Elections de la Fondation Wikimédia/2024/Candidats/Lane Rasberry
Lane Rasberry (bluerasberry)
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| Le nombre total de mots pour l'ensemble de la candidature (questions obligatoires + questions facultatives) est de 1000 (mille) mots. | ||
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| Pourquoi vous présentez-vous au conseil d'administration de la Fondation Wikimédia ? Quelle serait votre contribution ? Qu'aimeriez-vous apprendre davantage ? | L'investissement dans la communauté est le meilleur moyen d'atteindre nos objectifs et je souhaite rejoindre le conseil d'administration pour développer budgets qui font progresser la Mission de la Fondation Wikimédia par le biais de l'autonomisation de la communauté. La Wikimedia Foundation a collecté 1 000 000 000 $ US depuis 2017, mais seulement 10% du budget annuel sont des subventions. Ce montant est trop faible pour développer suffisamment de leadership et de gouvernance communautaire.
Lors du Wikimedia Summit 2024, les affiliés du mouvement Wikimédia ont décidé que la nouvelle Charte du mouvement et le Conseil mondial allaient transférer le pouvoir de la Fondation Wikimédia à la communauté des utilisateurs. Ce transfert de pouvoir ne se fera peut-être pas sans une forte mobilisation, mais je négocierai les ressources dont la communauté a besoin pour réussir. Il s'agit notamment de maintenir les programmes communautaires actuels et d'augmenter les fonds destinés au monde hispanophone, à l'Inde et aux pays africains. Étant donné qu'à l'heure actuelle, seuls les membres d'organisations wiki ont accès à certains droits de gouvernance, nous devons également créer des options de participation à la gouvernance pour les 99 % d'éditeurs et de lecteurs qui ne sont pas membres d'une telle organisation. J'ai 12 ans d'expérience en tant que "Wikimédien en Residence", qui est un rôle de Wikimédien professionnel. Je suis à la School of Data Science de l'Université de Virginie, et mon institution est prête à me soutenir dans mon travail au sein du Conseil avec un soutien juridique, comptable, éthique, et d'autres experts académiques. | |
| Veuillez décrire votre expérience wikimédienne (contributions aux projets Wikimédia, adhésion à des organisations Wikimédia ou à des affiliés, activités dans le cadre de l'organisation du mouvement Wikimédia ou participation à une organisation alliée au mouvement Wikimédia). | *Wikimédien professionnel depuis 2012, soit 40 heures de wiki par semaine pendant 12 ans.
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| Selon vous, quelles devraient être les priorités de la Fondation Wikimedia pour les 5 à 10 prochaines années, et pourquoi ces priorités vous semblent-elles les plus pertinentes ? | Notre atout unique est la gouvernance décentralisée fondée sur la production participative, et nous devons soutenir sa croissance.
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| 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. | Since I joined the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia, it has grown from 10 to 200 people, with annual budget of $24 million/year. In this startup environment we make all strategic decisions collaboratively, and my own contribution is emphasizing open science.
I have designed budgets and annual reports for Wikimedia New York City, Wikimedia Medicine, and Wikimedia LGBT+, so I understand Wikimedia community governance. Since 2007 I have been on an ethics board reviewing ethics for multinational HIV vaccine clinical trials. Lessons from medical research can inform Wikimedia challenges. The United States government funds this from a US$3 billion budget. I founded an centre LGBT (Q2945640) which hosts concerts. This includes posting artist profiles in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons to showcase regional culture. Our events have helped 100 people in coming out (Q208099) as LGBT+. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | I am a data scientist and principal investigator in multiple research projects.
After university I conducted medical recherche clinique (Q5133849), which I still do indirectly in ethics and data curation. From 2012-18 I was Wikimedian at Consumer Reports, which is a nonprofit droit de la consommation (Q664183) organization sharing product safety information in Wikipedia. Since 2018 as a data scientist at my university I do projects to promote science ouverte (Q309823) and données ouvertes (Q309901). Partner organizations like these invest money in the Wikimedia platform, and we should seek more. | |
| 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? | .
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| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | My bachelor of science in chemistry led me to medical research, then to ethics, diversity, and openness, and then to Wikimedia medical content. | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | . | |
| 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). | I edit medical content. During COVID my outreach recruited translators for articles.
On-wiki, I support Wikimedians in applying for Wikimedia grants. My own experience and the gaps in our funding reports have convinced me that many Wikimedians are unable to access money. I feel that financial transparency would increase trust in the Wikimedia grants strategy. As is common among LGBT+ wiki editors, I get harassed. Because my town Charlottesville had a Nazi rally in 2017 and because I live in the United States where shootings are routine, I support increased discussion of disaster response. Development of protection resources for LGBT+ people, women, neurodivergent people, and other vulnerable groups will make Wikimedia safer for everyone. | |
| Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience? | At my university, I developed my school's open access policy . I learned why people either support or fear openness.
I organized community protests in the controversies over Superprotect, the removal of WMF CEO Lila Tretikov, the rebranding, Can San Fran Ban Fram?, fundraising messages, and others. These are major wiki demonstrations with many petitioners. While protests are helpful, it would better if they were not necessary. I wish to reconcile conflicts with financial transparency and consensus-building. | |
| How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard? | I empower people to be heard by joining and bringing media to protests, as I just described. | |
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | I remain productive by addressing conflicts with désescalade (Q1182511) techniques. Many organizations already have developed ways to address conflicts, and I want to bring these practices to Wikimedia. For example, feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (Q15437208) describes how society systematically dismisses women's complaints, and teaches how to avoid this. | |
| 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 need for greater diversity is in the Wikimedia Foundation budget. Although our volunteer recognition programs are diverse, our investments are not. More transparency about Wikimedia Foundation budgets and the Wikimedia Endowment would inspire global confidence in our programs. | |
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