Talk:Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/Meetings/Candidates meet with community August 1

Horário

Entendo que este evento está sendo divulgado como direcionado à comunidade americana, incluindo a latino-americana. Não entendo por que acontece nesse horário tão tardio para nós, do Brasil, o que torna praticamente inviável nossa participação. Espero que isso possa ser revisto. --Joalpe (talk) 16:48, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Joalpe: A reunião será uma hora mais cedo (The meeting is now one hour earlier) Special:Diff/21773264. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 00:26, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Questions for the Q&A Session

Add your questions here. Best, JKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:48, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Juan90264

The following question was forwarded from the group on the Portuguese Wikipedia Telegram (https://t.me/wikipediapt/267583), asked by the Telegram user, "b1X0 4r4uc4n0" today.

Now the question: "How do you intend to use this position to promote engagement and participation in minorities and under-represented communities?"

Juan90264 (talk) 23:10, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Joalpe

Minha pergunta torna mais específica a que veio acima, trazida por Juan90264. Noto que não é necessário inserir as perguntas em inglês, pois entendo que serão traduzidas para o inglês.

Com base em discussões comunitárias, tem-se que parte importante da comunidade brasileira, incluindo os membros de seu afiliado, considera que foi sistematicamente sub-representada nos processos globais e marginalizada nos ambientes regionais. O que você espera fazer para, no geral, responder a esse tipo de situação e empoderar grupos marginalizados e, no caso específico, atuar no re-empoderamento da comunidade brasileira? Obrigado. --Joalpe (talk) 15:12, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

English translation: Based on community discussions, it appears that a significant part of the Brazilian community, including members of our affiliate, feel that they have been systematically under-represented in global processes and marginalized in regional settings. What do you hope to do to generally respond to this kind of situation and empower marginalized groups, and in the specific case, to act in the re-empowerment of the Brazilian community? Thank you, --Oscar . (WMF) (talk) 14:21, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Meeting link and call for questions

@Joalpe, Liquet, Sturm, Ederporto, Ixocactus, Hedestad, Eta Carinae, Wugapodes, Juan90264, EricaAzzellini, BahYajé e Y4guarEtã, Isabelle Belato, Pharos, Econterms, and Slowking4:

Thank you for your interest. Please see the link to join the meeting (starting in about 50 minutes).

Please post questions here for us to pose to the candidates. Xeno (WMF) (talk) 23:09, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Answers to the 7 questions - Pascale Camus-Walter

1 How do you intend to use this position to promote engagement and participation in minorities and underrepresented communities? + 2 Some communities feel systematically underrepresented in global processes. How do you respond to this and how can you empower marginalized groups?

Q1+ Q2 - Pascale : There is a difference between underrepresented, marginalized and minorities groups. For example : in the Wikimedia spaces, women are massively underrepresented and marginalized. Thus, women are not a minority but nearly half of the world. That's why I candidated for the BoT. I believe Wikimedia should tend to diversity and especially to parity, even in new or underrepresented, marginalized and minorities groups.

3 Could you speak a bit about Wikimedia Movement governance and where the future is heading?

Q3 - Pascale : The governance of Wikimedia is at a turning point. With 16 trustees, a new Global Council, a movement Charter, a strategic plan and the UCoC, so the governance has more representatives, and tools to structure and regulate the movement. Let's see in the next years how this will work. We are at the test phase I would say.

4 Many of you have been active for many years in the community. What made you decide to run for a Trustee position now?

Q4 - Pascale : I'm currently a Board member of Wikimedia France, I'm also noticing that since 10 years I'm contributing to Wikipedia, nothing has changed concerning parity. The rate of women participating to the Wikimedia projects is dramatically low and does not evolve. Tending to parity is also not really a goal of the strategic plan. This means that until 2030, the rate of women in Wikimedia projects may not increase at all, and this convinced me to run for the BoT to be able to make propositions to help reverse the current trend.

5 What skills and qualities would you look for in the next CEO?

Q5 - Pascale : The next CEO is, I believe, already hired. I suppose the profile will express diversity.

6 Do you feel the current structure of rules and processes of Wikipedia effectively prevents bias? As a community leader, what, if anything, do you think could be done to improve combatting bias?

Q6 - Pascale : As I already expressed the concern, I suspect there is an "operational bias" inherent to the activities linked to Wikipedia unlimited editing. For me the only way is to experience new project with a clear aim of reducing bias, perhaps somewhere by slow-editing.

7 Do you believe that communication with individual editors as a Trustee is important? What are you views on how quickly, and in how much detail, Trustees should be expected to reply to individual queries by editors with regards to issues and their role (as an average across the year/term)?

Q7 - Pascale : it depends what about the individual queries are. Of course each trustee keeps reachable on her/his metapage. My idea about communication is that the 8 trustees elected by the community on the Board could form a group and communicate regularly with the community, maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Waltercolor (talk) 22:14, 1 August 2021 (UTC)