{"id":1129,"date":"2009-08-14T23:20:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T03:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2009-08-23T14:40:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T18:40:59","slug":"wikimedia-elections-thank-you-and-next-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/08\/14\/wikimedia-elections-thank-you-and-next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia elections : thank you! and next steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elections results are out, and I will be serving the community as a Trustee for the next two years. I am looking forward to the challenge; <strong>thank you<\/strong> to those who trusted me with their vote, and congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Wing\">Ting<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/07\/20\/wikiboarding\/\">Kat<\/a> &#8211; it is an <strong>honor<\/strong> to represent the community alongside them.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you also to Philippe and the elections team, and to all candidates who took time to run.\u00a0 I was particularly glad to see <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:G%C3%B3ngora\"><strong>G\u00f3ngora<\/strong><\/a> running, as a new face in <strong>meta-affairs<\/strong>, and I hope to see more participation in meta discussion by active <em>es:wp<\/em> contributors.<\/p>\n<p>I will help the Board be more open.\u00a0 I have revived the <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikimedia_meetings\">Wikimedia meetings<\/a> page for suggested agenda items &#8211; please leave your ideas and comments there, in any language.\u00a0 (I know this is a tough thing to request in a monolingual blog.\u00a0 Suggestions for making this blog more accessible are welcome.)\u00a0 I will post my own thoughts about agenda items there in advance of future Board meetings.\u00a0 One of my first efforts will be getting all foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Resolutions\">resolutions<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/wiki\/Policies\">policies<\/a> translated into Wikimedia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Translation_subcommittee#Core_set_of_languages\">core languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The next one is coming up in a few weeks, during Wikimania &#8211; I don&#8217;t officially become a Board member until we meet.\u00a0 I am looking forward to Wikimania, and hope to see some of you there!<\/p>\n<p>I have also updated the old <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikimedia_reports\">Wikimedia Reports<\/a> page, as one way to better coordinate organize information &#8211; please help add new reports to it, and translate it into other languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elections results are out, and I will be serving the community as a Trustee for the next two years. I am looking forward to the challenge; thank you to those who trusted me with their vote, and congratulations to Ting and Kat &#8211; it is an honor to represent the community alongside them. 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