Meeting:2014 AGM/Candidates/Kerry Raymond

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About me

I was Vice President of the WMAU committee in 2013. I was invited (and accepted) to be an observer on the 2014 committee.

I am a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and have completed their five-day company directors course which covers duties and responsibilities, strategy, decision-making, finance, risk management etc, and passed the assessment (exam and assignment). I have served as a Council member at The Women's College at the University of Queensland since 2002. Although I am now retired, through my career as a professor and research leader and research manager, I have had extensive experience in managing large teams, organising local and international events, and getting the best outcomes from the funds available.

I am involved in WMAU edit training (mostly in conjunction with State Library of Queensland) and most recently in Wikibomb in conjunction with the Australian Academy of Science.

With Craig Franklin, I am a WMAU liaison to the State Library of Queensland who have been a good partner for WMAU, thanks to the earlier great work done by Craig and John Vandenberg.

I have also been talking with various Queensland Government agencies about putting more of their data out under CC-BY licensing. It's a slow process but I have already had one success with the Queensland Heritage Register (watch for a whole lot of new Wikipedia articles derived from that register very soon -- sitting in draft on my computer at the moment). As former chair of a university e-research working party, I am very familiar with open data issues and some of the reasons people don't want to release data and some of the ways to persuade them.

I participate on the Wikimedia gender-gap and research mailing lists and follow some others. I also watch the streamings of the monthly Metrics and Activities (to hear what's currently happening at WMF and in particular what the Executive Director is thinking) and the quarterly Research and Data Showcase (to get a sense of possible future directions). I have recently proposed a few new research ideas in relation to new female editors, editor interactions, and new editor engagement, all of which reflect my concerns about continuing editor attrition (which I think is already impacting Australian content as we lose some of our longer term contributors).

On Wikipedia, I am User:Kerry Raymond and I mostly contribute in the area of Queensland geography, history and biography, predominantly working to add new content. I also contribute to Commons both in term of uploading and categorising (currently working on commons:Category:QSA_media_uploaded_by_User:99of9_(uncategorized)). Full edit statistics are available here.

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