Chat Mouvman an/Komite redaksyon an/Kandida yo
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Paj sa a gen deklarasyon kandida ki nan kous pou "komite Redaksyon Chat mouvman an '. Kandida ki enterese yo te envite yo pou prezante tet yo sou paj sa a soti nan 2 out a 14 septanm 2021 "AoE ( UTC). Komite a ta dwe komanse ak 15 moun.
Apel pou vin kandida " femen kounya" Eleksyon yo gen orè pou yo fèt ant 11 jiska 24 oktob 2021 AoE ( UTC - UTC). Dapre mete kanpe pwosesis, set kandida ki plase nan tèt nan eleksyon yo kap bon. Lot kandida ki aplike isit la pral chwazi pa afilye ak fondasyon Wikimedia a pou yon pwosesis separe nan menm peryod la.
Peyi Kandida yo
Kandida yo soti nan peyi sa yo:
| Peyi | Kantite | Zòn jewografi | Rejyon Wikimedya[Country 1] |
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| Aljeri | 2 | Afrik di nò | Mwayen Oryan ak Afrik Di nò |
| Ostrali | 1 | Pasifik | Azi Lès, Sidès ak Pasifik |
| Bèljik | 1 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Brezil | 1 | Amerik di Sid | Amerik latin & Karayib |
| Biwonndi | 1 | Afrik Lès | Afrik sib-saaryèn |
| Kamewoun | 1 | Afrik santral | Afrik Sib-Saaran |
| Kanada | 2 | Amerik di Nò | Etazini ak Kanada |
| Kolonbi | 1 | Amerik di Sid | Amerik latin & Karayib |
| Kot Divwa | 4 | Afrik Lès | Afrik Sib-Saaran |
| RD Kongo | 3 | Afrik santral | Afrik Sib-Saaran |
| Frans | 1 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Almay | 1 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Gana | 2 | Afrik Lès | Afrik Sib-Saaran |
| Ayiti | 1 | Karayib | Amerik latin & Karayib |
| Ongri | 1 | Ewòp santral | Ewòp santral ak Lès ak Azi santral |
| Chin | 2 | Azi lès | Azi Lès, Sidès ak Pasifik |
| End | 9 | Azi Sid | Asosyasyon sid-Azyatik pou koperasyon rejyonal |
| Endonezi | 1 | Azi Sidès | Azi Lès, Sidès ak Pasifik |
| Irak | 1 | Mwayen Oryan | Mwayen Oryan ak Afrik Di nò |
| Itali | 1 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Meksik | 1 | Afrik santral | Amerik latin & Karayib |
| Mawòk | 1 | Afrik di nò | Mwayen Oryan ak Afrik Di nò |
| Peyi Ba | 2 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Nijerya | 4 | Afrik Lès | Afrik sib-saaryèn |
| Palestin | 1 | Mwayen Oryan | Mwayen Oryan ak Afrik Di nò |
| Pewou | 1 | Amerik di Sid | Amerik latin & Karayib |
| Filipin | 2 | Azi Sidès | Azi Lès, Sidès ak Pasifik |
| Polòy | 3 | Ewòp santral | Ewòp santral ak Lès ak Azi santral |
| Pòtigal | 1 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Kore di Sid | 1 | Azi lès | Azi Lès, Sidès ak Pasifik |
| Risi | 2 | Ewòp lès + Amerik di Nò |
Ewòp santral ak Lès ak Azi santral |
| Wannda | 1 | Afrik Lès | Afrik Sib-Saaran |
| Eslovaki | 1 | Ewòp santral | Ewòp santral ak Lès ak Azi santral |
| Espay | 1 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Esri Lanka | 1 | Azi Sid | Asosyasyon sid-Azyatik pou koperasyon rejyonal |
| Swèd | 1 | Ewòp di Nò | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Tayiwann | 3 | Azi lès | Azi Lès, Sidès ak Pasifik |
| Tannzani | 1 | Afrik Lès | Afrik sib-saaryèn |
| Trinidad ak Tobago | 1 | Karayib | Amerik latin & Karayib |
| Ikrèn | 1 | Ewòp Oksidantal | Ewòp santral ak Lès ak Azi santral |
| Wayòm ini | 3 | Ewòp di Nò | Ewòp Lwès ak Nò |
| Etazini | 8 | Amerik di Nò | Etazini ak Kanada |
| Venezyela | 2 | Amerik di Sid | Amerik latin & Karayib |
Kandida yo
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Nou mande tou kandida yo konfime "pwojè wiki prensipal yo" ak defini ekspètiz yo pa ki endike pwojè a epi chwazi zòn 3 domèn konpetans nan matris la correspondent. Nou mande kandida yo voye enfomasyon sa a anvan 3 oktob 2021 strategy2030
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Tito Dutta (Titodutta)
Titodutta (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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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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Adel Nehaoua (Nehaoua)
Nehaoua (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Administratè sou Wikipedya Arab ak Wikisource Arab, mwen kontribye nan Wikipedya Arab la ak fransè , e mwen gen plis pase 102.000 piblikasyon globalman, mwen tradui atik nan lang Anglè, fransè ak Arab sou Wikipedya ak meta. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Manm aktif nan kominote Arab ak Algeryen depi 2019. Mwen se yon manm nan ekip kap oganize nan Wikiarabie 2021| Wikiarabie 2021 | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Depi lè mwen te kòmanse angaje yo ansanm ak kominote fransè ak Arab yo, mwen te konnen ke kominote yo te dwe etabli bon relasyon avek fondasyon an ak pwojè li yo. Mwen sipòte estrateji Wikimedya 2030 e m te panse rekòmandasyon an pwal pèmèt mouvman an reyalize misyon li ak vizyon. Se poutèt sa, patisipe nan aplikasyon an nan rekomandasyon yo se yon entere komen nan tout kominote ak fondasyon an. | |
Félix Guébo (Ivcom)
