Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2024/Pavanaja
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| Preferred name | Pavanaja | |
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| What languages do you speak, and at what fluency level? (Please include your English proficiency.) | Kannada (kn-N), Tulu (tcy-4), Hindi (hi-2), Malayalam (ml-1), English (en-4) | |
| What region(s) of the world do you have experience with, and what kind of experience do you have? (“Experience” can mean you have lived or worked there or are currently living or working there; you’re familiar with the culture and language; etc.) | India, South Asia | |
| What Wikimedia project(s) do you actively edit? And in what language(s)? | Kannada Wiikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikiquote; Tulu Wikipedia, Wiktionary (in incubation), Wikidata, Commons | |
| What affiliate(s) are you actively involved with? In what capacity are you involved? Do you serve in a leadership role or have you in the past? | Founder Secretary, Karavali Wimidians | |
| Have you served on any committees (movement-related or otherwise)? And what was your role on the committee(s)? | No | |
| Please describe any experience you have with conflict resolution and/or consensus building. | Being a bureaucrat at Kannada Wikipedia and admin (sysop) at Tulu Wikipedia I have arranged many meetings, both in-persons and online, to solve many issues, including conflict resolution. I was able to solve almost all issues. | |
| In your ideal world, what does the affiliate model and ecosystem look like? | Wikimedia uses a triangular system, each corner of the triangle has WMF Board, WMF staff and community. Affiliates is part of the community. WMF should take the help of affiliates in formulating policies and guidelines. Even though this is happening now, I feel more needs to be done. Affiliates should take leadership in guiding WMF and also help in formulating policies and guidelines. There should be regular meetings of affiliates and WMF board and WMF staff to discus various issues and arriving at consensus. Where needed, there should be a voting mechanism where WMF board and affiliates' representatives vote. | |
| In your ideal world, what are AffCom’s roles and responsibilities in relation to the movement and affiliates? | As explained above AfCom's role will be to see that these happens smoothly. AfCom also will be responsible for approving new affiliates. Where needed guiding and hand holding of newbie affiliate who may need help. | |
| What role within AffCom are you most interested in: advisory or voting member? | Voting member | |