-Not confirmed.--BradPatrick 20:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
| User
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Cerejota
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| Real name
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Carlos Rivera
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| Location
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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| Age
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28
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| User page(s)
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Cerejota
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| Wikimedia participant since
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December 2004
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| Projects in which I participate
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enwiki, eswiki (occasionally) commons, meta (occasionally)
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| Languages in which I participate
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English. Spanish. I can read German, French Italian, Norsk/Nynorsk, but not well enough to participate.
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| Link to user contribution pages
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Cerejota contribs
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| My candidate statement
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Because democracy is more fun when you have a huge playing field.
I will make no appeal to authority, I am running because it would be ultra freaking cool to be a voice of my fellow editors, however, or rather because, of how contentious we all get.
- Clarification: My sense of humor can in no way be interpreted as a lack of seriousness to approach the position. I am not only a long time volunteer and professional with a deep commitment to the non-profit sector, but a veteran of the dot-boom, dot-bust and the Web 2.0. I had my first email address in 1992-93, was part of the team who created the first .com in Puerto Rico, and in general was a web pioneer there. Today I am a lead developer at a fast growing corporate tech support company.
My platform:
- Bring diversity to the Board, english speakers are sometimes from countries who speak other languages;
- Support the self-development of the community: consensus and reasoned debate among a horizontal playing field, while engaging the community to mitigate the negative impact of instances when this is not true. I think policy can never be a substitute for community;
- Engage fellow Board members with energy, respect and a great sense of humor. And of course humility.
- Support efforts directed at institutional development of the Foundation, with a particular interests in targeting beneficial relationships with third parties in seeking a better infrastructure and redundacy. No more locked databases! No more "wikipedia is busy" messages!
- As a Board Member I will have a dedicated email address for the community to contact me. I will be accountable, and will act upon the consensus that emerges in my talk page, not upon my personal beliefs (except for my pet advocacies below).
- Help with the outreach and evangelism of Wiki as a software platform, regardless if they are projects of the foundation itself or not, yet of course with a focus around the Foundation's projects.
- Creation of a Wikibabel: a translator's space dedicated to the process of reducing the language differential among wikipedia language versions.
Personal advocacy points:
- Advocate that a successful, peer-reviwed membership period in the Moderation Cabal be a pre-requisite for adminship. The tolerance and exposure to different users created in that environment can only benefit the community, and this process will limit the aberration of users who become admins after 2 months and 700 edits;
- Total support for the Wikipedia Neutrality Project;
- Edit conflicts are what make wikipedia great. I will try to get the board to comment on that: edit conflicts are what guarantee that the encyclopedia both remains current and NPOV. Peer review for the masses, by the masses!!!
- I forgot to mention I completely and without reservation support the German Userbox Solution, it both guarantees the lively community we need to develop great editing and resolves the namespace issue. A great NPOV solution! Makes me proud to be a wikipedian!
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enwiki talk page
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