Internal:Board election (February 2013)/Candidates/Kristin Anderson

Kristin Anderson

Greetings to my fellow DC Wikipedians!

I am (User:Djembayz), a founding member of Wikimedia DC, and I've been contributing to English Wikipedia since 2010. I attend most local edit-a-thons and meetups, and have been an active participant in Wikimania 2012.

If re-elected, my first priority will be outreach-- regular sociable meetings to expand our membership by getting together to hear a speaker, attend an event, edit, scan, upload, go on photo hunts, etc.

WikiDC has all those photos at the National Archives at our disposal to scan, and many other cultural organizations who would be happy to have us train them to edit, do presentations, and help digitize. We already have active collaborations with the Smithsonian and several local universities. In short, we are blessed to live in an area with wonderful opportunities for as many Wikipedians as we can provide ... so it's time to get more folks up and running.

As an active editor, I enjoy adding categories and photos to Wikimedia Commons, editing articles about old sailing ships and Native American languages, and adding infoboxes and footnotes.

Over the past two years, I've been to GLAMCamp and an ExtravaSCANZA at the National Archives, meetups in DC and Baltimore, helped get a Wikipedia Blind Book Club going at DC Public Library, given a talk about Wikipedia at Catholic University, and started a Wikipedia Lunch group where I work. This January I taught my first Wikipedia Workshops at Missoula Public Library and the University of Montana.

Representing the Chapter at the Berlin Conference was my first experience with the international membership of the Wikipedia movement. Speaking Spanish and German turned out to be very useful at this meeting, and I am interested in helping develop more collaboration with non-English Wikipedias. In the long term, I would like to start attending some of the Spanish- and German-speaking meetings of Wikipedians, to improve communication and collaboration between the US, European, and Latin American chapters.

It has been an honor to serve on your Board of Directors over the past year, and great fun, too. I hope you will return me to office so that we can continue with the momentum we have generated, get more of this wonderful cultural treasure we have in Washington out to the world, and have a good time as we do it!

See the candidate's disclosure regarding conflicts of interest
	No financial conflict of interest.

See the candidate's disclosure regarding conflicts of duty
	I will recuse myself from any Wiki-related activities which I feel might create "the appearance of impropriety" with respect to my employer.

See the candidate's disclosure regarding felony convictions
	No felony convictions.

See the candidate's disclosure regarding relationships with Wikimedia organizations
	No official position or duties in any other Wikimedia organization.

See the candidate's disclosure regarding relationships with Wikimedia projects
	My primary participation has been on English and Cheyenne Wikipedias, and on Wikimedia Commons. I have not been subject to any disciplinary action.