Wikimedia UK v2.0/Candidate questions

See also: Wikimedia UK v2.0/Candidate statements

Questions to be asked of the candidates for election to the Board of Wikimedia v2.0 in September 2008:

Mandatory questions

These questions must be answered by all candidates or (is the following consequence agreed?) their candidacy will be invalidated.

• What is your full name

Voluntary questions

• How much time can you commit to acting on the Board?
• What user names have you used to edit wikimedia projects?
• What's your proudest achievement as a wikimedia editor?
• Would you be interested in being an officer of the Board (i.e. Chair, Secretary or Treasurer)?
• Were you involved in Wikimedia UK v1 and if so, what lessons do you think can be learned from it's failure?
• Would you anticipate any difficulties in proving your identity or address for bank account opening purposes?

Answers and questions for individual candidates

Tango

Mandatory

• What is your full name?

Thomas Michael Dalton

Voluntary

• How much time can you commit to acting on the Board?

I can't be entirely sure, I'm going into my final year of Uni and I don't know how much time my project work will take up. I should be able to devote a few hours a week, minimum.

• What user names have you used to edit wikimedia projects?

Just "Tango".

• What's your proudest achievement as a wikimedia editor?

I don't know, really... I've just gone through my English Wikipedia talk page and updated by barnstar collection and discovered I'm up to 7 now - I'm not sure I deserved all of them, but I'm proud that someone thought I did. Does that count?

• Would you be interested in being an officer of the Board (i.e. Chair, Secretary or Treasurer)?

I'd be happy to take on any role people want of me (although I make no promises to be good at it!). I have experience of minuting meetings and could probably handle the rest of the secretaries roles. I have no formal accountancy training, but I'm a maths student so I'm not afraid of numbers and could probably handle being treasurer (at least while we're small). I have no relevant experience for being chair, but am happy to learn if people want me to.

• Were you involved in Wikimedia UK v1 and if so, what lessons do you think can be learned from it's failure?

My role was limited to sending lots of emails trying to get people to move things forward - I guess it worked, although not quite as I intended.

• Would you anticipate any difficulties in proving your identity or address for bank account opening purposes?

No, should be fine. I visited a few banks and asked them about their requirements for identification and I'm sure I can manage them.

Questions Last Updated: --Tango 16:30, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Skenmy

Mandatory

• What is your full name?

Paul Roy Williams

Voluntary

• How much time can you commit to acting on the Board?

This is currently impossible for me to answer truthfully. I am in a period of change where I am starting a new job and also starting a distance learning BSc course that takes up 14-16 hours of my week. I do not intend to neglect my duties, if elected, however, as it is my hope and wish to see v2 succeed.

• What user names have you used to edit wikimedia projects?

Only "Skenmy".

• What's your proudest achievement as a wikimedia editor?

My proudest achievement would be becoming one of the more senior members of the English Wikinews - while not an "achievement" per se, it makes me proud.

• Would you be interested in being an officer of the Board (i.e. Chair, Secretary or Treasurer)?

I have experience in chairing meetings, so I would be interested in being Chair, but not Treasurer.

• Were you involved in Wikimedia UK v1 and if so, what lessons do you think can be learned from it's failure?

I was uninvolved apart from being an outside observer.

• Would you anticipate any difficulties in proving your identity or address for bank account opening purposes?

I anticipate no difficulties here. I am already identified to the foundation.

Questions Last Updated: --Skenmy 14:03, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

AndrewRT (Andrew Turvey)

• What is your full name?

Andrew Rowan Turvey

• How much time can you commit to acting on the Board?

I will be busy over the next few months - particularly at the start as I have some exams in early October - but I hope to be able to dedicate at least a few hours each week.

• What user names have you used to edit wikimedia projects?

Just "AndrewRT".

• What's your proudest achievement as a wikimedia editor?

See my candidate statement where I talk about my work on en-wikipedia

• Would you be interested in being an officer of the Board (i.e. Chair, Secretary or Treasurer)?

My preference is to be Secretary, responsible for forming and registering the company, liasing with Companies House, HMRC, the Charity Commission etc. as this is where I think I would be most use. I have also chaired quite a few committees before and I'm keen that the Board is efficiently run and good at communicating with the community so I would be open to this one too. Treasurer I could also do, or help someone else with but I'm not too keen as I offered (on meta) to prepare the company's accounts and this would not be possible if I was also Treasurer as it would be a conflict. After the subsequent Board is elected I want to take a back seat.

• Were you involved in Wikimedia UK v1 and if so, what lessons do you think can be learned from it's failure?

I must confess I never even heard of it! I'm very keen we learn as much as we can from their work - successes as well as failures.

• Would you anticipate any difficulties in proving your identity or address for bank account opening purposes?

No. I've got plenty of debt which means banks are generally happy to throw credit at me! I moved house a year ago but I dont think that should cause a problem.