DCW Board Elections/2025/Guidelines for candidates

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Candidates need to address the questions asked in the performa, and send their candidacy to moderator@dcwwiki.org before the 8th of March 2025. The DCW Moderators will create the candidate pages after the eligibility has been verified.

Eligibility check

Performa

  • Candidate details
    • Personal: Location and languages known
    • Editorial: Wikimedian since
    • UG degree:
  • Required questions
    • Why are you running for the DCW Board? What would you contribute? What would you like to learn more about?
    • Please describe your Wikimedia experience (such as contributions to the Wikimedia projects, activities as a Wikimedia movement organizer, or other relevant participation).
    • What, according to your perspective, should the Deoband Community Wikimedia be prioritizing over the next 3-6 years, and why do you see these as the most important priorities?
  • Optional questions, professional experience and education
    • Please describe your educational background, including degrees, certificates, and courses of study finished, and their relevance to board work.
    • Please describe your experience with decision-making.
    • Please describe your professional career experience.
    • Please briefly describe 2 situations that show how you tackled, or advised others on, a complex problem in an organisation. How did you collaborate with others to address the situations?
    • Please add any relevant links describing your professional background, experience, profile (such as LinkedIn, etc.).
  • Optional question - Leadership and Strategic Thinking
    • How have you been able to empower people to make their voices heard?
    • At times, there are personality conflicts in professional situations. Explain how you remain productive even with personality conflicts.
    • Please describe ways in which you have helped to form a bridge between multiple communities.