Wikimedia Foundation elections/Board elections/2008/Planning/Candidates

This is an archived committee draft for the June 2008 board elections. Please do not significantly change the content.
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This page contains the presentations from eligible candidates. Please read the rules for voters before voting.

Candidates: Please read the rules for candidates before submitting a candidate statement, then see the instructions at the bottom of the page. New candidates will be accepted 08–22 May 2008.

Candidate presentations

Billy Kid

Summary details

Billy Kid, 2005 Personal: Name: Billy Kid (BillyKid101) Age: 21 Location: Manhattan Island, New York Languages: I'm fluent in Spanish and can write well in English. Editorial: Wikimedian since: February 2004 Active wikis: I'm mostly active on the Spanish and English Wikipedias, and Commons.

Statement

I have been contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects since February 2004 and have made more than 20 thousands of edits in (mostly) Polish and English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I'm an admin in all three, a Polish Wikipedia CheckUser, a Commons bureaucrat and a Wikimedia steward. I was one of the founding members of the Wikimedia Polska Association. Frankly, I have been less active in the Wikimedia projects in the last few months, but I'm looking forward to resuming my activities. I currently study marketing and management at the Wrocław University of Economics and work as a freelance English-Polish translator (I've done for Microsoft and Adobe). I want Wikipedia to still be open and free, which means that I support limiting the use of non-free content (e.g. fair use pictures) to a minimum. I also generally support Wikipedia's sister projects, but on the other hand I think that some of them were bad ideas from the start, so I don't think all of them deserve the same level of attention. I also strongly believe in multilingualism and in supporting local communities and involvement of more people from outside the US and Western Europe in Wikimedia affairs.

Instructions

1. Read the rules and procedure for candidates (no, really).
2. Edit the "Candidate presentations" section above. Add the following section in alphabetical order:

   ===REAL NAME ([[user:USER NAME|]])===
   {{board elections 2008 candidate/en
    |image                = Example.jpg
    |image caption        = Me, 2006.
    |name                 = Jesse ExampleName
    |age                  = 21
    |location             = Québec, Canada
    |languages            = English, French
    |wikimedian since     = September 2005
    |active wikis         = meta.wikimedia, en.wikipedia, en.wikisource
    |statement            = Some statement goes here...
   }}
   

3. Replace "REAL NAME" and "USER NAME" accordingly, then customize the example details to the right of the "=" signs. If you don't have an uploaded image of yourself, leave the image details blank.

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