinating big campaigns, so I can work with a team. I have also volunteered at the Movement Strategy and I'm experienced working both online and asynchronous. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | As a member of the Basque Wikimedians User Group, I have a good approach of what is happening in smaller wikis and smaller communities. During the Movement Strategy (long) discussion I had a good perspective on how we should handle differences and go beyond our current status. I think I can be useful in this moment, as the Movement Charter will handle many of the arguments we had about governance during those long long long online and offline discussions. | |
Adi Purnama (Rtnf)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Just a newcomer contributor who occasionally chats on several Wikimedia-related Telegram group and participated in several Wikimedia Online Meeting (ESEAP, Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct) | |
| Team collaboration experience | I'm already involved with several social/tech movement outside Wikimedia before. For example: Knowledge Management Research Group: Pustaka , Tempat Tempat Project , usaha.click, and OpenStreetMap Foundation. Inside Wikimedia, i and several fellow participants at Indonesian Wikidata Datathon 2021 founded Komunitas Wikidata Indonesia (Indonesian Wikidata Community) to coordinate our effort. We work together to improve Wikidata items related to Indonesian topics in general. In addition, we also focus on translating other Wikidata items into Indonesian language. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | The greatest strength of Wikimedia is the talent, dedication and integrity of its members. We should accomodate the diversity of the people in our communities, including our particular interests, motivations and contributions. Some of us write articles. Some of us develop software. Some of us donate money, time or expertise. Some curate data, sources, or media. Some organize events, advocate for copyright reform, or remix artwork. Some are community organizers, educators, or copy editors. Some of us do all of the above, and more. What brings us together is not what we do, it's why we do it. We are all part of this movement because we share a belief that free knowledge makes the world a better place. Every human being deserves easy access to knowledge. And every human should have an opportunity to participate in compiling and sharing back their own knowledge.
But, we are still far from having collected the sum of all knowledge. Most of content we have created is in the form of long-form encyclopedia articles and still images, which leaves out many other types of knowledge. Our current communities don't represent the diversity of the human population. This lack of representation and diversity has created gaps of knowledge and systemic biases. Readers often question the reliability of the content we create, notably because it is not accurate, not comprehensive, not neutral, or because they don't understand how it is produced and by whom. The low barrier for entry from our early years has now become insurmountable for many newcomers. Some communities, cultures, and minorities have suffered from this exclusion more than others. Toxic behaviors and harassment have had a negative impact on participation in our projects. Other types of contribution beyond editing aren't recognized as equally valueable, and the structures of our movement are often opaque or centralized, with high barriers to entry. We even should change and innovate our services before it was too late. Many readers now expect multimedia formats beyond text and images. People want content that is real-time, visual and that support social sharing and conversation. We should address all of this issue so we can improve our movement. I hope, Movement Charter could address this issues. | |
Georges Fodouop (Geugeor)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am an active member and Co-founder of Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group. I have contributed to Wikimedia projects since 2013. During all these years, I have coordinated several projects: Wiki Loves Women, like Wikimedian in residence, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Afripedia, the WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique project... I coordinated several other local projects: Promotion of local Cameroonian languages in the Wiktionary through Lingua Libre. I am also a member of Wiscom (WikiIndaba Steering Committee); 1Lib1Ref ambassador for French-speaking countries. I am a member of the grants commission (Microfi) of Wikimedia France. I have also actively contributed to the organization of several strategic salon which have enabled us to make our modest contribution to the future vision of the movement. Cameroon UG Reports. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I participated in several collaborations through the projects that I coordinated or the responsibilities that I held. Whether locally or internationally.
Locally, I contributed to the creation of the Cameroon User Group with other founding members; so we have worked on setting up all the procedures leading to affiliation and laying the foundations for the future. The Wiki Loves Women project opened the doors for me to the Wikimedia movement; I worked extensively with both the principal coordinators of the project and the national coordinators of countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. This was the case with the project coordinators Wiki Loves Earth and others. As a member of the Wiscom (WikiIndaba Steering Commitee), I discovered the place of the movement in Africa and contributed to its evolution and impact through the organization of annual conferences. In the French-speaking world, I have several collaborations:
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I have contributed to the movement's 2030 strategy from its inception, whether through the various strategic exhibitions organized, through the meetings in which I participated or through the exchanges that I had regularly with the main team of The strategy. I remain determined to make my modest contribution to getting things done through the contribution to the Charter of the Movement. I am motivated to take up a new challenge in the movement especially with the experience that I have acquired first in Africa and now in Europe. | |
Hobit (Hobit)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na yi aiki a kan shawarar NSF shekaru da suka gabata wanda ya shafi Wikipedia kuma WMF ta tallafa masa. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Sau da yawa ina koyar da manyan darussa a matakin kwaleji wani lokacin yana haɗa da ma'aikatan koyarwa kamar mutane 25. Duk da yake duk aikina yana cikin Ingilishi, ina aiki tare da mutane daga ko'ina cikin duniya. Yayin bala'in na gudanar da tarurruka akan layi tare da mutane daga ~ yankuna daban -daban na 10 daban -daban. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Babban burina a Wikipedia shine tunanin mulkin kai. Ga dukkan kurakuransa, na sami en.wikipedia.org don samun kyakkyawan tsarin gudanar da mulki wanda ba kasafai yake buƙatar katsalandan na waje ba (a zahiri tsangwama a waje galibi ba ya haifar da sakamako). Abin mamaki ne a gare ni cewa kusan ƙungiyar sa kai ta yi nasara sosai. Na yi imanin mayar da hankali kan adalci da wayewa sune mabuɗin don nasarar.
Ba na kallon kaina a matsayin babban marubuci, amma ni babban edita ne kuma wani lokacin dole ne in ba da ra'ayi (duka a kan abun ciki da rubutu) kan kusan sharuɗɗan shafuka 15+ cikin ƙasa da mako guda. Rufewar RfC da na yi akan en tabbas hanya ce mafi kyau da zan iya kwatanta iyawa ta na karantawa da fahimtar ra'ayoyi daga ɓangarori daban -daban ([1] is the most recent). Zan yi aiki sosai tare da aiki daga Satumba zuwa tsakiyar Disamba kuma wataƙila za a sami makwanni biyu a can inda ba zan iya ba da awanni 5 na aiki ba. Wannan bai kamata ya sake zama gaskiya ba har sai Satumba 2022. | |
Iniquity (Iniquity)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I have been actively involved in Wikimedia Foundation projects since 2008. Was the administrator of some small wikiprojects in Russian. But most of the time I worked as a technical specialist in Russian Wikipedia. Recently I have been paying a lot of attention to the development of cool things from the Growth team in the Russian Wikipedia and try to integrate the community more strongly into the global movement. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Since 2017, I has been actively involved in promoting technical initiatives, collecting opinions and finding consensus on Russian Wikipedia. I was a member of technical teams, organizer of projects both inside and around Wikipedia. One of the last, just a project about help to beginners, which accumulates work with newcomers and features of the Growth team. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I love when communities are intertwined. When there is no clear division between English and other Wikipedias. It seems to me that we must move towards globalization towards unification, in terms of information, of all projects. So that the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation become not separate small cells, but really one movement. One movement is not only the people who participate in the projects, but also the information these projects provide to the readers. It should be diverse, standardized and available in all languages of the world, for all cultures. It seems to me that my knowledge of different communities, understanding of how poorly integrated communities work and what they think, will help fix these problems within the framework of the Movement Charter. | |
Robert McClenon (Robert McClenon)
Robert McClenon (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am not sure what is meant by the Wikimedia movement, but my experience with Wikimedia servers and communities is as a builder of the English encyclopedia, and in particular as a mediator in the English Wikipedia | |
| Team collaboration experience | A 45-year career of professional involvement with information technology teams, as well as a track record as a mediator in the English Wikipedia | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I am not sure that there is or should be a Wikimedia movement in the sense of a social movement for change or improvement. The editors and users of Wikimedia servers and systems make up an interlocking set of communities, a community of communities tied together by maintaining a set of electronic libraries. My objective as a candidate for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee is to represent that practical idea of an electronic community of communities that maintain and build free knowledge. The Wikimedia communities should be self-governing, and should govern rather than be governed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Movement Charter Drafting Committee should draft an overall charter for a community of editors of multiple electronic libraries, rather than of any sort of movement for social change. The Charter Drafting Committee should focus on the quality of the electronic libraries that the communities are maintaining, not any other social objective, and should write a charter that provides full self-government, with minimal involvement by the Foundation. | |
Handgod Abraham (Kitanago)
Kitanago (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Ni memba ne na ƙungiyar Wikimedia Haiti User Group. Ina shiga kuma ina jagorantar bita da yawa akan ayyukan wikimedia. Ina fassara labarai tsakanin Ingilishi, Faransanci da Haitian Creole akan wikipedia da meta. Ina kula da aikin Adabin Haiti akan mai gogewa cikin Faransanci kuma ina shiga cikin wasu ayyukan wiki da yawa. Ina ba da kai don zaɓen yanzu na kwamitin gudanarwa na Gidauniyar Wikimedia. Na gabatar da kaina kawai a matsayin memba na kwamitin yanki na Latin Amurka da Caribbean | |
| Team collaboration experience | Ni manajan al'umma ne Na kasance ina ba da gudummawa kusan shekaru 10 a matsayin mai fafutukar al'adu kuma ni ne shugaban zartarwa na "Marathon du Livre". Ni kuma memba ne na Kwamitin Zartarwa na Éditions Pulùcia. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ina son shiga cikin ayyukan wikimedia don halayen al'umma. Na ga yana da kyau koyaushe a hada kai don amfanin kowa musamman ta hanyar inganta ilimi. Ina da niyyar amfani da ƙwarewata ta hanyar haɗin gwiwa tare da sauran membobi don ci gaban Gidauniyar Wikimedia | |
Michael Baker (Tango Mike Bravo)
Tango Mike Bravo (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | My main experience is creating and editing pages on en.wikipedia. I have also contributed to Wiki Loves Monuments in 2017 and attended Wikimania in 2014 in London where I was living at the time. | |
| Team collaboration experience | In 1994 I founded Electronic Frontiers Australia and was on its board, first as chair, then as board member for several years. During that time I was the EFA representative on the Global Internet Liberty Campaign. With others I was responsible for drafting several of the GILC statements that were subsequently signed by many of the GILC member organisations. On en.wikipedia was part of an ad-hoc team that merged Template:Family tree into Template:Tree chart. This involved editing every template and page that used the former template to check and if necessary make minor changes so that the template use did not break. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Grew up in Scotland (can translate Glaswegian to English), went to universities in Scotland and England, later moved to Australia where I became a citizen and now live in Italy with my wife. Currently learning Italian. At The Open University was Vice President Constitutions of the students association, responsible for managing changes to the organisations constitution. Before moving to Australia was involved in The Hunger Project for which raised over £10,000 by gathering pledges only payable if at least £10,000 in pledges were made. Founded Electronic Frontiers Australia which included drafting the first constitution and for which was first chairperson. Being an EFA board member and representative on the Global Internet Liberty Campaign involved both national and global policy work, both for the organisations and understanding and criticism of national and international policy with respect to online civil liberties. On en.wikipedia have been involved in:
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Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni (Kishorekumarrai)
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I would be happy to participate at the drafting of the Movement Charter for several reasons. As a Principal of College, I am motivator to my fellow students of our region, so I have always believed that knowledge is the only thing that grows the more it is shared. | |
Rafael Laynes Hancco (RaftaLayns123)
RaftaLayns123 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Creator and editor of more than 100 articles | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have not worked but will do so after a great translation. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | For Wikipedia, those who have joined before and those who will use it. Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia, it moves us towards the change. #RafaRedactor | |
Gergő Tisza (Tgr)
Tgr (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Since finding Wikipedia in 2004, I have gained experience in a wide range of roles - editor, patroller, administrator, translator, OTRS agent, technical volunteer, outreach activist, chapter founder, and board member. Since 2013 I have been working for the Wikimedia Foundation as a software developer (see staff user page here - to avoid any doubt: my candidacy here is entirely in a volunteer capacity) and have focused my free time on wiki software development as well. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have been involved in movement strategy since 2017, first as a member of the Product & Technology working group, then as a recommendation writer. On-wiki, I have been active (mostly between 2005-2012) in mediation, consensus-building, and policy-making. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | For all its virtues, the Wikimedia Movement has only been partially successful at empowering its volunteers, whose work it is sustained by. We need to improve equity, in both senses of the word: ensuring we treat each other fairly and impartially, and ensuring we treat those donating their time and efforts to the movement as shareholders, who can participate in the decisions that affect them and their work, and get all the support they need to do that well. The movement strategy is a bold attempt to achieve that, and I'd like to do what I can to help it move forward.
