Congrats to Erik, and here are my own thoughts of how his particular
strengths could best be applied. I got this stuff by going through his
candidate statement and pulling out the things that I personally think
are both the most important and exciting and which match his interests
and skills.
Erik, I hope you find this helpful.
1. Openness - I think the entire board is strongly in support of
openness and transparency, and in particular with respect to committee
processes. The difficulty has been in how to properly balance openness
with the need for privacy and discretion in certain matters. Your first
platform plank was to work on "a clear and sensible proposal as to how
we can guarantee transparency, openness, participation and
accountability within these Wikimedia committees." Bravo!
2. "To avoid both extremes, we need to build a diverse Board whose
members are trained to resolve conflicts" - bravo again. I hope that
you will support me in efforts to quickly expand the board to include
not only more people from the community, but also people who can help us
in other ways with professional expertise and/or public credibility.
Obviously, this is to be a hot topic for the October board retreat, and
quite possibly sooner.
3. Developing world projects - I strongly support that we, as a
community and organization, turn our attention increasingly to a more
global perspective. We know that the elections for the board (just to
cite one example) were heavily skewed towards the European languages,
and specifically Western and Northern European languages.
It is easy to make a prediction: within 10 years, Arabic Wikipedia (just
to pick one example) will be larger than German Wikipedia (for instance)
today. This means that world projects should be a top priority, and I
think one of your best skills has always been to guide large scale
proposals (wikinews for example) to broad community acceptance. I hope
that you will focus a lot on that.
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strengths could best be applied. I got this stuff by going through his
candidate statement and pulling out the things that I personally think
are both the most important and exciting and which match his interests
and skills.
Erik, I hope you find this helpful.
1. Openness - I think the entire board is strongly in support of
openness and transparency, and in particular with respect to committee
processes. The difficulty has been in how to properly balance openness
with the need for privacy and discretion in certain matters. Your first
platform plank was to work on "a clear and sensible proposal as to how
we can guarantee transparency, openness, participation and
accountability within these Wikimedia committees." Bravo!
2. "To avoid both extremes, we need to build a diverse Board whose
members are trained to resolve conflicts" - bravo again. I hope that
you will support me in efforts to quickly expand the board to include
not only more people from the community, but also people who can help us
in other ways with professional expertise and/or public credibility.
Obviously, this is to be a hot topic for the October board retreat, and
quite possibly sooner.
3. Developing world projects - I strongly support that we, as a
community and organization, turn our attention increasingly to a more
global perspective. We know that the elections for the board (just to
cite one example) were heavily skewed towards the European languages,
and specifically Western and Northern European languages.
It is easy to make a prediction: within 10 years, Arabic Wikipedia (just
to pick one example) will be larger than German Wikipedia (for instance)
today. This means that world projects should be a top priority, and I
think one of your best skills has always been to guide large scale
proposals (wikinews for example) to broad community acceptance. I hope
that you will focus a lot on that.
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