Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Candidates

• Personal:
  • Name: Alvonte
  • Country: China
  • Languages: zh-N, en-5, es-1, fr-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Chinese Wikisource (zh.wikisource)
  • Wikimedian since: 2010
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Resource allocation
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• One of the core coordinators of Asian Month for the last several rounds.
• Member of ESEAP, participated in the 2019 Summit which leads to further regional coordinated effort.

Various on-wiki experience under a former account:

• Has over 25,000 edits, with less than 50% on any singular site.
• Was an administrator of a Wikimedia project, and a bot operator on multiple wikis.
• Was a member of the Volunteer Response Team.
• Contributed to the development of software on Phabricator.

• Co-chaired a tech conference with a couple of hundreds attendees, primarily responsible for cross-team collaboration with various sponsors. In addition, I drafted and was the point of contact for the Code of Conduct there.
• Served as an administrator of an online scientific education platform for students.
• Organized/coached teams for competitions with members from various countries across the world.
• Agile/Scrum-coached a team of software developers, and mentored several engineers at different stages.
• Received design thinking training at school. Coached and administered the process at various projects.

I dreamed of a world that belongs to everyone, where every one of us could be anywhere, love anyone, and fear nothing. It would not be possible without increased understanding, without free, accessible knowledge. and I sincerely hope Wikimedia can play a more significant role in combating knowledge inequality worldwide. I hope that Wikimedia would place more value in non-English contributions and provide much more support to non-English contributors. It's never going to be an easy job, but that's what we set out to do. I hope that all of our projects could provide an easier channel for potential editors who are simply not so well-versed in English communication. I hope that many of the disappearing cultural traditions could find their place here, even though our children and children's children will grow up following the brand new traditions of some hyper digitalized world with facebook, twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, crypto, NFT, and a lot more to come. They can at least read about the ways we have lived. I hope that we could one day, realize the dream that Babylon never managed to achieve, where Wikimedia projects will be the lighthouse that stand for our generation and the many generations to come.

Our work is important, and more must be done.

P. S.: I did not think about running initially, but seeing the enthusiasm from the encouraging emails and messages, I feel obliged to at least try. I'm inclined to use a new account since I believe that is the best way for me to contribute onward. Email me if you have any thoughts.

• Personal:
  • Name: Tito Dutta
  • Country: India
  • Languages: Bangla (native), English, Hindi

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2011
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Policy writing skills
• Resource allocation

• Wikimedian since 2011 with ~299,000 global edits (~146,000 on English Wikipedia, ~800 article creations, ~73,000 on Wikimedia Commons) (see details)
• Member of WikiProject India on Wikipedia, I spend a lot of time in maintenance and cleanup of WikiProject India articles.
• One of the founders of WikiProject India on Wikidata (note although I was on the founders, I gradually became later)
• Wikipedia admin since 2015 (see RfA).
• 54,000+ Bangla pronunication upload on Wikimedia Commons (mostly to support Bangla Lexeme on Wikidata)

• Program Manager of CIS-A2K since September 2018, and associated with CIS-A2K since January 2015. As a part of the responsibilities associated with the position, I have worked on a large number of programs in India (both national-level, and state-level/regional). Some of the programs I have worked on and collaborated with communities/community leaders/community members are Train-the-Trainer (2015–present), MediaWiki Training (all iterations), Wikisource proofread-a-thons, WikiConference India (2016), Wikidata WikiProject India label-a-thon, Stay safe, stay connected, Wikipedia Tag & Assess (India), and several other programs.
• Member of West Bengal Wikimedians since its formation, regular participant of the user group's activities.

• possibly I can add my experience and inputs in the process, and the draft preparation.
• this will give me an opportunity to directly check and try to ensure that we have an effective and community-friendly movement charter.
• bring forward/highlight the necessities of the affiliates and communities of India, and Global South (I am not really flag-bearing/flag-waving here, but this is the region/area where I have been working for several years now)
• last but not in least, I believe that this will be a good learning experience.

• Personal:
  • Name: V M
  • Country: India
  • Languages: ml-N, en-5, hi-3

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Malayalam Wiktionary (ml.wiktionary)
  • Wikimedian since: 2011
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

Wikimedia should enable everyone to easily contribute from smartphones and preferred devices (The desktop, IMHO, has a gender/demography bias). I have always strived to remove barriers to free knowledge and reduce the learning curve needed to participate and contribute. Those who like to add knowledge should be able to do so without spending time familiarizing stuffs. Things should be designed intuitively.

Proper communication and documentation are other aspects that have been missing so far. The WMF need to communicate with the communities and take in feedbacks of diverse groups of different sister projects. The drafting committee should include it.

• Personal:
  • Name: Rafael Laynes Hancco
  • Country: Arequipa, Peru
  • Languages: Spanish

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Spanish Wikipedia (es.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2020
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural awareness
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Writing and editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Gergő Tisza
  • Country: Hungary, USA
  • Languages: Hungarian, English, very limited German

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Hungarian Wikipedia (hu.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Local policy work
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Previous phases of Movement Strategy

What I hope to bring to the table:

• Deep familiarity with the strategy process. From 2018 summer to early 2020 I spent most of my free time participating in strategy discussions and helping to give shape to the recommendations.
• Technology background: with half of all movement funds going to tech, understanding the needs and possibilities of that space is important for resource allocation, one of the focus areas of the Charter. Also, governance of open-source software holds many lessons we can learn from.
• Familiarity with how the WMF works. Given that the movement recommendations ask for many current WMF responsibilities to be transferred to other movement entities, and the charter and the drafting committee are likely to be the vehicle of that, understanding those responsibilities well is important.
• Some familiarity with the CEE region and its collaboration efforts. The strategy asks for the formation of regional hubs; I think we should pave the cow paths and build on what regional collaboration already exists, and WMCEE is one of the possible role models and test subjects in that area.
• A wide perspective. I have spent several years both as a wiki editor and community organizer; on a chapter board; and as paid staff for the largest movement organization. I joined a small wiki, watched it grow into a mid-sized one, and have dipped my toes into contributing to large ones. During that, I have gained an appreciation of how much the needs and experiences of various movement groups can differ.

• Personal:
  • Name: Christophe Henner
  • Country: France
  • Languages: fr-N, en-4

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Resource allocation
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• Wikimedian since 2005'ish
• Sysop, Arbitrator, CU on frwp a long time ago (circa 2005 to 2008)
• trustee, vice-chair and chair of Wikimedia France from 2007 to 2016
• Chair and vice-chair of Wikimedia Foundation from 2016 to 2019.

• In 2012 when we had a huge fight within the movement regarding fundraising and fund dissemination, I organized the Paris Finance meeting which not only built bridges between organization but ultimately led to the creation of the Funds Dissemination Committee. This was possible only by rebuilding a high enough level of trust to tackle heads on those hard questions.
• In 2016, I was elected chair of the Wikimedia Foundation right after of crisis, and I helped move from a place of uncertainty to a place of collaboration all across the movement that materialized into the Wikimedia 2030 Strategy process.
• In my daytime work, as a Chief Operating Officer/Managing Director, part of my job is to be able to create cooperation between teams with different language, stakes and goals.

To me, the main role of the drafting committee will be to structure the work to allow for community collaboration all across the writing process and not just at the end for the ratification.

On top of that, to also ensure we don’t take the easy path to conserve things as they are but that everything we keep as it is today is kept that way because it actually contribute to the movement being global and decentralized.

As for my vision, I do strongly believe that we should be having those discussions very directly and not shy away to open tough discussions and options. And have them by always trying to find ways to apply a subsidiarity principles.

The discussion we are about to address are key, important and sometime very emotional topics. Through the different hats I wore (editor, chapter chair, Wikimedia Foundation chair) and my professional curriculum (which has been about governance and running organizations for almost ten years and the last two in the size range of the Foundation staff-wise) I believe I also will be able to bring not only experience or knowledge, but also perspectives. As I have sat at the different side of the table I can empathize with the different stakeholders of that discussion.

Finally, the charter will become our guiding document to ensure we have shared alignment on where we go, trust and empowerment in the institutions and processes so that we can focus on making the world a better place and not on “how do we disseminate funds?”.

• Personal:
  • Name: Abdulrahman
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Languages: ha, en

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Hausa Wikipedia (ha.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2021
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

As a graduate student, I will aim to master the gambit of strategies that are most effective at promoting progressive social change. Being a caring person is intrinsic to social work, along with the drive and high motivation to challenge clients to realize their full potential. Social workers must honor the individuality of each client and empower them to move forward and achieve improvement. The fullest respect of client dignity helps to foster a sense of worth leading towards self-realization and -determination, and helps to produce participatory citizens rather than burdens to the system. The fight against social injustice is intrinsic to social work as I see it, in addition to advocacy, always with an eye on achieving the best outcomes for one’s clients. I personally feel strongly that serving as a voice for the oppressed should come naturally for social workers as they fight for justice and progressive change in their communities. While working with individual clients in the micro setting is my primary and immediate goal, I think it is complimentary to never lose sight of the broader picture and the way in which our own efforts are part of a larger movement towards greater levels of equality and dignity in our society.

• Personal:
  • Name: James Hare
  • Country: United States
  • Languages: en-N, fr-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Wikidata
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

With the movement charter we are presented a challenge to develop a governance framework for the Wikimedia movement. A decentralized movement which has, historically, resisted most forms of consolidation and imposition of hierarchy. This is a feature of our movement, not a flaw. But without a formally recognized institution like the Global Council, we are left with various scattered power structures that favor the well-organized and well-resourced. In practice this leaves volunteers feeling like they have no control over what the Wikimedia Foundation does even as the Foundation spends millions of dollars improving its community relations. The system may somewhat work but the belief will persist that it doesn’t.

