2015 AGM/Elections/Questions

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This page has been set up to allow voters to ask questions of the candidates for the 2015 Wikimedia UK Board elections. Please add your suggested questions below but remember that candidates are not obliged to answer any question.

Further information is also available in the Candidate Statements.

Questions

For all candidates

Question One

What is the main thing (or things) you would want to achieve through your tenure as a Wikimedia UK trustee? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 09:33, 7 July 2015 (BST)

Question Two

How do you see the role of volunteers in WMUK and how can the board best help the charity to support its volunteer community? Thanks! Sjgknight (talk) 07:56, 17 July 2015 (BST)

For Neil Andrew Babbage

Question One

For Nancy Bell

Question One

For Greyham Dawes

Question One

In your nomination statement, you describe WMUK as "an entirely credible example of good charity governance and competent financial management" and take at least some of the credit for getting the board to that position. How do you reconcile this assessment of WMUK's performance with the major overspend and subsequent staff redundancies at the end of the last financial year?

For Josie Fraser

Question One

For Michael Maggs

Question One

For Nick Poole

Question One

For Joseph Reddington

Question One

For Doug Taylor

Question One

Answers

Neil Andrew Babbage

Question One

Nancy Bell

Question One

Greyham Dawes

Question One

Josie Fraser

Question One

Michael Maggs

Question One

I'd like to see real improvements in the way the charity interacts with our volunteers, an increase in volunteer numbers from hundreds to thousands, and an increase in membership. We should build on our successes in working with GLAMs to be more ambitious in seeking specific open knowledge outcomes such as large-scale releases of media files. Diversification of funding will be important to enable us to remain both effective and independent. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 10:47, 13 July 2015 (BST)

Nick Poole

Question One:

There are 3 things I would like to achieve during my tenure at Wikimedia UK

• I would like to support the executive and fellow Trustees in developing sound governance and a robust organisational model so that Wikimedia UK can deliver its strategic plan
• I would like to learn more about the structure, organisation and values of the Wikimedia UK movement so that I can use my networks to build bridges and develop relationships
• I would like to promote engagement with the wiki community by my colleagues in museums, archives and libraries. -- NickPoole12

Joseph Reddington

Question One

I have a real passion about Systemic Bias, (particularly around disability, and oddly enough, IT literacy). I'd like to see much greater outreatch to people who haven't edited our projects before in communities that are under-represented by our editors. I think I'd like to see our events calendar involve more events in the style of a library event . I would argue that having more events like this is both A Good Thing and an excellent way to demonstrate to groups and funders outside of the community that we can have a positive impact on local communities, provide transferable skills, and build links. In turn this would allow us to widen our group of funders, giving us a little more financial stability.

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Doug Taylor

Question One

There are many things that I'd like to achieve, but probably the two main ones would be to significantly increase the number of active volunteers and to reduce our financial dependency on a single funding source. To achieve the former, I would like to develop and strengthen strategies that involved more volunteers in the charity's work as an integral part of the process, and actively seek broader outreach opportunities at a local level. To achieve the latter, we need to recognise that somewhere between £1 million and £2 million is donated by UK residents to WMF during the six weeks or so of the WMF's Annual Fundraiser. Around half a million of that is then granted to WMUK, which becomes our principal source of income. I believe that WMUK needs to demonstrate its value to donors by increasing its activities at the community level. If we establish the value of WMUK to the ordinary users of Wikimedia projects, we increase the likelihood that those donors who support the Annual Fundraiser will be wiling to financially support WMUK directly throughout the year. --RexxS (talk) 13:19, 8 July 2015 (BST)