Ivcom (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen se yon kolaboratè Wikipedya depi 2015. Mwen te antre nan Gwoup itilizatè Wikimedya nan kominote Kot Divwa a menm ane a kom yon volonte. Nan 2016 mwen te vin kominikatè nan kominote a, sitou kom yon Designer grafik. Ak tit sa a, mwen an chaj nan devlopman nan nenpot ki grafik ak fizik mwayen kominikasyon vizyèl nan kominote a nan peyi nou an. An 2021, mwen te rantre nan komite ekzekitif Wikimedya a Kot Divwa, kom depite Sekrete jeneral, kote mwen an chaj yo kominote a. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Patikilyeman nan Wikimedya, mwen te oblije travay nan ekip lokal la nan Wiki renmen pwoje Afrik la pou 2015, 2016 ak sesyon 2017. Wòl mwen se te ede ak realizasyon pwogram aksyon, devlopman nan kontni piblikasyon, jesyon an nan ekip pou tire imaj, fòmasyon ak sipòte volonte nan pwoje a, swiv-up nan direksyon an estratejik ak rekomandasyon nan Manadjè a pwojè pou yon difizyon serye ak pafe, asistans nan kontribye lokal yo nan pwojè a sou komen yo epi finalman realizasyon an ak koreksyon nan rapo yo aktivite pwojè. Manadjè pwojè peyi a veye sou tout bagay. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Nan 20 ane nan anivèse li yo, Wikipedya wè tet li yo dwe tankou yon chanel enpotan epi fyab. Nou te fè anpil e nou toujou gen anpil pou nou reyalize ke nou se sèlman 6 ane lwen de objektif 2030 Wikimedya nou an. Se konsa, nan objektif yo ak entansite a nan travay la yo dwe fèt, li esansyel yo enplike yon bon jan kalite patikilye nan moun resous yo nan lòd yo reyalize anpil bagay.Se poutet sa, n'ap bezwen pou moun ki disponib ak konesans sou mouvman an . Pou pati mwen an, nan we eksperyans yo te akeri nan peyi mwen an epi tou ladrès yo kapitalize kom yon manm aktif nan realizasyon an nan travay la sou estrateji Wikimedya 2030 soti nan Kot Divwa, mwen volonte nan realizasyon Chat mouvman Wiki an. | |
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. | |
Aliyu (Aliyu shaba)
Aliyu shaba (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Since I joined wikipedia I have learned many things such as creating editing and translating articles. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have participating in various Wikipedia programs such as wikimenia 2020 | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I want to contributes wikimedia projects for improve their content . It is always good to work together for the benefit of everyone, especially through education. I intend to use my expertise in collaboration with other members to develop the Wikimedia Foundation | |
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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Marie-Louise Aembe (WINEUR)
WINEUR (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen enplike nan mouvman an depi 2018. Kounya, map kontribye nan Wikipedya. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Nap kolabore ak UG nan jere pwojè yo paske nap viv nan vil diferan | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Nou te travay difisil depi 2018 pou panse sou sa mouvman nou an ta sanble nan 2030. Jodi a, Wikipedya gen 20 lane li fin vye granmoun e nou rete selman 9 lane pou Wikimedia 2030. Pa gen anpil lane ki rete piske kantite travay ki rete pou fèt pou rive an 2030. Se konsa, nou bezwen moun ki gen kèk konesans sou estrateji mouvman an ki disponib pou ede nou avanse pou pi devan nan faz sa a nan aplikasyon an. Mwen te patisipe nan estrateji a tou sou koman fe salon (nan DRCongo) epi kom yon patisipan (nan Lès Afrik, Ouganda). Sa fè mwen yon kandida ekselan pou komite redaksyon Chat mouvman an. | |
Josh Lim (Sky Harbor)
Sky Harbor (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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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. | |
Jastin Boniventure Msechu (Justine Msechu)
Justine Msechu (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Depi lè m rejwenn Wikipedya, m aprann anpil kòm kreyasyon, edisyon ak tradiksyon atik. M te patisipe nan divès sesyon Wikipedya, notaman Chat Mouvman an. | |
| Team collaboration experience | M te patisipe nan preparasyon anpil aktivite Wikimedya Swayili ki Arusha | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Mwen se yon moun fleksib anpil epi ki gen eneji. Menm le bagay sa yo chanje nan denyè minit la, mwen kapab adapte m komsadwa ak travay nan yon dat limit sere. Se konsa, mwen panse ke li se yon gwo opòtinite yo si m fè pati komite kap ekri nan chat mouvman an pou nou ka devlope Wikipedya ak reyalize objektif ki te fikse pou 2030, epi tou yo pataje eksperyans mwen ak aprann nan men lot moun. | |
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. | |
Chris Keating (The Land)
The Land (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Sou wiki
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| Team collaboration experience | Mwen te fè pati nan gwoup kote gen wòl, travay ak responsablite sou estrateji , ki devlope lide pou yon Chat mouvman an. Li te yon ekip entèkilti ki pale plizyè lang ak anpil nan travay pou fè-jan yo pral fè komisyon Konsèy editoryal la. Nan sitiyasyon sa a, mwen okouran de Privilèj pwòp mwen kom yon oratè natif natal Anglè, e mwen pran swen pou ankouraje ak sipote lòt moun pou yo ka eksprime opinyon yo epi fè kontribisyon yo. Mwen okouran tou de enpotans pou kominike avek kominote pwoje yo. Mwen te youn nan manm gwoup la ki ap travay patisipe nan diskisyon yo sou entenèt sou rekòmandasyon pou pwojè yo.
Mwen te prezidan Wikimedya UK nan yon moman kote chapit la te sibi anpil chanjman. Pandan manda mwen an, nou te sije a yon Governance evalyasyon epi aplike rezilta li yo, ki gen ladan kosey administrasyon nou an pi plis epi enklizif. Sa a te premye fwa yon Oganizasyon Wikimedya te mande yon evalyasyon pwofesyonel detaye nan gouvenans li yo. Aplikasyon konklizyon li yo mande yon gwo kontra diplomasi, taktik ak detèminasyon. Mwen te patisipe tou nan plizyè dizèn lot gwoup volontè ki soti nan gwo Oganizasyon nan ti komite volonte, nan zòn ki sòti nan kanpay politik nan rechèch medikal kote m tap jwe Vyolon. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Kòm youn nan otè yo ki fè premye rekòmandasyon ki te mennen nan chat mouvman an, mwen vle sa fonksyone. Se pa selman kreyasyon chat la ak Konsey Mondyal la, men tou, lot aspè kle nan rekomandasyon yo, tankou kreyasyon an nan espas travay rejyonal ak Desantralizasyon nan pouvwa pou fè mouvman an plis louvri pou patisipe.
