維基媒體基金會理事會選舉/2024年/候選人/Victoria Doronina
Victoria Doronina (Victoria)
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| 整個申請的總字數（必須回答的+可選擇回答的問題）為 1000（一千）字 | ||
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| 您為何競選維基媒體基金會理事會成員？您會為維基媒體基金會理事會貢獻什麼？您想進一步了解什麼？ | 我競選維基媒體基金會理事會成員是為了繼續我在 2021 年當選時開始的關鍵工作。在我們維基媒體運動歷史的這個轉折點，我們迫切需要有經驗的維基媒體基金會理事會成員，而不是那些剛入門的維基媒體基金會理事會成員。如果我們在未來 2-3 年內無法適應新的現實，維基百科可能會像 MySpace 一樣成為早期網路時代的古怪產物。
作為一個來自全球南部、擁有極權主義政權生活經驗和經驗豐富的科學家的人，我希望為維基媒體基金會理事會提供重要的視角。 在過去的三年裡，作為維基媒體基金會理事會的一員，我與維基媒體運動進行了溝通，與維基媒體基金會執行長合作，並向維基媒體基金會提供了策略指導。我希望以此經驗為基礎，進一步改善維基媒體基金會與維基媒體運動之間的關係。 | |
| 請描述您的維基媒體經驗（例如：對維基媒體專案的貢獻、維基媒體組織或維基媒體自治體的成員資格、作為維基媒體運動組織者的活動或參與維基媒體運動盟友組織）。 | 我於 2007 年開始為俄語維基百科做出貢獻，並不久後成為管理員。我是第二位當選的女性，也是第一位兩次在俄羅斯維基百科仲裁委員會任職的女性。我是一些最有爭議的話題的長期調解人，例如 LGBTQIA+、特色文章和好文章的管理員以及俄羅斯維基百科「新知評選」專案的非官方協調員。
2011 年，我成為維基媒體社群研究員。我同時曾在維基媒體基金傳播委員會任職。 | |
| 從您的角度來看，維基媒體基金會在未來 5-10 年應該優先考慮什麼，為什麼您認為這些是最重要的優先事項？ | * 技術：不斷改進技術基礎設施以處理不斷增長的流量、提高可靠性並增強用戶體驗，包括行動版的優化。投資人工智慧和機器學習等新技術的研發，以實現任務自動化、提高內容品質並增強使用者體驗。
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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. | |
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資格:  已驗證验证者: KTC (talk) 19:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
身份验证: 已驗證 验证者: KTC (talk) 19:56, 3 June 2024 (UTC) | |