What I hope to bring to the table:
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Richard (Nosebagbear)
Nosebagbear (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Bayan fara karya a cikin 2012 na fada cikin ramin zomo a cikin 2018 kuma na kasance mai aiki tun. Daya daga cikin filayen da na fi aiki shine azaman wakilin amsawa na OTRS (yanzu VRT), da farko yana aiki tare da waɗanda ba su da cikakkiyar ƙwarewar Wikimedia, suna taimakawa cikin kewaya abin da zai iya zama tsari na musamman. Na kuma zama mai gudanarwa na en-wiki a cikin 2019, wanda kuma a lokacin ne na zama mai ƙwazo sosai a ɓangaren Dabarun motsi. Wannan ya gudana daga shiga cikin kowane mataki na kusan kowane shawarwarin, tattaunawar fifiko, UCOC, da kowane tattaunawar da muka yi don aiwatar da dabarun 2030. Wannan ya haɗa da taimakawa fasahar zaɓin sasantawa don MCDC. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Mafi yawan sana'ata ta kasance a matsayin Mai Binciken Dabara don ƙasashe da yawa - ƙaramin ƙungiya tare da farawa na farko don samun ra'ayoyi daban -daban da fifikon ɓangarori iri -iri na kasuwanci, sannan kuma tsara dabarun da za a iya rayuwa da su kowa da kowa. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Na yi mamakin abin da za a sanya a nan - kowa yana bayyana yana da ra'ayin kansa kan amfanin bayanin, amma ina tsammanin kuna son sanin abin da zan yi a zahiri idan aka zaɓa (albeit a takaice!).
Wannan muhimmin tsari ne, amma da mahimmanci muna buƙatar sanya shi kaɗan game da takamaiman masu zayyanawa da kuma game da mahangar Al'umma (ƙarfafa jam'in). Bai kamata mu yi yunƙurin tuƙi ta hanyar matsayi mai rikitarwa tare da tallafin 51% ba, kuma ba zan yi ba. Ni mai goyon baya ne na "tallafi" - wato, duk wani abin da za a iya yi a mafi girman matakin (al'ummomin cikin gida da na meta -al'umma), yakamata su kasance.
A ƙarshe, Ina buɗe don aiki kowane matakin tambayoyi. Idan akwai ƙare a kan tsari na yau da kullun, tambaya kan my talk page | |
Ybsen M. Lucero (Ybsen lucero)
Ybsen lucero (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Co-Founder, Board Member and former Executive Director of Wikimedia Venezuela. I've been organizing Wikimedia-like events (e.g.: workshops, edit-a-thons, contests..) for more than 10 years. I translate articles from english to spanish. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Active member within the Venezuelan and Iberocoop community since 2010, I've participated in global and local events since 2014, including Iberoconf 2014 and Wikimedia Conference from 2016 to 2018. I've participated in the Iberocoop strategy discussions, Movement Strategy conversation, Wikimedia Venezuela, Iberocoop (telegram group), Wikimedia en Español (telegram group), Discussing Wikimedia’s Movement Strategy process. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | As a Wikimedian, I have always believed that knowledge is the only thing that grows the more it is shared. And as a human being I am aware that the best actions are those that have clear, concise and plural bases and rules. This drafting process requires people with diverse mentalities and points of view and at the same time similar to the Wikimedia movement. I'll always find the better way to collaborate for the common interest especially by promoting free knowledge. I intend to apply my skills by collaborating with other members for the advancement of the Wikimedia Movement. | |
Yang Shih-Ching (imacat)
imacat (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Team collaboration experience | Working as a community organizer of the Taiwan local female STEM communities since 2010, I founded Women in FOSS in Taiwan (2010), PyLadies Taiwan (2013), and WikiWomen Taiwan (2015). | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | As a transgender women and an advocator for the women and LGBT rights, I think it is very import to make sure the goal of the Wikimedia movement covers the gender-based diversity, is for all people. Not only that the knowledge itself is free for all people, but the content of the knowledge covers all people, and is created by all people. It's thus very important to devote resources in order to promote friendly spaces to encourage women, LGBT and other minorities to contribute to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Movement. I would like to contribute my efforts to the committee.
As a Taiwanese and a member of the Chinese Wikipedia, as Chinese Wikipedia is one of the largest Wikimedia projects, I think more voices should be heard in the committee, in order to accomodate the problems the Chinese Wikipedia is facing, and the cultural issues that should be included into the Wikimedia Movement. I would also like to contribute my efforts for us to be heard. | |
Abdulrahman (itzedubaba)
itzedubaba (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Memba na Hausa Wikipedia user group | |
| Team collaboration experience | Shiga cikin shirye -shiryen Wikipedia daban -daban kamar wikimania 2021 | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ina da mafarkai na ƙwararru masu daraja na taimaka wa mutane masu rauni da yawa kamar yadda zan iya don samun aminci da farin ciki.
A matsayina na ɗalibin da ya kammala karatun digiri, zan yi niyyar ƙware ƙwarewar dabarun da suka fi tasiri wajen haɓaka canjin zamantakewar ci gaba. Kasancewa mutum mai kulawa yana da mahimmanci ga aikin zamantakewa, tare da tuƙi da babban motsawa don ƙalubalantar abokan ciniki don cimma cikakkiyar damar su. Ma'aikatan zamantakewa dole ne su girmama daidaikun kowane abokin ciniki kuma su ƙarfafa su don ci gaba da samun ci gaba. Cigaba da girmama mutuncin abokin ciniki yana taimakawa wajen haɓaka darajar darajar kaiwa zuwa ga fahimtar kai da yanke shawara, kuma yana taimakawa wajen samar da 'yan ƙasa masu haɗin gwiwa maimakon nauyi ga tsarin. Yaƙi da rashin adalci na zamantakewa yana da mahimmanci ga aikin zamantakewa kamar yadda nake gani, ban da bayar da shawarwari, koyaushe tare da ido don cimma kyakkyawan sakamako ga abokan cinikin mutum. Ni da kaina ina jin ƙarfi cewa yin hidima a matsayin murya ga waɗanda aka zalunta ya kamata ya zo a zahiri ga ma'aikatan zamantakewa yayin da suke gwagwarmaya don adalci da canji mai ci gaba a cikin al'ummomin su. Yayin aiki tare da kowane abokin ciniki a cikin ƙananan saiti shine babban buri na kuma nan da nan, Ina tsammanin yana da kyau kada a manta da babban fa'idar hoto da yadda ƙoƙarin namu ke cikin babban motsi zuwa manyan matakan daidaito da mutunci. a cikin al'ummar mu. | |
Ciell (Ciell)
Ciell (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na shiga harkar tun 2006. A halin yanzu ni mai gudanar da Wikipedia ne na Dutch, admin na wucin gadi a kan Papiamentu Wikipedia, admin on Commons, VRTS-agent, CN admin on Meta, kuma ina riƙe wasu haƙƙoƙi kamar mahaliccin kamfen don Commons:Montage kamfen don yin hukunci akan gasa hotuna. Musamman a matsayina na mai kula da CN ina aiki a cikin harshe da rawa daban -daban, cewa kusa da wannan bambancin kuma yana neman a tuna da matsayi da fahimtar duniya game da WMF a cikin zaɓuɓɓuka da ƙirar da muke yi don tutocin Wikimedia da kamfen. Ina jin daɗin wannan rawar ƙalubalen sosai. A cikin al'adu da al'adu na ga yana da ƙalubale don neman daidaituwa tsakanin mutumin da ke zuwa kusa da ni tare da buƙata da kuma jin ƙai da ƙa'idodi kan ayyuka daban -daban. Ni ma ina cikin Gap Gap, LGBTI+, Samun dama, da GLAM Wikiprojects, duka a cikin haɗin gwiwa na ciki da na waje. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Musamman don Dabarun Na shiga cikin hanyoyi daban -daban tun daga 2017, wani lokacin ta hanyar fassarawa da sanya alummar mu ta samar da ra'ayi kan Jagoran Dabarun 2030 (misali nl:Wikipedia:Strategie 2030, kuma ta hanyar aikawa game da ayyukan WMF a cikin Pump Village ɗin mu, babban tashar mu don sadarwar cikin gida. Na halarci tarurruka da yawa don haɓaka Jagoran Dabarun. A cikin watannin da suka gabata na kasance tare da aiwatar da sabon Dokar Universalaukaka ta Duniya (UCoC) a cikin Yaren mutanen Holland "Beleid Vriendelijk Ruimtes" wanda Sashin Dutch (WMNL) ke amfani da shi don abubuwan da suka faru: manufar tana kan babuka wiki a lokacin tattaunawa da al'umma. (Concepttekst nieuw Beleid Vriendelijke Ruimtes) Na shirya abubuwa da yawa kuma, ni kaɗai ko a matsayin ɓangare na ƙungiya, daga ƙananan tarurruka a dakunan karatu har zuwa kwanaki da yawa da abubuwan duniya kamar Wiki Techstorm. Ina da wasu ƙananan ayyukan tallafi a cikin Wikimania da yawa (2018, 2019, 2021).
Za a iya samun ɗan gajeren (wanda bai cika ba) na ayyukan wiki na a cikin shekaru 15 da suka gabata, a cikin Yaren mutanen Holland, here | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ina so in taimaka ƙirƙirar Yarjejeniyar Motsa Jiki wanda ba zai takura wa al'ummomin mu na yanzu ba, amma ya kafa kyakkyawan tushe na abin da ake tsammanin don ayyuka daban -daban da alhakin da muke da su. A cikin shekarun da suka gabata na koyi matsayin aiki yana canzawa kuma nauyi yana canzawa. Don haka ina son Yarjejeniyar Motsi ta zama cikakkiyar yarjejeniya, amma sassauƙa ce don samun damar ban da ƙari da gyare -gyare, don haka a zahiri zai samar da ingantaccen tushe ga al'ummominmu a cikin shekaru masu zuwa, da fatan wucewa. Yarjejeniya mai tabbatar da lokaci, don haka. | |
Basheer (Uncle Bash007)
Uncle Bash007 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am an experienced wikipedia editor with most of my contributions from hausa & english wikipedia. I have organized and participated in a number of wikipedia campaigns and this lead to increase in new editors in northern Nigeria. I am one of the co-contributors of Hausa Wikimedia user group. I have being a contributor to wikipedia movement since September 2019 and I want to stay and give more as long as i am alive and able. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have collaborated in many wikipedia projects which leads to the rapid growth of the Hausa wikipedia. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Since joining Wikipedia in the late 2019, at first I thought wikipedia is just a free knowledge sharing mechanism. I was just interested in the art of spreading free knowledge globally. Later on I came to realize that Wikipedia is lot more than just an education sharing platform, rather, a global education movement comprising a diverse set of languages and cultures and at the same time protecting the laws of human rights in respect to cultural and religious differences. I became keenly interested with wikipedia more especially after attending the Wikimania 2021 for the first time and getting to meet hundreds of different people from round the world with different lifestyle and backgrounds working collaboratively in love and harmony. This is only as a result of equity, fairness and good governance of the WMF. I just feel this is exactly where I belong, as to me 'every person i meet is my superior in some ways' and i have alot of respect in regards to cultural and religious differences as well, I therefore want to be part of this gigantic movement. I want to give more and am commited to learning more from the movement.