Mwen kwè ke Bouyon ak akseptasyon chat mouvman an pral yon gwo defi. Mwen kwè ke gwoup redaksyon a kapab selman reyisi si gen yon pwosesis ouvè ak lajè pou jwenn kominote epi bati Chat yo nan bezwen yo ak aspirasyon yo. Mwen pale plis de fason mwen nan wè sou kijan sa ta dwe fonksyone. Pou pwosesis sa a ap travay, nou bezwen klè pi vit ke posib sou "ki jan kominote yo pral " ak "ki jan pwosesis devlopman/ratifikasyon pral travay". Mwen gen eksperyans vaste ki ap travay sou pwoblèm gouvenans mouvman-pa sèlman nan pwosesis la estrateji. Kòm prezidan nan Wikimedya UK, mwen te ede rezoud kek pwoblèm gouvènans enpòtan nan chapit sa a, epi mwen te patisipe tou nan anpil echanj anvan ant kominote yo (oganize yo ak diskisyon oganize nan 2011-2, Superprotect, FramBan, chanjman yo anpil nan WMF yo sou 10 ane ki sot pase yo). Kom Chat mouvman an se pou lavni, mwen panse mwen ka pote avèk mwen konesans enstitisyon yo ki enpòtan. Mwen kwè ke chat mouvman an -epi finalman Konsey Mondyal la – pral jwe yon wòl enpòtan pou mouvman nou nan lavni. Si yo travay, le sa a, mouvman an antye ka ale nan bon direksyon an. Nou ka kòmanse adrese pwoblèm ki la lontan yo nan mefyans ak dezekilib pouvwa yo. Men, li dwe fe korekteman. Mwen panse mwen ka ede dirije pwojè sa a nan direksyon dwat la, se poutèt sa mwen ap vini nan komite. Si ou ta renmen chat, ekrim gratis mesaj mwen! | |
Yao Kouamé Didier (Didierwiki)
Didierwiki (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Since I joined the Wikimedia user Group Côte d'Ivoire community in 2015 and I have remained a very active volunteer contributor. I learned a lot of things in a progressive way, such as article creation and editing, training and others. As a very active member of the Wikimedia user Group Côte d'Ivoire community, I was elected General Secretary of the said community and Glam-Wiki Project Leader in this year 2021. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have worked on several local projects in perfect collaboration with the project teams, such as wikikouman, Glam-Wiki, Wiki Loves Africa. I participated in several committees that have reflected on setting up strategies for the realization of certain projects within the community Wikimedia user Group Ivory Coast, I was part of the trainers of the Wiki Class where we worked in synergy. I am part of the Working Group of Wikimania 2021.In regards of Wikimedia volunteering, I work in perfect harmony with other Project Managers. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I would like to be a volunteer in the drafting of the Wikimedia Movement Charter because I have participated in the Wikimedia 2030 Strategy process. 20 years from Wikipedia’s birthday we have to believe that we have a lot to do to reach our goals of Wikimedia 2030. I strongly believe that the Movement Charter will be a document (a compass) for a better future of the movement. | |
Valentin Nasibu (VALENTIN NVJ)
VALENTIN NVJ (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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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". | |
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. | |
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 , [:https://pustaka.miraheze.org/wiki/Tempat-Tempat Tempat Tempat Project] , usaha.click, and [://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page 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. | |
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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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). | |
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 | |
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. | |
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 Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe, public speeches, grants comm, collaborations among affiliates incl. capacity building, and more. Twice elected to the Funds Dissemination Committee, 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. | |
Michael Baker (Tango Mike Bravo)
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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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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. | |
Basheer (Uncle Bash007)
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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. | |
V M (Vis M)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | My main contributions so far have been maintenance & housekeeping, patrolling vandalism across different projects, adding 50,000+ Malayalam language lexemes at Wikidata, 500+ ml entries at en.Wiktionary, 1000+ uploads to Commons, editing chemistry, materials and manufacturing articles on en.w, collaborating, connecting and assisting people across different projects, widening free knowledge movement, etc. I am active across diverse Wikimedia sister wikis; having 1000+ edits on 4 wikis and 100+ edits on 10 wikis in total. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Collaborated as part of a few WikiProjects, mainly LD, KERALA and POLYMER. I participate in many discussion forums of Wikimedia projects and groups. I am also a happy-to-help person, assisting those looking for help. I have always maintained a welcoming atmosphere. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I will try to give importance for ensuring that the diverse groups of people, including the global south and especially the women, all can access and contribute conveniently to different Wikimedia projects. This would include ensuring a safe and welcoming community that keeps to the Universal code of conduct.
