Question list for former AffCom member Josh Lim's interview
Josh Lim is a Wikipedian from the Phillippines that is very active in the global Wikimedia Movement. He has been a member for two years in the affiliate committee. ESEA newsletter invites him to have an online interview. Here is his point of view on how he has learned and looking forward into the future of more diverse sum of human knowledge.
- Q:Who are you? Would you mind to give us a brief introduction on who you are, such as your offline life?
- Q: What is Affiliate Committee (AffCom for short) ? Why do we need this committee and how does the AffCom function?
- Q: How and why you decided to join the AffCom two years ago? Was it just a coincidence or it's a long-thought plan?
- Q: In the past two years, what is one of the most unforgettable experience while serving as a AffCom member?
- Q: What is your greatest achievement in the past two years of your time in AffCom?
- Q: What is your biggest regrets in the past two years of your time in AffCom?
- Q: You said many times about the importance to have "a voice from Asia" in the collaboration of global Wikimedia Movement, why is it important? Can you give us some examples?
- Q: In your observation, does the asian affiliates has certain distinctive challenges or opportunity then affiliates from other regions?
- Q: Not only the AffCom member, you were also the president of Wikimedia Philippines, what are the differences between the two positions? What are the similarities?
- Q: What things or projects do you think affiliates in East and Southeast Asia (or in a broader scope, the whole Asia region) can do together in the future to achieve our common goal of the sum of knowledge for every human being?