If the movement charter drafting committee is successful, it will create a new polity that has been sorely missing: the organized counter-voice to the Wikimedia Foundation. Even with the best intentions, the current arrangement, with a few large organizations and many poorly organized volunteer communities, will inevitably produce conflict. There are sincere disagreements over what should be prioritized and why, and given how spending power is allocated, people will perceive the process to be unfair. And I honestly don’t think corporate hierarchies like the Foundation’s scale well to movements like ours; this is reflected in the velocity at which the Wikimedia Foundation makes improvements to the projects.

I consider these the top three priorities for the movement charter:

• Build legitimacy in the process and institution by establishing clear and explicit power arrangements;
• Empower the everyday and occasional Wikimedians to have say in the decisions made by movement-funded actors;
• Help movement-funded organizations like the Wikimedia Foundation scale management and oversight of their work to the hundreds of language communities, sister projects, affiliates, and so on.

• Personal:
  • Name: Richard
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Languages: en-N

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2018 (functionally - account creation 2012)
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Policy Writing Skills
• Previous phases of the Movement Strategy
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

This is a crucial process, but critically we need to make it as little about the specific drafters and as much about the Community's viewpoints (stressing the plural). We shouldn't be attempting to drive through a controversial position with 51% support, and I would not. I am a strong supporter of "subsidiarity" - that is, anything that can be done at the broadest level (the local communities and the meta-community), should be.

1. We have broad areas that everyone agrees should be included, but these are all huge. I'd start with an open listing where anyone can add in areas they think should be discussed for inclusion. MCDC (the less popular alternative band?) members could add their ideas like any other editor. We could also measure initial indications of concern about certain aspects being included – indicating potential "hotspots".
2. Once an (absolutely preliminary) list has been agreed, the MC is too big to even try to craft an entire version at once, so split into areas. Rather than do as many other WMF projects have done and create a draft and show it to the Community, I find that encourages drafters to get locked into an idea of minimal changes. I'd like to have each topic have an initial community discussion, coupled with the usual calls, etc, to get detailed indications of views, and then create a draft, and then 'multiple phases of drafting/revision.
3. My personal preferences on level of detail are roughly in line with the ad-hoc polls - "broad brushstrokes" on movement principles, light or medium detail on existing bodies and their roles, more detail on new bodies, and the most binding detail on transparency. And that transparency has to start with us.
4. Most critically: ratification - another area that needs nailing down early. Otherwise it fosters distrust and encourages proposing a softer ratification process when we're nearly done, and that should be avoided. I have some personal ideas: majority support by all of: local communities, active editors, affiliates, and the BOT. But maybe you disagree - discuss!

Finally, I'm open to functionally any level of questions. If there ends up a cap on the formal process, ask on my talk page

• Personal:
  • Name: Valentin Nasibu
  • Country: DR Congo
  • Languages: French-N, Lingala, Swahili, English-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): ⧼Project-localized-name-wikidata⧽
  • Wikimedian since: 2017
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Team collaboration
• Writing and editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Yang Shih-Ching
  • Country: Taiwan
  • Languages: zh-N, en-4

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2006
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

1. Founder of WikiWomen Taiwan (2015.03)

As a Taiwanese and a member of the Chinese Wikipedia, as Chinese Wikipedia is one of the largest Wikimedia projects, I think more voices should be heard in the committee, in order to accomodate the problems the Chinese Wikipedia is facing, and the cultural issues that should be included into the Wikimedia Movement. I would also like to contribute my efforts for us to be heard.

• Personal:
  • Name: Iniquity
  • Country: Russia
  • Languages: ru-N, en-3

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Russian Wikipedia (ru.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2008
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

One movement is not only the people who participate in the projects, but also the information these projects provide to the readers. It should be diverse, standardized and available in all languages of the world, for all cultures. It seems to me that my knowledge of different communities, understanding of how poorly integrated communities work and what they think, will help fix these problems within the framework of the Movement Charter.

• Personal:
  • Name: Ashioma Medi
  • Country: Nigeria, Igbo
  • Languages: en

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2015
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

My experience as a research fellow at a government & public policy institute has broadened my scope on governance, organization management, board management, legal actions, policy documentation & implementation, and other required knowledge bases. This helped me successfully draft the by-laws with consultation from appropriate authorities for the working of a Wikimedia hub. As a product designer, my skills of design thinking, critical thinking, strategic thinking would help in translating strategy recommendations into structures, help see the gaps to be covered, and would also help in getting things done at the set time.

• Personal:
  • Name: Richard Knipel
  • Country: US
  • Languages: en-N, fr-1, es-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Strategic and structural thinking skills
• Team collaboration

I have been active in the following organized groups, among others:

• Wikimedia New York City, founding President 2009-2017, currently Secretary
• Wiki Education Foundation, board member since 2013
• Art+Feminism User Group, part of initial team in 2014, currently regional ambassador

I also started these Commons and GLAM initiatives:

• Wiki Takes X/Wiki Loves X, the very first Commons photo contests, that helped inspire Wiki Loves Monuments
• Wikipedian in Residence at MoMA and Guggenheim
• Wikimedian in Residence at Metropolitan Museum of Art, release of 375,000 images to Commons and numerous Wikidata imports
• Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network

In response to last year's branding controversy, I and others helped organize these strategic initiatives:

• Community open letter on renaming (COLOR), signed by 73 affiliates and 1001 individuals
• Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN)), which has been a platform over the past 12 months for cross-disciplinary collaboration among communities, affiliates, and foundation over a challenging period

I have helped bring together individuals and communities, and have assisting in convening many meetings, both project-based and geography-based (including WikiConference North America), in an attempt to foster greater community dialogue.

In addition to the COLOR and SWAN initiatives, I have also tried to foster global community understanding through Wikipedia Weekly Network over the past year, and especially for the 20th anniversary with Wiki 20 Countdown/Asia-Pacific and Wiki 20 Countdown/Africa.

Therefore, I commit myself to these principles:

• Democracy and diversity, both necessary and both indispensable
• Decentralization, which means devolving power away from the Wikimedia Foundation in the United States
• Transparency, in the drafting process itself and also in the resulting structures it creates
• Consensus, this whole thing only works if we do the hard work of talking to each other and making compromises

I believe in a community driven iterative on-wiki process, not something written in a black box in a dark room. I will commit to ensuring these principles in the process and in the product, and I believe I have the experience, the diplomacy, and the nuance to be effective in this task.

• Personal:
  • Name: Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni
  • Country: India
  • Languages: tcy

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Tulu Wikipedia (tcy.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2014
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Co-founder of Karavali Wikimedians User Group Karnataka, India.
• Organized Tulu, Kannada, Konkani edit-a-thons in Mangaluru.
• Attendee of number of conferences, events, and training sessions.
• Currently I am a board member of Karavali Wikimedians User Group
• I am active across diverse Wikimedia sister Wiki Projects.

• With regards to my Wikimedia experiences, I have worked collaboratively in several processes.
• Found -5- more College associations along with Tulu community and different colleges of Coastal belt of Karnataka.
• I have vast experience in bringing up my Tulu community from being in the incubator, to being made a fully fledged Wikipedia and trying to make Tulu Wiktionary go to live.

• Personal:
  • Name: Ian Ramjohn
  • Country: Trinidad and Tobago — United States
  • Languages: en-n, Trinidadian Creole-n

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Knowledge of Wikimedia

Prior to this, I worked for a decade as an instructor in higher education; shepherding classes of undergraduates through semester-long courses, coordinating with other instructors, teaching assistants, and lab prep staff, requires a team that collaborates effectively, week after week. Before that, I worked in environmental consulting. Designing, collecting, and analysing field survey data, and working with my colleagues to get reports written, delivered to clients, and getting revisions done in response to their feedback required considerable collaborative team work.

I've chosen to use my social capital to be heard in places where newcomers pushing for equity are likely to either be overwhelmed or ignored. I have pushed back against Wikipedia's colonised bones, and worked to help empower others to work for equity. I have collaborated with people making huge strides to bring historically excluded groups into our mission.

The people chosen to draft the Movement Charter should understand the need to balance the interests of the large communities with the needs of the small groups, especially those who have been historically excluded. They must also be willing to listen to what people within the community have to say, understanding that the collective wisdom of the community, there are always better ideas than any individual might bring.

I have a sense of the breadth of what exists in our movement. I have worked on large projects like the English Wikipedia, and collaborated to help develop small ones like WikiSpore. I have experience with an organisation with a formal governance structure and paid staff that obtains the majority of its funding from funders outside WMF, and one with a more informal structure run with no budget gives me an understanding of some of the contrasts among affiliates.

I am a good writer and a better editor. I am an effective and experienced cross-cultural communicator. I have experience building systems of support that helped Wiki Education go from supporting 2,747 students with two dedicated half-time staffers in Fall of 2014 to supporting 6,820 students in Fall 2020 with one dedicated staffer (me). I have experience with policy development on en.wp; one of my first major forays was an (unsuccessful) attempt to standardise Era notation in 2005.

These skills and experiences should help me draft effective and efficient procedures.

