Pemilihan Yayasan Wikimedia/2024/Calon/Lorenzo Losa

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Lorenzo Losa (Laurentius)

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Rincian kandidat	Lorenzo Losa pada acara WikiKonferensi India 2023 Pribadi: Nama: Lorenzo Losa Lokasi: Italia Bahasa: Italia (bahasa ibu), Inggris (lancar), Spanyol (dasar) Pengalaman kontribusi: Wikimediawan sejak: 2004 Wiki-wiki aktif: Wikipedia bahasa Italia, Wikidata
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Mengapa Anda ingin menjadi bagian dari Dewan Pengawas, Yayasan Wikimedia? Sumbangsih apa yang akan Anda lakukan? Hal apa saja yang ingin Anda pelajari lebih lanjut?	Selama tiga tahun terakhir bertugas sebagai Dewan Pengawas, saya telah mendapatkan banyak pelajaran. Namun, ada satu hal yang cukup menonjol: perwujudan sifat global kita. Saya bukanlah orang baru: suntingan pertama saya di Wikipedia terjadi pada tahun 2004, dan saya juga sudah memiliki pengalaman tentang tata kelola organisasi. Saya telah terlibat dalam komunitas internasional selama satu dasawarsa. Namun, saya belum sepenuhnya paham dengan sifat global kita. Dalam rapat Dewan Pengawas kali pertama, saya ingat sebuah salindia presentasi yang menceritakan kisah tentang penaklukan Kabul oleh Taliban. Saat itu, peristiwa tersebut baru saja terjadi. Tentu hal ini bukanlah sesuatu yang saya biasa alami! Peristiwa tersebut merupakan kejadian berskala global yang cukup penting, bahkan bisa ditemukan dalam setiap surat kabar. Namun, saya tidak terbiasa berpikir bahwa hal yang saya lakukan akan berpengaruh terhadap atau dipengaruhi oleh peristiwa ini. Hal yang sama berlaku untuk komunitas kita. Komunitas yang besar dan penuh dengan keberagaman dalam ikatan gerakan global; dan semua tantangan saat bekerja sama mulai dari budaya, bahasa, hingga zona waktu. Dengan menjadi anggota Dewan Pengawas, saya berharap bisa meluaskan pandangan tentang komunitas kita ini, serta merupakan suatu kesempatan untuk melayani mereka secara lebih baik. Saya berharap untuk terus belajar dari komunitas kita yang berasal dari seluruh dunia serta mendukung mereka sebisa mungkin dengan cara apapun.
Mohon uraikan pengalaman ke-Wikimedia-an Anda, misalnya sumbangsih pada proyek Wikimedia, keanggotaan dalam organisasi mitra lokal Wikimedia, kegiatan yang dilakukan sebagai penyelenggara kegiatan di Wikimedia, atau keikutsertaan pada organisasi sekutu Gerakan Wikimedia.	Saya membuat suntingan pertama saya di Wikipedia 20 tahun yang lalu, pada bulan April 2004. Sejak itu, saya telah menjadi editor, administrator di Wikipedia Italia, relawan VRT, pengelola akun bot. Secara keseluruhan, saya membuat lebih dari 1 juta suntingan, termasuk di antaranya suntingan oleh akun bot yang saya kelola. Saya pernah menjabat sebagai presiden Wikimedia Italia, sebagai anggota Komite Penyaluran Dana yang dipilih oleh komunitas. Saat ini menjabat sebagai wakil ketua Dewan Pengawas dan ketua Komite Produk dan Teknologi Yayasan Wikimedia.
