{"id":1768,"date":"2011-06-20T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T20:53:48","slug":"wikimedia-board-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/06\/20\/wikimedia-board-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia Board elections: thoughts and thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-elected to\u00a0Wikimedia board last week,\u00a0along with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ting Chen<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mindspillage\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kat Walsh<\/a>, after two short but intense weeks of discussion and <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Board_elections\/2011\/Candidates\/Questions\">questions<\/a> about the past and future. \u00a0Congratulations to my fellow trustees, and thank you to all who shared challenging ideas, support and criticisms shared during the past month. \u00a0This was by far the most<\/p>\n<p>As with most Wikimedia governance discussions, this one took place almost solely in English. \u00a0However I was pleased to see <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Board_elections\/2011\/Candidates\/Questions\/2#Posponer_la_votaci.C3.B3n\">two<\/a> important <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Board_elections\/2011\/Candidates\/Questions\/2#The_Incubator_makes_it_harder_to_grow_up_projects\">questions<\/a> raised in Spanish in the very last days of the election, by\u00a0<a title=\"w:es:user:Fajro\" href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Fajro\">Fernando Inocencio<\/a>.\u00a0 And at least five of the candidates ran on platforms that involved fixing this language barrier. \u00a0That seems like progress!<\/p>\n<p>If you have thoughts about where Wikipedia and sister projects (and future relatives yet unborn) should be heading, now is a fine time to share them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-elected to\u00a0Wikimedia board last week,\u00a0along with\u00a0Ting Chen and\u00a0Kat Walsh, after two short but intense weeks of discussion and questions about the past and future. \u00a0Congratulations to my fellow trustees, and thank you to all who shared challenging ideas, support and criticisms shared during the past month. \u00a0This was by far the most As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-sw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}