Wikimedia should enable everyone to easily contribute from smartphones and preferred devices (The desktop, IMHO, has a gender/demography bias). I have always strived to remove barriers to free knowledge and reduce the learning curve needed to participate and contribute. Those who like to add knowledge should be able to do so without spending time familiarizing stuffs. Things should be designed intuitively. Proper communication and documentation are other aspects that have been missing so far. The WMF need to communicate with the communities and take in feedbacks of diverse groups of different sister projects. The drafting committee should include it. | |
Abel L Mbula (BamLifa)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Ko-fondate gwoup la itilizatè Wikimedyan nan DRKongo a, mwen oganize evenman Deutsch-kalite (egzanp fomasyon, hackathons, ediathons...) sitou nan kominote yo pale fransè. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Mwen sitou travay avek lot Wikimedyan sou kontinan an pou ogmante konnesans nan pwojè Wikimedya a. Nou menm tou nou kolabore nan UG nou an le li rive pote pwoje paske nou ap viv nan diferan vil. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Nou te travay difisil depi 2018 pou panse sou sa mouvman nou an ta sanble nan 2030. Jodi a, Wikipedya gen 20 lane li fin vye granmoun e nou rete selman 9 lane pou Wikimedia 2030. Pa gen anpil lane ki rete piske kantite travay ki rete pou fèt pou rive an 2030. Se konsa, nou bezwen moun ki gen kèk konesans sou estrateji mouvman an ki disponib pou ede nou avanse pou pi devan nan faz sa a nan aplikasyon an. Mwen te patisipe nan estrateji a tou sou koman fe salon (nan DRCongo) epi kom yon patisipan (nan Lès Afrik, Ouganda). Sa fè mwen yon kandida ekselan pou komite redaksyon Chat mouvman an. | |
Reda Kerbouche (Reda Kerbouche)
Reda Kerbouche (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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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. | |
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. | |
Gilbert Ndihokubwayo (Gilbert Ndihokubwayo)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Ko-fondatè nan gwoup la itilizatè kominote Wikimedya nan Biwonndi, Somè Afrik estratejik Lès, Wiki renmen Afrik, Wiki paj anvi foto. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Rejyon lès Afrik yo sou estrateji, West Afrik rejyonal reyinyon sou estrateji, konvèsasyon sou estrateji mouvman, gwoup itilizate Wikimedya kominote, Wikimedya Afriken (gwoup telegram ), Vikimedyo an Esperanto (telegram gwoup), diskisyon sou pwosesis estrateji mouvman Wikimedia a. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Mwen se yon moun motive,epi ki kontan sèvi fondasyon Wikimedya a. Pandan etid inivèsite mwen an, mwen te akeri konesans nan kominikasyon nan sipo nan devlopman; Mwen te gen konesans sou diferan aspe ak apwoch nan kominikasyon, ki gen ladan kominikasyon gwoup, kominikasyon partisipativ, konsiltasyon kominote ak kominikasyon entekilti.
Mwen disponib pou aktivite a ak pwomès yo aji nan enterè a nan mouvman Wikimedya, nan konfomite ak Kod Inivesel la nan kondwit, epi swiv rekomandasyon an nan direksyon estratejik mouvman an. Vreman vre, apre diferan patisipasyon nan evenman yo nan mouvman an Wikimedya, mwen devlope ladrès nan pwojè Wikimedia ak plan pou pwogrese. Nan aktivite pwofesyonel mwen yo, mwen te kreye yon baz done koyeran, pou kowodone diferan akte, pou jwenn konpwomi. Travay mwen pèmèt mwen teste kapasite mwen nan plan yo dwe planifye epi kreyatif, mwen tou teste kapasite mwen pou we twou vid ki genyen ki bezwen ranpli, kapasite mwen pou negosye ak diferan pati. | |
KAHOU (Kahoutoure)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I participated in several edit-a-thons, especially the 1lib1ref edit-a-thons and the Afrociné projects, Wikikouman, as well as the Wiki Loves Africa contributor evenings, and Wikipedia Class | |
| Team collaboration experience | I am the Project Manager of Afrociné Côte d'Ivoire and the Project Assistant of Glam and I actively participate in the different activities of the Wikipedia sister projects | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | En ma qualité de Producteur des médias et réalisateur, je suis un conservateur d’images et Directeur exécutif d’une faîtière d’archivistes, bibliothécaires et libraires en Côte d’Ivoire (FICCI) Ma formation en gestion de projet et de manager m'a permis d'acquérir de nombreuses compétences parmi celles que vous recherchées. Je possède les atouts qui me permettront de réussir dans le rôle que vous voudrez bien me confier. Motivation, rigueur et écoute sont les maîtres mots de mon comportement professionnel.
As a Media Producer, I am an image Conservator and Executive Director of an umbrella organization of archivists, librarians and booksellers in Côte d'Ivoire (FICCI). My training in project management has enabled me to acquire many of the skills you are looking for. I have the assets that will allow me to succeed in the role you will entrust to me. Motivation, rigor, and listening are the keywords to describe my professional behavior. My experience as a Project Manager during the VIIIth Games of Francophonie has allowed me to acquire the knowledge necessary for the proper execution of tasks under pressure. Regularly confronted with the ups and downs of the job, I am able to respond to unforeseen events in complete autonomy. Taking part in the Drafting Committee of the Movement Charter represents for me a real future commitment in which my aptitude and my experience will be able to express themselves fully. | |
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. | |
Handgod Abraham (Kitanago)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen se yon manm epi kofondatè Wikimedia Ayiti Gwoup Itilizate. Mwen patisipe epi mennen plizyè atelye sou pwojè wikimedya. Mwen tradui atik nan lang Anglè, fransè ak Kreyol Ayisyen sou wikipedya ak meta. Mwen kenbe pwojè literati ayisyen an sou wipedia an fransè e mwen patisipe nan plizye lot pwojè wiki. Mwen se yon volonte pou eleksyon kap fet pou konsey kap gen pou jere fondasyon Wikimedia a. Epi, mwen sot pwopoze tèt mwen kom yon manm nan komite rejyonal la pou Amerik Latin ak Karayib la. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Mwen se yon community manager. Mwen te kontribiye pou apepre dis ane kom yon operatè kiltirèl epi mwen se prezidan ekzekitif " Maraton liv la". Mwen se yon manm nan komite ekzekitif la tou. Éditions Pulùcia. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Mwen renmen patisipe nan pwoje Wikimedya pou karakte kominote li yo. Mwen jwenn ke li toujou pi bon pou kolabore pou entere tout moun, espesyalman nan ankouraje konesans. Mwen gen entansyon kolabore ak tout lot manm pou avansman fondasyon la.Wikimedya a. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Richard (Nosebagbear)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Apre yon fo komanse nan 2012, mwen tonbe desann twou lapen nan 2018 epi yo te aktif tout tan depi. Youn nan domèn mw pi aktif se fason nou fe Entevansyon (kounye a VRT), ki ap travay prensipalman ak moun ki gen absoliman okenn eksperyans Wikimedya, ede navige sa ki ka yon diferan pwosesis Byzantin. Mwen menm mwen te vin yon administratè en-wiki nan 2019, ki te tou sou tan an mwen te vin tre aktif nan estrateji nan mouvman an. Sa a te nan patisipasyon nan chak faz preske tout rekomandasyon yo, diskisyon sou klasifikasyon yo, UCoC yo ak tout diskisyon yo nou te oblije aplike estrateji 2030 la. Mwen te ede jwenn yon konpwomi pou metod seleksyon an pou komite chat redaksyon mouvman an. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Esansyèl nan karyè mwen, mwen te travay kom yon analist estratejik pou yon miltinasyonal – yon ti ekip ki se misyon prensipal la se rasanble opinyon yo diferan ak priyorite nan yon douzèn inite biznis diferan ak lè sa a, devlope yon estrateji ki kenbe e ke tout moun ap aksepte. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Mwen mande ki sa yo mete isit la-tout moun sanble yo gen pwen de vi mwen sou itilizasyon deklarasyon an, men mwen te panse ou ta vle konnen ki sa mwen ta fe aktyèlman si mwen te chwazi (menm si li brefman).