Menurut pandangan Anda, hal-hal apa saja yang harus Yayasan Wikimedia diutamakan selama jangka waktu 5-10 tahun yang akan datang? Mengapa Anda merasa bahwa hal tersebut harus diutamakan?	Sebuah nilai lama Wikimedia versi sebelumnya menyatakan bahwa "komunitas merupakan aset terbesar kami" dan ucapan itu benar adanya. Penguatan komunitas merupakan kunci untuk keberhasilan yang terus berkelanjutan. Lebih dari itu, kita semua perlu menyadari bahwa saat ini kita saling terhubung dan saling bergantung. Hal terpenting lainnya yaitu mempererat kekompakan dan menjadi pendengar yang baik. Hal tersebut merupakan prioritas internal, tetapi kita tidak akan mungkin ada jika terisolasi. Dunia terus berubah dan pendekatan terhadap informasi juga berubah. Keadaan itu akan memengaruhi cara orang bisa berjumpa dengan Wikipedia serta kemampuan kita untuk menarik perhatian para donor sukarelawan. Pemahaman akan perubahan dan langkah adaptasi akan menjadi tindakan yang sangat penting.
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've served in governing bodies at different scales, including: Chair or board member of small associations (no staff, minimal budget). Chair of Wikimedia Italy (approximately 10 employees, 400 members, 500k$ budget). Member of committees like the Funds Dissemination Committee. Vicechair of the WMF board, and Product&Technology Committee chair.
Please describe your professional career experience.	After leaving my PhD studies, I founded a company focused on reuse of bibliographical data (WikiCite didn't exist at the time!), and later I helped with the start-up of other companies. Today, I lead the development of an electronic brokerage platform, part of a group operating multiple markets related to sustainable commodities.
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?	# As newly elected chair of Wikimedia Italy, facing a hard decision: I asked the board to take a pause, and I set a clear timeline, making space for thinking together. That enabled different perspectives to emerge, focusing on what's best for the association, and avoiding hasty decisions. At my workplace, planning a major change. I began with small-scale experiments, to assess the situation. Then I continued with gradual changes, to build momentum. At every stage, I communicated and listened - especially to the most critical voices. That prepared the ground for the final push, with everyone's support. In advising a nonprofit to rethink itself, I facilitated a strategic meeting helping them bridge strengths and needs. I didn't provide answers, but tools that enabled them to find the answers by themselves.
Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work.	I've earned a master degree in Mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore, where I've also been a PhD candidate. In recent years, I attended trainings to build the skills I need as a board member, including: On managing nonprofits in Italy (e.g., [1][2]) On governance: Value Creation through Effective Boards, IESE Business School Team Dynamics for Boards, IMD Non-Profit Board Leadership Agent of Impact, Board Veritas Extensive training in facilitation (that I applied in movement events)
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).	Opportunities for building bridges present themselves all the time - as long as you create the spaces for them and follow up. In the past three years on the board, I've been able to attend events of different communities. Talking with people in my home wiki, and in my country, is important to me for the depth it provides; but only connecting with people in all parts of the wiki world gives the breadth needed to glimpse its full complexity.
Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience?	I began my term as chair of Wikimedia Italy with the creation of a conflict of interest policy, and I ended it with a complete overhaul of the bylaws, to adapt to changing national laws. My key learning is that policies are important, but the principles and the culture that upholds them are much more important. In healthy organizations, policies help to be efficient and improve. To change an organization, however, policies alone aren't enough: the culture is what you really should focus on.
How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard?	It might seem trivial, but the first step is asking. Create a space that welcomes their voices, and let them know they're welcome. I see a lot of good faith and willingness to listen: we need to create the conditions to translate it into practice.
Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts.	Conflict is unpleasant, but not always bad: it makes different perspectives visible, and brings light to your blindspots. It's a learning opportunity. Conflicts become productive by focusing on what the person is bringing, not on whether I like it. In many cases, even when labeled as personality conflicts, it's not about the people but about the voices they bring - and that deserve to be heard.
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?	We need a wide range of perspectives to look at issues from any possible angle and make the right decisions. The board does well in some measures of diversity, like gender or age, and not so well in others, like geography. The keys to improve are: Support volunteers across the globe to grow in governance roles at local, regional and global levels. Create spaces to surface different perspectives. Having the right people is not enough: we need their voices.
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