I'm surprised at how odd the "selected questions" read,[1] which will probably result in off-topic or wooly answers by the candidates unless they have "abstracts" somewhere to unpack the coded language.
"What is your opinion on the claim of autonomy by Wikipedia communities and the attempts of the Wikimedia Foundation to regulate control over community?" - No idea what issues this is attempting to cover, exactly which claims about autonomy, is WMDE going to spin off to become a public library, is the WMF going to get rid of project sysops and replace them with contractors? The question could have been a lot more specific. "How should the Wikimedia Foundation engage with emerging WikiCommunities in the near future (next 2 to 3 years)?" - What emerging communities, what is a WikiCommunity? Many (external) communities exist that don't have specific Affiliate representation, is this what it is implying. I don't know. "What do you think about the Wikimedia Foundation using funds for purposes not related to Wikimedia projects?" - The WMF uses funds for all sorts of things unrelated to the specific projects, for example, the Commercial paid-for API is an external commercial service, it is not intended as a service to the projects and the projects never asked for it. It's weird to have an 'official' question that implies other stuff does not exist. Agree that the opaque process followed for choosing these questions, then having no community process for improving them, is a missed opportunity. Links 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/CandidateQ%26A Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/6IMVPDSCBUP4KQGIVQAO54WI32UPVE5J/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