Sa a se yon pwosesis enpòtan, men nou dwe asire ke li posib ak redaktè espesifik yo ak sa ki posib nan opinyon kominote a (ak anfaz sou pliryel la).Nou pa ta dwe eseye pouse nan yon pozisyon kontwovèse ak sipò 51̤̤̤̤̥% e mwen pa ta dwe fè l. Mwen se yon sipòtè ki fò nan "oksilyè", sa se, tout bagay ka fèt nan nivo ki pi laj (kominote lokal yo ak meta-kominote a) dwe fèt.
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Hobit (Hobit)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Kek ane de sa, mwen te travay sou yon pwopozisyon NSF ki te enplike Wikipedya e te sipote pa WMF la. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Mwen souvan anseye gwo kou nan inivesite, pafwa ak yon ekip pwofese ki rive jiska 25 moun. Malgre tout travay mwen an Anglè, mwen travay avek moun ki soti nan tout mond lan. Pandan pandemi an, mwen te fe reyinyon sou entenet ak moun ki nan apepre 10 zòn tan diferan. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Entere prensipal mwen nan Wikipedya se nosyon gouvène pwòp tèt ou. Malgre tout defo li yo, mwen te jwenn ke en.wikipedya.org gen yon model gouvenans ki reyisi mande raman entevansyon lòt moun (an reyalite, entevansyon lot moun yo souvan pa ede vanse). Mwen jwenn li etonan ke yon Oganizasyon benevòl fè anpil sikse. Mwen kwè ke anfaz sou honètete ak sivilite se kl sikse a.
Mwen pa konsidere tet mwen kòm yon gwo ekriven, men mwen se yon bon ekriven men m se yon bon redaktè ak pafwa mwen dwe bay opinyon mwen (tou de sou kontni ak ekri) sou yon douzen pwopozisyon plis pase paj 15 nan mwens pase yon semen. RCF mande m kòmante sa mwen te fè sou vesyon an Anglè yo se pwobableman fason ki pi bon yo ilistre kapasite mwen nan lekti epi konprann opinyon yo nan diferan pati ([1] se pi resan). Mwen pral okipe ak travay mwen soti nan mwa septanm pou rive nan mitan mwa desanm epi li pral pwobableman gen kek semen pandan ki mwen pa pap kapab fe edtan 5 nan travay. Sa a pa ta dwe sa jiskaske septanm 2022. | |
Anupam Dutta (Anupamdutta73)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Contributing to Bengali Wikipedia, mainly by translating articles from English Wikipedia ; Editing articles in Bengali, English and other languages ; Contributing pictures in Wikimedia Commons; Sometimes I edit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Served as Secretary and President of Rotaract Club of Tollygunge (under Rotary Club of Tollygunge) | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Wish to be part of the historical Movement by collaborating with all the interested fellow Wikipedians and create the Draft which will serve as the "Reference" for all the Wikipedians to follow. At the same time, it should be flexible enough to reflect the passage of time. | |
Irvin Sto. Tomas (Filipinayzd)
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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. | |
Ashioma Medi (SuperSwift)
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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. | |
Abdul-Rasheed Yussif (Din-nani1)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I am a very active Wikimedian from 2015. English and Dagbani Wikipedia are the Wikipedias that I edit most. Being a co-founder of Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, I worked tiredlessly for the realisation of the group's objective. Due to the hardwork of the team and volunteers, the group (language specific) was given a fully fledged Wikipedia that was announced on July 1, 2021. I, being a pioneer of the group trained alot of volunteers to acquire editging skills to be able to contribute to Wikimedia projects.I have participated actively in different projects and initiatives, including being GLAM ambassador for GOIF,event organiser for Art and Feminism and a trainer/project manager for Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. | |
| Team collaboration experience | I have participated in several team collaborative experiences within Dagbani Wikimedians User Group at different levels and that lead to successfully carrying out several useful projects such as Bachinima project, Wiki loves Folklore and My Northern achiever project. The accumulation of which landed us into having a fully fledged Wikipedia. I have vast experience in bringing up my community from being in the incubator to being made a fully fledged Wikipedia. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | This is my first time of applying to part of the movement strategy Committee and the purpose of doing it is to contribute my skills gained to support WMF at large. I am so passionate about making the marginalized and endangered languages get the chance to contribute to Wikimedia projects or consume content published on Wikipedia hence I channel a chunk of energy in working on the Dagbani Wikipedia. Translating English content on Wikipedia to Dagbani Language and also creating new content for the usage of those that can not read in English. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Pepe Flores (Padaguan)
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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. | |
Zhong Juechen (三猎)
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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 couldn't 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. | |
Abdulrahman (itzedubaba)
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| Team collaboration experience | Participate in various Wikipedia programs such as wikimenia 2021 | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I have lofty and noble professional dreams of helping as many vulnerable people as I can to be safe and happy. As a graduate student, I will aim to master the gambit of strategies that are most effective at promoting progressive social change. Being a caring person is intrinsic to social work, along with the drive and high motivation to challenge clients to realize their full potential. Social workers must honor the individuality of each client and empower them to move forward and achieve improvement. The fullest respect of client dignity helps to foster a sense of worth leading towards self-realization and -determination, and helps to produce participatory citizens rather than burdens to the system. The fight against social injustice is intrinsic to social work as I see it, in addition to advocacy, always with an eye on achieving the best outcomes for one’s clients. I personally feel strongly that serving as a voice for the oppressed should come naturally for social workers as they fight for justice and progressive change in their communities. While working with individual clients in the micro setting is my primary and immediate goal, I think it is complimentary to never lose sight of the broader picture and the way in which our own efforts are part of a larger movement towards greater levels of equality and dignity in our society. | |
Richard Knipel (Pharos)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I've been active in the community movement since 2004, and have served as an administrator on English Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki, and formerly on Commons as well. My first editing area was WikiProject New York City, which I started, and my very first article was U Thant Island, about an obscure little urban island with a fascinating history. I have tried to balance the local and the global, in both my editing and in my community organizing.