I am confident I have what to give to the chatter as I have experience in governing and I have good speaking and writing skills. I will work collaboratively in defining & structuring policies that will ensure the positivity of the Wikipedia goals and vision. | |
Kanhai prasad chourasiya (कन्हाई प्रसाद चौरसिया)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I member of the SWMT, I also active doing cross-wiki spammers and Patrolling project from Twinkle prefence & Swviewer.
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Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF))
JVargas (WMF) (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in September 2013, allowing me to connect with the Movement across several forums and geographies in many opportunities. In my role with the Foundation's Partnerships Team (initially with a focus in Latin America, and now leading the Regional Managers team for almost 5 years), I've had the opportunity to meet and work with Affiliates and movement leaders globally, and better understand more particularly the needs of those outside of the United States and Europe.
I have been actively involved in the Movement Strategy process since it started, from the New Voices Research in 2017 that led to the Strategic Direction, to co-charing the Diversity Working Group in 2018-19. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Collaboration is in my DNA. As a Sr. Partnerships Manager, working successfully with others is essential to my team's goals and success. Impactful partnerships (within or outside the Wikimedia movement) always require team collaboration. I collaborate with other WMF teams constantly, engaging with people across themes and areas of work.
Leading Regional Partnerships also means closely collaborating with a range of actors, from UN agencies, tech companies, other non-profits, governments, and multilateral agencies. This work has also allowed me to partner with Wikimedia affiliates and movement leaders globally, building bridges between the movement and different partners with the goal of furthering our mission and making Wikimedia a well-known, diverse, and relevant space on the Internet. The 8+ years of tenure serving the Wikimedia movement also trained me well in what cross-cultural collaboration truly means, leading with empathy and understanding of cultural differences, navigating diverse personal and professional approaches towards problem-solving, multiple time zones, and across geographies. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Being an active participant and leader in the Movement Strategy process helped me to really understand the big importance the Movement Charter will have for the future of our Movement. I'm excited to take this work into tangible and needed actions towards our mission. Although not an active on-wiki contributor, I'm a Wikimedian at heart in a variety of ways, truly understanding the needs, gaps, strengths, and flaws of our movement, and more particularly, in underrepresented parts of the world whose voice is not present in our projects.
While participating in the Movement I've seen first hand the unfortunate bias Wikimedia (and the Internet) has towards US/Europe and English language centrism. During my time with Wikimedia, it became evident that as a social movement we need to strongly address the multiple blockers that exist to really allow our vision statement to become a reality. The Movement Charter will be instrumental in this goal. Trained initially with a legal background that transitioned in my last 7 years of experience to partnerships and business development, I also think I have the skills to be part of a drafting committee of a document such as this Charter, as I can bring the voices and ideas of others and my own into text that's understandable and clear. The Movement Charter needs to be a strong foundation towards that goal, and I strongly believe my professional and personal experience gives me the skills and tools required to be a part of the Drafting Committee, and represent both my professional side as a WMF staffer, as well as my personal interests and motivations in the Wikimedia movement. | |
Ian Ramjohn (Guettarda)
Guettarda (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am a founding member of Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group, and serve as part of the leadership team. Since the group's formation at WikiConference North America in 2018, I have helped organise and lead our events, including recruiting a noted artist and cultural activist to take part in WikiCari Fest 2020. I have been a staff member (as User:Ian (Wiki Ed)) at the Wiki Education Foundation since 2014 where I have supported tens of thousands of new editors (10–14,000 each year) as they navigate making their first contributions to Wikipedia and using the Wiki Education Dashboard (the 'older sister' of the Programs & Events Dashboard). I co-authored our Wikidata training modules in 2019. I have been an active Wikipedia editor since 2004, an administrator on the English Wikipedia since 2005 where I have contributed Featured Articles, Featured Lists and Good Articles. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I work in a very collaborative environment at Wiki Education. We are a small organisation where everyone works closely together to get things done. In our work with university instructors and student editors (our Wikipedia Student Program) I work very closely with colleagues on a daily basis. In my role in our Scholars & Scientists Program where we train faculty and professionals to edit Wikidata and Wikipedia, I collaborate with colleagues to run these course. Our procedures for writing our annual plans, annual reports and strategic plans are collaborative, and I work closely with my colleagues to edit blog posts and other communications and to co-author a chapter in the recent Wikipedia @ 20 book.
Prior to this, I worked for a decade as an instructor in higher education; shepherding classes of undergraduates through semester-long courses, coordinating with other instructors, teaching assistants, and lab prep staff, requires a team that collaborates effectively, week after week. Before that, I worked in environmental consulting. Designing, collecting, and analysing field survey data, and working with my colleagues to get reports written, delivered to clients, and getting revisions done in response to their feedback required considerable collaborative team work. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I am an active content contributor to the English Wikipedia, our largest and oldest community. While no one person can speak for a community that large and diverse, I can speak from it. As a 17-year contributor and admin, I’m an insider, but as a non-white person, a citizen of the Global South who showed up because I wanted the chance to tell our stories and challenge the top-down process of knowledge creation, I am also an outsider. Having directly supported more new editors than anyone else in the movement, I have a sense of their needs and the issues they experience.
I've chosen to use my social capital to be heard in places where newcomers pushing for equity are likely to either be overwhelmed or ignored. I have pushed back against Wikipedia's colonised bones, and worked to help empower others to work for equity. I have collaborated with people making huge strides to bring historically excluded groups into our mission. The people chosen to draft the Movement Charter should understand the need to balance the interests of the large communities with the needs of the small groups, especially those who have been historically excluded. They must also be willing to listen to what people within the community have to say, understanding that the collective wisdom of the community, there are always better ideas than any individual might bring. I have a sense of the breadth of what exists in our movement. I have worked on large projects like the English Wikipedia, and collaborated to help develop small ones like WikiSpore. I have experience with an organisation with a formal governance structure and paid staff that obtains the majority of its funding from funders outside WMF, and one with a more informal structure run with no budget gives me an understanding of some of the contrasts among affiliates. I am a good writer and a better editor. I am an effective and experienced cross-cultural communicator. I have experience building systems of support that helped Wiki Education go from supporting 2,747 students with two dedicated half-time staffers in Fall of 2014 to supporting 6,820 students in Fall 2020 with one dedicated staffer (me). I have experience with policy development on en.wp; one of my first major forays was an (unsuccessful) attempt to standardise Era notation in 2005. These skills and experiences should help me draft effective and efficient procedures. | |
Sofia Matias (Girassolei)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | An fara gyara a 2020 tare da Wiki Editoras Lx, tun daga lokacin na shiga cikin abubuwan da dama da kungiyoyin wikipedia suka inganta, gami da wikimedia portugal da Wiki Movimento Brasil | |
| Team collaboration experience | Ni memba ne na Wiki Editoras Lx wato ƙungiya ta mata da ke ƙoƙarin gyara gibin jinsi a cikin wikipedia na fotigal ta hanyar ƙirƙirar labarai game da mata kuma a lokaci guda suna koyar da sabbin masu gyara. ina cikin ƙungiyar da ta shirya Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (2021); | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ban tabbata ba me zan rubuta anan. Na yanke shawarar neman aiki saboda ina son aikin. Ni sabon edita ne a kan wikipedia kuma ina tsammanin Yarjejeniyar motsi tana da mahimmanci, don kada ya rasa tushen da ya dogara da shi kuma bai rasa ba. ganin makasudi wanda shine raba ilimi. | |
KAHOU (Kahoutoure)
Kahoutoure (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na halarci shirye-shirye da dama, musamman 1lib1ref edit-a-thons da ayyukan Afrociné, Wikikouman, da kuma maraice na masu ba da gudummawa na Wiki Loves Africa, da Wikipedia Class. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Ni ne Manajan Shirin Afrociné Côte d'Ivoire da Mataimakin Mataimakin Glam kuma ina shiga cikin ayyuka daban -daban na ayyukan 'yar'uwar Wikipedia. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | A matsayina na Mai Shirye -shiryen Media da Darakta, Ni mai kula da hoto ne kuma Babban Darakta na ƙungiyar laima na masu adana kayan tarihi, ɗakin karatu da masu siyar da littattafai a Cote d'Ivoire (FICCI) Horar da ni a cikin gudanar da aikin da manaja ya ba ku damar samun ƙwarewa da yawa tsakanin wadanda kuke nema. Ina da kadarorin da za su ba ni damar yin nasara a cikin rawar da za ku ba ni. Motsawa, tsauri da sauraro sune mahimman kalmomin halayen ƙwararru na.
A matsayina na Mai Samar da Kafafen Watsa Labarai, Ni mai kula da hoto ne kuma Babban Darakta na ƙungiyar lema ta masu adana kayan tarihi, dakunan karatu da masu siyar da littattafai a Cote d'Ivoire (FICCI). Horar da ni kan gudanar da aikin ya ba ni damar samun yawancin dabarun da kuke nema. Ina da kadarorin da za su ba ni damar yin nasara a cikin rawar da za ku ba ni. Motsawa, tsananin ƙarfi, da sauraro sune mahimman kalmomin don bayyana halayen ƙwararru na. Kwarewata a matsayin Manajan Aiki yayin Wasannin VIIIth na Francophonie ya ba ni damar samun ilimin da ake buƙata don aiwatar da ayyukan da suka dace a ƙarƙashin matsin lamba. A koyaushe ina fuskantar hauhawar ayyukan, Ina iya amsa abubuwan da ba a zata ba cikin cikakken cin gashin kai. Kasancewa cikin Kwamitin Shirya Tsarin Yarjejeniyar Motsi yana wakilta a gare ni ainihin sadaukar da kai a nan gaba wanda ƙwarewata da ƙwarewata za su iya bayyana kansu sosai. | |
Dosso Djibril (Djibril016)
Djibril016 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Na halarci horo uku na Wikipedia na Faransanci da webinars na kan layi. Ina cikin WhatsApp na aikin Wikipedia na Faransanci a kasata, Ivory Coast. | |
| Team collaboration experience | A cikin mahallin sabunta labarai akan Wikipedia Wikipedia ta Faransa, munyi aiki tare a matsayin ƙungiya yayin horo da bayan horo. Har ila yau ina da kyakkyawar ƙwarewa aƙalla shekaru biyar a cikin amfani da kayan aikin haɗin gwiwa. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Wikimedia yana da matukar mahimmanci a duniyar bincike kamar yadda ya ƙunshi bayanai masu matukar mahimmanci ga ɗalibai, ɗalibai, masu bincike, malamai .... Don haka ya zama dole a haɗa ƙoƙarinmu don haɓaka wannan aikin da ke da amfani ga dukkan bil'adama. Dangane da wannan ina ƙaddamar da aikace-aikacena don sanya sanina, ilimina, da duk ƙwarewata gaba don fa'idar wannan aikin mai ban sha'awa. Halayena sun yi daidai da bukatun kwamitin shirya wannan ƙungiya.
