ウィキメディア財団選挙/2024年/候補者/Deon Steyn
Deon Steyn (Oesjaar)
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| 申請文書の総単語数は1000ワードが上限です（必須 + 選択式の設問の合計） | ||
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| ウィキメディア財団の理事選挙に立候補した理由は？ あなたはどんな面で貢献できますか？ もっと知りたいと思っているのはどんなことですか？ | 私は全くの部外者であり、アフリカーンス語版ウィキペディアでは過去4年に常勤職員1名としか会っていませんが、新しい視点を付け加えたいと思います。営業に関して十分な教育を受けているので、違いを生み出すことができます。小規模ウィキペディアの権利擁護のため戦いたいと願っています。たとえばメキシコシティ・ウィキマニア（2015年）では、課題2件について支援を求めたのに、回答も解決策も得られないままです。 | |
| ウィキメディアにおける経験を説明してください（ウィキメディアのどんなプロジェクトで編集したか、ウィキメディアのどの提携団体や組織に登録しているか、ウィキメディア運動で主催する活動、あるいはウィキメディア運動に賛同する外部の団体に参加しているなど）。 | 私は利用者歴が15年あり、これまでにアフリカーンス語版ウィキペディアに新規記事作成は1万5700件、編集回数は合計23万4000回に達しました。ウィキメディア・南アフリカ協会に参加し、2014年からはアフリカーンス語版ウィキペディアを担当しています。ウィキペディアは私がリーダーになってから飛躍的に発展しました。
現在、このウィキペディアは大きさの順で69番目に入っています。 私が展開するマーケティング戦略にはラジオのインタビュー取材が含まれており、毎週、2つのラジオ局から私たちはインタビューを受けていて、その点を誇りに思います。 また南アフリカの著名な植物学者ブラーム・ヴァン・ワイク教授（Braam van Wyk）からは、植物関連の写真6万点の受贈にも成立しました。同教授は現在、写真全点をコモンズにアップロードし、すべてのコミュニティで使用できるようにされているところで、完了するまで、さらに2年かかる見込みです。 昨年、私が主導して高校生作文コンテストを始めており、2024年コンテストでは、アフリカーンス語の国営新聞『Rapport』とパートナー契約を結んでいます。プレトリアFMラジオ局とも連携先として契約しました。アフリカーンス語版ウィキペディアは、これらのおかげで全国で知名度を上げ認められることになります。 | |
| 皆さんから見て、ウィキメディア財団は今後の5-10年間に何を優先すると良いか、それがいちばん重要だと考える理由は何か、教えていただけませんか？ | 小規模なウィキペディアにも優れたアイデアがあるので、それらに注目します。大学や学校とは本の印刷による環境への影響は言うまでもなく、とりわけ教科書のコストが急騰しているため連携をさらに強化します。事実上、誰もが携帯電話を持っています。 | |
| Optional questions - Professional Experience, Skills and Education | ||
| Please describe your experience with governing bodies of organizations (nonprofit or for-profit), mentioning the scope of your responsibilities, as well as the complexity of the organization (in terms of scale of operations, budget, number of people involved, or other meaningful measures) and the size of the board or body. | I am running my own business. My business has to advise clients re safety, compile safety plans for events and present the files to the authorities to obtain the necessary permits.
I have served as a member of the Engineering Council of South Africa where I was part of a team to decide on the Professional Status applications of Technologists. In my last job in the Corporate world I was a project manager for Siemens South Africa, running a R200 million signaling project between Kimberley and De Aar. The client was Transtel, South Africa. The duration of the project was two years, I have finished the project on time, within budget and with zero penalties! The permanent staff on site were 50 persons. Monthly meetings were held with the client, Siemens Financial Department, Logistics and the sub contractors. | |
| Please describe your professional career experience. | I am a Technologist (Telecommunicatios) and have worked for Telkom SA for 20 years. I also hold a B.Com. Hons (Fin. Management) and is a qualified Safety Officer. I have also worked for Aberdare Cables (where I became a SME on Optic Fibre), Ericsson South Africa and Siemens South Africa as Project Manager. | |
| Please briefly describe 3 situations that show how you tackled, or advised others on, a complex problem in an organization. How did you work with others to address the situations? | I have run training courses for new users. Due to my vision the Afrikaans Wikipedia has signed a MOU with the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns which gave us a base to operate from and much needed visibility.
I have created the Campaigners for the Afrikaans Wikipedia campaign which 13 Afrikaans organisations have signed following 5 years of work. This will give us access to more resources including funding. I have just been given permission to do a presentation at the South African Teachers Union Organisation re Wikipedia following three years of persistence. | |
| Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work. | T6 (6 years) Technologist in Telecommunications. BCom Hons (Fin Management). SHEMTRAC - Safety Certificate. | |
| Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, staff page, etc.). | https://www.linkedin.com/in/deon-steyn-0a9a952a0/ | |
| Optional questions - Leadership Experience | ||
| Please describe ways in which you have helped to form a bridge between multiple communities (such as by working on projects outside your home wiki, or working on a collaboration between multiple affiliates). | Unfortunately the Afrikaans Wikipedia is cut off from the rest of the World language wize. I have managed to communicate with the Dutch and Belgium Wikipedia's. Communication within Africa is non-existent. | |
| Can you describe a policy, on wiki or off, that you helped to create or change? What did you learn from this experience? | Enforce that articles have the necessary sources. South African schools are still skeptical re Wikipedia and have articles with the proper sources are critical to get them to see the light. | |
| How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard? | I started by inviting people for coffee sessions, talk to them re the Afrikaans Wikipedia and listen to their side of the story. Then I have started a FB group where we put up a link to the weekly front page and invited them to become members. Then we fed them more and more info on our FB until they started to take part on Geselshoekie, our version of Village Pump. Most important, we treated their views with respect. | |
| Sometimes in professional situations, there are personality conflicts. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts. | I remind them to remember where they want to be, the end objective. | |
| Optional questions - Strategic Thinking | ||
| Where do you see the need for greater diversity in the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees or within the movement? What steps would you take to improve diversity on the Board or within the movement? What steps would you recommend the Board take to improve diversity? | The small Wikipedia's are ignored. A decision that works in Europe and America will not necessary work in Africa. | |
| 確認 | 確認は選挙管理委員もしくはウィキメディア財団職員によって実施されます。 | |
立候補資格:  確認済み確認者: KTC (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
身分証明: 確認済み 確認者: – NahidSultan (WMF) (talk) 07:06, 3 June 2024 (UTC) | |