Eleições da Wikimedia Foundation/2024/Candidatura/Lorenzo Losa

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Lorenzo Losa (Laurentius)

Laurentius (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA • AE)

Detalhes da pessoa candidata	Lorenzo Losa em 2023 na WikiConferência Índia Pessoal: Nome: Lorenzo Losa Localização: Itália Idiomas: Italiano (nativo), inglês (fluente), espanhol (básico) Editorial: Wikimedista desde: 2004 Atividade nas Wikis: Wikipédia italiana, Wikidata
A contagem total de palavras para a candidatura inteira (perguntas obrigatórias + opcionais) é de 1000 (mil) palavras
Perguntas obrigatórias
Por que você está se candidatando ao Conselho Administrativo da Fundação Wikimedia? Com o que você contribuiria? Sobre o que você gostaria de aprender mais?	Nos últimos três anos como membro do conselho, aprendi muito, mas uma coisa se destaca: a percepção da nossa natureza global. Eu não era um novato: minha primeira edição na Wikipédia foi em 2004, e eu já tinha experiência em governança. Eu estava engajado na comunidade internacional há uma década. No entanto, eu não compreendia totalmente nossa natureza global. Na minha primeira reunião do conselho, eu me lembro de um slide que contava uma história sobre a tomada de Cabul pelo Talibã - um evento recente na época. Eu não estava acostumado com isso! É um evento global importante, que aparece em todos os jornais, mas eu não estava acostumado a pensar que o que eu faço impacta ou é impactado por esses eventos. O mesmo acontece com nossas comunidades, que têm toda a amplitude e diversidade de um movimento global, e todos os desafios de diferentes culturas, idiomas e fusos horários trabalhando juntos. Fazer parte do conselho ampliou minha perspectiva sobre nossas comunidades e a oportunidade de servi-las melhor. Espero continuar aprendendo com nossas comunidades em todo o mundo e apoiando-as de todas as formas possíveis.
Descreva sua experiência com a Wikimedia (como contribuições para os projetos Wikimedia, adesão a organizações ou afiliados Wikimedia, atividades como organizador ou organizadora do movimento Wikimedia ou participação em uma organização aliada do movimento Wikimedia).	Fiz minha primeira edição na Wikipédia há 20 anos, em abril de 2004. Desde então, fui editor, administrador da Wikipédia italiana, voluntário do VRT e operador de bot. No total, fiz mais de 1 milhão de edições, incluindo edições de bots. Atuei como presidente da Wikimedia Itália, como membro eleito pela comunidade do Comitê de Disseminação de Fundos e atualmente sou vice-presidente do conselho da WMF e presidente do Comitê de Produtos e Tecnologia.
Do seu ponto de vista, o que a Fundação Wikimedia deve priorizar nos próximos 5 a 10 anos e por que você as considera como as prioridades mais importantes?	Uma versão antiga dos valores da Wikimedia afirma que "Nossas comunidades são nosso maior patrimônio", e isso é verdade. O fortalecimento da comunidade é fundamental para nosso sucesso contínuo. Mais do que isso, todos nós precisamos perceber que estamos interconectados e somos interdependentes. É fundamental desenvolver a coesão e melhorar a capacidade de ouvir uns aos outros. Essas são prioridades internas, mas não existimos isoladamente. O mundo está mudando, e a abordagem à informação está mudando. Isso afetará a forma como as pessoas chegam à Wikipédia e nossa capacidade de atrair pessoas voluntárias e doadores. Compreender essas mudanças e se adaptar é vital.
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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	Elegibilidade: Verificado Verificado por: KTC (talk) 19:57, 3 June 2024 (UTC)	Identificação: Verificado Verificado por: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 06:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)