Wikimedia Vakfı seçimleri/2024/ adaylar/ Deon Steyn

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Deon Steyn (Oesjaar)

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Aday ayrıntıları	Kişisel: İsim: Deon Steyn Konum: Johannesburg, Güney Afrika Diller: Afrikanca, İngilizce Başyazı: Kayıt tarihi: 2009 Etkin Vikiler: Afrikanca, İngilizce
Yanıtlaması zorunlu sorular
Neden Wikimedia Vakfı Mütevelli Heyeti'ne adaysınız? Ne gibi bir katkınız olsun isterdiniz? Ne hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinmek istersiniz?	Tamamen dışarıdan biri olarak, Afrikanca Vikipedi son dört yılda bir kadrolu çalışanla tanıştı, yeni bir bakış açısı katacağım. İş dünyasında iyi eğitim almış biri olarak fark yaratacağım. Daha küçük Vikipedilerin hakları için mücadele etmek istiyorum. Örneğin Mexico City Wikimania'da (2015) iki konuda yardım istedim, hiçbir cevap veya çözüm alamadım.
Lütfen Wikimedia deneyiminizi açıklayın (Wikimedia projelerine katkılar, Wikimedia kuruluşlarına veya iştiraklerine üyelikler, Wikimedia Hareketi organizatörü olarak faaliyetler veya bir Wikimedia hareketi müttefik kuruluşuna katılım gibi).	Son 15 yıldır Vikipedi kullanıcısıyım ve Afrikanca Vikipedi'de 15.500 madde oluşturdum ve 234.000 düzenleme yaptım. WikimediaZA Chapter'da görev yapıyorum, 2014'ten beri Afrikanca Vikipedi'den sorumluyum ve Afrikanca Vikipedi, benim liderliğimde hızla büyüdü. Şu anda en büyük 69. Vikipedi'yiz. Pazarlama stratejimin bir parçası radyo röportajlarını içeriyor ve iki radyo istasyonunun bizimle haftalık röportajlar yaptığını söylemekten gurur duyuyorum! Ayrıca Güney Afrika'nın önde gelen botanikçilerinden Prof. Braam van Wyk'ten 60.000 flora resmi elde etmeyi başardım. Şu anda tüm resimleri tüm topluluklar tarafından kullanılmak üzere Commons'a yüklüyor, bunun tamamlanması iki yıl daha sürecek. Geçen yıl benim liderliğimde Liselerarası Yazma Yarışması'nı başlattık ve 2024 yarışması için Afrikanca ulusal gazetesi Rapport ile ortak olarak anlaştık. Bir radyo istasyonu olan PretoriaFM de ortak olarak kaydoldu. Bu sayede Afrikanca Vikipedi'ye ulusal bir ayak izi kazandırdık.
Sizin bakış açınıza göre, Wikimedia Vakfı önümüzdeki 5-10 yıl içinde nelere öncelik vermeli ve neden bunları en önemli öncelikler olarak görüyorsunuz?	Küçük Vikipedilere odaklanmalı çünkü onların da iyi fikirleri var. Üniversiteler ve okullarla daha fazla işbirliğine odaklanmalı, çünkü ders kitaplarının maliyetleri tavan yapıyor, kitap basmanın çevresel etkisinden bahsetmeye bile gerek yok. Neredeyse herkesin bir cep telefonu var.
Optional questions - Professional Experience, Skills and Education
Please describe your experience with governing bodies of organizations (nonprofit or for-profit), mentioning the scope of your responsibilities, as well as the complexity of the organization (in terms of scale of operations, budget, number of people involved, or other meaningful measures) and the size of the board or body.	I am running my own business. My business has to advise clients re safety, compile safety plans for events and present the files to the authorities to obtain the necessary permits. I have served as a member of the Engineering Council of South Africa where I was part of a team to decide on the Professional Status applications of Technologists. In my last job in the Corporate world I was a project manager for Siemens South Africa, running a R200 million signaling project between Kimberley and De Aar. The client was Transtel, South Africa. The duration of the project was two years, I have finished the project on time, within budget and with zero penalties! The permanent staff on site were 50 persons. Monthly meetings were held with the client, Siemens Financial Department, Logistics and the sub contractors.
Please describe your professional career experience.	I am a Technologist (Telecommunicatios) and have worked for Telkom SA for 20 years. I also hold a B.Com. Hons (Fin. Management) and is a qualified Safety Officer. I have also worked for Aberdare Cables (where I became a SME on Optic Fibre), Ericsson South Africa and Siemens South Africa as Project Manager.
Please briefly describe 3 situations that show how you tackled, or advised others on, a complex problem in an organization. How did you work with others to address the situations?	I have run training courses for new users. Due to my vision the Afrikaans Wikipedia has signed a MOU with the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns which gave us a base to operate from and much needed visibility. I have created the Campaigners for the Afrikaans Wikipedia campaign which 13 Afrikaans organisations have signed following 5 years of work. This will give us access to more resources including funding. I have just been given permission to do a presentation at the South African Teachers Union Organisation re Wikipedia following three years of persistence.
Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work.	T6 (6 years) Technologist in Telecommunications. BCom Hons (Fin Management). SHEMTRAC - Safety Certificate.
Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.).	https://www.linkedin.com/in/deon-steyn-0a9a952a0/
Optional questions - Leadership Experience
Please describe ways in which you have helped to form a bridge between multiple communities (such as by working on projects outside your home wiki, or working on a collaboration between multiple affiliates).	Unfortunately the Afrikaans Wikipedia is cut off from the rest of the World language wize. I have managed to communicate with the Dutch and Belgium Wikipedia's. Communication within Africa is non-existent.
Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience?	Enforce that articles have the necessary sources. South African schools are still skeptical re Wikipedia and have articles with the proper sources are critical to get them to see the light.
How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard?	I started by inviting people for coffee sessions, talk to them re the Afrikaans Wikipedia and listen to their side of the story. Then I have started a FB group where we put up a link to the weekly front page and invited them to become members. Then we fed them more and more info on our FB until they started to take part on Geselshoekie, our version of Village Pump. Most important, we treated their views with respect.
Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts.	I remind them to remember where they want to be, the end objective.
Optional questions - Strategic Thinking
Where do you see the need for greater diversity in the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees or within the movement? What steps would you take to improve diversity on the Board or within the movement? What steps would you recommend the Board take to improve diversity?	The small Wikipedia's are ignored. A decision that works in Europe and America will not necessary work in Africa.
Doğrulama	Onaylama seçim komitesi ya da Wikimedia Vakfı personeli tarafından gerçekleştiriliyor.
Doğrulama	Seçilebilirlik: Onaylı Onaylayan: KTC (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]	Kimlik: Onaylı Onaylayan: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 07:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]