위키미디어 재단 선거/2024년/후보자/빅토리아 도로니나
Victoria Doronina (Victoria)
Victoria (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)
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| 전체 신청서(필수 + 선택 질문)의 총 단어 수는 1000 단어입니다. | ||
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| 위키미디어 재단 이사회에 출마하는 이유가 무엇인가요? 당신은 무엇에 기여하시겠습니까? 무엇에 대해 더 배우고 싶나요? | 저는 2021년 당선되었을 때 시작한 중추적인 업무를 계속하기 위해 이사회에 출마했습니다. 우리 운동 역사의 이 전환점에서 우리에게는 요령을 배우는 사람보다는 경험이 있는 이사가 결정적으로 필요합니다. 만약 우리가 향후 2~3년 동안 새로운 현실에 적응하지 못한다면 위키백과는 마이스페이스와 같은 초기 인터넷 시대의 진기한 유물이 될 수도 있습니다.
전체주의 체제에서 생활한 경험과 노련한 과학자로서 저는 남반구 출신으로서 이사회에 중요한 관점을 제시하고 싶습니다. 지난 3년 동안 저는 이사회의 일원으로서 운동과 소통하고 CEO와 협력하며 WMF에 전략적 지침을 제공했습니다. 저는 이 경험을 더욱 발전시켜 WMF와 운동 사이의 관계를 개선하고 싶습니다. | |
| 귀하의 위키미디어 경험(예: 위키미디어 프로젝트에 대한 기여, 위키미디어 조직이나 가맹단체 회원 자격, 위키미디어 운동 조직자로서의 활동, 위키미디어 운동 동맹 조직 참여 등)을 설명해 주세요. | 저는 2007년에 러시아어 위키백과에 기여하기 시작했고 얼마 지나지 않아 관리자가 되었습니다. 저는 선출된 두 번째 여성이자 러시아 위키백과 중재 위원회에서 두 번 활동한 최초의 여성입니다. 저는 LGBTQIA+, 추천 및 좋은 글 중재자, 러시아 위키백과 "알고 계셨나요?" 프로젝트의 비공식 코디네이터 등 가장 논쟁이 많은 몇 가지 주제에 대한 오랜 중재자입니다.
2011년에 저는 위키미디어 커뮤니티 펠로우가 되었습니다. 저는 또한 위키미디어 기금 배분 위원회에서 활동했습니다. | |
| 귀하의 관점에서 볼 때, 위키미디어 재단은 향후 5~10년 동안 무엇을 우선순위로 두어야 하며, 이를 가장 중요한 우선순위로 보는 이유는 무엇입니까? | * 기술: 증가하는 트래픽을 처리하고 안정성을 향상하며 모바일 최적화를 포함하여 사용자 경험을 향상시키기 위해 기술 인프라를 지속적으로 개선합니다. 작업을 자동화하고 콘텐츠 품질을 개선하며 사용자 경험을 향상시키기 위해 AI 및 기계 학습과 같은 신기술의 연구 개발에 투자합니다.
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| Optional questions - Professional Experience, Skills and Education | ||
| Please describe your experience with governing bodies of organizations (nonprofit or for-profit), mentioning the scope of your responsibilities, as well as the complexity of the organization (in terms of scale of operations, budget, number of people involved, or other meaningful measures) and the size of the board or body. | In 2021 I was elected to the WMF Board of Trustees. I serve on the Product and Technology Committee, Executive Committee, and the Community Affairs Committee, where I lead the Sister Projects Taskforce. I was an interim Vice Chair in 2022. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | After completing my PhD in molecular biology (University of Edinburgh, UK), I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at several Russell Group (UK Ivy League) universities, specialising in protein translation. I’m a coauthor of tens of publications in international high-impact scientific journals. I’m also an award-winning science communicator in English and Russian. For the last nine years, I have worked as a Technical Officer (Biology Education and, recently, Food Microbiology) at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. | |
| Please briefly describe 3 situations that show how you tackled, or advised others on, a complex problem in an organization. How did you work with others to address the situations? | After being seconded from the Faculty of Education to the Department of Food Nutrition as a Microbiologist and an interim Technical Team Manager, I concentrated on boosting the team morale, participating in Personal Development Reviews, and successfully recruiting and inducting an apprentice. I provided 1-2-1 regular meetings with the apprentice and liaised with the Technical Services Development Manager. The apprentice completed her probation and was later appointed Assistant Technician. | |
| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | I have a University degree in Microbiology from the Belarusian State University and a PhD in Molecular Biology (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom). I am also an Associate Member of the Advance Higher Education Academy, UK.