I have been active in the following organized groups, among others:
I also started these Commons and GLAM initiatives:
In response to last year's branding controversy, I and others helped organize these strategic initiatives:
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| Team collaboration experience | Wikimedia is a deeply team-based movement, and my efforts have not been as an individual, but always in concert with and learning from others.
I have helped bring together individuals and communities, and have assisting in convening many meetings, both project-based and geography-based (including WikiConference North America), in an attempt to foster greater community dialogue. In addition to the COLOR and SWAN initiatives, I have also tried to foster global community understanding through Wikipedia Weekly Network over the past year, and especially for the 20th anniversary with Wiki 20 Countdown/Asia-Pacific and Wiki 20 Countdown/Africa. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | We need a truly decentralized and democratic movement, and I believe I can be in a postition to help forward that goal. We need a charter document that guarantees real independence and resources for the communities. I will draw on this past year's experience with the COLOR letter and the SWAN global meetings, and will work to hold movement actors to account with a meaningful and enforcable document. Strategy is about distribution of power and we shouldn't pretend that isn't. What we're looking at is a fair way of allocating resources and establishing consensus among the many elements of our movement globally.
Therefore, I commit myself to these principles:
I believe in a community driven iterative on-wiki process, not something written in a black box in a dark room. I will commit to ensuring these principles in the process and in the product, and I believe I have the experience, the diplomacy, and the nuance to be effective in this task. | |
Nethi Sai Kiran (Nskjnv)
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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. | |
Dosso Djibril (Djibril016)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen te patisipe nan twa fomasyon sou Wikipedya fransè ak sit wèt. Mwen nan WhatsApp fransè Wikipedya ki ap travay gwoup nan peyi mwen an nan Kot Divwa. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Kòm yon pati nan aktyalizasyon atik yo sou Wikipedya fransè a, nou te travay kòm yon ekip pandan fòmasyon yo ak aprè fòmasyon yo. Mwen menm tou mwen gen pou pi piti 5 lane eksperyans nan ilization nan zouti kolaborasyon yo. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Wikimedya enpòtan anpil nan mond lan nan rechèch kom li plen enfòmasyon ki enpòtan pou elaji, elèv, cheche, pwofese.... Li se se poutet sa nesese konbine efo nou pou devlopman nan pwoje sa a itil nan limanite kom yon antye. Li se nan sans sa a ke mwen aplike yo mete konnen mwen-ki jan, konnen mwen-ki jan, tout ladrès mwen nan benefis sa a nan pwojè sa a enteresan. Vrèman, kalite mwen yo nan makonnen ak kondisyon yo nan komite redaksyon mouvman an.
Premyèman, Kòm manadjè enfòmasyon mwen genyen pou misyon met enfòmasyon disponib pou itilizatè yo, nan montre yo teknik rechech dokimantè, dirije yo nan diksyonè itil nan kontèks la nan rechèch yo. Yo fè pati nan komite redaksyon nan mouvman an pral pemet mwen ' fe disponib nan ekip sa a tout atant yo, difikilte, enfomasyon vle pa itilizate yo. Lè sa a, antrenè sou plizyè modil nan syans enfòmasyon dokimantè ak sou zouti kolaborasyon ranfose pwodiktivite. Mwen gen yon metrize zouti sa yo pou travay nan yon ekip, aktivite kontwole, mete yon limit pou travay diferan. Finally, I will be able not only to promote Wikimedia projects in my networks but also to train other people on the resources available on this project. | |
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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Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab_WMF)
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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. | |
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 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. | |
Sameera Lakshitha (Sameera94)
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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. | |
Alice Wiegand (lyzzy)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen te komanse kontribiye nan Wikipedya Alman an 2004. Anplis de sa mwen pibliye, mwen te yon administratè biwokrat, ajan OTRS ak plis anko. Byen bonè, mwen reyalize ke, pou mwen ', te gen plis fe pase atik ekri. Patisipasyon mwen nan pwosesis la estrateji global nan 2010 te premye bel bagay mwen nan oryantasyon entenasyonal mwen.Mwen te antre nan komisyon Konsèy administratè nan Wikimedya Almay (WMDE) soti nan 2008 a 2011 e li te yon manm nan komisyon konsey la nan administrate nan fondasyon an Wikimedia soti nan 2012 a 2018.
Kounye a, mwen retounen manm nan konsèy kap jere Wkipedya Almay. Lè yo tap ekri rekomandasyon estrateji 2030, mwen te yon manm nan lide ki ap travay gwoup nan estrateji mouvman an. Mwen te kole ak estrateji mouvman an depi le sa a epi yo te patisipe nan konvèsasyon global ak evenman pou sipòte pwosesis la kontinyel. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Pou eksperyans mwen yo ak Wikimedya, mwen te travay nan kolaborasyon anpil pwosesis tankou wòl mouvman an (2018-20) oswa, nan kou, nan diferan komite pandan ke mwen nan konsèy administrasyon an. Men, mwen panse ke nou bezwen louvri sou esperans ak nouvo metod ak lide pou pote moun ansanm,lide ak pwosesis nan nivo Mondyal la pou idantifye sak ini nou. Ki sa ki nan zòn rekonfò mwen an pa ka pi bon fason pou lot moun, nan lot pati nan mond lan ak nan diferan kilti. Sa a se kote nou dwe tout dwe louvri epi yo pa konsidere eksperyans pwòp nou yo ak sipozisyon kom sant la sel nan sajès. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Pou mwen ', Chat mouvman an se lesansyel pou mouvman nou an, efo nou pou konesans gratis ak aksè nan konesans gratis pou pare pou lavni.
