Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2007/Candidates/Mindspillage/en
| User | Mindspillage | |
|---|---|---|
| Real name | Kathleen Walsh |  |
| Location | Herndon, Virginia, USA (a suburb of Washington, DC) | |
| Age | 24 | |
| User page(s) | en.wikipedia, en.wikinews, meta, foundation | |
| Wikimedia participant since | June 2004 | |
| Projects in which I participate | English Wikipedia, English Wikinews, Meta, limited participation on various other projects. | |
| Languages in which I participate | English, basic Spanish | |
| Link to user contribution pages | en.wikipedia, en.wikinews, meta | |
| My candidate statement | I found Wikipedia in 2004 and began quietly writing about classical music, wondering what kind of crazy person spent so much time on it. A year later I was on OTRS, a press contact, and a founding member of the Communications Committee; I was then appointed to the Board in December 2006.
I'm currently in law school, where I staff a law and economics journal. I am an intern for a nonprofit online legal education project, and a classical musician. While on the board I worked with issues including licensing policy, free content and free culture advocacy, public relations, and strategic decisions such as branding and partnership; I hope to see some of these issues through beyond the short term I've already served. My interest is for the Board to act with a long-term view of its mission in mind, and not to take actions which might compromise WMF's future. To do this we must have a clear picture of what our values are and what our mission is, and we must maintain our commitment to being a free resource so the content does not need WMF to survive. Beyond this, I see us pursuing partnerships with like-minded organizations to carry our mission beyond the scope of what Wikimedia can do. | |
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