User talk:MyWikiBiz/WMF Election - Revision history

MyWikiBiz: Periods

2008-05-16T18:25:59Z

Periods

MyWikiBiz: User name should point to meta.Wikimedia user page.

2008-05-16T14:28:20Z

User name should point to meta.Wikimedia user page.

MyWikiBiz: Break

2008-05-16T13:49:02Z

Break

MyWikiBiz: Formatting italics, adding Bio.

2008-05-16T13:46:27Z

Formatting italics, adding Bio.

MyWikiBiz: /* Gregory Kohs (Arise Sir Loin of Beef) */ Fixing up draft. We're very close.

2008-05-16T13:28:49Z

Gregory Kohs (Arise Sir Loin of Beef): Fixing up draft. We're very close.

MyWikiBiz: Examples and deadlines

2008-05-16T02:32:19Z

Examples and deadlines

GlassBeadGame: /* stopped by gbg */

2008-05-16T02:24:02Z

stopped by gbg

MyWikiBiz: /* Gregory Kohs (Arise Sir Loin of Beef) */

2008-05-16T02:18:25Z

Gregory Kohs (Arise Sir Loin of Beef)

MyWikiBiz: WMF bid?

2008-05-16T02:10:48Z

WMF bid?

New page

===Gregory Kohs ([[User:Arise Sir Loin of Beef|Arise Sir Loin of Beef]])===
{{board elections 2008 candidate/en
|image = TheKohser.jpg
|image caption = Gregory Kohs, 2007.
|name = Gregory Kohs
|age = 39
|location = Pennsylvania
|languages = English, German
|wikimedian since = March 2005
|active wikis = en.wikiquote, en.wikipedia, meta.wikimedia
|statement = My candidacy is a referendum for several important principles.

*Commercial support activity in concert with open-source free content is natural and beneficial.
*Wikipedia is doing too much harm with biographies to people who have never had a paper biography written about them.
*The leadership of the Foundation Board and the Executive Staff of Wikimedia is crippling Wikipedia by failing to take due care and responsibility for the project.

These issues affect the Foundation now on a daily basis, and they are destroying at least the English Wikipedia from within. I would challenge the board that acts as steward of the Foundation, and all of its projects, to assume more professional responsibility for the care and management of its flagship project.
}}

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   |statement            = My candidacy is a referendum for several important principles.
-*'''Wikipedia is doing too much harm with its biographies of living people who have never had a biography about them published on paper'''.  As a Board member, I would advocate changing the deletion criteria on Articles for Deletion to read:
+*'''Wikipedia is doing too much harm with its biographies of living people who have never had a biography about them published on paper.'''  As a Board member, I would advocate changing the deletion criteria on Articles for Deletion to read:
 ::''In the case of biographies of living people, especially those where a published paper biography does not already exist, where multiple editors have expressed the opinion either, (a) that the biography could cause distress to the subject, or (b) that the biography will be particularly difficult to maintain in a fair and accurate state, due to the poor available sourcing or it being of such low interest that few but biased editors will be willing to maintain it...''
 ::''In such cases, the closing administrator shall close the debate as "Keep" only where there is a clear consensus that Wikipedia should retain the article. In all other cases the default shall be to "Delete" the article.''
 <br>
-*'''Commercially-funded support activity in concert with open-source free content is natural and beneficial to the project'''.  The WMF Board should include all stakeholders, not just the volunteer community.  Business enterprises seeking to use, improve, and extend information with an added motivation of personal profit are one of the intended benefits of free information.  To date, the volunteer Wikipedia community has been railroaded to believe that for-profit support of Wikipedia is an inherent evil.  Did Linux collapse with the commercial support of Red Hat and IBM?
+*'''Commercially-funded support activity in concert with open-source free content is natural and beneficial to the project.'''  The WMF Board should include all stakeholders, not just the volunteer community.  Business enterprises seeking to use, improve, and extend information with an added motivation of personal profit are one of the intended benefits of free information.  To date, the volunteer Wikipedia community has been railroaded to believe that for-profit support of Wikipedia is an inherent evil.  Did Linux collapse with the commercial support of Red Hat and IBM?
 <br>
-*'''The leadership of the WMF Board and the Executive Staff of the Wikimedia Foundation are crippling Wikipedia by failing to take due care and responsibility for the project'''.  The past 18 months have seen a persistent series of scandals and other unseemly public relations blunders being trumpeted in both insider and mainstream publications.  The WMF needs to ''halt'' the current strategy of denying wrongdoing and framing critics as "disgruntled" "trolls", and instead return to a mission of achieving a respectable level of accuracy, excellence, and ethics in media.
+*'''The leadership of the WMF Board and the Executive Staff of the Wikimedia Foundation are crippling Wikipedia by failing to take due care and responsibility for the project.'''  The past 18 months have seen a persistent series of scandals and other unseemly public relations blunders being trumpeted in both insider and mainstream publications.  The WMF needs to ''halt'' the current strategy of denying wrongdoing and framing critics as "disgruntled" "trolls", and instead return to a mission of achieving a respectable level of accuracy, excellence, and ethics in media.
 <br>
 These three issues now affect the Foundation and its projects on a daily basis, and they are destroying at least the English Wikipedia from within. I would challenge the Board that acts as steward of the Foundation and all of its projects, to assume more professional responsibility for the care and management of its flagship project.

