Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2015/Questions

Questions

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The election ended 31 May 2015. No more votes will be accepted. The results were announced on 5 June 2015. Please consider submitting any feedback regarding the 2015 election on the election's post mortem page.

Instructions

Voters

We ask voters to leave no more than 4 non-duplicative, brief and strictly relevant questions. Questions which do not directly relate to candidacy in the Board Election will be removed at the discretion of the elections committee. Please be respectful of the time that candidates must spend answering, and the time other voters must spend reading.

Please do not use the question pages to link to other pages with more questions and don't ask non-eligible questions, contact the candidates on their talk pages or via email. You can ask your question in any language; if necessary, the election committee will try to find translators.

Candidates

It is strongly suggested that answers to questions do not exceed approximately 1600 characters per question (not counting spaces). Please do not link to another page containing an extended answer, although relevant links used for descriptive purposes are fine. Due to the number of voters and candidates, this is necessary to keep these pages readable, informative and therefore useful for voters.

Directory

For readability, the questions page will be broken up into subpages, each containing 10 questions and the answers by the candidates.

Questions/1 (May 1 — May 6) Behavior towards new editors WMF role in disputes Use of Superprotect and respect for community consensus Project management experience Board composition Time dedication Conflict of Interest disclosure Child Protection Flow WMF involvement regarding abuse Questions/2 (May 6—May 11) Ombudsman Commission Statement of principles by Jimbo Paid advocacy Concerning which seat a trustee has Level of board involvement in major decisions Bad faith edits Retaining current volunteers versus recruiting new ones Question regarding working environment Question regarding non-hostile online environment for women volunteers Community participation Questions/3 (May 11—May 17) Accountability, democracy, community majority Improving content Technical oversight Access to nonpublic information policy Murder of Meredith Kercher Article Accurately measuring the reliability of Wikipedia Long-term vision for Wikipedia's direction? Responsibility for content dissemination Skills and capacities for working with others on the Board Diversity and scope Questions/4 (May 17—May 29) Distribution Kuhusu Africa How will you expand Wikipedia for the billion users in Poor Countries? Unpaid internships Term Limits for Board Seats Overriding local policies Specifically in relation to your candidacy for membership of the board, on what justification are you WP:HERE? Wikipedia-centrism Size of Wikimedia staff