Da farko, Manajan Bayanai na Documentary, manufa ta ita ce samar da bayanai ga masu amfani, don horar da su hanyoyin dabarun bincike, don jagorantar su zuwa kamus ɗin da ke da amfani ga binciken su. Kasancewa cikin kwamitin edita na motsi zai ba ni damar sanyawa wannan ƙungiyar duk tsammanin, matsaloli, bayanan da ake buƙata na masu amfani. Da farko, Ni Manajan Bayanai ne, manufa ta ita ce samar da bayanai ga masu amfani, don horar da su cikin dabarun bincike na bayanai, da kuma jagorantar da su zuwa kamus masu amfani a cikin yanayin binciken su. Kasancewa cikin kwamitin daftarin zai ba ni damar sanya duk tsammanin, matsalolin, bayanan da ake buƙata na masu amfani a hannun duk ƙungiyar. Abu na biyu, ni mai horo ne kan kayayyaki da yawa a cikin kimiyyar bayanai da kan kayan haɗin gwiwa don haɓaka yawan aiki. Ina da cikakkiyar ƙwarewar waɗannan kayan aikin don yin aiki tare cikin ƙungiya, don tabbatar da bin diddigin ayyukan, da kuma ayyana ranar ƙarshe na ayyuka daban-daban. A ƙarshe, ba zan iya haɓaka ayyukan Wikimedia kawai a cikin cibiyoyin sadarwara ba har ma don horar da wasu mutane kan albarkatun da ke cikin wannan aikin. | |
Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab_WMF)
Runab_WMF (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I have a personal and a professional role inside the Wikimedia movement. In my personal capacity I am a contributor to Bangla and English Wikipedia, and Commons. In my professional role, I work at the Wikimedia Foundation providing operational support to the Inuka, Language, and Campaigns Product teams as a Director in the Product Department. At various times, I have participated in activities that the teams or the Product department have undertaken for product initiatives. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have been part of open source communities since 2000, and participated in various roles that directly impacted the project’s objective and growth. My primary contributions have been in localization of open source software at a time when internationalization support for Indic languages was at a formative stage.
It was a challenging frontier that provided me the opportunity to understand how software development practices could be optimized towards equitable adoption beyond socio-political and linguistic boundaries. This required continuous collaboration with a globally spread community of volunteers, organizations, policymakers, corporates, and governments. I have participated both in an individual and organizational capacity in such efforts primarily as part of the Fedora, Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, and Ankur Bangla (formerly Bengalinux) communities. Since 2013, I have been part of the WMF’s Language team, with whom I had earlier collaborated in my other roles, and have been closely associated with language support efforts within the Wikimedia movement. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I believe that the strength of any movement can be determined by how well it can anticipate its preparations for the future. A movement as vast and global as the Wikimedia movement is an ever growing space and will continue to diversify in ways we may not even be able to imagine in the present. What we do know is that the movement has a mission and we can take consistent steps towards its success. Within the Wikimedia Movement, we have regularly acknowledged the need to bridge gaps of content and participation that currently exist. Big and small efforts have been conducted at various times. Having had the opportunity to closely observe some of these activities, my understanding has been that the success that we achieve through these efforts happens through sheer grit and perseverance of the individuals involved. Our systems and structures could have supported them better if there was more clarity on how we can conduct our everyday work through well established processes, and how we can bring in change to meet new challenges. As part of the drafting committee for the Movement Charter, I would like to keep our focus on a healthy combination of globally shared standard practices, and flexibility so that the guidance provided through the Charter allows a sense of stability to movement participants at all levels, and retains scope for continuous improvements as we work towards the 2030 vision. | |
Manavpreet Kaur (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Started off as an editor on Punjabi Wikipedia creating content about Forensic Science. Later expanded to Hindi. As a teacher at University, I engaged my students, started planning activities, events & realising my inclination towards outreach & engagement, later moved to designing programs, initiatives and building institutional collaborations with support of other affiliate members in India. Some of the programs organized in collaboration with fellow wikimedians & regional communities are- WikiConference India 2016, Strategy Salon Patiala, 2017, Women TTT 2019, WikiGap 2019, Armenian-Indian collaboration/2019, Wiki4Women 2020, Syberthon 2020, WikiGap-Wiki4Womxn 2021 (India). I have been a resource person to- Train the Trainer 2017, Wiki Awareness Campaign Karnal 2018, Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India), Train the Trainer 2018, Wiki Advanced Training 2018, Strategy Youth Salon 2019, TWLCon (2019 India).
Apart from this, I have shared my work with fellow wikimedians during Conference(s), Summit(s), training(s) and have also been a part of some panels like- Women in the Wikimedia movement for in-depth discussions on experiences, challenges and learning. I am also the Co-founder of first affiliate in India, Punjabi Wikimedians UG. | |
| Team collaboration experience | In addition to the shared details, organized a campaign, Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing 2018 bringing together 10 language communities in India with an intent to explore and promote women leadership in different languages (in India), thus helping in bridging the gender gap along with the usual accomplishment of content creation. In addition to this, with Women leads from 10 different language communities in India, organized first Women Train the Trainer program (India) in 2019. Currently supporting an education program in Regional institution with students working in 11 languages & mentors from different communities. Working with AffCom has provided me the experience of community challenges, strengths & collaborative operations. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | As a Wikimedian from India, I have learned a lot from the diverse experience & expertise of various communities in India. Our content needs, movement challenges & work scenarios are quite different from other regions which necessitates active engagement in discussions that are going to shape the global movement. As someone from the under represented region in Strategic conversations, I feel responsible for sharing our experiences & thoughts to help build a pathway that caters to the needs of diverse communities. Understanding importance of voicing the regional needs and challenges, I have been an active participant of strategic discussions. As we envision to make the movement stronger & inclusive, I am committed to invest my time & knowledge to ensure together we create a Charter that addresses the gaps & is a reflection of diverse vision(s). | |
Reda Kerbouche (Reda Kerbouche)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am a founding member of Wikimedians of Tamazight User Group and head of communication at Wikimedia Algeria since 2014. I am an active member of the community since 2010. I have organized and led several Wikimedia projects in the last few years. I support all communities, mostly indigenous languages. I have organized with my group several Wikimedia contests. I presented several projects at several conferences around the world about Wikimedia, in 2018 I did a small presentation about the Wikimedia movement at a UNESCO event in Tunis.
I speak French, Arabic, Russian, Tacawit, and work in English. I work for developing African and indigenous languages, in 2019 I was able to start the creation process of the Tacawit Wiktionary (the first language community to found itself on a project other than Wikipedia). I was in the organizing committees of WikiIndaba and WikiArabia. I am also a member of WikiIndaba Steering Committee and a Former member of the AffCom and I was a Candidate of The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. I represent my affiliation in the organization of the collaboration between the francophone groups of the Wikimedia movement (WikiFranca). | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have participated in several team collaborative experiences within our movement at different topics and levels. At the organizational level of the UGs, I can say that I am a very important member for my affiliations. I organize meetings to discuss the situations and solutions that must be resolved or achieved. My team and I are working on projects of several formats. Organization of contests, example of WLX on Commons, or lastly the contest of Kateb Maktub on WP in Arabic. I also participate in training of young and future Wikimedians in Russia, Algeria and Dubai by collaborating with different affiliations of the region. I participated in the organization of many conferences in Africa and Europe. We made partnerships to set up educational projects such as MOOCs in Arabic, Russian and Tamazight, working with affiliates and companies in these regions. I always launch discussions to launch projects or activities wherever I am. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | My professional experience has always been related to management and leadership. I started by creating my own company working in the field of culture, then I was invited to work with large European retailers and multinational corporations from France and Sweden. in parallel with my personal projects in the cultural field. From 2019 I am working with cultural associations in Algeria collaborating with UNESCO to promote the material and immaterial heritage. I start an organization in Algeria the Citizen Inventory of Heritage where I am a co-founder and CFO. I have specialist degree and a Ph.D. in management from the University of St. Petersburg.
As an active member of the community at the international level, and with my personal experience, I know that we can do better. many affiliates cannot receive grants to meet their needs and struggle day and night to exist. The big challenge will be to find a solution to help all volunteers to do their work promoting our movement, especially where access to our resources is difficult. More diversity in the movement, we always say that we have a diverse movement, but in fact, we still have to work on it, especially on gender and minority groups. My biggest dream is for our movement to live in non-politics so that all peoples, countries, genders, cultures, religions live with the sole purpose of promoting free knowledge. | |
Adel Nehaoua (Nehaoua)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mai Gudanarwa na yanzu a cikin Larabci Wikipedia da Larabci Wikisource, ina ba da gudummawa ga Wikipedia da Faransanci, kuma ina da gyare -gyare sama da 102,000 a matakin duniya, Ina fassara labarai tsakanin Ingilishi, Faransanci da Larabawa akan wikipedia da meta. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Memba mai aiki a cikin al'ummar Larabawa da Aljeriya tun daga 2019. Ni memba ne na ƙungiyar Wikiarabia 2021 | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Tun da na fara yin hulɗa tare da al'ummomin Faransanci da Larabci, na san cewa al'ummomin suna buƙatar gina kyakkyawar alaƙa da tushe da ayyukanta. Na goyi bayan dabarun Wikimedia 2030 kuma na yi tunanin shawarwarin za su jagoranci motsi don cimma manufa da hangen nesa. Saboda haka, shiga aiwatar da shawarwarin shine abin sha'awa tsakanin dukkan masu sadarwa da tushe. A matsayina na mutum, ina tsammanin zan iya amfana a cikin Kwamitin Shirya Yarjejeniya; Ina so in raba tunanina da musayar ra'ayoyi da gogewa tare da wasu. Baya ga shaawar da nake da ita na yin aiki tare da kwamiti a hankali, zan taka rawar haɗin gwiwa tsakanin kwamitin da al'ummata kuma ba zan adana duk wani yunƙuri don hidimar ƙoƙarin da ake buƙata da lokacin da ake buƙata don tsara babban buri wanda ya dace da tsammanin mutanen wikimedia a kusa da duniya. | |
James Hare (Harej)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Volunteering since 2004 in a number of capacities, including individual content and technical contributions (mainly bots). I have also worked on behalf of Wikimedia affiliates to plan outreach and training programs, including Wikimania 2012, and I have also run those kinds of programs as a representative of a partner institution. More information is available on my user page. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have worked with volunteer and hybrid volunteer–professional teams to organize events as large as over 1,000 people, run affiliate boards, plan events both large and small, build and maintain relationships with partners, and develop software collaboratively with the communities as a Wikimedia Foundation staffer. I served on the boards of two affiliates, Wikimedia District of Columbia (2011-2018) and Wiki Project Med (2017). I also was briefly on a Wikimedia Foundation conference grants committee and I served as a facilitator for the 2014 affiliate-selected board seat process. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I have been a part of Wikimedia for way too long. I remember when Wikipedia was a radical experiment that no one took seriously. We proceeded anyway. Fast forward twenty years and Wikipedia is now looked upon as one of the last bastions of reliable nonpartisan information. I consider this to be a massive failure of the part of our society to take this kind of work seriously as a priority, but also a testament to the strength and resilience of Wikimedia's movement. One that is built organically around a common belief around the importance of sharing information. One where you do not need to formally join an association in order to participate.