Mwen pwofondeman kwè ke nou bezwen repanse kèk nan bagay nou pa janm vrèman fè ak konsekans yo. Onòtete nan desizyon ki fè se sa nou aspire. Kisa sa vle di an tèm de kalite òganizasyon nou kreye, relasyon yo/depandans ak fondasyon Wikimedya la youn ak lot, ak wol kominote yo nan desizyon an jeneral ki ap fèt? Nou dwe entèvni nan negosyasyon yo ak entere balans, pouvwa ak dwa yo. Chat mouvman an pral bay fondasyon yo pou nouvo estrikti tankou Konsèy Mondyal la, ki dwe yon fwa anko pote entere sa yo ansanm epi sevi mouvman an tout antye. Enkli kontribye ak volonte, osi byen ke òganizasyon nou yo ak anplwaye yo. Daprè sa mwen konprann, gwoup redaksyon an ap rasanble rechech nesesè, travay la deja fèt nan gwoup yo ki ap travay ak kontribisyon aktyèl Wikimedyan yo. Li plis la pou kreye. Mwen panse de sik iterative ak kominote a, nan ti etap, san yo pa tann pou tout bagay yo dwe nan yon fom ki difisil pou chanje. Men mwen byen fem kwe ke nou gen plis sajes nan mouvman nou pase yon gwoup 20 moun ka genyen. Epi nou bezwen tout sajès sa a le nou kreye yon fondasyon komen pou lavni. | |
Christophe Henner (schiste)
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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?”. | |
Ciell (Ciell)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen te patisipe nan mouvman an depi 2006. Kounye a, mwen se yon administrate sou Wikipedya Laoland yo, administratè tanpore sou Papiamentu Wikipedya, administratè sou komen yo, ajan VRTS, CN administratè sou meta, e mwen gen lot dwa tankou kreye kanpay Komonn yo: Montaj pou evalye konkou foto.Kom yon administratè CN, mwen travay nan yon wol tre divès ki soti nan yon pespektiv Lengwistik ak kiltirèl, ki, anplis de divèsite sa a, tou mande pou kenbe nan tèt pozisyon WMF a ak panse nan mond lan nan chwa yo ak desen nou fè pou bandwol ak kanpay wikimwdya yo. Mwen vrèman renmen wòl la. Nan sitiyasyon entèkilti, mwen jwenn yon defi pou analize moun ki apwoche mwen avek yon demann ak santiman jeneral ak reg sou diferan pwojò yo. Mwen menm tou mwen patisipe nan espas seks, LGBTI +, akse ak GLAM nan pwojè wiki kom yon patisipasyon m sou entenèt la. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Espesyalman pou estrateji, mwen te patisipe nan diferan fason depi 2017, pafwa tradui ak ap resevwa nan kominote nou an fome yon opinyon sou direksyon estratejik 2030 (egzanp nl:Wikipedia:Strategie 2030, ak pibliye enfomasyon sou inisyativ WMF sou Ponp Vilaj nou an, prensipal chanel kominikasyon enten nou an pou kominote a. Mwen te patisipe nan plizyè reyinyon pou devlopman direksyon estratejik an. nou an pou kominote a. Mwen te patisipe nan plizye reyinyon pou devlopman direksyon estratejik an. Pandan mwa ki sot pase yo, mwen te patisipe nan aplikasyon an nan nouvo Kòd kondwit Inivèsel la (UCoC) nan Laoland "Beleid Vriendelijk Ruimtes" ki chapit la Laoland (WMNL) itilize pou evenman li yo:kounye a konsèp yo sou wiki nan chapit pou konsiltasyon kominote. (Concepttekst nieuw Beleid Vriendelijke Ruimtes) Mwen menm tou mwen te oganize plizye evenman, poukont mw oswa nan yon ekip, soti nan ti reyinyon nan bibliyotek nan milti-jou ak evenman miltinasyonal tankou Wiki Techstorm. Mwen te gen kek travay sipo ti nan plizye Wikimania (2018, 2019, 2021). Yon bref (toujou enkonple) rezime aktivite wiki mwen fe yo sou 15 lane ki sot pase yo, nan Laoland, ici. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Mwen ta renmen kontribye nan kreyasyon chat mouvman an ki pa gen twop restriksyon sou kominote aktyel nou yo, men ki etabli yon baz desan de sa ki espere pou wol diferan ak responsablite nou genyen. Nan ane sa yo, mwen te aprann ke wol yo ak responsablite yo chanje. Mwen ta swete chat mouvman an vin kle, men fleksib ase yo dwe kapab aksepte pote modifikasyon, pou ke li bay yon fondasyon solid pou kominote nou yo nan ane kap vini yo. Yon chat kap pran ankont reyalite a. | |
Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF))
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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)
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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. | |
Alvonte (Alvonte)
Alvonte (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | I have significant experience with Wikimedia projects since 2010, I am:
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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. | |
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. | |
Sofia Matias (Girassolei)
Girassolei (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Started editing in 2020 with Wiki Editoras Lx, since then I have participated in several events promoted by various wikipedia groups, including wikimedia portugal and Wiki Movimento Brasil | |
| Team collaboration experience | I'm a member of Wiki Editoras Lx that is a group of women that tries to fix the gender gap in portuguese wikipedia by creating articles about women and at the same time teaching new editors. i was in the team that organized Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (2021); | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | I'm not sure what to write here. I decided to apply because I fell in love with the project.I'm a relatively new editor on wikipedia and i think that the Movement Charter is crucial, so that it doesn´t lose the foundations on which it rests and doesn't lose sight of the goal which is to share knowledge. | |
Daria Cybulska (Daria_Cybulska_(WMUK))
