Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2024 Special Election/Candidates/Leaderboard

Account Leaderboard (talk meta edits global user summary CA)
Candidate details
  • Languages: en, ml (speak), hi-1
  • Region: MENA
  • Active wikis: en.wikibooks, MediaWiki, Meta
  • Wikimedian since: 2013
Selected home wiki English Wikibooks
Type of seat (regional; community-at-large; or both) (division of regional seats) Community-at-large
Introductory statement / Application summary (maximum 500 words): Tell us who you are, why you are applying, and your relevant experience. I'm Leaderboard, an admin at en.wikibooks, Meta-Wiki and MediaWiki. I believe that my technical strengths and general experience (both local and cross-wiki) would be very valuable in UCoC, and additionally have spent significant time observing how projects work cross-wiki, and how the UCoC could help such projects. I'm an admin at three WMF wikis, an abuse filter helper, and also a maintainer of a bot running at Meta-Wiki and Commons. In addition, I help users (both at my home-wiki and elsewhere) with technical issues, and also have in the past helped other wikis with abuse filters to fight vandalism. While I haven't had a lot of specific experience in dispute resolution (for example, I've never been a functionary, not that it's realistically possible to be one at en.wikibooks or MediaWiki), I think this is something I should be able to quickly pick up, and it's not like I am a complete newbie as I have handled disputes in the past. On the policy creation side of things, I have significant experience: for instance, I helped lift a seemingly-arbitrary restriction in February 2022, by helping create Wikibooks' Strategy Guides policy and helping enact the proposal at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/Proposals/2022/February#Start_allowing_game_strategies. More recently, I helped Wikinews overhaul its global rights policy and allow global sysops to work there under stricter-than-usual conditions - the wiki has already seen substantial benefits from this policy change.

Note that the above statement has been mostly recycled from this page, as this one is just asking for a portion of what the original election asked, and my motivation for applying to this role has not changed since then.

The following section is transcluded. You can add comments and questions on this page: Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2024 Special Election/Questions.

Questions

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  • You ran earlier this year in the first U4C election, with a resulting 48% support ratio, which was insufficient to elect you. Why do you think the result will be different this time? Izno (talk) 19:45, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Firstly: I cannot guarantee that the result with change - can well be possible that the result wouldn't.
    With that in mind: it is difficult to answer your question unfortunately, because the main difference in my "wiki-profile" is that I got Meta adminship; it is not clear on whether that would make a difference and my wiki-profile hasn't changed otherwise. Similarly, I do not know whether the other changes the U4C made regarding the election structure would result in a difference in my chances of getting elected. I did briefly speculate on why I didn't get elected on the evaluation page of the original election, but as expected there wasn't enough data to make any conclusions from this. Leaderboard (talk) 03:55, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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