I was going to vote for the craziest ones most likely to cause more damage than the current board and preferably ones that can't communicate well in English. There are some doozies:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elect...e_.28mvart4u.29QUOTE(mischa vetere (mvart4u))
used to work as senior trust relationship mgr for 15 yrs with citibank/csg. in between i have sucessfully restruct. our fam. business. began with 18 as illustrator / editor of high quality books.
loved medium-longterm strat. consid. are also asset 2day, as writer/painter: « teatime, samurai », compar. dalai LAMA with GANDHI, helped 2009 & counter proposal 2 OBAMA / court to postpone google-agreem.
started in dec 2010 THE HOPE CYCLE (http://vetere.blogspot.com/) with marocco & egypt (?!) - with happenings in libya, on 21st of feb 11, posted the new blog on fb white house with saying from 2010: "human rights are not, not negotiable." on 23rd of feb OBAMA quotes by amending: « nowhere » - on apr 15 human rights commission, UN geneva, fully adhered to official complaint dated 25th of nov 10 against wished apartheid in switzland (vote of 28th of nov. reverted!).
I contribute since 2010 to commons, mainly to own categ. mischa vetere - due to heavy censorship 2010, all works are O.T.R.S. approved now, a lot – due to fascist tendencies - against discrim., world problem no. 1: HUNGER, education. here an example, used for recent german conf. about north afr. Revol.:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...ERMORE_2010.jpgfollowing the invit. of ting chen, i would love to help to bring the wiki project further with all its diversity, increasing the quality level by encouraging participants. my contribution: to listen carefully, obtain a full overview, bring in strategical ideas. i am at the top of creativity - 2010: 1300 paintings!
He wants to fight fascism and world hunger with Wikipedia? I don't even understand much of statement at all. And he used to work at Citibank? He thinks Wikipedia can help the Arab Spring movement? Very over-zealous and overly idealistic. He will definitely stir the s--t up and not in a good way!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elect...er_.28Capsot.29QUOTE(Claudi Balaguer (Capsot))
Worried that WMF might foster oligarchs who hardly edit anymore and do not care much about the projects/editors
Sorry to witness bureaucracy gaining more importance, intricacy and control without counterpower
Still awaiting real transparency to know who the people in charge are, what they do and why/how they got up there
Afraid to see that institutions may become independent and get loads of money without control nor duties
Tired to see some rights renewed when last edit was in 2005 (BC maybe for some)
I am Capsot, the editor sorely praised in the high places. I deem that the core of the projects is its editors who deserve much more than what they get now.
If elected, I would try my very best to:
Listen & reply to concerns about the institutions
Promote transparency in every organ of the WMF
Have every Wikipedia or sister project on an equal ground be them big or small, specially small, stateless and threatened languages
Promote access/use to Internet and knowledge in the less-privileged countries, in the native languages
Ensure that funds go to noble causes, accordingly to development plans and needs, not in nurturing the biggest Chapters and discussable activities
As you can deduce from my general block a while ago, and still in Meta, some prominent people in the high places fear me ; so take your chance to frighten them as well voting for one of the few candidates really committed to change, truth and transparency.
Sounds like an outcast trying to get back at the powers that be. Since we can't root for Greg this go round, may Capsot is our best chance? He sounds like Malleus and is angry about the power-tripping administrators taking over all the wikis. Due to his being blocked, he states that he is "feared." Should we endorse someone feared by the WMF? Reminds me of the black knight from Monty Python:
Now, one person who does appear as an interesting candidate is Jane S. Richardson:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elect...on_.28Dcrjsr.29QUOTE(Jane S. Richardson (Dcrjsr))
I contribute organized sets of biomolecular-structure & mountain/flower images to Wikimedia Commons, edit molecular structure & graphics articles on en:wikipedia (POTD 2009-11-19), and introduce Wikipedia editing in classes.
My research is on 3D structure of biological macromolecules. I am a Professor at Duke University; MacArthur Fellow; National Academy of Sciences USA; American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Institute of Medicine; President-elect, Biophysical Society. Our lab (joint with my husband User:DavetheMage) runs the MolProbity structure-validation web service (at
http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu), distributes our open-source software and open-access papers, contributes to the RNA Ontology Consortium and the worldwide Protein Data Bank Validation Task Forces, and is a development team on the PHENIX crystallographic software project.
I would like to turn on more professionals to the satisfactions of wiki editing and contributing in their specialties. I have strong connections in professional scientific societies (Biophysics, Proteins, RNA, Crystallography, Computer Graphics, Biochemistry) in the US and internationally, would organize workshops and web pages to encourage new editors, and would share those strategies & materials with experts in other fields.
In the other direction, I would work to help make Wikimedia editing even more friendly and accessible.
Wow. She would be best for the board. Which means she won't get it.