• Personal:
  • Name: Dennis Raylin Chen
  • Country: Taiwan
  • Languages: Taiwan Mandarin (zh-tw-N), Taiwanese Hokkien (nan-N), English (en-3), Bahasa Indonesia, (id-1), German (de-1), Taiwanese Hakka (hak-1)

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Southern Min Wikipedia (zh-min-nan.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2006
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Communication skills
• Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Knowledge of Wikimedia

Wikipedia brings together a large number of people from different backgrounds to write articles on the scope of human knowledge that is less included in encyclopedias and textbooks. This open knowledge project has encouraged people like me to participate more deeply..

In 2010, I started to participate in community activities in Taipei, and held a few quarterly gatherings to promote the revival of the formerly inactive local chapter of Wikimedia Taiwan.

For people who know the story of the Taiwanese Wikimedia community, they know that Wikimedia Taiwan was successfully revived particularly due to the Taiwanese aborigines which belong to the Austronesian languages group. We assist them in bringing the incubator to an official Wikipedia site.

I co-organized a program track at the COSCUP, which is a large open source conference in Taiwan, together with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

About the community, I mainly organize the OpenStreetMap x Wikidata monthly gathering in Taipei. OpenStreetMap and the Wikidata Taiwan community participate in the local promotion and data maintenance of these two projects.

Through the Movement Charter, I hope to preserve the underrepresented languages in Taiwan and other minority languages that need to be protected, And to preserve the digital world through an international Wikimedia Movement.

• Personal:
  • Name: Basheer
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Languages: ha, en

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Hausa Wikipedia (ha.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2019
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and Linguistic Awareness
• Safe and Collaborative Spaces
• Writing and Communication Skills

I am confident I have what to give to the chatter as I have experience in governing and I have good speaking and writing skills. I will work collaboratively in defining & structuring policies that will ensure the positivity of the Wikipedia goals and vision.

• Personal:
  • Name: Handgod Abraham
  • Country: Haiti
  • Languages: French - Haitian Creole

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2018
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Personal:
  • Name: Osama Eid
  • Country: Palestine
  • Languages: Arabic/English/Hebrew

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Arabic Wikipedia (ar.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2016
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

I manage the educational programs of the Arabic Wikipedia in the State of Palestine, and I also participate in all the campaigns and projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.

I also want the charter to be appropriate for all changes and for all societies, and for it to be a just and positive charter.

• Personal:
  • Name: Abdul-Rasheed Yussif
  • Country: Ghana
  • Languages: English and Dagbani

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Dagbani Wikipedia (dag.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2015
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Team collaboration

• Personal:
  • Name: Marie-Louise Aembe
  • Country: DRCongo
  • Languages: fr-N, en

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2018
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Personal:
  • Name: Josh Lim
  • Country: Philippines / United States
  • Languages: en-N, tl-N, es-3, pl-2, zh-2, fr-1, he-1, ja-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Tagalog Wikipedia (tl.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: April 7, 2005
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Global and local policy work
• Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• Growing Wikimedia affiliates throughout Asia and the world both as a former member of the Affiliations Committee, of which I was proud to serve between 2013 and 2016, and in my involvement with Wikimedia Philippines. The Wikipedia Asian Month, of which I was part of the organizing team in 2015, 2016 and 2017, is the crowning achievement of this work.
• Organizing the Philippine Wikimedia community into a coherent group of people, which led to the founding of Wikimedia Philippines in 2010. Between 2010 and 2016, the organization was responsible for significantly expanding the reach of the Wikimedia projects in the Philippines, including significant inroads in content, outreach and the growth of our community and volunteers. Today, as the Wiki Society of the Philippines, we continue to work with various stakeholders to improve quality of access to Wikidata in the country, as well as encouraging documentation of historical sites in the Philippines and combatting disinformation on the Wikimedia projects online and offline. This has also parlayed into activities outside the Philippines, such as building the Cite Unseen bias checker tool.
• Giving at least three editing workshops to members and non-members of WikiProject Never Again, and have played an active role in supervising our growing number of Wikipedians-to-be to ensure that they are properly editing Wikipedia while also preserving the accuracy, neutrality and rigor of our articles on Philippine history and politics, both in Tagalog/Filipino and English. I was also instrumental in developing Southeast Asia's first Wikipedian in Residence program at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani.

I have also spoken at various conferences and fora, internal and external, about the Filipino Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia projects, including at Wikimania, the Wikimedia Hackathon, Open Source Bridge, AlterConf, CredCon and FOSSASIA. My work in the movement has also been covered by both the local and international press, with mentions in The Guardian, FHM, CNN and Scout Magazine, among others.

Aside from my work in the Philippines, I am actively involved in the activities of the Wikimedians of Los Angeles user group, as I currently live in Los Angeles. As part of that group, we're working to grow the community while pursuing impactful events and outreach in Los Angeles and throughout Southern California.

These lessons on collaboration that were gleaned through the Wikimedian experience were also instrumental in my professional life. Working for DeviantArt, I've come to use what I've learned in the movement to help develop the kinds of activities we should do for our users, or to help inform major decisions that we should make in terms of how we ought to approach the site's development. Working with a team of eight other people, we've had several successes in terms of contests and other community campaigns that we've run on-site, with this extending to external partnerships as well that have led to successes like our campaign on mental health awarness, our annual Holiday Card Project, and more recently our endeavors to celebrate our global diversity through thoughtfully-executed campaigns that showcase our shared common heritage.

I strongly believe that when it comes to collaboration, it is important to be able to both talk and to likewise be a quiet observer when the time calls for it. Although I've become more quiet in the movement over the last few years, ultimately collaboration requires giving way. Participating in community discussions across three continents (in Asia, Europe and North America), both online and offline and in formal and informal settings, is part and parcel of that experience.

I don't take the work of the Drafting Committee lightly, and I intend to ensure that Wikimedians will be more than adequately represented as we finally put to paper what it is we stand for. I look forward to bringing the lessons I've learned from both the movement and outside it, coupled with my own life experience as someone who has worked with and is familiar with the Wikimedia movement on three continents, to the table: a table that we need to be as representative as possible of our movement's diversity, experience and expertise.

More than ever, it's important that the ones who will set up our movement for success, first with the Movement Charter and then the Global Council, be from a broad base of our community, able to interact with as many people as possible and capable of representing the broadest of opinions in as concise a manner. I look forward to helping steer the important work of this Committee to help us move forward as a movement towards a more balanced, just and representative future: one where everyone, no matter where they're from or what languages they speak or what projects they serve, are adequately represented. The work won't be easy, but I look forward to committing to it should I be called to serve.

On a parting note, please feel free to leave me a message should you have any questions or concerns, and thank you so much for your time.

• Personal:
  • Name: Alek Tarkowski
  • Country: Poland
  • Languages: Polish, English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Polish Wikipedia (pl.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2006
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organisations
• Policy writing skills
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

Furthermore, my main job is as Strategy Director of Open Future Foundation, a think tank for the open movement. Previously, I have led for a decade Centrum Cyfrowe, a Polish open think-and-do-tank, and I have been for many years a member of Communia, the Association for the Digital Domain. Through these work engagements I have been focused on advocacy and policymaking in support of the commons, which I see as a contribution to the Wikimedia movement - by making sure that the policy and regulatory environment in Europe and globally is favorable to Wikimedia, its creators and users.

For this reason, I want to be involved in the Movement Charter process, which I hope will allow the Wikimedia Movement to further grow and be able to fulfill the goals of the 2030 Movement Strategy. I believe that the Charter will be a key element of the next phase in Wikimedia's history, where it's institutions are thoughtfully redesigned in light of strategic goals, needs of the movement and the broader free knowledge environment, which Wikimedia aims to support.

I hope that my extensive experience with strategic work - both at the level of strategy design and at the level of practical team cooperation skills - will be useful in this process. I also want to bring the perspective of a partner movement (Creative Commons), as well as experiences we have with network governance (in which I am actively involved).

Finally, I believe that the Movement Charter process should be highly participatory, and that the Drafting Committee should create a methodology and use tools that will enable broad participation of other movement members in the process. I hope to steer the Movement Charter drafting process in the direction of greatest possible participation. There are interesting methodologies that we can employ, so that the Wikimedia Movement does state of the art peer-to-peer work also in this regard.

• Personal:
  • Name: Manavpreet Kaur
  • Country: India
  • Languages: Punjabi, English, Hindi

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Punjabi Wikipedia (pa.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2014
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    
• Global & Local policy work
• Governance of Organizations
• Strategic & Structural Thinking

Apart from this, I have shared my work with fellow wikimedians during Conference(s), Summit(s), training(s) and have also been a part of some panels like- Women in the Wikimedia movement for in-depth discussions on experiences, challenges and learning. I am also the Co-founder of first affiliate in India, Punjabi Wikimedians UG.

• Personal:
  • Name: Ybsen M. Lucero
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Languages: es-N, en-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Spanish Wikipedia (es.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2010
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Personal:
  • Name: ellif d.a
  • Country: Republic of Korea
  • Languages: ko-N, ja-3, en-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Korean Wikipedia (ko.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2005
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Policy writing skills
• Previous phases of Movement Strategy

For the Non-WP experience, I have participated with the first day of Wikimedia (South) Korea and photographed most main events in Wikimedia Korea, which one of them are included in the foundation's press release for the WM-KR recognition. And I have initiated several editathons in the Republic of Korea before the COVID-19. The main project is about the participating researchers on humanities into Korean Wikipedia to enhance articles' qualities. Also, I have participated in the recent global conversations by the Strategy team. In these events, I emphasised the importance of including wikimedians with Disabilities and Wikimedians who are not enabled to speak in English.

For Wikimedia projects, I was an representative for the Wikimedia South Korea before KWA organized, and participated for making Korean Wikimedia Association. I also served one year in the OTRS(2012-2013) for Korean service.