With the movement charter we are presented a challenge to develop a governance framework for the Wikimedia movement. A decentralized movement which has, historically, resisted most forms of consolidation and imposition of hierarchy. This is a feature of our movement, not a flaw. But without a formally recognized institution like the Global Council, we are left with various scattered power structures that favor the well-organized and well-resourced. In practice this leaves volunteers feeling like they have no control over what the Wikimedia Foundation does even as the Foundation spends millions of dollars improving its community relations. The system may somewhat work but the belief will persist that it doesn’t. If the movement charter drafting committee is successful, it will create a new polity that has been sorely missing: the organized counter-voice to the Wikimedia Foundation. Even with the best intentions, the current arrangement, with a few large organizations and many poorly organized volunteer communities, will inevitably produce conflict. There are sincere disagreements over what should be prioritized and why, and given how spending power is allocated, people will perceive the process to be unfair. And I honestly don’t think corporate hierarchies like the Foundation’s scale well to movements like ours; this is reflected in the velocity at which the Wikimedia Foundation makes improvements to the projects. I consider these the top three priorities for the movement charter:
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Alvonte (Alvonte)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I have significant experience with Wikimedia projects since 2010, I am:
Various on-wiki experience under a former account:
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| Team collaboration experience | I have collaborated with all kinds of different teams at various stages off-wiki, including but not limited to:
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Fear, uncertainty and doubt is born out of ignorance. To combat the increasing tribalism and hostility, we must hold dear the values every one of us believe in, all human knowledge must be free and accessible. Wikimedia is not doing nearly enough. Our movement is crucial, a comprehensive un-biased repository of information is essential to combat hate and promote global understanding. Mutual understanding between different people is the cornerstone of a safer, and more sustainable world. We must do more.
I dreamed of a world that belongs to everyone, where every one of us could be anywhere, love anyone, and fear nothing. It would not be possible without increased understanding, without free, accessible knowledge. and I sincerely hope Wikimedia can play a more significant role in combating knowledge inequality worldwide. I hope that Wikimedia would place more value in non-English contributions and provide much more support to non-English contributors. It's never going to be an easy job, but that's what we set out to do. I hope that all of our projects could provide an easier channel for potential editors who are simply not so well-versed in English communication. I hope that many of the disappearing cultural traditions could find their place here, even though our children and children's children will grow up following the brand new traditions of some hyper digitalized world with facebook, twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, crypto, NFT, and a lot more to come. They can at least read about the ways we have lived. I hope that we could one day, realize the dream that Babylon never managed to achieve, where Wikimedia projects will be the lighthouse that stand for our generation and the many generations to come. Our work is important, and more must be done. P. S.: I did not think about running initially, but seeing the enthusiasm from the encouraging emails and messages, I feel obliged to at least try. I'm inclined to use a new account since I believe that is the best way for me to contribute onward. Email me if you have any thoughts. | |
Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati)
Anass Sedrati (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Ina aiki a cikin ayyukan Wikimedia tun daga 2013. Ina gyara Wikipedia akan yaruka da yawa, kuma ina ba da gudummawa don ƙaddamar da sabbin sigogi a cikin yarukan da ba su da wadata sosai. Ni co-kafa na Arabic Wikimedians User Group. Na shiga cikin himma a cikin ayyuka daban -daban da dabaru, gami da kasancewa memba na ƙungiyar Wikimedia 2030 (advocacy), strategy liaison for Arabic language (WMF - contractor), memba na transition design group, da memba na connectors group, shiga cikin rubuta shawarwarin 2030 na ƙarshe. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Na shiga cikin abubuwan haɗin gwiwa na ƙungiyar da yawa a cikin motsin mu a matakai daban -daban. A cikin gida, na kasance mai gudanar da ayyukan Wikimedia Morocco shekaru da yawa, kuma mai haɗin gwiwa na WikiArabia taro a 2019. A duniya, na kasance manajan sa kai na Wikimania 2019 a Stockholm, kuma na yi aiki a matsayin memba na kwamitin shirin da memba na kwamitin malanta a tarurruka da yawa na yanki da na yanki. Ni kuma memba ne na Simple Annual Plan Grants Committee.
Game da dabarun, Na kasance ina haɗin gwiwa tare da Wikimedians daga kowane kusurwa, lokacin da nake memba na ƙungiyar aiki, amma kuma a duk faɗin taro, ayyuka da abubuwan da suka faru inda muka sadu. Wannan ya ba ni muhimmiyar fahimta da gogewa mai mahimmanci na yadda ake haɗin gwiwa tsakanin al'adu daban-daban, a cikin yankuna daban-daban na lokaci, da kuma yadda ake sarrafa hanyoyin aiki daban-daban, amma har yanzu ina gudanar da isar da sakamakon da ake buƙata. In ba haka ba, Ina da ƙwarewar ƙwarewa na shekaru 8+ a matsayin manajan aikin, kuma rayuwata ta yau da kullun game da haɗin gwiwar ƙungiya ce. Na yi aiki a cikin ayyukan IT, Sadarwa, lafiya, ɓangaren jama'a, kuɗi, tare da ƙungiyoyi da kamfanoni da yawa a duniya. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Na shiga cikin tsarin dabarun Wikimedia 2030 tun lokacin da aka fara saka huluna da dama. Bayan shiga cikin rubuta shawarwarin ƙarshe, Na yi imani da ƙarfi cewa Yarjejeniyar Motsi za ta zama muhimmiyar takarda (da jagora) don makomar motsin mu. Yana da mahimmanci saboda haka a ba shi wurin da yake buƙata, kuma tabbatar da cewa mafi kyawun ƙungiyar za ta yi aiki a ciki.
Ina so in kawo tarihina, a matsayina na Wikimedia mai zaman kansa, wanda ya rayu a cikin ƙasashe uku, don kasancewa cikin wannan kwamiti na tsara. An haɗa ni da al'ummomi da yawa a cikin motsi, kuma ina ƙoƙarin raba ra'ayoyi daban -daban da abubuwan da na sani, don yin la'akari da su cikin yanayin mu na duniya. Bambanci da rashin haɗin kai suna cikin mahimman direbobi na, kuma tabbatar da cewa duk masu ruwa da tsaki (gami da na gaba) wani abu ne da nake son cimmawa. A matsayina na jagoran al'umma, na shiga cikin tattaunawar shugabanci da yawa, kuma takaddar PhD na dangane da IoT (Intanet na Abubuwa), wanda ke ɗauke da cikakken babi game da mulkin Wikipedia. :) Ina sake nanata tabbaci na cewa Yarjejeniyar Motsi muhimmiyar takarda ce (kwatankwacin tsarin mulki), kuma yakamata ta zama fifiko ga waɗanda za su iya shiga wannan yunƙurin. Zan yi alfahari da gina wannan tare da ƙungiyar marubuta. Idan wani yana da tambaya ko yana buƙatar bayani daga gare ni, da fatan za a iya tuntuɓar ni a wurina talk page, kuma zan dawo gare ku da zaran na iya. | |
Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | pl.wiki, en.wiki editor since 2004
* Proud part of international community thanks to the WMCEE, public speeches, grants comm, collaborations among affiliates incl. capacity building, and more. Twice elected to the FDC, also member of the Resource Allocation Wikimedia strategy working group. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Diverse, mission-oriented and driven by passion teams are the crucial part of the Wikimedia Movement. Be it Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects and programmes, I find starting/joining and further developing a spirited team representing various skills and perspectives as a highly rewarding and effective way to achieve our goal: equitable, quality, developed together knowledge. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Wikimedia are the most successful novel knowledge institution and the distributed organization in the world. 8 billion people need us: both as an access to convenient, free, structured arts and information - but also as an empowerment to create, edit and self-govern. After 20 years, we need to ensure our achievements will be constantly improved and passed to further audiences and generations. While we reinvent ourselves to serve the world better, we should build on the sources of our greatness and uniqueness, and fill in large gaps which we still have.
I believe in empowered individuals and their associations, in the wisdom flowing from their diversity, and the motivation stemming from the equitable treatment. I also believe in the diversity of the approaches and organizations, empowerment of affiliates, in their equity and adaptability to local contexts and future needs. Wikipedia taught us that self-governance, grassroot and partnership prevailed over centralization and strict hierarchies; similar lessons come from great initiatives of the individuals, groups, chapters and the teams of the WMF. By 2030, we need to be less centralized and more attentive to local ideas, opportunities and needs. We need to operate as a much wider graph of successful organizations, developing and testing new ways to serve the needs of their audiences. We need to create a better space for collaboration and invention, for leadership and learning, for Wikimedians from the past, and the Wikimedians of the future. I believe, that both my Wikimedia experience of an editor, affiliate person and grant assessor, as well as my education and professional experience (economics/psychology/MBA working in risk/finance) help me to recognize the needs of particular community members, bring valuable perspective and help coin the great charter. | |
Yair Rand (Yair rand)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am an administrator on several projects, and an interface admin on English Wiktionary. I've done a reasonably large amount of policy writing on multiple projects, wrote a lot of gadgets and user scripts (some examples include TabbedLanguages on Wiktionary, ReferenceTooltips for Wikipedia, the WikidataInfo.js script for Wikidata, and the SignWriting Keyboard for Sign language projects), worked on Wikidata ontology structuring, and have done a moderate amount of work on content.
I spend far too much time following things on Meta and elsewhere, so I'm fairly familiar with how the various movement structures and systems work. (I've also been writing "fantasy Wikimedia charters" on my own for ~5 years, which ought to count for something. :) ) | |
| Team collaboration experience | I'll be blunt: My relevant team collaboration experience is much less than many other candidates. I've never worked as part of any affiliate organization, nor any on-wiki committee, nor any strategy working group. Additionally, both my technical and policy-writing activities have been less "team-based" than is typical. That said, all Wikimedia activities are pretty inherently collaborative, and if anything is going to be a skill that we've almost all necessarily gotten good at, it's good-faith collaboration in writing something together. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | A major goal of the Charter is to "clearly define roles and responsibilities", set boundaries, and define what we're doing and how we do it. It is essential for the future functioning of the projects and supporting organizations, that we create ironclad safeguards against overreach by our institutions, firmly anchor long-standing principles and goals, and establish a solid and effective framework for how the various high-level processes and parts of Wikimedia interact with each other.
The new framework should unambiguously specify responsibilities and authorities, minimize conflict, and allow everyone to get on with their work. The Charter should organize structures to enable projects and groups to receive needed support, while protecting them from inappropriate interference. As expressed in the Strategy Recommendations, all of Wikimedia's supporting organizations should be bound by enforceable basic requirements, and certain structures should be distributed and decentralized. I would like the creation of the Charter to be an open and participatory process, involving many volunteers directly editing numerous Charter drafts around Wikimedia, moving forward in a wiki-style manner, our many communities and groups cross-pollinating texts and ideas and arguments and points of discussion, and gradually converging towards coherent results with the assistance of the drafting committee. Whatever the method, the final outcome must be subject to community-wide ratification. Wikimedia is built by the volunteer community; it is the community that must decide whether to go forward with the Charter. | |
Sadik Shahadu (Shahadusadik)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | My name is Sadik Shahadu from Ghana. I am a Co-founder of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group and the Global Open Initiative. I am currently serving as a regional ambassador for indigenous communities at Art+Feminism, a steering committee member of the Wikimedia Language Diversity Hub, and have previously served as a volunteer on the Wikimedia project grants committee.
