Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2011/Candidates/Questions/intro

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Directory

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Questions/1 (4 May—14 May) How would you define the leadership role of the board of trustees? Have you reviewed the movement roles initiative and what are your thoughts on this subject? Which demographic groups do you believe are viable targets for growth as factual article content contributors to Wikipedia? As a trustee for the Wikimedia Foundation, what do you believe is the largest internal challenge for staff and the board that you would seek to address? What is your opinion with regard to the Foundation's emphasis on the Global South and it opening offices there? Do you think that WMF should have financial insurance or an endowment fund? Do you hold any position either outside Wikimedia or within (such as ChapCom) that may pose a threat to conflict of interest? Languages based Wikipedia versus countries based chapters Accumulation of chapter related board members Articulaton of the voice of the communities of editors Funding of the chapters' activitites The Cathedral or the Bazaar?

Questions/2 (15 May—present) Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Ads and fundraising. MediaWiki and Wikimedia Foundation development to non-Wikipedia projects board minutes Who defines project scope: project consensus or board vote? Unelected but Voting Members of the Board Accepting Bitcoin donations More chapters at the same territory? Stateless languages chapters / Esperanto Gender balance Technical issues How big is our mission? The Incubator makes it harder to grow up projects Posponer la votación ¿Inclusionist or deletionist? Eucrocentric Bias Nations in minority