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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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan)
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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. | |
Osama Eid (Osps7)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen kontribye nan Wikipedya Arab ak Anglè, mwen gen dwa editoryal pou Wikipedya Arab la ak Wikipedya Anglè a, e mwen gen editoryal dwa pou Wiki komonn yo. Mwen travay sitou kont eksprè a nan konesans gratis, mwen gen plis pase 11.000 piblikasyon globalman, mwen te enplike m nan mouvman an Wikimedia nan fè pwomosyon konesans gratis nan konpetisyon ak kanpay, ak yon bèl pousantaj nan objektif ki reyalize ,Mwen se yon manm aktif nan gwoup la Wikipedya a nan zòn Levan an, e mwen gen konfyans nan sa ki ap pase nan lès la. Mwen komanse pwojè nan inivèsite pou fomasyon sou Wikipedya. Mwen jere pwogram edikasyon wikipedya Arab la nan Leta Palestin lan, epi mwen patisipe tou nan tout kanpay fondasyon Wikimedya ak pwoje li yo. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Gwoup Wikimedya Levan ak aktivie jounen Wikipedya arab yo. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Mwen ekri atik nan Wikipedya Arab la ak Anglè epi yo gen pèmisyon sou ansiklopedi Wikipedya nan Arab ak Anglè. Dwa mande. Mwen tre enterese nan difizyon konesans. Mwen menm mwen modifye sou tout pwojè fondasyon Wikimedia, mwen se yon manm nan ekip Wikimedya Levant an, e mwen lanse pwogram edikasyon nan inivèsite mwen.Mwen ta renmen vin yon manm nan ekip kap ekri chat mouvman an. Sa a pral yon bel eksperyans pou mwen, e mwen espere fe kek rekòmandasyon ki enpòtan anpil. Mwen vle tou devlope yon chat fleksib pou mouvman an, e ke chat sa a sipote tout kominote yo ak ede ogmante konesans moun nan pwojè fondasyon Wikimedya yo.Mwen espere tou ke chat la pral adapte nan tout chanjman ak tout sosyete, e ke li pral Bel ak pozitif. | |
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. | |
Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati)
Anass Sedrati (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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| Wikimedia movement experience | Mwen te aktif nan pwojè Wikimedya yo depi 2013. Mwen modifye Wikipedya nan lang miltip, epi ede lanse nouvo vesyon nan lang anba tou. Mwen se yon ko-fondatè Wikimedya Moroko itilizate gwoup (manm komite), Wikimedian.ne.s Tamazight itilizate gwoup, ak Wikimedyan itilizatè gwoup.Mwen te aktivman patisipe nan pwojè divès kalite ak inisyativ, ki gen ladan kom yon manm nan Wikimedya 2030 ki ap travay gwoup (plaidoyer), lyezon estratejik pou lang Arab la. (WMF-contractual), manm nan tranzisyon konsepsyon gwoup, ak manm nan connectors gwoup, patisipe nan redaksyon nan rekomandasyon final la 2030. | |
| Team collaboration experience | Mwen te patisipe nan plizyè eksperyans pou kolabore ak ekip mouvman nou an nan diferan nivo. Lokalman, mwen te koEntenasyonalman, mwen te lide volonte pou Wikimanya 2019 nan Stockolm, e mwen te yon manm nan komite pwogram nan ak komite bous nan plizye konferans lokal ak rejyonal. Mwen se tou yon manm nan ssyErd plan anyel la.
Pou estrateji a, mwen kolabore ak Wikimedyan ki soti nan tout kote, kom yon manm nan yon gwoup ki ap travay, men tou, nan dives kalite konferans yo , pwojè ak evènman kote nou te rankontre. Sa a te ban mwen lide enpotan ak eksperyans sou ki jan diferan kilti yo ka kolabore, nan diferan zòn , epi tou ki jan yo jere diferan fason nan travay, pandan yo ap jwenn rezilta yo ta vle a. Anplis de sa, mwen gen yon eksperyans pwofesyonel plis pase 8 ane kom yon Manadjè pwojè, ak lavi chak jou mwen te fè nan kolaborasyon nan yon ekip. Mwen te travay sou pwojè nan domèn enfòmatik, telekominikasyon, swen sante, sektè piblik, finans, ak plizyè ekip ak konpayi atrave mond lan. | |
| Statement (not more than 400 words) | Mwen te patisipe nan pwosesis la Wikimedya 2030 estrateji depi nan konmansman an, ak plizye chapo. Patisipe nan ekri rekomandasyon final la, fem kwe ke chat mouvman an pral yon dokiman enpòtan (ak gid) pou lavni mouvman nou. Li se se poutèt sa enpotan se ba li plas la li bezwen, ak asire ke se pi bon ekip la kap travay sou li.
Mwen ta renmen pote eksperyans mwen, kom yon Wikimedian miltidisipline , ki te viv nan twa peyi, pou m fè pati komite redaksyon an. Mwen konekte nan plizyè kominote nan mouvman an, e mwen eseye pataje pespektiv yo diferan ak konteks ke mwen okouran, yo nan lòd yo reflete yo nan konteks global nou an. Divesite ak enklizyon se motè mw yo ye, e mwen ta renmen asire ou ke tout moun pral ka patisipe. Kom yon lide kominote, mwen te patisipe nan plizye diskisyon sou gouvenans. Tèz doktora mwen konsantre sou IdO (entènet nan bagay) gouvenans e li gen yon chapit konplè sou gouvenans Wikipedya. :) Mwen ap toujou di ke Chat Mouvman an se yon dokiman ki enpòtan (konparab nan yon konstitisyon), e ke li dwe yon priyorite pou moun ki ap rantre nan inisyativ sa a. Mwen tap kontan fè li ak ekip la editoryal. Si nenpot moun gen yon kesyon oswa bezwen enfomasyon nan men mwen ', kontakte mwen ' sou paj diskisyon, epi map reponn ou pi vit ke posib. | |
Chico Venancio (chicocvenancio)
chicocvenancio (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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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. | |
Ad Huikeshoven (Ad Huikeshoven)
Ad Huikeshoven (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)
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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. | |