I have solid training in governance and leadership. I finished three programs tailored for board members: “Non-Profit Board Leadership Agent of Impact” (2023) (by Board Veritas), "Value Creation through Effective Boards"(2022, IESE Business School) and "Team Dynamics for Boards" (2023, IMD). | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | * I'm happy to connect with wikimedians on LinkedIn
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| Optional questions - Leadership Experience | ||
| Please describe ways in which you have helped to form a bridge between multiple communities (such as by working on projects outside your home wiki, or working on a collaboration between multiple affiliates). | After being elected to the WMF Board, I liaised between the wider Movement and Wikimedia affiliates and communities, especially Russian-speaking communities, representing wikimedians from several Eastern Europe and Central Asia countries. I’m trying to be a bridge or at least a buffer between the Russian and Ukrainian communities.
I’m also a Board liaison to the Language Committee, which approves and closes sister projects in different languages | |
| Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience? | I was involved in creating and changing several policies on the Russian Wikipedia, for example, ru:Википедия:Оформление статей (флаги). My proudest achievement is creating a mediation system for long-running content disputes.
I’m a Lead on the Siblings Projects Taskforce, which is developing a policy on the lifecycle of the Sibling (non-Wikipedia) Wikimedia projects. The board's Community Affairs Committee approved the draft policy, and now there’s an ongoing public consultation, which everybody can participate in. | |
| How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard? | The first step to empowerment is minorities visibility. I started editing Wikipedia with a male-sounding username but switched to my first name, which most people recognise as female. I always encourage minorities to participate in the Movement governance online and offline and provide 1-2-1 mentoring. As trustees, Rosie and I took part in the Wikiwomen Camp in Dehli in 2023, where we did our best to encourage the participants. I'm also the first representative of Russian language Wikimedia projects on the Board, so they can be heard. | |
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | ||
| Optional questions - Strategic Thinking | ||
| Where do you see the need for greater diversity in the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees or within the movement? What steps would you take to improve diversity on the Board or within the movement? What steps would you recommend the Board take to improve diversity? | I think that the Movement is doing well in terms of diversity. We are a global movement where hundreds of languages and ethnicities are represented. We are also neurodiverse. We have several initiatives addressing the gender gap, and the Universal Code of Conduct hopefully will help minorities - of which I'm one - feel more protected.
As for the WMF Board, considering that an average board member worldwide is a white man in his 60s and 70s, the WMF Board is doing well on several diversity parameters. We have 50% women, a good age range (30s - 70s), representatives of the LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse people. In my opinion, we are not doing well enough regarding the geographical and the Global South representation, with most board members being from various parts of Europe and the US. While we have India (Raju Narisetti) and South America (Luis Bitencourt-Emilio) representatives among the Board-selected trustees, as far as I know, we didn’t ever have a representative of sub-Saharan Africa or ESEAP. Considering the movement is less established there, which means fewer voters, we cannot expect anybody from the region to be elected to the Board shortly. I recently wrote a letter to the WMF Board Executive Commity outlining the problem and possible solutions, and the letter is being discussed. If re-elected, I’ll continue pursuing this question. | |
| 확인 | 위키미디어 재단 직원이 수행한 신원 확인과 선거 위원회가 수행한 자격 확인 | |
적임:  확인됨입증된: KTC (talk) 19:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
신분, 신분증: 확인됨 입증된: KTC (talk) 19:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC) | |