Over the past six years, I have served as a Wikipedia community leader and a project lead for several Wikimedia projects such as edit-a-thons, workshops, campaigns, and photo walks at the Global Open Initiative and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. I have also served as a country coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore and Wiki Loves Earth 2021. Since 2017, I have volunteered for different Wikimedia communities including the current 3 Wikimedia affiliate User Groups in Ghana. As an indigenous ambassador, I work with indigenous communities to improve the content of Wikipedia in African languages. Some of my works include:
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| Team collaboration experience | Over the past over the past six (6) years, I have collaborated and worked on several Wikimedia-related projects with organizations/institutions such as the University of education's school of languages Ghana (The Dagbani department), University for development studies (UDS Navrongo campus), Wiki Africa Education and Artandfeminism. Outside Wikipedia, I served as a Mozilla Open Leader X fellow working with students to create open educational resources (OER) in Ghana and currently serving as an ambassador for the Mozilla festival 2021. Since 2020, I have served as a MozFest wrangler, working with the Mozilla foundation staff to co-designed the Mozilla festival. In 2017, I was a member of the CC global summit 2018 program committee and a Co-lead for the 'future of the Commons' track. I am currently a program facilitator and panel chair for the Hack4OpenGLAM at the 2021 Creative Commons global summit.
In addition to that, I work with several open leaders and OER experts on the 'Open Education for a Better World' program as an advisory board member to support participants and also help create scholarship opportunities for students from Africa at the university of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. As a digital language activist, I work with individuals and organizations who are interested in digitizing the Dagbani language on the internet. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I believe, open education will provide a lasting solution to the global injustice that is affecting education in Africa. As one of the world's most visited online learning platforms, Wikipedia has proven to be one the most valuable online resources for both students and educators. As a volunteer contributor, I wish to contribute my experience to help this committee thrive. I am a project manager, researcher and a digital language activist with strong internet industry experience. I am passionate about open education, open data, and opensource technology.
My strengths are my interpersonal communication skills and my ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds. I am interested in working with indigenous languages communities, and always happy to discuss how we can bridge the gender gap on Wikipedia and the digital divide across Africa. | |
Chico Venancio (chicocvenancio)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am a co-founder and board member of Wiki Movimento Brasil, the sole Wikimedia affiliate in Brazil, currently.
Meta Wikimedia activity As a board member of Wiki Movimento Brasil, I have joined the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meetings, particularly the ones on the Movement Charter, and have been active in movement-wide discussions, for example, on the Universal Code of Conduct. I have also liaised between the Wikimedia Foundation and our affiliate on several occasions and represented our affiliate in Wikimedia international and regional meetings and discussion channels, including the Wikimedia Conference in 2017. | |
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | This is the time to define what we want to be as a movement from now on. This is the major goal we have set to ourselves for ensuring equity in decision-making. To move forward, we need to define a common ground of principles and practices for decision-making, and develop mechanisms for equitable global representation and meaningful, empowering participation of local communities. As a participatory, community-oriented process, the Movement Chart will embody the Wikimedia spirit and provide a necessary framework for the Wikimedia Movement.
We need to learn from what we have achieved and envision together the future we want to live in. For instance, roles and responsibilities need to be clearly laid out, as transparency is key for our movement procedures and deliberations. Coming from an underrepresented community, I know procedures and deliberations must be empowering and structured in a way that contributes to mitigating unequal capacities to participate in the open knowledge ecosystem. The success of the Movement Charter --an embodiment of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process discussions and practices-- is dependent on our capacity to deeply engage our diverse communities in the drafting process. This founding document will not succeed by the relevance of its content and commitment of its initial drafters only; it must be a collaboration across stakeholders, that is, it must be done the wiki way. | |
Ndahiro Derrick (Ndahiro derrick)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | A founder of the Wikimedia User Group in Rwanda, a jury coordinator for Wiki Loves Monuments international organizing team and a member of the regional grants committe for Middle East & Africa. | |
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I am a Rwandan wikimedian and the Founder of Wikimedia User Group Rwanda and a volunteer in the User Group in Uganda, I edit English, Kinyarwanda and kirundi Wikipedias, Wikivoyage, english Wikiqoute and Wikimedia Commons, since 2019, I have participated in Wiki Loves Monuments,Wiki Loves Africa,Wiki Loves Folklore,Wikigap,Wiki Loves Earth and Wiki4Refugees both in Uganda as a contestant where i made it among winners and in Rwanda as the coordinator, Besides that, I also train newbies from Rwanda,Burundi as a way of recruiting more people in the movement but also pay back to the Wikimedia User Group Uganda, who introduced me and mentored me throughout to the wikimedia movement. Besides the above, I also create and improve content on english,kinyarwanda and kirundi wikipedias,something i wont hesistate to call my passion. I believe that team work,mentorship and passion are essential to achieve a collective goal, therefore having a full conviction in possessing the above essentials,I believe they will help me to serve in the wikimedia Movemenent under the movement Charter's Drafting Committee and representing East Africa. One, by engaging every movement Charter's Drafting committe member through listening to their views,without judging,and creating a leveled ground by mainstreaming gender in all operations ,to fight against systematic discrimination of women in the decision making processes. Am a quick learner,enthusiastic and reliable ,I believe in team work and change creation therefore ,The committee having me as part of them,will enhance team work,commitment and realiability not forgetting represetantion of East Africa on the committee | |
Gnangarra (Gnangarra)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Community builder, helped to form Wikimedia Australia, 2 years as President, 4 as Vice President, Currently part of ESEAP leadership group, created Commons Quality Images project, also part of the development of Nyungar language Wikipedia. Former Admin/Sysop on en.wp stepped down in good standing in after about 14 years, admin/sysop on Commons since 2007. current VTRS volunteer since 2019 previously a volunteer for about 2 two years around 2007-10. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Everything we do in the movement is a team effort whether its content creation, event organisation, or Affiliate activity. Last commitment was Wikimania 2021 | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I cant reinforce enough that everything we do is a collaborative effort. I believe in assuming good faith and giving people the opportunity to learn, grow, and make mistakes regardless of how long they have been contributing, I acknowledge there must be limits on when actions stops being a mistake become pattern characteristic. The Movement Charter must provide a foundation for who we are, what we do, and why we do it. Priorities I see in the charter are for ensuring protection of anonymity, equity in access for everyone through both being able to participate at reasonable local times in what ever language they most comfortable with. Care needs to be taken in nuances of every language and how its translated to ensure that the concepts are presented equally to everyone equity starts with the charters wording must be able to carry the same principles through every translation iteration. | |
Tito Dutta (Titodutta)
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| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I am an active Wikimedian, and a participant of different Wikimedia programs/processes. You might have seen my posts or comments on different topics on Wikimediaindia-l or Wikimedia-l or on Village pumps. Wikimedia Strategy is definitely the most important thing at this movement, and the Movement Charter is really crucial. I am showing my interest to serve in the drafting committee, because—
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Dennis Raylin Chen (Supaplex)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I started contributing to Wikipedia in 2006, when Wikipedia was an early example of a Web 2.0 site. Wikipedia brings together a large number of people from different backgrounds to write articles on the scope of human knowledge that is less included in encyclopedias and textbooks. This open knowledge project has encouraged people like me to participate more deeply.. In 2010, I started to participate in community activities in Taipei, and held a few quarterly gatherings to promote the revival of the formerly inactive local chapter of Wikimedia Taiwan. For people who know the story of the Taiwanese Wikimedia community, they know that Wikimedia Taiwan was successfully revived particularly due to the Taiwanese aborigines which belong to the Austronesian languages group. We assist them in bringing the incubator to an official Wikipedia site. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I am the board member of Wikimedia Taiwan and served as the board supervisor. I co-organized a program track at the COSCUP, which is a large open source conference in Taiwan,.together with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. About the community, I mainly organize the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata monthly gathering in Taipei. OpenStreetMap and the Wikidata Taiwan community participate in the local promotion and data maintenance of these two projects. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Although speaking Austronesian languages in Taiwan will have a better international recognition, because according to scholars, Taiwan is considered to be the birthplace of the Austronesian languages. However, it is still not widely recognized that there is not only Taiwanese Chinese in Taiwan, but also other Chinese languages, such as Taiwanese and Hakka. Through the Movement Charter, I hope to preserve the underrepresented languages in Taiwan and other minority languages that need to be protected, And to preserve the digital world through an international Wikimedia Movement. | |
Valentin Nasibu (VALENTIN NVJ)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | As a co-founder and board member of the Wikimedians of Democratic Republic of Congo User Group, I organize awareness-raising conferences, training workshops, edit-a-thons and photo shoots for Wikipedia, Commons and other sister projects. I participate in the International Francophone Contributions Month, Art+Feminis, Wiki Love. | |
| Team collaboration experience | On the national level, I work in collaboration with the members of the steering committee of our user group in organizing Wikipermanence (face-to-face and online) and for the production of free content related to Africa on the internet in general and on Wikipedia in particular through the Africa Month campaigns, Africa Wiki Challenge. On the continental level, I participate in the campaigns WikiForHumanRightsin in Morocco, 1Libre1Ref and several collaborations with other African user groups (Ivory Coast, Guinea, Kenya, etc.). On the international level, I participate in Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | In 2019, I have been involved (with friends) in organizing strategy fares based on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy recommendations; and with my experiences on the Wikimedia movement, I feel able and available to be part of the drafting team of the movement's charter in order for it to be a solution that all affiliates of the Wikimedia community from all corners of the world are waiting for "Ensure Equity in Decision-making". | |
Josh Lim (Sky Harbor)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | For the last sixteen years I have played several roles in growing and supporting the Wikimedia movement in the Philippines and the local community that anchors it, as well as the global Wikimedia community at large. These include:
* Organizing the Philippine Wikimedia community into a coherent group of people, which led to the founding of Wikimedia Philippines in 2010. Between 2010 and 2016, the organization was responsible for significantly expanding the reach of the Wikimedia projects in the Philippines, including significant inroads in content, outreach and the growth of our community and volunteers. Today, as the Wiki Society of the Philippines, we continue to work with various stakeholders to improve quality of access to Wikidata in the country, as well as encouraging documentation of historical sites in the Philippines and combatting disinformation on the Wikimedia projects online and offline. This has also parlayed into activities outside the Philippines, such as building the Cite Unseen bias checker tool. * Giving at least three editing workshops to members and non-members of WikiProject Never Again, and have played an active role in supervising our growing number of Wikipedians-to-be to ensure that they are properly editing Wikipedia while also preserving the accuracy, neutrality and rigor of our articles on Philippine history and politics, both in Tagalog/Filipino and English. I was also instrumental in developing Southeast Asia's first Wikipedian in Residence program at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. I have also spoken at various conferences and fora, internal and external, about the Filipino Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia projects, including at Wikimania, the Wikimedia Hackathon, Open Source Bridge, AlterConf, CredCon and FOSSASIA. My work in the movement has also been covered by both the local and international press, with mentions in The Guardian, FHM, CNN and Scout Magazine, among others. Aside from my work in the Philippines, I am actively involved in the activities of the Wikimedians of Los Angeles user group, as I currently live in Los Angeles. As part of that group, we're working to grow the community while pursuing impactful events and outreach in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have made community and collaboration the center of my volunteer work and my professional career over the last sixteen years. Many of the activities we've done in the Philippines were inherently collaborative in nature. For example, our work with WikiProject Never Again was only made possible with the complex work of bringing Wikimedians, external partners, volunteers and interested persons together to build a lasting project. Having worked as well in the movement for as long as I have, both in building things like Cite Unseen and the ESEAP Hub, and in working with the Affiliations Committee, I have come to have a deep respect for the need to have everything built collaboratively, in pairs or large groups, whether it be working on solutions to the hardest issues of our time or just finding easier ways for people to communicate and share knowledge.
