Wikimedia Foundation elections/2022/Candidates/Mike Peel/pt-br
Mike Peel (Mike Peel)
Mike Peel (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)
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| Introductory statement / Application summary. This section to be translated. (150 word maximum) |
Pretendo trazer minha experiência na Wikimedia e minha experiência de vida para o conselho diretor da Fundação Wikimedia em um momento de mudança, com a implementação da estratégia do movimento e o Conselho Global vindouro. Quero ver a WMF colaborar mais na wiki, do jeito wiki de fazer as coisas, com melhor suporte e ferramentas tecnológicas para apoiar o conhecimento livre multilíngue nos projetos da Wikimedia. Também quero que a WMF trabalhe melhor com afiliados para aumentar significativamente a Wikimedia, particularmente no Sul Global.
Sou um editor da Wikimedia desde 2005, com contribuições na Wikipédia, Wikidata, Commons, Wikisource e muito mais, tanto manualmente quanto com ferramentas automáticas e semiautomáticas. Do lado organizacional, sou cofundador da Wikimedia do Reino Unido e sou membro associado do Wiki Movimento Brasil. Estive no Comitê de Disseminação de Fundos por quatro anos e atualmente integro um comitê regional de subsídios. Profissionalmente, sou um radioastrônomo, morando em Tenerife, na Espanha (anteriormente trabalhei no Reino Unido e no Brasil). | |
| Contribuições para os projetos da Wikimedia, afiliação em organizações ou afiliados da Wikimedia, atividades organizadas no movimento Wikimedia, ou participação em organizações aliadas ao movimento Wikimedia. (100 palavras no máximo) |
I've made over 400,000 edits, mostly to Wikidata, Commons, and English Wikipedia, as well as to English Wikisource, Meta, and others. I am an admin on the first three. I operate Pi bot, which has made nearly 10 million edits, mostly on Wikidata and Commons. I created the multilingual Wikidata infobox that is used in nearly 4 million Commons categories. I co-founded Wikimedia UK and was a trustee for its first 5 years as it established and became a charity: I am now an honorary member. I have been part of Wiki Movimento Brasil since 2019 (informally since 2016). | |
Competências nas áreas prioritárias identificadas pelo Conselho de Administração.
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I have gained a lot of experience with organisational strategy and management work through the Wikimedia movement since 2008. I was a Trustee of Wikimedia UK for 5 years (2008–2013, including as Chair, Secretary, and Membership Secretary), I served on the Funds Dissemination Committee for four years on its inaugural committee in 2012–14, and a returning term in 2015–17. I am currently on the Northern and Western Europe grants committee since 2021. I understand and work to support the governance needs of organisations across the Wikimedia movement, and want to bring this experience and viewpoint to WMF in a time of Wikimedia organisational change with the Global Council.
I am an experienced developer through my day job as a radio astronomer, which includes scientific analysis of large (TB+) datasets through self-written software packages. I understand software development processes at a practical level, focused on implementing them to solve specific problems. | |
| Vivências no mundo. O Conselho de Administração está interessado em conhecer especialmente suas vivências nas seguintes regiões: África; Ásia Meridional; Ásia Oriental, Sudeste Asiático e Pacífico; América Latina e Caribe. O Conselho acredita que pessoas com vivências e experiência nessas regiões poderão ajudar o Conselho a cumprir com o objetivo estratégico do movimento de promover uma participação mais equitativa, embora reconheça que outras experiências também poderão oferecer outras contribuições importantes. (250 palavras no máximo) |
I was lucky enough to be born in the UK, and grew up in the north of England. After studying astronomy up to the PhD level (thanks to a student loan and a PhD studentship), and working in a postdoctoral position in the UK, I moved to São Paulo, Brasil, in 2016 to work on a new telescope project there as a jovem pesquisador. My experiences there included living in one of the largest cities in the world, and one of the most economically divided, as well as visiting remote parts of Paraíba to find a radio quiet zone for a new radio telescope. In 2019 I moved to Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands - a Spanish region off the coast of Africa - to work on telescope projects at Teide Observatory.
Through astronomy, I regularly work with scientists from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds. I also supervise both astronomy and Wikimedia students from across the world, whenever I can. This includes improving both gender and geographical diversity through the students I mentor. There is a huge opportunity for Wikimedia to grow significantly in the global south, linked to the movement strategy, which requires decentralisation of power from WMF and increased support (resources, growing leadership capacity) through the Wikimedia affiliates. I would like to build on my expertise from the grants committees and lived experience from Brasil to help WMF accomplish this. | |
| Competências culturais e lingüísticas em outras regiões e idiomas, além da sua região e idioma nativo. Ter-se conhecimento intercultural possibilita a construção de pontes em nossa comunidade multicultural. (250 palavras no máximo) |
Learning new languages and cultures is not easy. While in Brasil, I learned some Portuguese, and explored the culture and country, particularly with other Wikimedians from Wiki Movimento Brasil. I've tried to document part of this through the articles on, and tens of thousands of photos of, Brazil that I've shared to the Wikimedia projects. In Tenerife, I am learning Spanish, and also exploring and documenting the local history and culture - although Tenerife has already been quite well documented, particularly on the Spanish Wikipedia, less so on the English Wikipedia. Whenever I have visited another country for work, wiki, or tourism, I always take my camera - not for the usual tourist photos, but to document its history via Wikimedia.
I also try to support multilingual knowledge through Wikidata. This is best demonstrated through the Wikidata Infobox in Commons categories, which I created to be able to better understand the local history in Brasil that I was photographing, and is now one of the biggest multilingual uses of Wikidata in the Wikimedia projects outside of Wikidata itself. I would like to see the WMF make more use of such multilingual opportunities, particularly through the Wikimedia sister projects. | |
| Experiência na luta pela criação de espaços seguros e colaborativos para todas as pessoas e/ou experiência em situações ou contextos onde há censura, repressão ou outras violações dos direitos humanos. (250 palavras no máximo) |
Safe and collaborative spaces are really important. While I do not have experience with creating them, I support and encourage them as much as I can. I have also seen the after-effects of dictatorships and censorship in both Brasil and Spain, although I have not experienced it directly: the best I can do is to help document this and hope it doesn't happen again in the future. | |
| Experiência com/como parte de (na medida em que quiser especificar) grupos que historicamente têm enfrentado discriminação e sub-representação nas estruturas de poder (incluindo, mas não se limitando a casta, raça, etnia, cor, local de nascimento, nacionalidade, identidade de gênero, expressão de gênero, orientação sexual, idade, religião, língua, cultura, educação, habilidades, renda e meio ambiente). (250 palavras no máximo) |
I can't claim experience here beyond trying to support such groups and individuals whenever I meet them. Both Wikimedia and astronomy (and physics in general) have huge issues with under-representation, and I try to help improve that through supervising students, doing outreach work, and providing general support wherever I can. | |
| Verificação | Verificação realizada pelo comitê eleitoral ou pelos funcionários da Fundação Wikimedia. | |
Elegibilidade:  VerificadoVerificado por: Matanya (talk) 08:37, 17 May 2022 (UTC) |
Identificação: Verificado Verificado por: Joe Sutherland (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 23:53, 18 May 2022 (UTC) | |
2022 Board of Trustees Analysis Committee Rating
| Candidate Name | Wikimedia Background | Sought Skills | Sought Regional Experience | Human Rights & Underrepresentation | Overall rating from the average score of the four categories | Overall rating from the average score of the nine criteria |
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| Mike Peel | Gold | Silver | Gold | Silver | Silver | Gold |