"== Board of Trustees elections ==

Hi.  I'm , editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost.  We're doing candidate profiles for the Board elections.  We publish in a matter of hours, so I hope you can answer them before press time.  The questions we'd like you to answer are below.  Talk to  if you have any questions; he'll be covering the elections this year.  Thanks,   

Hello!

The Wikipedia Signpost, a community-newspaper in the English Wikipedia, is covering the Board of Trustees elections and will be featuring each of the candidates in next week's issue. As such, we would appreciate it if you would take some time to answer a few interview questions. Each candidate will be asked the same questions; by no means, though, feel obligated to answer any (or even) all of them, though we would greatly appreciate it if you did.

Some of the questions may be a bit redundant to the candidate information you have filled out already. This is both for convenience and for giving you the opportunity to expand on some of them a bit. However, we ask that you keep all responses brief, limiting them to no more than one or two paragraphs each.

You may leave replies to my English Wikipedia talk page, or on my meta talk page.

As always, the Signpost reserves the right to re-distribute the questions and replies, shorten any responses if necessary, and take any other editorial action deemed appropriate.

Thanks again for your time, and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions! ~~~~

 Your name: Aaron Swartz 
 Your username most commonly used: AaronSw 
 Your current geographic location, along with your age:Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 19
 Projects with significant contributions (please both name the language and project, and link to your contributions): en.wikipedia, en.wikisource, en.wikiquote, en.wikinews, meta.wikimedia, wikimania2006
 Do you have any rights (i.e. admin, bureaucrat) or positions (i.e. dispute resolution, CheckUser, etc.) on any of those projects? If so, which ones? When did you get elected or promoted for each one? no 
 Do you hold any universal rights (i.e. steward, etc.) for Wikimedia Projects? If so, since when? no
 When did you first start contributing to Wikimedia projects? Why and how did you initially join?I started midway through 2003 when I begun studying Internet and constitutional law and wanted to write down all the things I was learning for others.
 Briefly describe your career (""real-life""). How do you think this will help you be a successful Board member?I'm currently a co-founder of Reddit.
 Of all the candidates right now, why do you stand out from the field? What makes you the best candidate?
 A knowledge of several languages has been cited as a key requirement for a Board member. Do you speak any other languages other than English? Why do you think language is or isn't critical to the Board?
 What do you expect to do while serving on the Board? What are your expectations?
 What can you bring to the Board? What can you contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation?
 Describe the one issue that you think is most pressing and pertinent to the Foundation right now, and how you would approach the situation.
 What is your vision of the Board in the Foundation heirarchy? How do you feel about the current leadership?
 As a Board member, you will be serving as a representative of the communities. Do you think you can represent the community and understand its concerns? Why?
 What do you think of the Wikimedia Foundation and its mission in general? If you could change one thing about the running of the Foundation, what would you change?
 If elected, can and will you devote the appropriate time and other resources needed to serve on the Board?
 Have you ever attended Wikimania or any other meetup? What role do you think these meetups play?
 Please list (and link) any other pages where you have gotten questions and comments pertaining to the Board elections; we are compiling all of the questions and would appreciate this.
 What would you say to a potential voter who is undecided right now?
 Is there anything else you would like to mention?NE