These lessons on collaboration that were gleaned through the Wikimedian experience were also instrumental in my professional life. Working for DeviantArt, I've come to use what I've learned in the movement to help develop the kinds of activities we should do for our users, or to help inform major decisions that we should make in terms of how we ought to approach the site's development. Working with a team of eight other people, we've had several successes in terms of contests and other community campaigns that we've run on-site, with this extending to external partnerships as well that have led to successes like our campaign on mental health awarness, our annual Holiday Card Project, and more recently our endeavors to celebrate our global diversity through thoughtfully-executed campaigns that showcase our shared common heritage. I strongly believe that when it comes to collaboration, it is important to be able to both talk and to likewise be a quiet observer when the time calls for it. Although I've become more quiet in the movement over the last few years, ultimately collaboration requires giving way. Participating in community discussions across three continents (in Asia, Europe and North America), both online and offline and in formal and informal settings, is part and parcel of that experience. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | The Wikimedia movement deserves, more than ever, to have a definitive statement of our values. I have advocated for much of my time as a Wikimedian a movement-wide document that encapsulates what we stand for, and now that we're at the cusp of having a Movement Charter, I strongly believe we need to have people who have broad-based, deeply-informed and well-grounded experience in working with communities, partners and individuals to best encapsulate what it is we hold dear.
I don't take the work of the Drafting Committee lightly, and I intend to ensure that Wikimedians will be more than adequately represented as we finally put to paper what it is we stand for. I look forward to bringing the lessons I've learned from both the movement and outside it, coupled with my own life experience as someone who has worked with and is familiar with the Wikimedia movement on three continents, to the table: a table that we need to be as representative as possible of our movement's diversity, experience and expertise. More than ever, it's important that the ones who will set up our movement for success, first with the Movement Charter and then the Global Council, be from a broad base of our community, able to interact with as many people as possible and capable of representing the broadest of opinions in as concise a manner. I look forward to helping steer the important work of this Committee to help us move forward as a movement towards a more balanced, just and representative future: one where everyone, no matter where they're from or what languages they speak or what projects they serve, are adequately represented. The work won't be easy, but I look forward to committing to it should I be called to serve. On a parting note, please feel free to leave me a message should you have any questions or concerns, and thank you so much for your time. | |
Anne Clin (Risker)
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| Team collaboration experience | Most of the committees and teams I have worked with have been highly collaborative. Of particular note is the work of the Roles & Responsibilities strategy team, the FDC, and the Arbitration Committee, whose success was dependent on collaborative work. Although less visible, there is also significant collaboration amongst both the local and global CheckUser group; and as part of the Arbitration Committee and later as an oversighter, I have worked with local oversighters to create and maintain a highly collaborative and mutually supportive environment. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | My personal background is different from that of a lot of other candidates. I have always seen myself as primarily an editor with an interest in the global organizational aspects of the Wikimedia movement, rather than a member of any particular group. I’ve been a Wikimedian for over 16 years, and have a very broad range of experience at both the local and global levels. I’m familiar with a lot of the history that has had an impact on how the movement has developed over the years, and a good understanding of the sensitivities of different sections of the movement.
My current and past movement activities have reinforced to me the necessity of co-operation, collaboration, and compromise in order to meet broader goals. I recognize that it will not be possible for this drafting committee to meet all of the expectations of all of its members, let alone all of the expectations of every member of the movement; however, I believe that by working together we can achieve a balance that will gain acceptance from our broad global community. I firmly believe that the individual projects – the Wikipedias, Commons, WIkidata, Wikisource, and the many other “sister” projects – are the centerpiece of the movement, and the movement infrastructure must be designed to help these projects to grow and develop in a healthy way. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of any Wikimedia affiliate organization; nonetheless, my work on the FDC and the 2030 strategy project has inculcated a deep and abiding respect for these organizations and their value to the movement as a whole, as they are important aspects of the project support infrastructure. | |
Chris Keating (The Land)
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Ƙara takardu *Memba na kwamitin Wikimedia UK daga 2010-2016.
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| Team collaboration experience | Na kasance sashin ƙungiyar rawar dabaru da nauyi, wanda ya haɓaka ra'ayin Yarjejeniyar Motsi. Wannan ƙungiya ce mai al'adu daban -daban, harsuna da yawa tare da babban aikin da za su yi - kamar yadda Kwamitin tsarawa zai kasance. A cikin wannan yanayin, Ina sane da gata ta a matsayina na mai magana da Ingilishi, kuma ina kulawa don ƙarfafawa da tallafawa wasu don bayyana ra'ayoyinsu gami da ba da gudummawa. Ina kuma sane da mahimmancin sadarwa da al'ummomin aikin. Na kasance ɗaya daga cikin membobin ƙungiya masu aiki don shiga cikin tattaunawar wiki game da daftarin shawarwarin.
Na kasance Shugaban Wikimedia UK a lokacin da Babin ke fuskantar canje -canje da yawa. A lokacin da nake Shugabanci mun shiga Governance Review kuma mun aiwatar da sakamakonsa, gami da sanya Hukumar mu ta bambanta da haɗa kai. Wannan shi ne karon farko da wata ƙungiyar Wikimedia ta nemi cikakken binciken kwararru kan yadda ake gudanar da mulkinta. Aiwatar da sakamakonsa yana buƙatar diflomasiyya, dabara da ƙuduri. Na kuma shiga cikin wasu kungiyoyi masu son rai da dama - daga manyan kungiyoyin agaji zuwa kananan kwamitocin sa kai, a fannonin da suka hada da kamfen na siyasa zuwa binciken likitanci har zuwa makada inda nake buga kade -kade. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | A matsayina na ɗaya daga cikin marubutan shawarwarin asali waɗanda suka haifar da Yarjejeniyar Motsi, Ina matukar kulawa da yin wannan aikin. Ba wai kawai ƙirƙirar Yarjejeniya da Majalisar Duniya ba, amma sauran mahimman fannoni na shawarwarin kamar kafa Ƙungiyoyin Yanki da ikon rarrabawa don sanya Harkar ta kasance mai buɗewa da mai shiga tsakani.
Na yi imanin tsarawa da gina karbuwa ga Yarjejeniyar Motsi zai zama babban ƙalubale. Na yi imanin Ƙungiyar Zane -zanen za ta iya yin nasara kawai idan akwai babban tsari mai buɗewa don isa ga al'ummomi da gina Yarjejeniya kan bukatunsu da burinsu. Na set out my views on how this should work at more length here. Don yin wannan tsari ya yi aiki, muna buƙatar bayyana a wuri -wuri game da yadda za a nemi al'ummomi don shigar da su da yadda tsarin ci gaba / tabbatarwa zai yi aiki. Ina da gogewa mai yawa na aiki akan al'amuran gudanar da motsi - ba kawai a cikin tsarin dabarun ba. A matsayina na Shugaban Wikimedia UK na taimaka wajen warware wasu muhimman matsalolin shugabanci a waccan babin, kuma na kasance cikin mahalarta tattaunawar da ta gabata tsakanin al'ummomi (tattaunawar Talla da Tallace-tallacen Kudi a 2011-2, Superprotect, FramBan, da yawa canje-canje a WMF a cikin shekaru 10 da suka gabata). Yayin da Yarjejeniyar Motsi ke kallon gaba, ina jin zan iya kawo wasu muhimman' ilimi na hukumomi 'tare da ni. Na yi imani Yarjejeniyar Motsi - kuma a ƙarshe Majalisar Duniya - za ta taka muhimmiyar rawa ga motsin mu a nan gaba. Idan suna aiki, to wannan na iya saita duk Motar da ke tafiya daidai. Za mu iya fara magance matsalolin da aka daɗe ana fama da su game da rashin amana da rashin daidaiton iko. Amma wannan dole ne a yi daidai. Na yi imanin zan iya taimakawa wajen jagorantar wannan aikin ta hanyar da ta dace, wanda shine dalilin da yasa na tsaya ga kwamitin. Idan kuna son tattauna abubuwa to don Allah drop me a line! | |
Abdul-Rasheed Yussif (Din-nani1)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Ni Wikimedian ne mai aiki sosai daga 2015. Ingilishi da Dagbani Wikipedia sune Wikipedias da na fi gyarawa. Kasancewa mai haɗin gwiwa Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, Na yi aiki ba tare da gajiyawa don cimma manufar kungiyar. Saboda aiki tukuru na ƙungiyar da masu sa kai, an ba ƙungiyar (takamaiman yare) a fully fledged Wikipedia wanda aka sanar a ranar 1 ga Yuli, 2021. Ni, a matsayina na majagaba na ƙungiyar na horar da masu aikin sa kai da yawa don samun ƙwarewar gyara don samun damar ba da gudummawa ga ayyukan Wikimedia. Na shiga cikin ayyuka da ayyuka daban -daban, gami da zama jakadan GLAM na GOIF, mai shirya taron don Art da Feminism da mai ba da horo/manajan aikin Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Na shiga cikin abubuwan haɗin gwiwa na ƙungiya da yawa a cikin Rukunin Dagbani Wikimedians User Group a matakai daban -daban kuma hakan yana haifar da nasarar aiwatar da ayyuka da yawa masu amfani kamar Bachinima project, Wiki loves Folklore da My Northern achiever project. Tarin wanda ya kai mu ga samun cikakken Wikipedia. Ina da gogewa mai yawa wajen haɓaka al'ummata daga kasancewa a cikin mahaɗan zuwa zama cikakken Wikipedia. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Wannan shine karo na farko na neman aiki zuwa wani ɓangare na Kwamitin dabarun motsi kuma manufar yin hakan shine don ba da gudummawar ƙwarewata da aka samu don tallafawa WMF gabaɗaya. Ina matuƙar sha’awar sa harsunan da aka keɓe da ke cikin haɗari su sami damar ba da gudummawa ga ayyukan Wikimedia ko cinye abubuwan da aka buga akan Wikipedia don haka ina ba da ƙarfin kuzari a cikin aiki akan Wikipedia Dagbani. Fassara abun cikin Ingilishi akan Wikipedia zuwa Harshen Dagbani da ƙirƙirar sabon abun ciki don amfanin waɗanda ba sa iya karantawa cikin Turanci. | |
Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Board member of Wikimedia Taiwan (2016.03 - present)
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| Team collaboration experience | As a board member of Wikimedia Taiwan, I worked as a volunteer manager for Taiwan Wikiproject Med for three years, also assist the Taiwanese community and WMTW can have better conversations/ cooperation with international Wiki communities and involve in more movements. Besides the duties from WMTW, I also participate in several regional organizations and Wikimedia movements. such as joining the program committee of the ESEAP conference to design and arrange programs for participants, discussing and writing recommendations as a Community health team member for 2030 movement and so on. Starting from 2017, I keep assisting improve the Chinese translation quality for Wikiprojects and movements; what's more, working as a Chinese interpreter for Wiki global conversations. I have plenty off-Wiki and on-Wiki collaboration experience. I am currently the director of Wikipedia Asian month (events and user group), cooperating with more than 60 Wiki teams from worldwide to promote Asian cultures via Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects. I am a full-time PhD researcher/ PhD candidate in real life, my major research field is immunology, virology. I shared my Wiki experience in some universities before and now have a lot of cooperation with other research teams all over the world. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Since the feedback from Chinese communities has been ignored for a long time, now it's time to make a move: participating in the draft committee to make some changes. Besides the ignorance; in my Wiki years, I suffers from the insult due to my ethnicity, gender, academic degree, accent and so on, those are definitely something that should not last and let the newcomers suffer like me. Hope I can bring my experience and Wiki expertise, also as diverse voices as possible to the draft committee. I am looking forward to making our future achievement more comprehensive and creating a more diverse, equal, safe and friendly environment for everyone to devote themselves to volunteer work without fears. | |
Abel L Mbula (BamLifa)
BamLifa (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Co-kafa na Wikimedians of DRCongo User Group, Ina tsara abubuwan da suka shafi Wikimedia (misali: horo, hackathons, ediathons ...) galibi a cikin jama'ar faransanci. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Yawancin lokaci ina aiki tare da sauran 'yan wikiediyya a nahiyar don gudanar da ayyukan wayar da kan jama'a kan ayyukan Wikimedia. Hakanan muna haɗin gwiwa a cikin UG ɗin mu idan yazo don gudanar da ayyukan kamar yadda muke zaune a birane daban -daban. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Munyi aiki tukuru tun daga 2018 don tunanin yadda motsin mu zai kasance a cikin shekarar 2030. A yau, Wikipedia ta cika shekara 20 kuma muna da shekaru 9 kacal daga Wikimedia 2030. Wannan ba sauran shekaru bane da yawa idan aka ba yawan aikin wanda har yanzu yana buƙatar yin hakan don gaishe da shekarar 2030. Don haka, muna buƙatar mutane da ɗan sani game da dabarun motsi kuma waɗanda ke samuwa don taimaka mana ci gaba a wannan matakin aiwatarwa. Na shiga cikin dabarun duka a matsayin mai shirya saloons (a DRCongo) da ɗan takara (a Gabashin Afirka, Uganda). Waɗannan sun sa na dace sosai ga Kwamitin Shirya Yarjejeniya. | |
Ashioma Medi (SuperSwift)
SuperSwift (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I've been an active contributor to the English Wikipedia since 2017 and hold the new page reviewer rights. I have contributed to articles relating to women through the women in red campaign. I started editing Wikidata in 2019. Outside of editing, I have worked in the creation of Wikimedia hubs in Nigerian Universities, where I serve as a leader and trainer in different institutions. I have also served as a judge in different contests; from the Afrocine project to the African Women in Media contest. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Actively involved in the ongoing memorandum of understanding between the Wikimedia community in Nigeria and the Nigerian National Archives. Member of the Communications Team at the 2019 Wiki Indaba. Reaching an agreement with the Ekiti State University, Nigeria to set up a Wikimedia hub in the school. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | It is my desire to help create a Movement Charter that will not be restrictive to individuals, communities, organizations but shares accountability and responsibility as well as ensure equitable opportunities for participation in decision-making and resource allocation. Having cross-cultural communication skills (English and Igbo) means I can actively engage the English community and Igbo Wikimedia community and relay their issues with the movement charter.
