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During the 2022 Board of Trustees election, Affiliate Organization Representatives had the opportunity to propose questions for candidates to answer.
Below you have the 15 questions proposed and selected by affiliates, sorted by the number of votes each received. They remain closed to comments until Friday, June 24 18:00 UTC, when the candidates can start posting their replies.
- Q1: What experience do you have in trying to make the Wikimedia projects more inclusive and equitable?
- Q2: What roles and responsibilities currently centrally held by the Wikimedia Foundation would you support being decentralized to other movement entities?
- Q3: How do you imagine the Wikimedia Foundation in 5-8 years? What does it look like, what’s its role, what does it do and what does it not do?
- Q4: What key qualifications and experience would you bring to the role in terms of the leadership, management and strategic planning of a large organisation such as WMF?
- Q5: How would you like to see the role of affiliates change in the next five years?
- Q6: How would you approach the many Movement Strategy initiatives that haven’t been started yet?
- Q7: How will you as an individual board member align your duty of loyalty to the organization with the diversity of stakeholder expectations from across the movement?
- Q8: We learn from both successes and failures. In what crucial ways did the Wikimedia Movement fail, and what do we learn from these failures?
- Q9: How do you see the role of the collaboration with other free knowledge projects such as OpenStreetMap and the Internet Archive?
- Q10: What should be done in the short term to ensure more equity in the distribution of resources and in funding protocols for affiliates?
- Q11: How to deal with the language barrier of small or underrepresented languages?
- Q12: How do you envision changes to our technological infrastructure that will improve access and participation from underdeveloped communities to our projects in the next five years?
- Q13: What do you think are Wikipedia’s needs to improve its public image and perception?
- Q14: Would you support the idea of WMF sponsoring free knowledge projects it benefits from such as the OpenStreetMap Foundation or the Internet Archive?
- Q15: How do you see the Movement Strategy being made possible within local communities?
You can check the rest of the questions at Affiliate questions proposed and not selected for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022.