2015 AGM/Elections/Questions
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AGM: Elections (Candidate statements · Candidate questions) — Resolutions |
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)
Questions for Neil Andrew Babbage
- Question One
Questions for Nancy Bell
- Question One
Questions for Greyham Dawes
- Question One
- Question Two
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?
Questions for Josie Fraser
- Question One
Questions for Michael Maggs
- Question One
Questions for Nick Poole
- Question One
Questions for Joseph Reddington
- Question One
Questions for 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)