My experience as a research fellow at a government & public policy institute has broadened my scope on governance, organization management, board management, legal actions, policy documentation & implementation, and other required knowledge bases. This helped me successfully draft the by-laws with consultation from appropriate authorities for the working of a Wikimedia hub. As a product designer, my skills of design thinking, critical thinking, strategic thinking would help in translating strategy recommendations into structures, help see the gaps to be covered, and would also help in getting things done at the set time. | |
V M (Vis M)
Vis M (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Babban gudunmawata ya zuwa yanzu sun kasance kulawa da kulawa da gida, patrolling vandalism a fadin daban-daban ayyukan, kara 50,000+ Malayalam lexemes a Wikidata, 500+ ml shigarwar a en.Wiktionary, 1000+ lodawa zuwa Commons, gyara sunadarai, kayan aiki da kayan masana'antu akan en.w, hadin gwiwa, haɗawa da taimaka wa mutane a kan ayyukan daban-daban, fadada motsi na ilimi kyauta, da sauransu. Ni mai aiki ne a tsakanin 'yar'uwar Wikimedia wikis; da samun 1000+ edits akan wikis 4 da kuma gyara 100+ akan wikis 10 gaba daya. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Haɗin kai a matsayin wani ɓangare na WikiProjects, galibi LD, KERALA da POLYMER. Ina shiga cikin dandalin tattaunawa da yawa na ayyukan Wikimedia da ƙungiyoyi. Ni kuma mutum ne mai farin ciki don taimakawa, yana taimaka wa masu neman taimako. A koyaushe ina kiyaye yanayin maraba. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Zan yi ƙoƙarin bayar da mahimmanci don tabbatar da cewa ƙungiyoyin mutane daban -daban, gami da kudancin duniya musamman mata, duk za su iya samun dama da ba da gudummawa cikin sauƙi ga ayyukan Wikimedia daban -daban. Wannan zai haɗa da tabbatar da al'umma mai aminci da maraba da kiyaye Dokokin Duniya.
Wikimedia yakamata ya baiwa kowa damar sauƙaƙe bayar da gudummawa daga wayoyin komai da ruwanka da na'urori da aka fi so (Teburin, IMHO, yana da bambancin jinsi/demography). A koyaushe ina ƙoƙarin kawar da cikas ga ilimi kyauta da rage tsarin koyo da ake buƙata don shiga da bayar da gudummawa. Wadanda ke son ƙara ilimi yakamata su iya yin hakan ba tare da ɓata lokaci ba wajen fahimtar abubuwa. Abubuwa yakamata a tsara su da hankali. Sadarwar da ta dace da takardu wasu fannoni ne da suka ɓace zuwa yanzu. WMF tana buƙatar sadarwa tare da al'ummomi da ɗaukar ra'ayoyin ƙungiyoyi daban -daban na ayyukan 'yan'uwa daban -daban. Ya kamata kwamitin daftarin ya hada da shi. | |
Nethi Sai Kiran (Nskjnv)
Nskjnv (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Active contributor on Wikipedia, Wikidata & Wiki commons. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Working closely with Telugu Wikipedia community in growth project and welcome message structure for improving new user contributions. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I am a budding Wikimedian contributing majorly towards Telugu Wikipedia, although my journey with the Wikimedia movement is short I have had enough opportunities to build content and interact with the community. I am participating in the 100 wiki days challenge and on the 98th day as of 10 September 2021. I contributed to over 7500 pages in wiki pages wanting photos competition and stood 6th in the world & 1st in Telugu Wikipedia. I also actively take part in community activities helping new wikimedians to edit on Wikipedia through growth project, proposing changes in content and outreach activities at Telugu Wikipedia. | |
Osama Eid (Osps7)
Osps7 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Ina ba da gudummawa ga Larabci da Wikipedia Wikipedia, ina da haƙƙin edita ga Wikipedia na Larabci da Wikipedia Wikipedia, kuma ina da haƙƙin edita ga Wiki Commons. Mafi yawa ina aiki da ɓarna Ilimi kyauta, Ina da mods sama da 11,000 a duk duniya, Na kasance mai shiga cikin ƙungiyar Wikimedia ta hanyar watsa ilimi kyauta a cikin gasa da kamfen, da yawan nasarorin, Ni memba ne mai aiki a cikin ƙungiyar Wikimedia a cikin Levant, kuma na amince Abin da ke faruwa a gabas ta gabas. Ƙaddamar da ayyukan a jami'o'i don horo akan Wikipedia. Ina gudanar da shirye -shiryen ilimantarwa na Wikipedia na Larabci a Jihar Falasdinu, kuma ina kuma shiga duk kamfen da ayyukan Gidauniyar Wikimedia. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Ƙungiyar Levant Wikimedia, da ayyukan kwanakin Wikipedia na Larabci | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ina gyara labarai a cikin Larabci da Wikipedia Wikipedia kuma ina riƙe izini a cikin Encyclopedia na Larabci da Ingilishi. Doka ta buƙata. Ina sha'awar yada ilimi. Na kuma ƙirƙiri gyare -gyare a cikin duk ayyukan Gidauniyar Wikimedia, ni memba ne na ƙungiyar Levant Wikimedia, kuma na ƙaddamar da shirye -shiryen ilimi a jami'a ta. Ina so in zama memba na ƙungiyar tsara ƙungiya mai motsi, kuma wannan zai zama sabon ƙari mai ban mamaki a gare ni, kuma ina sa ran fito da shawarwari masu mahimmanci. Ina kuma son haɓaka sassaucin yarjejeniya don motsi, kuma wannan takaddar tana tallafawa duk al'ummomi kuma tana ba da gudummawa ga haɓaka ilimin mutane game da ayyukan Gidauniyar Wikimedia.
Ina kuma son kundin tsarin ya dace da duk canje -canje da kuma ga dukkan al'ummomi, kuma ya kasance yarjejeniya mai adalci da inganci. | |
Aliyu (Aliyu shaba)
Aliyu shaba (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Tun lokacin da na shiga wikipedia na koyi abubuwa da yawa kamar ƙirƙirar tacewa da fassarar labarai. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Na shiga cikin shirye -shiryen Wikipedia daban -daban kamar wikimania 2020 | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Ina so in ba da gudummawar ayyukan wikimedia don inganta abun cikin su. Yana da kyau koyaushe a yi aiki tare don amfanin kowa, musamman ta hanyar ilimi. Ina da niyyar amfani da ƙwarewata tare da haɗin gwiwar wasu membobi don haɓaka Gidauniyar Wikimedia | |
Daria Cybulska (Daria_Cybulska_(WMUK))
Daria_Cybulska_(WMUK) (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Team collaboration experience | At Wikimedia UK I usually work across teams to deliver projects - this requires soft influencing skills to reach agreement, negotiate common ground and move projects forward. I collaborate with external teams where Wikimedia UK gives grants to partner organisations, or projects pitched by volunteers. Beyond working with others on the 2030 strategy (see below), earlier this year I was one of 15 people chosen through a competitive application process to work on a collaborative book sprint. I was collaborating with people from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, some experts within narrow technical fields, some academics. The ‘Collective Wisdom’ book, our end product, can be seen at this link. I believe that with my team collaboration approach comes a great dose of humility. I know I don’t have the answers. I believe in putting others in focus and learning from them, especially if their context is different than mine. My commitment to equity steers me to seeking solutions and knowledge within the people I work with and support. In practice that means that when I coach my team members, or facilitate group discussions, my primary belief is that the people I work with may already hold the answers to their challenges. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I bring a perspective from the organised part of the Wikimedia movement, and a long standing participant of the 2030 strategy process, while holding an open and learning approach.
I have worked in the UK civil society sector for the past 12 years, and for the last 9 I’ve worked at Wikimedia UK, leading on its programmes to deliver ‘free knowledge for all’ and implement the knowledge equity vision. I’ve been a trustee at two charities, currently at Global Dialogue, a European-wide field building network for civil society organisations working on human rights and democratic space. Being a secretariat space for a number of organisations at various stages of development, it gives me insight into a range of governance models, and into legal structures for developing organisations. Global Dialogue also brings a lot of funders in the space, which connects to my practical experience within the 2030 strategy process. Throughout 2018/2019 I was a member of the strategy working group focusing on Resource allocation. We looked into progressive philanthropies, barriers that emerging communities are experiencing in accessing funding. We centered on structures of power and privilege that come with grant-making, and programmatic harms resulting from not addressing them. Accountability to donors is also something we investigated. (I also spent a week with representatives of 8 other thematic groups, taking 90 recommendations total and editing them into a coherent set of global recommendations). A lot of the work done within the Resource Allocation group later informed key principles expressed in the global strategy. However, them being quite abstract and separated from implementation initiatives, I’m concerned that we will not see them realised in action. This would be a big loss, as I think it’s in these principles that we can really envisage a different Wikimedia movement. A Movement Charter is an opportunity to bring that into operation, and I’d hope to help with that. | |