Wikimedia Board Elections 2006

Posted by Angela Beesley on September 2, 2006 (Wiki, Wikimedia)

Wikimedia Election Candidates 2006

If you have 400 edits on a Wikimedia project, please go and vote for my replacement on the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Voting started yesterday and goes on until September 21st. There are 17 candidates in this year’s election, most of whom I’ve met and many of whom I would trust in this position, including two people that I’ve hired and one that I’ve dated :). The only person I’m publicly endorsing this year though is Erik. He has a great platform and is really what the Board needs right now. This is the third Wikimedia election, but the first one I’ve been able to watch rather than candidate for. The other two saw me and Florence being elected in 2004 and 2005.

I wish all the candidates luck and look forward to seeing the positive changes to the Foundation that I’m sure almost any one of them could bring.

The image shows 16 of the candidates (I couldn’t find one of Ross). It’s collated from various images on Wikipedia and elsewhere, so don’t assume it’s available under a free license. From left to right, the image shows:
Improv, Eloquence, Mindspillage, Kim Bruning
Oscar, Zuirdj, Charles Matthews, Kelly Martin
Arno Lagrange, Linuxbeak, Cimon Avaro, Evrik
AaronSw, Arnomane, UninvitedCompany, Alex756

2 Comments

  1. WikiAngela » Three new Board members for Wikimedia said,

    December 8, 2006 at 23:45

    […] Kat was one of Wikia’s first community staff members. Jan-Bart works for the Kennisnet Foundation which both provides hosting for Wikimedia and pays for hosting from Wikia (Kennisnet is in fact Wikia’s only paying customer). Kat and Oscar were the runners up in the 2006 Board elections which were held to find a replacement for me after I resigned. […]

  2. WikiAngela » End of 2006 said,

    December 31, 2006 at 13:04

    […] I attended the iX conference in Singapore and appeared on TV for the first time, doing three televised interviews about Wikipedia whilst I was in Asia. Gil Penchina officially became Wikia’s CEO this month and Rieke and Solensean joined Wikia’s community team. I resigned from the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation after a bad decision by the rest of the Board. WikiZine made my resignation public in July and it took effect in September when Erik Möller was elected to replace me. […]