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 }}
 Hello Greg.  Is there a template for candidates to use (or is that it above?)  When is the deadline for submiting? Good straightforward description of issues you support.  I suppose I should check information on WMF site, but thought I would stop by here first. [[User:GlassBeadGame|GlassBeadGame]] 19:24, 15 May 2008 (PDT)
 :See this page [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates/Submissions meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates/Submissions] for the current nominees.
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 ::01–21 June 2008: elections.
 ::22–23 June 2008: vote-checking.
-::26 June 2008: publication of results.
+::26 June 2008: publication of results. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 06:49, 16 May 2008 (PDT)

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   |age                  = 39
   |location             = Pennsylvania
-  |languages            = English, German
+  |languages            = English (fluent), German (functional)
   |wikimedian since     = March 2005 ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&offset=20060125190759&limit=600&target=Thekohser&month=&year= User:Thekohser] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Arise_Sir_Loin_of_Beef User:Arise Sir Loin of Beef])
   |active wikis         = en.wikiquote, en.wikipedia, nl.wikipedia, meta.wikimedia
   |statement            = My candidacy is a referendum for several important principles.
 *'''Commercially-funded support activity in concert with open-source free content is natural and beneficial to the project'''.  The WMF Board should include all stakeholders, not just the volunteer community.  Business enterprises seeking to use, improve, and extend information with an added motivation of personal profit are one of the intended benefits of free information.  To date, the volunteer Wikipedia community has been railroaded to believe that for-profit support of Wikipedia is an inherent evil.  Did Linux collapse with the commercial support of Red Hat and IBM?
 <br>
-*'''Wikipedia is doing too much harm with its biographies of living people who have never had a biography about them published on paper'''.  As a Board member, I would advocate changing the deletion criteria on Articles for Deletion to read:
+*'''The leadership of the WMF Board and the Executive Staff of the Wikimedia Foundation are crippling Wikipedia by failing to take due care and responsibility for the project'''.  The past 18 months have seen a persistent series of scandals and other unseemly public relations blunders being trumpeted in both insider and mainstream publications.  The WMF needs to ''halt'' the current strategy of denying wrongdoing and framing critics as "disgruntled" "trolls", and instead return to a mission of achieving a respectable level of accuracy, excellence, and ethics in media.
 <br>
 These three issues now affect the Foundation and its projects on a daily basis, and they are destroying at least the English Wikipedia from within. I would challenge the Board that acts as steward of the Foundation and all of its projects, to assume more professional responsibility for the care and management of its flagship project.
 }}

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	Hello Greg. Is there a template for candidates to use (or is that it above?) When is the deadline for submiting? Good straightforward description of issues you support. I suppose I should check information on WMF site, but thought I would stop by here first. [[User:GlassBeadGame\|GlassBeadGame]] 19:24, 15 May 2008 (PDT)		Hello Greg. Is there a template for candidates to use (or is that it above?) When is the deadline for submiting? Good straightforward description of issues you support. I suppose I should check information on WMF site, but thought I would stop by here first. [[User:GlassBeadGame\|GlassBeadGame]] 19:24, 15 May 2008 (PDT)
		+	:See this page [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates/Submissions meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates/Submissions] for the current nominees.
		+	:Time line:
		+	::01–31 May 2008: primary translation phase; subcommittee actively coordinates and promotes translation.
		+	::08–'''22 May''' 2008: candidate submissions.
		+	::29 May 2008: deadline to send proof of identity (late or missing submissions will be disqualified).
		+	::01–21 June 2008: elections.
		+	::22–23 June 2008: vote-checking.
		+	::26 June 2008: publication of results.

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	These issues affect the Foundation now on a daily basis, and they are destroying at least the English Wikipedia from within. I would challenge the board that acts as steward of the Foundation, and all of its projects, to assume more professional responsibility for the care and management of its flagship project.		These issues affect the Foundation now on a daily basis, and they are destroying at least the English Wikipedia from within. I would challenge the board that acts as steward of the Foundation, and all of its projects, to assume more professional responsibility for the care and management of its flagship project.
	}}		}}
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		+	Hello Greg. Is there a template for candidates to use (or is that it above?) When is the deadline for submiting? Good straightforward description of issues you support. I suppose I should check information on WMF site, but thought I would stop by here first. [[User:GlassBeadGame\|GlassBeadGame]] 19:24, 15 May 2008 (PDT)

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-===Gregory Kohs ([[User:Arise Sir Loin of Beef|Arise Sir Loin of Beef]])===
+===Gregory Kohs ([[User:Thekohser|Thekohser]])===
 {{board elections 2008 candidate/en
   |image                = TheKohser.jpg