I do agree, and I do think legally biding election could be a better way.
Although,
1) Membership is not required to vote in WMF’s election. It is a requirement
for Wiki Project Med’s election. Editors may want to vote while keeping their
presence anonymous.
2) WMF and most non-profits are neve
Not sure paying membership is a requirement for direct elections. Wiki
Project Med Foundation has elections but free membership (one just
needs to be an active editor in good standing or otherwise involved).
James
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 5:46 PM Leo Z wrote:
>
> Wikimedia Foundation is not a mem
On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 16:45, Leo Z wrote:
> Hope this clear some of your confusion.
Which confusion would that be?
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Wikimedia Foundation is not a membership-based organization, you don’t pay a
membership dues like those of many professional organizations. Henceforth, it
is theoretically cannot be an election which would not be legally enforceable
without registered voting members, that’s paying members with v
Wasn’t this mentioned in the results announcement [1]?
> == Waiting for the Board’s appointment ==
>
> While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote,
> they are not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need
> to pass a successful background check and meet the qua
On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 19:16, Tito Dutta wrote:
> My good wishes to all the newly selected board members of Wikimedia
> Foundation.
AIUI, they are not yet board members, nor are they guaranteed to be.
The Trust's bylaws[1] state, at Article IV, Section 3(C) (my
**emphasis**):
(iii) The Boar
It's remarkable that we elected 2/4 women and 3/4 people whose mother
tongue is not English, given the dominance of male and English-speaking
wiki contributors in surveys. It's even more surprising that we
accomplished this given that only 4 of the 20 nominated candidates are
women, the odds of th
The voting system (single transferable vote) chosen reflects the
electorate's choice fairly. In this case, the primarily Global North
electorate prefers to elect Global North candidates, so the election system
has faithfully expressed the voting outcome of that behaviour. So, I do not
blame the ele
We better set a new criteria that board candidates for 2022 and 2023 must
reside outside the 28th parallel north and 42nd meridian east.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, 7:22 pm Mario Gómez, wrote:
> Fully agree with Mike.
>
> Also, rather than focusing on how different voting s
Congrats to the 4 winners. Looking forward to you taking on your roles
on the board :-)
James
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 2:52 PM Ad Huikeshoven wrote:
>
> For starters, I would like to thank outgoing board members DocJames and
> Raystorm for their service to the community by dedicating a lot of tim
For starters, I would like to thank outgoing board members DocJames and
Raystorm for their service to the community by dedicating a lot of time on
board meetings, processing tons of mail, and so on.
Mario, you are right. An increase in the number of seats will increase the
diversity given a repres
Fully agree with Mike.
Also, rather than focusing on how different voting schemes would have
affected some candidates to be one position up or down, wider diversity and
representativity could be achieved by just electing 8 seats from community
elections.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 7:47 PM Mike Peel
Slightly unrelated. My personal unscientific analysis is that some (or
many) Wikimedia communities lack governance awareness. I don't know what
should be done about that.
Best,
Gohary (ircpresident)
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 1:18 AM Gnangarra wrote:
> The failure wasnt in the election system, the
The failure wasnt in the election system, the failure was in the lack of
candidates having the global presence that gives people the confidence to
vote for them. The question is how do we raise the global identities of
more candidates and how do we counter the benefits of 20 years of EU/NA
dominanc
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 8:40 PM Chris Keating
wrote:
> I too am disappointed (but not surprised) that STV had almost no effect at
>> all on the outcome of this election
>>
>
> This may be true, but if it's true, it was only true very narrowly. The
> margin between the 4th and 5th placed candidates
I don't get these kinds of arguments.
I'm pretty much equally very active on enwiki + Wikidata + Commons -
which should I chose as my 'resident' project? Most bytes (Commons),
most edits (Wikidata), longest editing time (enwiki) - or something
else? Or language for that matter - most of my edi
Sorry
I meant
/* Votes from residents and workers*/
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021, 10:06 Anupam Dutta wrote:
> Congratulations to the winners and the participants also !
>
> Further to the ongoing discussions, my idea is as follows :
>
> In this Wikimedia land, a person is the resident of the projec
Congratulations to the winners and the participants also !
Further to the ongoing discussions, my idea is as follows :
In this Wikimedia land, a person is the resident of the project s/he/they
have most contributed No arguments
Now the person can chose to be a worker in 'n' number of project
A very good set of candidates and a good work done organizing the election.
Elaine, also a very strong candidate was, with a small margin, just
outside. Could she be made a official "reserve" candidate?
In the election 2015 Danny resigned very soon after election, and the
election committee t
Congratulations to the 4 winners.
I saw that the STV system unveiled how the 4th and 5th positions (appears
to be from a G7 country and a non G7 country) had switched. I am interested
to know from which sector/s or Wikimedia project brought the switch of
those two positions (starting from the 8th
Thanks, Jackie!
That is indeed different from what I understood and I’m glad about the change
:-)
Alice.
> Am 07.09.2021 um 23:42 schrieb Jackie Koerner :
>
> Hi Alice,
>
> Thanks for asking! The way we are intending "contended" is that it was the
> election everyone was waiting for. :) It
Hi Alice,
Thanks for asking! The way we are intending "contended" is that it was the
election everyone was waiting for. :) It was "pushed for" by the community
for more than a year and now we gladly announce: it happened and here are
the results!
Best,
Jackie
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:29 PM Alic
Hi all,
congrats to the elected Board members. It’s great to see people stepping up and
taking responsibility, especially in times where leadership is needed.
Jackie, may I ask for some elaboration on the subject of this thread? You say
„most contended … election“ and I wonder what that means. I
Hi,
"(Is it still an option for
the Board to do this and appoint Eliane, Mike, Pascale and Ivan and then
skip next year's planned election?)"
Unfortunately, that's not how STV works. Given a different number of seats to
be filled would had produced a different quota, which would have resulted in
Congratulations to Rosie, Victoria, Dariusz and Lorenzo!
This system offers a helpful way of seeing whether there is a natural break
in the election results.
In this case there was a growing gap between 5th and 6th place results as
the process resolved.
Looking at the gap between (1 + 4), (4 + 5)
>
> I too am disappointed (but not surprised) that STV had almost no effect at
> all on the outcome of this election
>
This may be true, but if it's true, it was only true very narrowly. The
margin between the 4th and 5th placed candidates was 12.27 votes in a
situation where 1,188 were needed to
Thank you to the team who did so much work to make this election happen. I
think it was really important to trial the STV system with a large
community participation to see whether it would yield a more diverse
outcome.
I too am disappointed (but not surprised) that STV had almost no effect at
al
Hello,
Thanks for the announcement. I was expecting/hopeful to see a little more
diverse result (continent/region etc,)
Anyway, thanks to the organising team for your work.
My good wishes to all the newly selected board members of Wikimedia
Foundation. Congratulations!!
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