Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Questions for candidates

This page contains details about questions for the candidates of 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board election.

Mechanism

In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates are only required to answer these selected questions. This year, the Election Committee will select five (5) questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.

Once selected, each question is broken into a subpage to help with readability.

The Call for Questions in this 2024 selection process starts on May 8, 2024 and ends on June 12, 2024. The Elections Committee will review only the questions submitted by 23:59 UTC, June 12, 2024.

Proposed questions from community members

1. What would you hope to achieve such that a year (or two) later, you'll consider your work as a Board member a success? Leaderboard (talk) 17:03, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
2. How do you tend to carry along all Wikimedians by ensuring inclusivity in employment opportunities? 787IYO (talk) 09:45, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
3. Over the last 10 years, WMF fundraising has grown by 4x. In your opinion, when should our Fundraising campaigns slim down? Could you name one WMF program or venture from the last year or two that did not work out as expected? Soni (talk) 12:28, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
4. There has been some trend towards devolving or sharing the governance of the movement, including having a separate endowment board and the proposed global council and movement charter. What do you see as the positives and negatives of this and is your overall assessment of this work so far? Barkeep49 (talk) 14:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
5. Over the last 10 years Wikimedians have been focused on the carbon footprint of travel as part of the movements activities including holding events like Wikimania, and regional conferences. With the growing use of AI and the ever expanding data centres all of which demand large quantities of power to support the movements capacity to share knowledge. When we add in the exploitation of finite mineral resources with significant quantiities being sourced from places with no environmental protects. What steps to do see the WMF Board can take now to ensure the movement is operating both as a sustainable and ethical source of knowledge? Gnangarra (talk) 06:17, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
6. With the divergance of WMF employees away from so called first world countries with developed employment rights, to employing in lower economic countries what practical steps do you see the WMF Board implementing to ensure equality of employment conditions and opportunities? Gnangarra (talk) 06:17, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
7. Question 8 (signature of proposer)
8. Question 9 (signature of proposer)
9. Question 10 (signature of proposer)