維基媒體基金會理事會選舉/2024年/候選人/Deon Steyn

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Deon Steyn (Oesjaar)

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候选人详情	个人: 姓名: Deon Steyn 所在地: 南非約翰尼斯堡 語言: 南非語，英語 编辑史: 何时成为维基人: 2009 活跃的wiki: 南非語，英語
整個申請的總字數（必須回答的+可選擇回答的問題）為 1000（一千）字
必須回答的問題
您為何競選維基媒體基金會理事會成員？您會為維基媒體基金會理事會貢獻什麼？您想進一步了解什麼？	作為一個完全的局外人，南非語的維基百科在過去四年裡只遇到了一名長期的工作人員，我將添加一個新的視角。受過良好的商業教育，我會有所作為。我想為較小的維基百科的權利而戰。舉個例子，在墨西哥舉辦的維基媒體國際會議（2015）上，我就兩個問題尋求協助，但從未得到任何答案或解決方案。
請描述您的維基媒體經驗（例如：對維基媒體專案的貢獻、維基媒體組織或維基媒體自治體的成員資格、作為維基媒體運動組織者的活動或參與維基媒體運動盟友組織）。	過去 15 年來，我一直是南非荷蘭語維基百科的用戶，已經在南非語維基百科上創建了 15,700 篇文章，並進行了 234,000 次編輯。我在維基媒體南非分會任職，自 2014 年起負責南非語的維基百科，在我的領導下，該分會取得了突飛猛進的發展。目前我們是第 69 位最大的維基百科。我的行銷策略的一部分包括電台採訪，我很自豪地說有兩家電台每週對我們進行採訪！ 我同時成功地從南非著名植物學家 Braam van Wyk 教授那裡獲得了 60,000 張植物區系圖片。他目前正在將所有圖片加載到維基共享資源上以供所有社群使用——這需要兩年時間才能完成整個專案。 去年，在我的領導下，我們啟動了高中的寫作比賽專案，並與南非語國家報紙 Rapport 簽約為 2024 年比賽的合作夥伴。廣播電台 PretoriaFM 同時已簽約成為合作夥伴。這使得南非語的維基百科在全國佔有一席之地。
從您的角度來看，維基媒體基金會在未來 5-10 年應該優先考慮什麼，為什麼您認為這些是最重要的優先事項？	關注較小的維基百科，因為他們也有好的想法。重點關注與大學和學校的更多合作，因為教科書的成本已經飛漲，更不用說印刷書籍對環境的影響了。幾乎每個人都有手機。
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.
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	資格: 已驗證 验证者: KTC (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)	身份验证: 已驗證 验证者: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 07:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC)