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Session title: Meet the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees candidates

Session type: Panel
Track: Governance & Strategy (alternatively, Governance or Strategy)
Language: en

Elections are an important tool for the community to participate in the selection of leaders who will guide the Wikimedia Foundation for a three-year term. Who are this year’s candidates, and what are they bringing to the Board to advance the whole movement?

Join us to learn more!

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This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end. The Board is the decision-making body of the Wikimedia Foundation. The whole movement is invited to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats. Join us to learn more about this year's candidates, what makes them good candidates for the seat, their experience, backgrounds, and skills.

Find the candidates list on Meta-wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfbjhJiy41E&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJdC5P86rsDsUtxEow0gDnR&t=6582

How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?

Wikimedia Foundation Board oversees the organization work. Through election, communities have the opportunity to help select trustees that advance the foundation work: Help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge.

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  • Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (Nadzik)
Wikimania 2024 Lead Organizer
Affiliations Committee Secretary – since 2024
Wikimedia Europe Board Member – since 2022
Wikimedia Poland Governance Board – 2020–2022
  • Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
I am a veteran EN-WP editor (2007) and EN-WP admin (2009) who has created >5,000 articles, of which >2,200 are women's biographies. I have uploaded thousands of public domain images to Wikimedia Commons, and am also active on Wikidata. On-wiki, I am the co-founder of Wiki Women in Red (2015), now on 34 language Wikipedias, whose scope is to reduce Wikipedia's content gender gap.
In 2021, I was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees where I serve/served on several committees including Audit, Board Governancee, Community Affairs, and Executive. I am the current Chair of the Talent & Culture Committee, and I am a member of the Sibling Projects Task Force.
I served on AffCom (2016-21), the last 2 years as Chair; on the Board of Wikimedia DC (2016-21), the last 5 years as Vice-President. I am the co-founder of WikiWomen's User Group, WikiConference North America User Group, and WikiCemeteries User Group.
In 2016, I was honored to be named Wikipedian of the Year. Two years later, I was Knighted, in part because of my Wikipedia work.
  • Victoria
Victoria Doronina is a Technical Officer in Education Biology and Food Microbiology at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Originally from Belarus, Victoria Doronina was awarded a Darwin Trust Fellowship, which led to a PhD in Molecular Biology (University of Edinburgh, UK). After graduating, Victoria worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in several Russell Group (UK Ivy League) universities, specialising in protein translation. She is also an Associate Member of the Advance Higher Education Academy.
Victoria started contributing to Russian Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator. The second woman ever to be elected and the first to serve twice on the Russian Wikipedia Arbitration Committee, Victoria is a long-standing mediator in a few of the most debated topics and a Featured and Good articles moderator.
In 2011 Victoria became a Wikimedia Community Fellow. She also served on the Wikimedia Funds Dissemination Committee.
In 2021, Victoria was elected to the WMF Board of Trustees, where she is a member of the Community Affairs Committee, Product and Technology Committee, Executive Committee and the Lead of the Sister Projects Taskforce.
  • Mahuton Possoupe (WMF)
Movement Communications Specialist
  • Lorenzo Losa
Long term wikipedian, former chair of Wikimedia Italy, vice chair of the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
  • Nhu Phan
  • Tesleemah
Tesleemah is the only Nigerian Candidate for the Wikimedia foundation board of trustees and the only female from Africa contesting for the bowrd.
She is the first African board member of Wiki Project Medicine. She was the project lead of Wiki and Health articles in Nigeria 1.0, the project lead of Wikimedia Awareness in Akure. She was one of the core organizers of the Wikiclimate Campus Tour Nigeria Project. Outside Wikipedia, Tesleemah is a medical graduand with over 6 years of experience who has worked with different health-related organizations such as Optometry mails, Food and Gene initiative among others. She is the 1st Female President of Ondo State students, Unilorin. Nigeria.
  • Mohammed Awal Alhassan
My Wikimedia Username is Alhassan Mohammed Awal. I am a dedicated Wikimedia volunteer and digital language Activist contributing to organizing many Wikimedia projects and events in Ghana and playing leading roles in executing those projects. I am a regular organizer of Wiki Loves projects and Art+Feminism campaigns in Ghana in the past four years. I volunteered in the communication team for WikiIndaba 2021, hosted by Uganda online. I am a dedicated volunteer for LD4 Affinity Group and served as a conference planning committee member for the LD4 2023 virtual conference and I am Co-chairing the same Conference this year which is scheduled to take place in October. I am a Dagbani language Expert and participate in various Wikimedia translation projects from English into Dagbani. I am also interested and committed to contribute to the Wikimedia Technical projects as well. I am a regular volunteer member at CC Open Culture and a Winner of this year's CC activity fund.
Outside of the Wikimedia community, I am an educationist and a mentor providing services to young and upcoming teachers and students. I am an activist for child rights and girl-child education. A volunteer at E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa and Ghana School on Internet Governance Fellow, member of Europeana Network Association, and Community Council Member of Global Voices.
Dagbani is my native language but feel free to engage with me in the English Language which is the official language of my country Ghana
  • Farah Jack Mustaklem
A passionate Wikimedian and free knowledge advocate. I started out by editing the Arabic and English Wikipedias in 2005. In 2014, I became one of the founders of the Wikimedians of the Levant User Group, and I continue to be in its board. I was also involved in establishing the Arabic Wikimedians User Group. I am also a member of Wikimedia UK. In the global movement, I have served on the Affiliations Committee which works closely with and advises the Board of Trustees to approve and support Wikimedia affiliates. I was on the Wikimedia Strategy Steering Committee. I currently serve on the Regional Grants Committee for Africa and the Middle East, one of the first committees in the Movement to become decentralized.
  • Deon Steyn
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