User talk:Kritzolina

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Word limit on Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Candidates/Kritzolina

Please be aware that there is a word limit of 1000 words for all your answers in total. You used so far 933 words according to my counting tool in Libre Office Writer, but other candidates are already above the limit.

The word limit exists to limit the effort for our translators who will translate your text into several languages so that people who do not understand English can vote for you. Der-Wir-Ing ("DWI") talk 09:57, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Der-Wir-Ing, thanks for notifying me about this issue. My counting tool gave me a similar number as yours and I decided to leave it at that, even if I have a lot more things I could write about. I definitely understand the problems of translating such pages and want to thank everyone involved in the effort! Kritzolina (talk) 13:04, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Optional question for Board Election candidacy

A mistake in the candidate application was brought to the attention of the Election Committee, accidentally duplicating an optional question and omitting an additional optional question. The Election Committee decided that candidates may still answer the additional question, and will waive the word count limit in the case of answering this additional question. You may fill out your answer on your candidacy page. The deadline to answer the optional question is 23:59 UTC on 2 June. Please let me know if you have any questions. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Keegan, thank you very much for your part in fixing this minor glitch. Pass my gratitude on to all who are involved. This is a question that is important to me and that I will happily answer soon. Kritzolina (talk) 07:15, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

l'élection du conseil d'administration de la Wikimedia Foundation 2024

"Bonjour,

Vous êtes candidat pour le conseil d'administration de la Wikimedia Foundation. Pouvez-vous nous expliquer quelle est votre vision pour le mouvement, ainsi que votre contribution à la stratégie de son avancement, en particulier concernant les groupes d'utilisateurs qui promeuvent les langues minoritaires ?" Shayi ngolu (talk) 08:19, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Bonjour et merci pour cette question. Malheureusement mon Francais n'est pas assez bien pour écrire les choses compliqué en cette langue. Je vais continuer on anglais and I hope this is okay for you. Si vous ne pouvez pas traduire ce que j'ai écrit en anglais, dit mois et je vais essayer de trouver quelqun qui peut nous aider.

My long term vision is a movement that is diversifying more and more and bringing especially those pieces of knowledge to our users that might have been overlooked in the past. But also bringing basic general knowledge to people that might not be able yet to find good quality information and knowledge in their languages.

I think it is very important to see the difference between small language Wiki-projects and majority language Wiki-projects like English, French and German. In the small languages our projects often still miss basic articles on science, medicine, politics, sports or other important subjects. Here we need to strengthen the contributor base and help them to create such articles with a mix of translations and new content from local sources. For the majority languages we need to identify knowledge gaps and along with this we need to identify people who could help fill those knowledge gaps.

In both cases very valuable contributions are most likely to come from individuals who are already doing important work to promote knowledge outside the Wikimedia movement and who also face a high risk of becoming targets of discrimination and harassment. So we need to work as a movement to invite those people in, create a comfortable working atmosphere for them and to keep them safe.

I have worked towards this goal in my professional capacity for WMF, e.g. by supporting the creation of the Universal Code of Conduct, but these issues have always been dear to my heart as a volunteer and I tried to support users working on minority language Wikis wherever I could. I am aware of many issues these contributor face from technical challenges like missing templates and untranslated documentation of important functionalities to the challenge of supporting a Wiki community in a society that does not support the use of that language. I don't see easy solutions and have a lot more to learn before suggesting actions to the WMF, but I am willing to listen, learn and then push for the support needed by the volunteers on the ground.

Have a great day and a wonderful weekend Kritzolina (talk) 10:17, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Wahl zum Kuratorium: Förderung von Toleranz und Respekt vor Minderheiten

Hallo Kritzolina, in der Arbeit zu gesellschaftlichen, politischen, philosophischen, religiösen oder alternativmedizinisch-esoterischen Themen fällt mir seit über 10 Jahren immer wieder ein verbissener Meinungskampf auf. Mindestens in der deutschen Wikipedia - in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia besteht manchmal eine größere Offenheit zur angemessenen Repräsentation auch von Minderheitsmeinungen. Nach meiner Erfahrung setzt sich dagegen - auf Artikel-Diskussionsseiten, in Edit wars bis hin zu Sperrprüfungen und Schiedsgericht-Urteilen - manchmal ein unreflektierter Mainstream durch. Meinungen, die dem gegenüber in der Minderheit sind, werden oft negativ geframt, auch über eine Übereinstimmung mit der dominierenden Presse hinaus. Die Auswahl daraus, und auch was als "reputable Quelle" zählt (Veränderungen im Zuge der Etablierung neuer Medien wie des kritischen Online-Magazins "multipolar" beachten!) ist naturgemäß subjektiv und könnte offener sein. Für all dies gibt unser "Gegner" "wikihausen" im neuesten Beitrag ab 30' ein Beispiel. Auch wenn man es für einseitig dargestellt hält - die angesprochenen Probleme existieren in vielen Artikeln.

1. Was willst du tun, um diese Probleme mehr ins Bewusstsein der aktiven Wikipedianer zu heben, zu diskutieren und schrittweise zu einer Praxis von mehr Toleranz, Respekt, breiter Darstellung von Meinungen sowie deren möglichst klarer Trennung von ausreichender eher sachlicher Information zu kommen? Wie können wir Menschen ermutigen statt oft zu entmutigen, ihre Informationen und Quellen einzubringen, auch wenn sie manchen auf den ersten Blick "abseitig" erscheinen?
2. Der obige Beitrag spricht ab 14:20 (Hintergrund ab 3:15) die absurde Situation an, dass eine Staatsanwaltschaft eine Anzeige wegen übler Nachrede niederschlägt, alleine und unbesehen unter Berufung darauf, dass sie in Wikipedia ähnlich (jedoch pauschal) stehen. Wie können wir unser "Image verschlechtern" ;-), also öffentlich deutlicher machen, dass Wikipedia kein Wahrheitsministerium ist? Sondern einen möglichst prägnanten, aber umfassenden Weg durch die Informationsflut bahnen will, der manchmal im Dickicht der Voreingenommenheit enden kann.

Herzliche Grüße (deutsche Benutzerseite)! --Jwollbold (talk) 09:52, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi everyone, as we already continued this discussion on my de.WP talkpage, I would ask you to read or join in there, so we don't split this thread. Please be aware that the user asking this question self-declares as a member of a political party that is known for pushing fake information around Covid-19 and has an indefinite partial block on de.WP, banning them from editing articles in connection with this political party and its agenda.

Please also be aware that I don't recommend clicking the link they shared, as it leads to the YouTube channel of Dirk Pohlmann. Kritzolina (talk) 13:55, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

I shortly answered at the de.WP talkpage. --Jwollbold (talk) 17:10, 8 September 2024 (UTC)