User:Sj/Q&A

Thank you to all who supported me in the 2011 Board elections.

Please add new questions for me at the bottom of this page.

2011 Questions

These are questions asked of all candidates

Questions/1 How would you define the leadership role of the board of trustees? Have you reviewed the movement roles initiative and what are your thoughts on this subject? Which demographic groups do you believe are viable targets for growth as factual article content contributors to Wikipedia? As a trustee for the Wikimedia Foundation, what do you believe is the largest internal challenge for staff and the board that you would seek to address? What is your opinion with regard to the Foundation's emphasis on the Global South and it opening offices there? Do you think that WMF should have financial insurance or an endowment fund? Do you hold any position either outside Wikimedia or within (such as ChapCom) that may pose a threat to conflict of interest? Languages based Wikipedia versus countries based chapters Accumulation of chapter related board members Articulaton of the voice of the communities of editors Funding of the chapters' activitites The Cathedral or the Bazaar?

Questions/2 Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Ads and fundraising. MediaWiki and Wikimedia Foundation development to non-Wikipedia projects Board minutes Who defines project scope: project consensus or board vote? Unelected but Voting Members of the Board Accepting Bitcoin donations More chapters at the same territory? Stateless languages chapters / Esperanto Gender balance Technical issues

Additional questions

Additional questions for the 2011 Board elections are posted on my talk page, including:

1. May 2010 unpleasantness and Projects' Scope
2. Is Wikimedia most like..
3. Other support
4. Favorite article(s)
5. Role models
6. Myers-Briggs
7. WM in Politics/Activism/Law
8. Advocacy role for the Foundation
9. Movement Vision, Scope
10. Innovation

The Signpost Dozen

The Signpost recently asked 12 questions of the candidates. My answers:

1. How did you become involved with the Wikimedia community? What contributions are you most proud of?
2. What do you see as the role of the Board?
3. What would you bring to the board that it currently lacks?
4. What specific goals would you have as a trustee?
5. What are the key elements you would like to see prioritized in Wikimedia's strategy?
6. What do you think the Wikimedia Foundation isn't doing that it should be? What is it doing that it shouldn't be?
7. The English Wikipedia community is concerned with project governance...
8. What sorts of partnerships should the Foundation pursue?
9. What is your view of the current financial plan?
10. What role do chapters play in your vision for Wikimedia?
11. How does the Advisory Board fit into your strategic vision for Wikimedia?
12. You've run unsuccessfully for the Board of Trustees before. What has changed?

Candidate questions from Meta

These are questions asked to all of the candidates.

1. Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
2. Ads?
3. Fundraising increase
4. Spending increase
5. Paid editing
6. Functions of the Foundation
7. Chapters
8. Age restrictions
9. One more about Foundation income
10. Censorship & Suppression of information
11. Sexual content on WMF
12. Chapter-foundation relationship
13. Usability projects
14. Privacy policy
15. Licensing and Terms of use
16. Wikimedia chapters' legitimacy and power
17. Board-level restrictions of private information disclosure
18. What will you do about the WMF mishandling it's funding?
19. Board - Staff
20. Events and outreach
21. Foundation Endowment
22. "Office actions" and BLP issues