Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-07-25/Board of Trustees candidates
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Elections for four community seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees will be held from August 18 through August 31 on Meta. You should be eligible to vote if you have made at least 300 edits before 5 July 2021 across Wikimedia wikis; and have made at least 20 edits between 5 January 2021 and 5 July 2021. Special rules apply to developers, WMF employees, and others. Try the AccountEligibility tool if you are still confused.
The single transferable voting method will be used to tabulate the votes. It's believed this method will favor candidates that have broad support rather than candidates who have intense support from a particular group. Contact your nearest math professor for a simple description of how the method works.
Twenty candidates are running for the four open seats, which will have 3-year terms. How are you going to get enough information to decide which candidates to vote for? The full list of candidates is here with links to lengthy summaries of their qualifications, short essays, and answers to selected questions. But as an experiment this year, the candidates were encouraged to make a short video to introduce themselves. Eight candidates uploaded at least one video, with some providing multiple language versions. Two considerate candidates even provided short versions along with their longer versions. We include these videos below, together with some very basic information taken from the information page for each of the 20 candidates. The order of the list was selected randomly.
But let's start with 36 minutes of about 16 candidates in a ZOOM-style video. (video now deleted at Commons!)
Delay
On August 2, the WMF announced that the election would be delayed "This election was due to open on August 4th. Due to some technical issues with SecurePoll, the election must be delayed by two weeks. This means we plan to launch the election on August 18th, which is the day after Wikimania concludes."
The candidates
Location: Berlin, Germany, Languages: en-N, es-2; Wikimedian since: 2012; Active wikis: mediawiki, meta.
Location: (left blank); Languages: English, Dutch;n Wikimedian since: March 2008; Active wikis: Wikidata, Wikipedia, Commons.
Location: Palestine; Languages: ar-N, en-N, fr-3, he-3, es-2, nl-1; Wikimedian since: 2005; Active wikis: arwiki, enwiki, commons, meta.
Location: New Delhi, India, Languages: English, Hindi, Oriya, Punjabi, Wikimedian since: 2015, Active wikis: en.Wikipedia, Commons, hi.wikivoyage.org, and 10 other ptojects
Location: Manchester, UK; Languages: Russian, English, Belarusian, Ukrainian; Wikimedian since: 2007; Active wikis: Russian Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Commons, Russian Wiktionary
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Video in English.
Location: Nevada City, California, United States; Languages: sr-2 (it is my first language but I speak it poorly now), en-N, es-2, fr-2; Wikimedian since: June 2007; Active wikis: English Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata
Location: India, Languages: Tamil, English, Wikimedian since: 2005 Active wikis: Tamil Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikidata, Commons
Ivan Martinez Video in English. See also Spanish.
Location: Mexico City, Mexico; Languages: es-N, en-3, nah-0; Wikimedian since: March 2006; Active wikis: Spanish Wikipedia, Spanish Wikinews, Wikidata, Commons.
Reda Kerbouche Video in English.
Location: Batna, Algeria / St Petersburg, Russia; Languages: arq-N, shy-N, ar-4, fr-4, ru-4, en-3 , de-1; Wikimedian since: 2010; Active wikis: French Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia, Tacawit wiktionary (Sysop), Commons.
Douglas Ian Scott Video in English.
Location: Cape Town, South Africa; Languages: en-N, af-2, cmn-2, python, R; Wikimedian since: 2006; Active wikis: English Wikipedia, Commons.
Dariusz Jemielniak Video in English with subtitles. See also English (Spanish subtitles), shorter version.
Location: Warsaw, Poland / Cambridge, MA US; Languages: pl-N, en-4, de-1, ru-1; Wikimedian since: 2007; Active wikis: plwiki, enwiki, Commons.
Location: Pune, India, Languages: Konkani (first language) (kok-5), fluent in Hindi (hi-4) and Marathi (mr -4), English (near professional) (en-4), German (de-1), Wikimedian since: 26 March 2006, Active wikis: Wikipedia (English), Wikimedia Commons
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Location: Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India, Languages: Telugu (Te-N), English (Fluent) (en-4) and Hindi (hi-1), Wikimedian since: December 2013, Active wikis: Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource, Commons
Location: Walcourt, Belgium; Languages: French as native, English and Portuguese as good level and all textual world languages through my computer or smartphone ;o); Wikimedian since: June 2008 and very active since early 2011; Active wikis: fr.Wikiversity - fr.Wikipedia - Commons - etc.
Location: Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; Languages: en-N, es-1, pt-BR-1, fr-1, python, C; Wikimedian since: 2005; Active wikis: English Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata
Lorenzo Losa Video in English with subtitles. See also Italian, Spanish.
Location: Milano, Italy; Languages: it-N, en-3, es-2; Wikimedian since: April 2004; Active wikis: Italian Wikipedia, Wikidata.
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh; Languages: English (en-3), Bengali (bn-N), Hindi (hi-2); Wikimedian since: 2018; Active wikis: English Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Commons, Wikisource.
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Languages: pt-BR-N, pt-5, en-4, es-4; Wikimedian since: 2007; Active wikis: ptwiki, Commons.
Location: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Languages: French; Wikimedian since: 2013; Active wikis: Wikipedia
Pascale Camus-Walter Long version video in English. See also short version.
Location: Strasbourg, France; Languages: fr-N, en-3 , de-3; Wikimedian since: 2011; Active wikis: French Wikipedia
Discuss this story
Request for place holder images to be placed for those candidates who do not have a video
Hi @Smallbones:,
I happen to be a candidate for WMF Bot Community seats 2021 election. I would like to convey a perspective.
A number of candidates may not have had the time to make videos because of their work and life commitments, large number of community questions (total 61), the number of regional community interactions which most of us preferred to attend in person, and in the case of Global South nations like India, the necessary interaction with the numerous communities that comprise the Wikimedians of their country; in my country's case, 27 language communities.
I request that images of such candidates be placed as placeholders against their names where others have videos against them.
Best wishes, AshLin (talk) 05:19, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Voting delayed
The voting period for the Board of Trustees election has been delayed to 18th August through 31st August. Shouldn't the Signpost page be updated accordingly? Strobilomyces (talk) 15:36, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]