Secondly, the methodology that blocks the discriminative attacks, aiming to get out users who have different viewpoints with their groups, should be made. The current 2030 strategy or UCoC policy do not have any mention or procedure of it. For an example of KO-WP and JA-WP (See Wikimania submissions by Kitamura Sae), some people are making edits with aggressive speeches or argue they are not ‘logical’ or ‘rational’: for intimidating users in opposition with them. These attritional debates, which cause heartbreak to many users, and weaken the community, should handle in this charter.

The charter should be the start point of the change that we need. We have to admit our communities are eliminating the diversity in the community, which are essential to thriving our project. I want to participate in this committee for this purpose, for the Wikimedia projects enable to get the sum of the knowledge from all human beings.

• Personal:
  • Name: Sadik Shahadu
  • Country: Ghana
  • Languages: English, Dagbani, Hausa and Twi

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Dagbani Wikipedia (dag.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2016
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    
• Communication skills
• Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Inclusion and diversity awareness

Over the past six years, I have served as a Wikipedia community leader and a project lead for several Wikimedia projects such as edit-a-thons, workshops, campaigns, and photo walks at the Global Open Initiative and the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. I have also served as a country coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore and Wiki Loves Earth 2021. Since 2017, I have volunteered for different Wikimedia communities including the current 3 Wikimedia affiliate User Groups in Ghana. As an indigenous ambassador, I work with indigenous communities to improve the content of Wikipedia in African languages. Some of my works include:

• Helping the Dagbani Wikipedia community to create and upload over 4,000 audio recordings of Dagbani words onto Wikimedia Commons.
• Organizing the 2020 Afrocuration program in Ghana to translate over 40 Covid-19 related articles onto the Dagbani Wikipedia.
• Leading the Dagbani Wikipedia community to become a Wikimedia affiliate User Group.
• Helping the Dagbani Wikipedia out of the incubator.
• Helping the Dagbani Wikipedia be part of the focus languages for the Abstract Wikipedia project.

In addition to that, I work with several open leaders and OER experts on the 'Open Education for a Better World' program as an advisory board member to support participants and also help create scholarship opportunities for students from Africa at the university of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. As a digital language activist, I work with individuals and organizations who are interested in digitizing the Dagbani language on the internet.

My strengths are my interpersonal communication skills and my ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds. I am interested in working with indigenous languages communities, and always happy to discuss how we can bridge the gender gap on Wikipedia and the digital divide across Africa.

• Personal:
  • Name: Michael Baker
  • Country: Italy
  • Languages: en

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2008
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Global or local policy work
• Revenue generation
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• Creating and editing pages
• AFD discussions, including (en:Diet Coke Button, en:Disha Ravi, en:Yogananda Pittman)
• Watching and when necessary reverting vandalism on pages including (Disha Ravi, Petra Ecclestone, Tamara Ecclestone, Yogananda Pittman)
• Template merging and writing including (Template:Family tree into Template:Tree chart, Template:Rickard family tree)

• Personal:
  • Name: Sameera Lakshitha
  • Country: Sri Lanka
  • Languages: Sinhala and English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Sinhala Wikipedia (si.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2018
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Personal:
  • Name: KAHOU
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Languages: fr

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2017
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Team collaboration

As a Media Producer, I am an image Conservator and Executive Director of an umbrella organization of archivists, librarians and booksellers in Côte d'Ivoire (FICCI). My training in project management has enabled me to acquire many of the skills you are looking for. I have the assets that will allow me to succeed in the role you will entrust to me. Motivation, rigor, and listening are the keywords to describe my professional behavior.

My experience as a Project Manager during the VIIIth Games of Francophonie has allowed me to acquire the knowledge necessary for the proper execution of tasks under pressure. Regularly confronted with the ups and downs of the job, I am able to respond to unforeseen events in complete autonomy.

Taking part in the Drafting Committee of the Movement Charter represents for me a real future commitment in which my aptitude and my experience will be able to express themselves fully.

• Personal:
  • Name: Anass Sedrati
  • Country: Morocco - Sweden
  • Languages: ar-N, fr-N, en-4, sv-4, es-3, Berber-3

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Arabic Wikipedia (ar.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2013
  • Top expertise (see the matrix): {{{expertise}}}

Regarding strategy, I have been collaborating with Wikimedians from all corners, when being a working group member, but also across the different conferences, projects and events where we met. This gave me an important insight and a valuable experience of how to collaborate cross-culturally, in different time zones, and also on how to manage different ways of working, but still manage to deliver the needed result.

Otherwise, I have a 8+ years professional experience as project manager, and my daily life is about team collaboration. I have worked in projects in IT, Telecommunications, health, public sector, finance, with several teams and companies around the world.

I would like to bring my background, as an interdisciplinary Wikimedian, who lived in three countries, to be part of this drafting committee. I am connected to several communities in the movement, and strive to share the different perspectives and contexts I am aware about, to reflect them into our global context. Diversity and inclusivity are among my important drivers, and ensuring that all our stakeholders (including the eventual future ones) is something I would like to achieve.

As a community leader, I have been involved in several governance discussions, and my PhD dissertation regards IoT (Internet of Things) Governance, containing a full chapter about Wikipedia governance :)

I reiterate my affirmation that the Movement Charter is a very important document (comparable to a constitution), and that it should be a priority for those who can join this initiative. I will be honored to build this with the drafting team. If anyone has a question or needs an information from me, please feel free to contact me at my talk page, and I will return to you as soon as I can.

• Personal:
  • Name: Michał Buczyński
  • Country: Poland
  • Languages: pl-N, en-4, de-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Polish Wikipedia (pl.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Resource allocation
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• pl.wiki admin since 2005, translator, Wikimedia Polska member since 2006, member of the first pl.wiki ArbCom.
• In 2012-2018 vice-president, since 2018 president of the Wikimedia Poland, a wonderful, mission-oriented chapter working with volunteer support, GLAM, education, and more.
• Proud part of international community thanks to the Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe, public speeches, grants comm, collaborations among affiliates incl. capacity building, and more. Twice elected to the Funds Dissemination Committee, also member of the Resource Allocation Wikimedia strategy working group.

I believe in empowered individuals and their associations, in the wisdom flowing from their diversity, and the motivation stemming from the equitable treatment. I also believe in the diversity of the approaches and organizations, empowerment of affiliates, in their equity and adaptability to local contexts and future needs. Wikipedia taught us that self-governance, grassroot and partnership prevailed over centralization and strict hierarchies; similar lessons come from great initiatives of the individuals, groups, chapters and the teams of the WMF.

By 2030, we need to be less centralized and more attentive to local ideas, opportunities and needs. We need to operate as a much wider graph of successful organizations, developing and testing new ways to serve the needs of their audiences. We need to create a better space for collaboration and invention, for leadership and learning, for Wikimedians from the past, and the Wikimedians of the future.

I believe, that both my Wikimedia experience of an editor, affiliate person and grant assessor, as well as my education and professional experience (economics/psychology/MBA working in risk/finance) help me to recognize the needs of particular community members, bring valuable perspective and help coin the great charter.

• Personal:
  • Name: Anne Clin
  • Country: Canada
  • Languages: en-N, fr-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2005
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Previous phases of Movement Strategy

• Member of Wikimedia Communications Committee. Although not formally a part of this role, I frequently participate in media and other interviews
• Advisor to Toolhub project
• Volunteer Response Team (formerly OTRS), mainly in English Wikipedia Oversight and CheckUser queues
• Administrator, CheckUser and Oversighter on English Wikipedia

Recent:

• Member of Roles & Responsibilities Strategy 2030 team
• Member of Funds Dissemination Committee for 5 years, chair for one year

Historical:

• Member of English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee for 5 years. During this period, worked closely with WMF to develop multiple programs and projects that benefit all community members, including but not limited to development of what is now the Trust & Safety team, the Legal Fees Assistance Program, and processes to assist editors who are being harassed off-wiki.
• Creator of "Risker's checklist", now routinely incorporated into developer processes for MediaWiki software
• Member of Elections Committee in 2013, facilitating the first multiple-role election (Board, FDC and FDC Ombud). Advisor to this committee in 2015.

Other:

• Frequent attendee at Wikimania, Wikimedia Conference, Wikiconference North America; presenter at multiple events on a wide range of topics.

My current and past movement activities have reinforced to me the necessity of co-operation, collaboration, and compromise in order to meet broader goals. I recognize that it will not be possible for this drafting committee to meet all of the expectations of all of its members, let alone all of the expectations of every member of the movement; however, I believe that by working together we can achieve a balance that will gain acceptance from our broad global community.

I firmly believe that the individual projects – the Wikipedias, Commons, WIkidata, Wikisource, and the many other “sister” projects – are the centerpiece of the movement, and the movement infrastructure must be designed to help these projects to grow and develop in a healthy way. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of any Wikimedia affiliate organization; nonetheless, my work on the FDC and the 2030 strategy project has inculcated a deep and abiding respect for these organizations and their value to the movement as a whole, as they are important aspects of the project support infrastructure.

• Personal:
  • Name: Oleksandr Havryk
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Languages: uk-N, ru-4, en-2, pl-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Ukrainian Wikipedia (uk.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2018
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Communication skills
• Strategic and structural thinking skills
• Team collaboration

• Personal:
  • Name: Irvin Sto. Tomas
  • Country: Philippines
  • Languages: bcl-N, tl-4, en-3

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Bikol Central Wikipedia (bcl.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2006
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

As a project lead, I implemented different campaigns including WikiGap Campaign in the Philippines (2019-2020), Wiki Loves Monuments in the Philippines (2018-2020), Wiki Takes the City (2012 and 2015/16), and the Community celebration of the 20th year of Wikipedia (2020) in Naga City, and Bikol Wikipedia's 1st (2008), 5th (2012), 10th (2017) and 13th year (2020).

In the advocacy campaign, I was invited and talked in various fora promoting the activities of the organization and answering relevant issues related to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement. Among these engagements are: at the Bicol Region Librarians Council (BRLC)'s Regional Conference on Reinventing Library Management in the 21st Century (2012), Boses ni Lolo guest Wikipedian on DWRN 657khz (2015) and DWRJ 96.1 (2016), Ini An Totoo DWOK 97.5 TV program on the Mother Tongue-based Multilingual Education policy under the K-12 Curriculum of the Department of Education (DepEd) and Wikimedia Movement (2019), Language Month episode of Abogado Juan "Hapot mo, Simbag ko" on Home Radio 95.1 (2020), WikiGAP: Closing the Digital Gender Gap discussion sponsored by Developh Community (2021), and Wiki Loves Earth and Wikimedia Commons Workshop at the Pagkarahay Art Festival (2021).

I am most active on my local Wikipedia and spend some of my time contributing on Commons and Incubator. I used to be an admin on Bikol Wikipedia and on Bikol Wiktionary. Currently, I am working on Bikol Wikisource and Rinconada Bikol Wikipedia.

As a mentor and volunteer, I taught new editors and participants at workshops such as at the Open Web Day - University of Nueva Caceres (2013), Rinconada Bikol Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (2016) held at Iriga City Public Library, WikiTutorial (2018) held at Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, a teacher's training workshop of Department of Education – Division of Catanduanes (2019), and WPWP in the Philippines at CBSUA (2021).

As a participant, I am proud to have finished 6th over-all in the WikiGap Challenge (2020), and to be recognized among the participants as "meritevoli di menzione" at the [[[:it:Progetto:WikiDonne/Wikipedia 20]] Wikipedia 20 concorso di testi poetici] by WikiDonne. Together with other global community leaders, I participated in the 2019 Training of Trainers which developed my organizing and leadership skills. Recently, I have been an active participant in the Wiki Loves Art mural painting activities of PhilWiki Community in partnership with Kintab Artists Group promoting Wikimedia and Wikipedia in Education at different public schools and a state university.

• Personal:
  • Name: Sofia Matias
  • Country: Portugal
  • Languages: pt, en

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Portuguese Wikipedia (pt.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2020
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Resource allocation
• Writing and editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Gilbert Ndihokubwayo
  • Country: Burundi
  • Languages: Kirundi, French, English, Swahili, Esperanto

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikimedian since: February 2019
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Communication skills
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

I am available for the activity and promise to act in the interest of the Wikimedia movement, in respect of the Universal Code of Conduct, and following the Strategic Direction and Movement Strategy recommendations. In fact, after different participations in Wikimedia movement events, I am developing skills in Wikimedia projects and plan to grow up. In my professional works I accomplished a consistent database, to coordinate different actors, to find compromises. My practices helped me to test my ability to plan, to be responsive and creative, I have also tested my ability to see gaps that need to be covered, ability of negotiating with different parties.

• Personal:
  • Name: Gnangarra
  • Country: Australia
  • Languages: EN-N, NYS-3, EN.au-N

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikimedian since: 2005
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Safe and collaborative spaces
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

Note I have second account User:Gnangcomapp this account is specifically for use with the Commons App on mobile devices to limit admin tools being exposed unnecessarily.

• Personal:
  • Name: Jastin Boniventure Msechu
  • Country: Tanzania
  • Languages: Swahili and English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Swahili Wikipedia (sw.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: February 8, 2021
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Personal:
  • Name: Dosso Djibril
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Languages: fr

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2019
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

Tout d’abord, Gestionnaire de l’information documentaire, ma mission étant de mettre l’information à la disposition des usagers, de les former aux techniques de recherches documentaires, les orienter vers les dictionnaires utiles dans le cadre de leur recherche. Faire partie du comité de rédaction du mouvement me permettra de mettre à la disposition de cette équipe toutes les attentes, les difficultés, les informations souhaitées des usagers. First of all, I am a Information Manager, my mission being to make information available to users, to train them in documentary research techniques, and to direct them to useful dictionaries in the context of their research. Being part of the drafting committee will allow me to put all the expectations, the difficulties, the desired information of the users at the disposal of the whole team. Secondly, I am a trainer on several modules in information science and on collaborative tools to boost productivity. I have a perfect mastery of these tools to work in a team, to ensure a follow-up of the activities, and to define a deadline of diverse tasks.

Finally, I will be able not only to promote Wikimedia projects in my networks but also to train other people on the resources available on this project.

• Personal:
  • Name: Yair Rand
  • Country: Canada
  • Languages: en-N, he-1, eo-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wiktionary (en.wiktionary)
  • Wikimedian since: 2009
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Global or local policy work
• Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Policy writing skills

I spend far too much time following things on Meta and elsewhere, so I'm fairly familiar with how the various movement structures and systems work.

(I've also been writing "fantasy Wikimedia charters" on my own for ~5 years, which ought to count for something. :) )

That said, all Wikimedia activities are pretty inherently collaborative, and if anything is going to be a skill that we've almost all necessarily gotten good at, it's good-faith collaboration in writing something together.

The new framework should unambiguously specify responsibilities and authorities, minimize conflict, and allow everyone to get on with their work. The Charter should organize structures to enable projects and groups to receive needed support, while protecting them from inappropriate interference. As expressed in the Strategy Recommendations, all of Wikimedia's supporting organizations should be bound by enforceable basic requirements, and certain structures should be distributed and decentralized.

I would like the creation of the Charter to be an open and participatory process, involving many volunteers directly editing numerous Charter drafts around Wikimedia, moving forward in a wiki-style manner, our many communities and groups cross-pollinating texts and ideas and arguments and points of discussion, and gradually converging towards coherent results with the assistance of the drafting committee.

Whatever the method, the final outcome must be subject to community-wide ratification. Wikimedia is built by the volunteer community; it is the community that must decide whether to go forward with the Charter.

• Personal:
  • Name: Georges Fodouop
  • Country: Cameroon - Belgium
  • Languages: fr-N, en-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2013
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Knowledge of Wikimedia

Locally, I contributed to the creation of the Cameroon User Group with other founding members; so we have worked on setting up all the procedures leading to affiliation and laying the foundations for the future. The Wiki Loves Women project opened the doors for me to the Wikimedia movement; I worked extensively with both the principal coordinators of the project and the national coordinators of countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. This was the case with the project coordinators Wiki Loves Earth and others.

As a member of the Wiscom (WikiIndaba Steering Commitee), I discovered the place of the movement in Africa and contributed to its evolution and impact through the organization of annual conferences.

In the French-speaking world, I have several collaborations:

• I am a WikiFranca referent in Cameroon; in addition to the activities organized, I contributed to the drafting of the governance charter and to the structuring of this future chapter.
• I collaborated in the promotion of local Cameroonian languages in Lingua Libre and the Wiktionary
• I am a member of the microfinance (Grants) commission and I help to publicize the activities of this commission among francophone groups and also to the regular processing of funding requests.

I remain determined to make my modest contribution to getting things done through the contribution to the Charter of the Movement. I am motivated to take up a new challenge in the movement especially with the experience that I have acquired first in Africa and now in Europe.

• Personal:
  • Name: Félix Guébo
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Languages: French, English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Swahili Wikipedia (sw.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2015
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Personal:
  • Name: Runa Bhattacharjee
  • Country: India
  • Languages: bn, en, hi

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Bengali Wikipedia (bn.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2013
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

A notable example is my participation in the development, maintenance, and communication outreach of the Content Translation tool from the WMF Language team.

It was a challenging frontier that provided me the opportunity to understand how software development practices could be optimized towards equitable adoption beyond socio-political and linguistic boundaries. This required continuous collaboration with a globally spread community of volunteers, organizations, policymakers, corporates, and governments. I have participated both in an individual and organizational capacity in such efforts primarily as part of the Fedora, Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, and Ankur Bangla (formerly Bengalinux) communities.

Since 2013, I have been part of the WMF’s Language team, with whom I had earlier collaborated in my other roles, and have been closely associated with language support efforts within the Wikimedia movement.

The movement strategy recommendation to ensure equity in decision-making provides rationale for 5 key structures, that not just proposes to fill existing gaps in fundamental operational processes, but also puts forward foundational elements that can make the movement more welcoming, inclusive, and easier to navigate around.

Within the Wikimedia Movement, we have regularly acknowledged the need to bridge gaps of content and participation that currently exist. Big and small efforts have been conducted at various times. Having had the opportunity to closely observe some of these activities, my understanding has been that the success that we achieve through these efforts happens through sheer grit and perseverance of the individuals involved. Our systems and structures could have supported them better if there was more clarity on how we can conduct our everyday work through well established processes, and how we can bring in change to meet new challenges.

As part of the drafting committee for the Movement Charter, I would like to keep our focus on a healthy combination of globally shared standard practices, and flexibility so that the guidance provided through the Charter allows a sense of stability to movement participants at all levels, and retains scope for continuous improvements as we work towards the 2030 vision.

• Personal:
  • Name: Abel L Mbula
  • Country: DRCongo
  • Languages: fr-N, en-3

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2015
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Previous phases of movement strategy
• Writing & editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Érica Azzellini
  • Country: Brazil
  • Languages: pt-br-n, pt-5, en-4, es-2, it-1, de-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Portuguese Wikipedia (pt.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2016
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

After my graduation, I became a Wikimedian in Residence at the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat), in which I researched Computational Journalism and Wikidata. This led me to develop the Mbabel tool.

I’m a Wiki Movimento Brasil liaison. In my professional capacity, I serve as Communications Manager for the affiliate, which means that I’m involved in community support and consultations, partnership building and Wikimedia outreach. I’m also leading the development of WMB’s own strategy based on the Movement Strategy recommendations.

I’m a member of the Diversity Committee responsible for the elaboration and the implementation of WMB’s diversity plan.

I’m the organization lead for the Brazilian team organizing WikidataCon with Wikimedia Deutschland this year. In this process, I’m also responsible for the Reimagining Wikidata from the margins project.

I’ve been involved in the organization of dozens of activities to tackle diversity gaps on Wikipedia in Portuguese and I’m currently acting to create a Lusophone women user group.

I have experience with high level stress/low resource environments and in decision making, especially in the field of Human Rights. I’m a former Communications Adviser for a NGO dedicated to migrants and refugees in a marginalized part of my city, from which I’ve learned how to properly collaborate with people from different contexts and how to fight for their rights.

Earlier this year, I was one of the organizers of the Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia - Wikipedia 20’s celebration - and engaged several user groups and projects on activities and strategic discussions.

To move forward, we need to define a common ground of principles and practices for decision-making, and develop mechanisms for equitable global representation and meaningful, empowering participation of local communities. As a participatory, community-oriented process, the Movement Chart will embody the Wikimedia spirit and provide a necessary framework for the Wikimedia Movement.

We need to learn from what we have achieved and envision together the future we want to live in. For instance, roles and responsibilities need to be clearly laid out, as transparency is key for our movement procedures and deliberations. Coming from an underrepresented community, I know procedures and deliberations must be empowering and structured in a way that contributes to mitigating unequal capacities to participate in the open knowledge ecosystem.

The success of the Movement Charter --an embodiment of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process discussions and practices-- is dependent on our capacity to deeply engage our diverse communities in the drafting process. This founding document will not succeed by the relevance of its content and commitment of its initial drafters only; it must be a collaboration across stakeholders, that is, it must be done the wiki way.

• Personal:
  • Name: Galahad
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Languages: es, en-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Spanish Wikivoyage (es.wikivoyage)
  • Wikimedian since: 2009
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Safe and collaborative spaces
• Team collaboration
• Writing and editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Daria Cybulska
  • Country: UK / Poland
  • Languages: en-5, pl-N, ru-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Wikidata
  • Wikimedian since: 2012
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Global and local policy work
• Inclusion and diversity awareness
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• Staff at Wikimedia UK since 2012, closely involved in the development of the chapter
• Member of Wikimedia Poland
• Participated in 5 Wikimedia Conferences (aka the Summits), including the discussions on the Movement Dialogue, and the opening discussions of the 2030 vision
• Part of the 2030 Wikimedia strategy project

Beyond working with others on the 2030 strategy (see below), earlier this year I was one of 15 people chosen through a competitive application process to work on a collaborative book sprint. I was collaborating with people from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, some experts within narrow technical fields, some academics. The ‘Collective Wisdom’ book, our end product, can be seen at this link.

I believe that with my team collaboration approach comes a great dose of humility. I know I don’t have the answers. I believe in putting others in focus and learning from them, especially if their context is different than mine. My commitment to equity steers me to seeking solutions and knowledge within the people I work with and support. In practice that means that when I coach my team members, or facilitate group discussions, my primary belief is that the people I work with may already hold the answers to their challenges.

I have worked in the UK civil society sector for the past 12 years, and for the last 9 I’ve worked at Wikimedia UK, leading on its programmes to deliver ‘free knowledge for all’ and implement the knowledge equity vision. I’ve been a trustee at two charities, currently at Global Dialogue, a European-wide field building network for civil society organisations working on human rights and democratic space. Being a secretariat space for a number of organisations at various stages of development, it gives me insight into a range of governance models, and into legal structures for developing organisations.

Global Dialogue also brings a lot of funders in the space, which connects to my practical experience within the 2030 strategy process. Throughout 2018/2019 I was a member of the strategy working group focusing on Resource allocation. We looked into progressive philanthropies, barriers that emerging communities are experiencing in accessing funding. We centered on structures of power and privilege that come with grant-making, and programmatic harms resulting from not addressing them. Accountability to donors is also something we investigated. (I also spent a week with representatives of 8 other thematic groups, taking 90 recommendations total and editing them into a coherent set of global recommendations).

A lot of the work done within the Resource Allocation group later informed key principles expressed in the global strategy. However, them being quite abstract and separated from implementation initiatives, I’m concerned that we will not see them realised in action. This would be a big loss, as I think it’s in these principles that we can really envisage a different Wikimedia movement. A Movement Charter is an opportunity to bring that into operation, and I’d hope to help with that.

• Personal:
  • Name: Kanhai prasad chourasiya
  • Country: India
  • Languages: Hindi (Native), English, Bangla

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Hindi Wikipedia (hi.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2019
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• My global contribution 40k+ edits.
• I am currently Auto patrolled, rollbacker at Hindi Wikipedia, Meta wiki.
• And, I also Sysop at Hindi Wiktionary.

• Hindi Wikisource edit-a-thon 2019.
• Delhi hi wiki conference attend 2020.
• Hindi Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2020.
• Hindi Wiktionary edit-a-thon 2021

• Hindi Wikisource.
• Hindi Wikipedia.
• Hindi Wikibooks.
• Wikidata.
• Hindi Wiktionary.
• And I try to best some other languages like Bhojpuri, Bangoli, Methali, Punjabi & English.

• Personal:
  • Name: Robert McClenon
  • Country: United States
  • Languages: en-N

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2005
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

• Personal:
  • Name: Jorge Vargas
  • Country: Colombia (Native) - USA (Resident)
  • Languages: es-N, en-N, ja-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): '
  • Wikimedian since: 2013 (as WMF Staff)
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

I have been actively involved in the Movement Strategy process since it started, from the New Voices Research in 2017 that led to the Strategic Direction, to co-charing the Diversity Working Group in 2018–19.

Leading Regional Partnerships also means closely collaborating with a range of actors, from UN agencies, tech companies, other non-profits, governments, and multilateral agencies. This work has also allowed me to partner with Wikimedia affiliates and movement leaders globally, building bridges between the movement and different partners with the goal of furthering our mission and making Wikimedia a well-known, diverse, and relevant space on the Internet. The 8+ years of tenure serving the Wikimedia movement also trained me well in what cross-cultural collaboration truly means, leading with empathy and understanding of cultural differences, navigating diverse personal and professional approaches towards problem-solving, multiple time zones, and across geographies.

While participating in the Movement I've seen first hand the unfortunate bias Wikimedia (and the Internet) has towards US/Europe and English language centrism. During my time with Wikimedia, it became evident that as a social movement we need to strongly address the multiple blockers that exist to really allow our vision statement to become a reality. The Movement Charter will be instrumental in this goal. Trained initially with a legal background that transitioned in my last 7 years of experience to partnerships and business development, I also think I have the skills to be part of a drafting committee of a document such as this Charter, as I can bring the voices and ideas of others and my own into text that's understandable and clear. The Movement Charter needs to be a strong foundation towards that goal, and I strongly believe my professional and personal experience gives me the skills and tools required to be a part of the Drafting Committee, and represent both my professional side as a WMF staffer, as well as my personal interests and motivations in the Wikimedia movement.

• Personal:
  • Name: Yao Kouamé Didier
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Languages: fr

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): French Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2015
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Strategic and structural thinking skills
• Team collaboration

• Personal:
  • Name: Adel Nehaoua
  • Country: Algeria
  • Languages: ar-N fr-4 en-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Arabic Wikipedia (ar.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2009
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Participatory and consensus processes
• Strategic and structural thinking skills
• Writing and editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Anupam Dutta
  • Country: India
  • Languages: bn, en, hi-2, de-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Bengali Wikipedia (bn.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: February 2020
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Policy writing skills
• Team collaboration
• Writing & editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Aliyu
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Languages: en, ha

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Hausa Wikipedia (ha.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2020
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Policy writing skills
• Writing and editing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Jaseem Ali
  • Country: India
  • Languages: hi-N, en, ur

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Hindi Wikipedia (hi.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2016
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Writing and editing skills

I was Joined to Wikipedia and Wikimedia as a Reader in the year 2011 but I have registered this account year 2016. After joining the Wikimedia Movement, I led several contests in the form of an organizer in Edit A Than and Offline, Online The event. In which Hindi Wikipedia conference Delhi 2018. And Hindi Wikipedia conference Kolkata 2019 contributed as an organizer in. I am currently contributing to the Hindi Wiki Library and Hindi Wikipedia education program as a coordinator. I am an advisor in Wikisource GLAM Heritage India Project For Hindi Wikisource.

I mainly contribute to the projects of Hindi Wikipedia. Where I have important rights. As I Was a sysop on Hindi Wiktionary and Hindi Wikivoyage. And I am an autopatrolled, reviewer, Rollbacker on the Hindi Wikipedia. As well as being the most active contributor to Hindi Wikipedia, I have created more than 1400 articles based on geography. Political science etc. I've edit numbers more than 31K.

I am the founder member of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group I am a founder member of Hindi wikivoyage and Hindi Wikiversity. I am a translator of the weekly technical newsletter for Hindi Wikipedia.

