******************************************
__ __ _ _ _ _
/ / /\ \ (_) | _(_)___(_)_ __ ___
\ \/ \/ / | |/ / |_ / | '_ \ / _ \
\ /\ /| | <| |/ /| | | | | __/
\/ \/ |_|_|\_\_/___|_|_| |_|\___|
.org
Year: 2006 Week: 35 Number: 40 Extra
******************************************
An independent internal news bulletin
for the members of the Wikimedia community
//////////////////////////////////////////
=== Board Election 2006 candidates ===
Very soon you will have the opportunity to elect a new board member for the WMF.
To help you to make an informed choice Wikizine presents to you a personal
statement of several candidates. All candidates where invited to send there
statement in. This offer has expired.
This publication is not an endorsement of Wikizine for these candidates.
==== Charles Matthews ====
I'm a candidate with experience and skills useful for the Wikimedia Board. I'm
not a technical person, and have not been active on Wikimedia issues,
preferring to focus on the English Wikipedia. (On en-WP I'm best known for
writing about mathematics and poetry, and as as admin and Arbitrator. See
User:Charles Matthews there for more.)
I come without any specific template for the WMF. For manifesto, I would say
that we still have to match up some things. Implementing the best distance
learning experiences, when we know that factual content is a Long Tail
phenomenon (to speak modishly), means we have to be both collectively smart and
better in the humanities. The aim is to become comprehensive, but also
comprehensible and comprehending on a global scale. These are ambitious
slogans.
Background: I had 10 post-doctoral years in academia (1978-1989), at the
University of Cambridge, with years in France and the USA. After that I have
been a voluntary worker in a number of contexts, including publicity work and
raising sponsorship. I have written two books (one conventional, one with a
Korean friend published online), and many articles. I have travelled, in East
Asia, and recently in Uganda, where in June I gave a well-attended lecture on
Wikipedia. I speak reasonable French, and some Russian. I'm a married parent.
The role of the Board: what other online extended community gets to hire its own
support staff? The Board has stewardship of the most important piece of
hypertext ever. Some intangibles, such as 'wiki culture' and 'motivational
working atmosphere', matter as much as money. The scale of Wikimedia projects
now means that straight management sometimes applies; but the biggest challenge
remains the harnessing of those writing on the wikis to projects in the larger
scheme. This means not losing sight of the old-school way of thinking.
In short, I have outside experience, communication skills, and a traditionalist
wiki approach.
Discuss matters with me at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews/WMF_Board_Election_2006.
Another version of this statement is on the formal candidacy page
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/Charles_Matthews/En.
== Oscar van Dillen ==
Please read my candidate's statement at;
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_candidates_2006/En#Oscar. from this i
take an excerpt:
"whether we are constructing an ark of noah for human knowledge, or "just"
boldly working at the gradual completion of the tower of babel still remains to
be seen, but i strongly believe that such is in our own hands for a larger part
than could "reasonably be expected". please let it be clear that it is for this
very reason that i most emphatically believe in the importance of the wmf's
mission, and have been devoting most of my free time for 2,5 years now to the
consolidation and further development of its projects and communities. i will
continue to do so, no matter the outcome of these elections."
for any further questions, my meta talk page;
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Oscar is available, thank you :-)
--[[User:Oscar]] 12:34, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
==== The Other Candidates ====
There are also other candidates besides them ones who have presented themselves
here to you with a personal statement. These candidates listed here did not
responded to the offer to publish there statement.
Aaron Swartz
Daniel Arnold (Arnomane)
Carlos Rivera (Cerejota)
Bruce Andersen (Evrik)
Hadraj Said
Pat Gunn (Improv)
Kelly Martin
Alex Schenck (Linuxbeak)
Kathleen (Kat) Walsh (Mindspillage)
Nicholas Turnbull
Juan David Ruiz (Zuirdj)
//////////////////////////////////////////
E-mail: ihavenews AT wikizine DOT org
//////////////////////////////////////////
Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of accuracy,
validity and especially but not limited to,
correct grammar and spelling.
Wikizine.org is not a publication of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Publisher:[[meta:user:Walter]]