DCW Board Elections/2025/Guidelines for candidates
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.
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.