• My global contribution more than 31K+ edits.
• I am a global Rollbacker, Auto patrolled, Rollbacker and Reviewer. at Hindi Wikipedia.
• I am One of the Founder member of Hindi Wikiversity, Which is First Indic Wikiversity.
• I have been created more than 1400 articles on several wiki projects

• My contribution Wiki projects
• Do check the list of pages and Templates created by me on hi.wikipedia.See here
• Project Tiger Editathon 2018/Winners
• I got the Chromebook provided by the Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program See here

offline activities

• Train the Trainer Program-2019
• kolkata Hindi Wiki Conference 2019 (As an organizer)
• Wiki Advanced Training 2018 at Ranchi
• Hindi Wikimedians Technical Meet April 2018 at Bhopal
• Hindi Wikipedia education program
• hi:विकिपीडिया:सम्मेलन/दिल्ली हिन्दी विकिसम्मेलन २०१८ Delhi Hindi Wiki Conference 2018, (Online)

(Online) Edit-a-thons

• Wiki Loves Caucasus 2019
• She Did It 2019
• International WikiGap Challenge 2019 (As a 2nd winner)
• SVG Translation Campaign In India-2019 (As an organizer)
• Wiki Loves Women India 2019 (As an organizer)
• Wikipedia Asian Month 2018 (As an organizer)
• Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing 2018
• Indian Independence Day Articles Contest 2018 (As an organizer)
• Hindi day edit-a-thon, 2018 (As an organizer)
• Wikidata India Edit-a-thon 2018
• Project Tiger Editathon 2018 (Hindi)
• Indian Independence Day 2018 edit-a-thon
• Hindi Wikivoyage edit-a-thon
• Hindi day edit-a-thon, 2017
• Wikipedia Asian Month 2017

• Personal:
  • Name: Ad Huikeshoven
  • Country:  Netherlands
  • Languages: Dutch, English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Dutch Wikipedia (nl.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2005
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Policy writing skills

Online:

• Sixteen years of experience co-writing articles for the Dutch-language Wikipedia, uploading photos to Commons, and collaboration on meta, and so on.
• In 2019, I facilitated the discussion of Discussion Tools on the Dutch Wikipedia. As a result, the Dutch Wikipedia became one of four pilot wikis on which Discussion Tools (reply tool) were tested.
• In 2021, I led the implementation of the Newcomer features (Growth team features) in the Dutch Wikipedia. I recruited testers and mentors. The result of test work is that these new features became available to newcomers by default on September 1.

Offline:

• Member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation (2007 - 2012).
• Organizer of the Wikimedia Conference Netherlands 2011 and attended almost all Wikimedia conferences in the Netherlands.
• Board member Wikimedia Nederland 2012 – 2016. In 2012, as treasurer, I helped Wikimedia Netherlands to professionalize by ensuring timely and reliable accountability reports, and timely and substantiated annual plans and budgets.
• In 2020, I initiated the Wiki loves SDGs found a project leader and connected her to Project Everyone.
• In 2021 I am a member of the working group that implements the Universal Code of Conduct for Wikimedia Netherlands, through an update of the Friendly Spaces Policy.

Familiarity with the Wikimedia movement strategy:

• Active participant at http://strategy.wikimedia.org in 2009
• Participated in Movement Strategy process since 2017, attended many Global Conversations
• Participated in Chapter/Wikimedia Conferences in Berlin (2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) and Milan (2013).
• Participated in Wikimania Haifa 2011, Hong Kong 2013, London 2014, Cíudad Mexico 2015, Esino Lario 2016, Stockholm 2019, Remo 2021
• Participated in Wikimedia Hackathon Vienna 2018

• In my day-to-day work, I have experience as a project leader of teams of ten to twenty people, I have experience as a product owner in a scrum team, I am a member of a team of financial-economic advisors, and I collaborate in various departmental and interdepartmental working groups.
• In 2013, I organized and led a meeting on Virtual Friendly Spaces at Wikimania Hong Kong
• In 2019, I facilitated the Talk Pages Project on the Dutch Wikipedia. As a result, the Dutch Wikipedia became one of four pilot wikis on which the discussion tools (particularly the response function) were tested.
• In 2019, I was an election facilitator for the so-called Affiliate Selected Board Seats. I took the initiative to draft a new resolution and worked with the team to develop it into a final version that the Affiliates could agree on. The Election Facilitators team consisted of people from three different continents and we were able to recruit candidates from all continents. In the end, two women were selected, perhaps in response to my repeated call for women to become candidates.

The Wikimedia Foundation shamelessly exploits the fruits of your unpaid volunteerism. You put so much time into it that it comes at the expense of caring for your family, your friends, your job or your school. In case you are financially independent or retired, you are free to spend all your time as you wish – if you do not forget to drink, eat and sleep on time. As long as you are not yet financially independent, you could expect the Wikimedia movement to look after you and provide guidance and support where you need it most.

The Charter for the Wikimedia Movement is the place to establish the rights of unpaid volunteers. I want to work to ensure that locally, in all countries, there is professional support for local volunteers in their own language, which meets the local needs of those volunteers. This includes translation to (and from) local languages of (news) reports about the Wikimedia projects, localization of templates and gadgets, organization of community activities, and what you need to become happy, and find balance in your life.

My intention is to contribute to the drafting of a text that will be endorsed by the communities. This, I believe, will need to be an iterative process of community consultation. The committee will produce texts in several rounds and gather feedback from the communities - and other stakeholders. I will work to ensure that it will be an open consultation process based on making consent decisions. In the feedback rounds, anyone may object to parts of the text. For the Charter to eventually be ratified, the committee must have resolved any insurmountable objections before anyone is asked to ratify the text.

• Personal:
  • Name: Dušan Kreheľ
  • Country: Slovakia
  • Languages: Native Slovak. Understand Czech. Simple English (IT, to read). Simple Croatian, Slovenia and Serbian.

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Slovak Wikipedia (sk.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since:
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Policy writing skills
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• I'm a translater of MyLanguage/Tech/News to Slovak from 2021-06-30.
• I translated more pages (or only the perex) to Slovak language on Meta.
• The Statistic about Slovak places:
  • Category:Statistic of Slovak places by Dušan Kreheľ,
  • krehel.sk/statistic_of_slovak_places_by_dusan_krehel.
• The user pageview in same Wikipedias in year 2020.
• File:Movement Charter, Drafting Committee, 2021.png.

• In progress
  • A article: Wikipedia Movement in Slovakia.

• Contributor in Talk:Tech/News/2021/31#New_IRC_server
• I have been a volunteer at events with a maximum of 400 people (especially in the field of technology and as an animator (participants mostly aged 18+)).
• I have attended training for volunteers: "Psychology and Anthropology for Volunteers", Project Management, Leadership and Social Skills.
• Regularly (usually daily) I am playing Supertuxkart in teams in hockey / football mode.
• I am employed in a small company as an administrator and developer of a website with a number of different types of customers.

Technology serves man, not man technology. Technology is a means.

What will happen in the future depends on today's actions and not only actions with short term effects or just looking at oneself and one’s actions.

I like to have a perspective on the whole whole, ie. What are the trends and what are the characteristics.

Just as technology and the presence of articles are needed in the Movement, so are people. Young people are our gift / opportunity.

• Personal:
  • Name: Chris Keating
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Languages: en-n, fr-1, de-1, British Sign Language-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    
• Governance of organizations
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Writing and editing skills

• English Wikipedia editor since 2004
• Administrator since 2006
• Main author of 4 Featured Articles and contributor to the first (only?) [[[:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/British Museum/Hoxne challenge]] Featured Article written as part of a GLAM-WIKI collaboration].
• Wrote an essay on the relationship between the Wikimedia Foundation and the rest of the Movement
  Off-wiki
• Chair of Wikimedia UK from 2012–13
• Board member of Wikimedia UK from 2010–2016.
• Roles and Responsibilities Strategy Working Group member 2018–19 (the one that originated the idea of a Movement Charter)
• Organised the first strategy and governance training sessions for affiliate board members
• Attendee of countless conferences, events, and trainings

I was Chair of Wikimedia UK at a time when the Chapter was going through many changes. During my time as Chair we went through a Governance Review and implemented its findings, including making our Board much more diverse and inclusive. This was the first time a Wikimedia organisation had asked for detailed professional scrutiny of its governance. Implementing its findings needed a lot of diplomacy, tact and determination.

I have also been involved with dozens of other voluntary groups – from large charities to small volunteer committees, in areas ranging from political campaigning to medical research to the orchestras in which I play the violin.

I believe drafting and building acceptance for the Movement Charter will be a significant challenge. I believe the Drafting Group can only be a success if there is a big, open process to reach out to communities and build the Charter on their needs and aspirations. I've set out my views on how this should work at more length here. To make this process work, we need to be clear as early as possible about how communities will be asked for input and how the development / ratification process will work.

I have extensive experience of working on movement governance issues - not just in the strategy process. As Chair of Wikimedia UK I helped resolve some significant governance problems in that chapter, and have also been in a participant in many previous rounds of discussions between communities (the Fundraising and Funds Dissemination discussions in 2011-2, Superprotect, FramBan, the many changes at the WMF in the last 10 years). While the Movement Charter looks to the future, I feel I can bring some important 'institutional knowledge' with me.

I believe the Movement Charter - and ultimately the Global Council - will play a vital role for our movement in the future. If they work, then this can set the whole Movement going in the right direction. We can start to address long-standing problems of about mistrust and imbalances of power. But this have to be done right. I believe I can help steer this project in the right direction, which is why I'm standing for the committee. If you would like to discuss things then please drop me a line!

