ウィキメディア財団選挙/2024年/候補者/Lorenzo Losa

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候補者の詳細	Lorenzo Losa、2023年のウィキカンファレンス・インドにて自己紹介: 名前: Lorenzo Losa 居住地: イタリア言語: イタリア語（母語）、英語（流暢）、スペイン語（初級）活動: ウィキメディア参加時期: 2004 活動中のウィキ: イタリア語版ウィキペディア、ウィキデータ
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ウィキメディア財団の理事選挙に立候補した理由は？あなたはどんな面で貢献できますか？もっと知りたいと思っているのはどんなことですか？	理事として活動したこの3年の間に多くのことを学んだ私ですが、特に印象に残っていることがあります。それは私たちのグローバルさを認識したことです。新人ではなくて、2004年にはウィキペディアの初回の編集をしており、すでに組織統治の経験もありました。グローバルなコミュニティでも経験を10年、積んでいます。そんな私でも、私たちのグローバルさの性質を完ぺきに理解していたわけではありません。初めて理事会に出たとき、当時、タリバンによるカブール占領が発生したばかりで - それを主題にしたスライドを1枚見た瞬間を覚えています。まさか、こんなもの、今まで見たこともない！どの新聞も書き立てるほどグローバルに重要な出来事ではあるけれども - だからと言って、自分の言動がこれらの事案に波及したり、自分が影響を受けるなどと考えようにも、それ以前にそんな経験がなかったのです。同じことは私たちのコミュニティにも当てはまり、グローバルな運動の幅広さと多様性を備えている点がそうですし、さまざまな文化や言語、時間帯にいる人は個別の課題に直面するとしても、力を出し合って取り組む点とも重なります。理事になった経験から、コミュニティに関して私の視点は広がり - さらにコミュニティにこうすればより良い貢献ができるという機会も拡張しました。今後も世界中のコミュニティから学んだり、あらゆる方法で可能な限りのサポートを続けたいと考えています。
ウィキメディアにおける経験を説明してください（ウィキメディアのどんなプロジェクトで編集したか、ウィキメディアのどの提携団体や組織に登録しているか、ウィキメディア運動で主催する活動、あるいはウィキメディア運動に賛同する外部の団体に参加しているなど）。	ウィキペディアで初めて編集したのは2004年4月ですから、今から20年前です。あれ以来、私はイタリア語版ウィキペディアの編集者として、また管理者やVRT担当のボランティア、ボット遣い（オペレーター）を務めてきました。編集回数はボット編集を含めると、総計100万回超に及びます。私はウィキメディア・イタリア協会の会長経験者であり、資金配分委員会ではコミュニティ選出の委員を務めました。現在はこのウィキメディア財団の理事会副会長職と、同製品および技術委員会では委員長の座についています。
皆さんから見て、ウィキメディア財団は今後の5-10年間に何を優先すると良いか、それがいちばん重要だと考える理由は何か、教えていただけませんか？	旧版のウィキメディアの価値観に「私たちのコミュニティは私たちの最大の資産」と記されたとおり、それは今でも真実です。コミュニティの強化こそ、私たちの成功を継続する鍵です。私たちはそればかりでなく、互いにつながっていて、依存し合っている点を認識しておかなければなりません。結束力を高めて、互いの話にもっと耳を貸すことが重要です。これらが内部の優先事項であっても、私たちは孤立した存在ではありません。世界は変わりつつあり、情報へのアプローチも変化しています。人々がウィキペディアにどのようにアクセスするか、さらにボランティアや寄付者を引き付ける能力にも影響するものです。重要なのは、これらの変化を理解して適応することです。
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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