Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2024 Special Election/Candidates/Leaderboard
| Account | Leaderboard (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA) |
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| Candidate details |
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| Selected home wiki | English Wikibooks |
| Type of seat (regional; community-at-large; or both) (division of regional seats) | Community-at-large |
| Introductory statement / Application summary (maximum 500 words): Tell us who you are, why you are applying, and your relevant experience. | I'm Leaderboard, an admin at en.wikibooks, Meta-Wiki and MediaWiki. I believe that my technical strengths and general experience (both local and cross-wiki) would be very valuable in UCoC, and additionally have spent significant time observing how projects work cross-wiki, and how the UCoC could help such projects. I'm an admin at three WMF wikis, an abuse filter helper, and also a maintainer of a bot running at Meta-Wiki and Commons. In addition, I help users (both at my home-wiki and elsewhere) with technical issues, and also have in the past helped other wikis with abuse filters to fight vandalism. While I haven't had a lot of specific experience in dispute resolution (for example, I've never been a functionary, not that it's realistically possible to be one at en.wikibooks or MediaWiki), I think this is something I should be able to quickly pick up, and it's not like I am a complete newbie as I have handled disputes in the past. On the policy creation side of things, I have significant experience: for instance, I helped lift a seemingly-arbitrary restriction in February 2022, by helping create Wikibooks' Strategy Guides policy and helping enact the proposal at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/Proposals/2022/February#Start_allowing_game_strategies. More recently, I helped Wikinews overhaul its global rights policy and allow global sysops to work there under stricter-than-usual conditions - the wiki has already seen substantial benefits from this policy change.
Note that the above statement has been mostly recycled from this page, as this one is just asking for a portion of what the original election asked, and my motivation for applying to this role has not changed since then. |
The following section is transcluded. You can add comments and questions on this page: Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2024 Special Election/Questions.
Questions
edit- You ran earlier this year in the first U4C election, with a resulting 48% support ratio, which was insufficient to elect you. Why do you think the result will be different this time? Izno (talk) 19:45, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Firstly: I cannot guarantee that the result with change - can well be possible that the result wouldn't.
- With that in mind: it is difficult to answer your question unfortunately, because the main difference in my "wiki-profile" is that I got Meta adminship; it is not clear on whether that would make a difference and my wiki-profile hasn't changed otherwise. Similarly, I do not know whether the other changes the U4C made regarding the election structure would result in a difference in my chances of getting elected. I did briefly speculate on why I didn't get elected on the evaluation page of the original election, but as expected there wasn't enough data to make any conclusions from this. Leaderboard (talk) 03:55, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
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