• Personal:
  • Name: Alice Wiegand
  • Country: Germany
  • Languages: de-N, en-3

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): German Wikipedia (de.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2004
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Governance of organizations
• Policy writing skills
• Previous phases of Movement Strategy

Currently I am a board member of Wikimedia Deutschland again. During the development of the 2030 strategy recommendations I was a member of the Movement Strategy Working Group Advocacy. I have been following the Movement Strategy closely since then and participated in the global conversations and events to support the process moving ahead.

I deeply believe that we have to rethink some of the things we never really questioned with consequences. Equity in decision making is what we strive for. What does this mean with regards to the types of organizations we create, their relationship/dependency to the Wikimedia Foundation and among each other, and the roles of the communities in global decision making? We have to step into negotiations and balance out interests, power and rights.

The Movement Charter will set the foundation for new structures like the Global Council, which has to bring those interests together again and serves the entire movement. Including contributors and volunteers as well as our organizations and staff.

In my understanding, the drafting group is bringing together the necessary research, already done work from the working groups, and effective input from Wikimedians. It’s more conducting than creating. I’m thinking of iterative circles with the community, in small steps, not waiting until everything is in a shape which is hard to change. That may be the most challenging part of the work. But I strongly believe that we have more wisdom in our movement than a group of 20 can have. And we need all of it when we create a common basis for the future.

• Personal:
  • Name: Reda Kerbouche
  • Country:  Algeria /  Russia
  • Languages: arq-N, shy-N, ar-4, fr-4, ru-4, en-3, de-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Russian Wikipedia (ru.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2010
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Global or local policy work
• Resource allocation

I speak French, Arabic, Russian, Tacawit, and work in English. I work for developing African and indigenous languages, in 2019 I was able to start the creation process of the Tacawit Wiktionary (the first language community to found itself on a project other than Wikipedia). I was in the organizing committees of WikiIndaba and WikiArabia. I am also a member of WikiIndaba Steering Committee and a Former member of the AffCom and I was a Candidate of The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. I represent my affiliation in the organization of the collaboration between the francophone groups of the Wikimedia movement (WikiFranca).

At the organizational level of the UGs, I can say that I am a very important member for my affiliations. I organize meetings to discuss the situations and solutions that must be resolved or achieved.

My team and I are working on projects of several formats. Organization of contests, example of WLX on Commons, or lastly the contest of Kateb Maktub on WP in Arabic. I also participate in training of young and future Wikimedians in Russia, Algeria and Dubai by collaborating with different affiliations of the region. I participated in the organization of many conferences in Africa and Europe.

We made partnerships to set up educational projects such as MOOCs in Arabic, Russian and Tamazight, working with affiliates and companies in these regions.

I always launch discussions to launch projects or activities wherever I am.

As an active member of the community at the international level, and with my personal experience, I know that we can do better. many affiliates cannot receive grants to meet their needs and struggle day and night to exist. The big challenge will be to find a solution to help all volunteers to do their work promoting our movement, especially where access to our resources is difficult.

More diversity in the movement, we always say that we have a diverse movement, but in fact, we still have to work on it, especially on gender and minority groups.

My biggest dream is for our movement to live in non-politics so that all peoples, countries, genders, cultures, religions live with the sole purpose of promoting free knowledge.

• Personal:
  • Name: Nethi Sai Kiran
  • Country: India
  • Languages: Telugu, English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Telugu Wikipedia (te.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: December 2020
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Strategic and Structural Thinking skill
• Team Collaboration

• Personal:
  • Name: Ciell
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Languages: nl-m, en-3, de-2, fr-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Dutch Wikipedia (nl.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2006
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Participatory and consensus processes
• Team collaboration

I am also involved in Gender Gap, LGBTI+, Accessibility, and GLAM Wikiprojects, both in on- and offline collaborations.

I have organized several events as well, alone or as part of a team, from small meetings in libraries to multi-day and multinational events like the Wiki Techstorm. I had some smaller supporting tasks in several Wikimania's (2018, 2019, 2021). A short (ever incomplete) resume of my wiki activities in the past 15 years can be found, in Dutch, here

• Personal:
  • Name: Ndahiro Derrick
  • Country: Rwanda
  • Languages: English, Kinyarwanda

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Kinyarwanda Wikipedia (rw.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2019
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Communication skills
• Strategic and structural thinking skills
• Writing and editing skills

Besides that, I also train newbies from Rwanda, Burundi as a way of recruiting more people in the movement but also pay back to the Wikimedia User Group Uganda, who introduced me and mentored me throughout to the Wikimedia movement.

Besides the above, I also create and improve content on English, Kinyarwanda and Kirundi Wikipedias, something I wont hesitate to call my passion. I believe that team work, mentorship and passion are essential to achieve a collective goal, therefore having a full conviction in possessing the above essentials, I believe they will help me to serve in the Wikimedia Movement under the movement Charter's Drafting Committee and representing East Africa.

One, by engaging every movement Charter's Drafting committee member through listening to their views, without judging, and creating a leveled ground by mainstreaming gender in all operations ,to fight against systematic discrimination of women in the decision making processes.

Am a quick learner, enthusiastic and reliable, I believe in team work and change creation therefore ,The committee having me as part of them, will enhance team work, commitment and reliability not forgetting representation of East Africa on the committee

• Personal:
  • Name: Ravan J Al-Taie
  • Country: Iraq
  • Languages: ar, en, ku

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Arabic Wikipedia (ar.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2008
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Communication skills
• Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Knowledge of Wikimedia

I've founded the Iraqi Wikimedians User Group back in 2015, the first user group in Iraq, I also co-founded Wikiwomen Prize Competition in 2015. I've created and managed various editathons and workshops, as well as helped in founding Sorani Kurdish User group. I organized WLM competition for Iraq for 3 years. I'm very well engaged in the movement current strategy implementation discussions, further more as I worked for last year a contractor in the foundation, I've gained valuable knowledge about what communities need and where the movement need to get directed?

As I participated since 2008 in more than 15 local and international Wikimedian conferences, I've gained amazing friends from around the globe. therefore, according to accumulative and continuous discussions, I've built a valuable skill of collaboration with different cultures effectively. On a professional & personal level, I have a 10+ years professional experience of managing teams & projects. I have worked in projects in Telecommunications, Oil & gas Industry, NGO organizations, Electronics companies around the world.

• Personal:
  • Name: Adi Purnama
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Languages: Indonesian Language, English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Indonesian Wikipedia (id.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2021
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Governance of organizations
• Policy writing skills

But, we are still far from having collected the sum of all knowledge. Most of content we have created is in the form of long-form encyclopedia articles and still images, which leaves out many other types of knowledge. Our current communities don't represent the diversity of the human population. This lack of representation and diversity has created gaps of knowledge and systemic biases. Readers often question the reliability of the content we create, notably because it is not accurate, not comprehensive, not neutral, or because they don't understand how it is produced and by whom.

The low barrier for entry from our early years has now become insurmountable for many newcomers. Some communities, cultures, and minorities have suffered from this exclusion more than others. Toxic behaviors and harassment have had a negative impact on participation in our projects. Other types of contribution beyond editing aren't recognized as equally valueable, and the structures of our movement are often opaque or centralized, with high barriers to entry. We even should change and innovate our services before it was too late. Many readers now expect multimedia formats beyond text and images. People want content that is real-time, visual and that support social sharing and conversation.

We should address all of this issue so we can improve our movement. I hope, Movement Charter could address this issues.

• Personal:
  • Name: Pepe Flores
  • Country: Mexico
  • Languages: es-N, en-4, fr-2

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Spanish Wikipedia (es.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2006 (Account created), 2013 (Active)
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Global and local policy work
• Governance of organizations
• Policy writing skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Galder Gonzalez
  • Country: Basque Country (Spain)
  • Languages: Basque, Spanish, English

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Basque Wikipedia (eu.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2006
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Previous phases of Movement Strategy
• Strategic and structural thinking skills

• Personal:
  • Name: Jamie Li-Yun Lin
  • Country: Taiwan
  • Languages: zh-N, en-4, fr-2, ja-1

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2014
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Global or local policy work
• Governance of organizations

1. Director of Wikipedia Asian Month (2019.09 - present)
2. Chinese interpreter and translator for Wikimedia movements (2017.09 - present)
3. Member of Community Health team for Wikimedia movement 2030 (2018.11 - 2019.12)
4. Program committee member of ESEAP conference (2018 2017.08 - 2018.05)
5. Project manager of Taiwan WikiProject Med (2016.03 - 2019.06)

• Personal:
  • Name: Hobit
  • Country: United States
  • Languages: en

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): English Wikipedia (en.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2007
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):

I don't view myself as a great writer, but I am a strong editor and sometimes have to provide feedback (both on content and writing) on about dozen 15+ page proposals in less than a week.

RfC closures I've made on en are probably the best way I can illustrate my ability to read and understand views from different parties ([1] is the most recent).

I will be fairly busy with work from September until mid-December and there would likely be a couple of weeks in there where I could not provide 5 hours of work. That shouldn't be true again until September 2022.

• Personal:
  • Name: Zhong Juechen
  • Country: Mainland China
  • Languages: zh-N, en-3

• Editorial:
  • Main wiki(s): Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia)
  • Wikimedian since: 2012 (functionally - account creation 2009)
  • Top expertise (see the matrix):
    *Cultural and linguistic awareness
• Knowledge of Wikimedia
• Writing and editing skills

I tell good jokes. In Chinese, though.