Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2024/Teles
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| Preferred name | Lucas Teles | |
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| What languages do you speak, and at what fluency level? (Please include your English proficiency.) | pt-N; en-3; es-2 | |
| 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.) | I currently live in Brazil, specifically in w:Salvador, Bahia. I have lived in Canada for eight months for studying medicine. I don't travel too much, but have met a few countries of North America and Europe. Salvador is a large city, but I have lived in many smaller cities in Brazil, and I understand we have lots of unknown gaps specially here in the North East of Brazil. | |
| What Wikimedia project(s) do you actively edit? And in what language(s)? | Portuguese Wikipedia and Meta are the projects where I most contribute these days. I am currently involved on translating medical content from MDwiki to Portuguese Wikipedia. I am a Steward and deal with cross-wiki issues, like vandalism and long-term abuse, but also spam, renaming users and other administrative tasks. | |
| 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? | I am one of the founding members of Wiki Movement Brazil User Group, and currently one of its board members. This year, I have reclaimed my membership on Wiki Project Med, a project I plan to keep helping and that fits more with my 'real life' career, and, somehow, I am returning to the reasons that I have joined Wikimedia projects back in 2007. | |
| Have you served on any committees (movement-related or otherwise)? And what was your role on the committee(s)? | I am currently an AffCom advisor since 2024 (see candidacy page), and it is being a very enriching experience. Engaging on the committee's usual work, being onboarded and having contact with this committee's regular tasks, made me feel ready to help more. It has also been a moment I can notice many relevant changes being implemented on its processes. So, I appreciatte participating and helping a little at this moment that I consider to be very positive for AffCom going through the right direction. I have also served Ombuds Commission for three years. I am currently a Steward since 2012. As I mentioned above, I am narrowing down my engagement on Wikimedia projects. Thus, this year I have already resigned from checkusership on Portuguese Wikipedia, and will be my last year as a Steward, so I can focus on other areas, but I am happy to have learned a lot while on these groups. | |
| Please describe any experience you have with conflict resolution and/or consensus building. | I have held many global and local roles on Wikimedia projects, like checkuser, bureaucrat, oversighter, ombuds, Steward and all of them provided me the chance to face difficult cases, dealing with privacy issues, long community discussions on creating new rules, global bans and so on. As an AffCom advisor, I worked at the conflict subcommitee. I was always interested on the metapedianism part of volunteer contribution, discussing with community members to obtain understanding and consensus regarding many different topics; from content related to creation of projects's rules. | |
| In your ideal world, what does the affiliate model and ecosystem look like? | The whole meaning of affiliates is decentralization. The more we engage and learn about volunteerism, wikimedia, open source, more we understand that there is a lot more to learn. Affiliates are relevant to empower different voices from the many places. So, it should increase diversity on decision making processes, bringing equity when required, so everyone has the capability of providing their point of view. It should first understand local needs and think of specific ways of solving its problems. It increases communication between members of different places and projects, so they can explore their best. On the other hand, while we look for diversity, we still need to be accountable for our actions and still share the same mission. With that in mind, decentralizing should not be done recklessly and that is why AffCom should maintain its criteria on deciding when groups are ready or not to become affiliate. Since it is a broad question, I didn't provide any specific answer, but that's the ideal. | |
| In your ideal world, what are AffCom’s roles and responsibilities in relation to the movement and affiliates? | AffCom has the relevant work of empowering people to work their best. That means finding resources to improve content, providing room for people to contact with others so they can share experiences, join efforts, make partnerships. One can never forget why we are here for. We currently do that mainly with the affiliate model, by recognizing that some group of users are working on the interest of Wikimedia projects, in a healthy way, respecting each other, understanding that diversity is relevant and dealing with that, and also guiding these groups of people to achieve these goals when they don't. Understanding that conflicts are part of human nature and they will occur, AffCom is also relevant on guiding users on dealing with conflicts the less distressful way possible, mediating conversation, working on solutions, requesting help from other parties when required. | |
| What role within AffCom are you most interested in: advisory or voting member? | voting member | |