General Assembly 2011/Candidatures

This is the list of candidates for an official role at Wikimedia CH. According to § 8.2 of our bylaws, candidatures must be announced till April 2nd, 2011.

Candidatures for Board Member of Wikimedia CH

Mourad Ben Abdallah (recandidature)

Summary

• President of Wikimedia CH since May 2009
• Active in the French Wikipedia since March 2005 and administrator since December 2006 (around 57 000 edits): complete profile ;
• Active in Wikimedia Commons ;
• Active in the search for free images and content ;
• Active in the French-speaking Wikipedian community ;
• Fluent in French (native language), English and German.

Objectives

• to pursue the visibility of Wikimedia CH (website, Swiss media, social networks, etc.) ;
• to encourage initiatives and projects coming from members ;
• to promote partnerships between Wikimedia CH and institutions.

Frédéric Schütz (recandidature)

• Member of the board of Wikimedia CH since its foundation
• Currently press contact for Wikimedia CH in French
• Coordinator for Wikimedia CH of the 2010-2011 fundraiser with the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Management of a large scanning project in French (published on Wikisource).

Patrick Kenel (recandidature)

• Active Wikipedian (de) since 2004/05, mostly doing corrections and updates but also main author of various articles
• Founding member of WM CH, auditor 2006-09
• Secretary since 2009, in the Board since 2010
• Project coordinator for audiorecordings and GLAM projects
• Future WP/WM press speaker (de)
• Fluent in German, French, Italian and English

Ilario Valdelli (recandidature)

• Active Wikipedian since 2 January 2005
• Founding member of WM CH
• WP/WM press speaker (it)
• Fluent in French, Italian and English

Candidatures for President of Wikimedia CH

Mourad Ben Abdallah

(see board candidature)