Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2009/Candidates/Questions/intro

Instructions

We ask voters to leave no more than 4 non-duplicative, brief and rigidly-relevant questions. Questions which do not directly relate to candidacy in the Board Election will be removed at the discretion of the Committee. Please be respectful of the time that candidates must spend answering, and the time other voters must spend reading.

Please do not use the question pages to link to other pages with more questions (to ask further or non-eligible questions, contact the candidates on their talk pages or via email). You can ask your question in any language; if necessary, the election committee will try to find translators. Click here to add a question.

Candidates

It is strongly suggested that answers to questions do not exceed approximately 1600 characters per question (not counting spaces). Please do not link to another page containing an extended answer, although relevant links used for descriptive purposes are fine. Due to the number of voters and candidates, this is necessary to keep these pages readable, informative and therefore useful for voters.

Directory

For readability, the questions page will be broken up into subpages, each containing 20 questions and the answers by the candidates.

Questions/1 (19 July—29 July) Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions Ads? Fundraising increase Spending increase Paid editing Functions of the Foundation Chapters Age restrictions One more about Foundation income Censorship & Suppression of information Sexual content on WMF Chapter-foundation relationship Usability projects Privacy policy Licensing and Terms of use Wikimedia chapters' legitimacy and power Board-level restrictions of private information disclosure What will you do about the WMF mishandling it's funding? Board - Staff Events and outreach

Questions/2 (29 July—present) Foundation Endowment "Office actions" and BLP issues Should someone enforce Board resolutions? Developers-community relationship? Worst mistake made by WMF? Charitable status Should everyone have a say in the guidelines or not? Can one be a candidate for the WMF if they have a checkered editing history?