{"id":1069,"date":"2009-07-30T06:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-08-01T00:27:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T04:27:56","slug":"my-wikimedia-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/07\/30\/my-wikimedia-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"My Wikimedia platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Sj\/Platform\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1072\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/07\/30\/my-wikimedia-platform\/metalogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2009\/07\/metalogo.png?fit=96%2C98&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"96,98\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"metalogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;logometa&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2009\/07\/metalogo.png?fit=96%2C98&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1072\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/files\/2009\/07\/metalogo.png?resize=96%2C98\" alt=\"logometa\" width=\"96\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve organized my thoughts about being a good Board member in <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Sj\/Board_2009\">my <strong>platform<\/strong><\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/07\/20\/wikiboarding\/\">Wikimedia Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most common questions I have heard since this year&#8217;s elections began are, <em>what does the Foundation do?<\/em> and <em>what is the Board of Trustees for?<\/em> I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Sj\/Platform\/Questions\">answers to these questions<\/a> and a few more.<\/p>\n<p>People also ask, <em>how do I qualify to vote?<\/em> To be eligible to vote,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must have 600 edits as of June 1, and 50 within the past 6 months.<\/li>\n<li>You may need to <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Unified_login\">create a Unified Login<\/a> to count edits on more than one project; or to vote from your main wiki.<\/li>\n<li>If you are not eligible, you can still encourage fellow Wikimedians to vote, or <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Board_elections\/Ineligible_voters\">leave suggestions<\/a> for future elections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am more intent on this year&#8217;s election than I have been in any year past &#8211; in part because the Board&#8217;s role has been shifting away from one that actively engages and challenges the community, something valuable Agnela and Anthere brought to the Board that I miss.\u00a0 I am deeply concerned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/infodisiac.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia\/\">lack of community growth<\/a> for the past two years, and the complete stagnation of <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/New project proposals\">new project development<\/a> (despite the growth of new <a href=\"http:\/\/wikikids.nl\">independent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rodovid.org\">educational<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/vikidia.org\">free<\/a> knowledge projects <em>that requested Wikimedia hosting<\/em>).  And I was just talking to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Bibhusan\">Bibhusan Bista<\/a>, who said that there is definite interest in the Foundation in <strong>Nepal<\/strong>, and in contributing to Wikipedia&#8217;s spirit of openness; but of course few editors there feel they can engage in related discussions (and none, for instance, would be eligible to vote).<\/p>\n<p>So I have two goals for my <strong>campaign<\/strong> beyond getting elected: to inspire people to vote and remind them why a good foundation matters, and to encourage them to raise community <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/07\/22\/on-the-future-of-wikipedia\/\">priorities<\/a> and requests of the foundation, while attention is on governance over the next two weeks (and while you can get an <strong>immediate<\/strong> response from at least three future Board members, something often hard to come by).<\/p>\n<p>My request to you, if you appreciate Wikipedia and want to see it thrive, whether or not you have the edit count needed to <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Special:SecurePoll\/vote\/17\">vote<\/a>: please leave <a href=\"http:\/\/strategy.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Key_Questions\">suggestions<\/a> about how Wikimedia should grow, <strong>blog<\/strong> about the election and your reasons for caring about it, and help <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Sj\/Support_the_election\">support the election<\/a> in smaller languages and projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve organized my thoughts about being a good Board member in my platform for the Wikimedia Board. 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