Hi Everyone Thank you to the Election Committee for all the hard work in both these and the FDC elections! It is amazing to see how many votes were cast this year, which is great. And voters came from a much larger spread of projects than before. As we can see from the results every vote really can make a difference. I would like to give a special thanks to all the affiliates who facilitated discussion within their community’s and encouraged people to vote.
Congratulations to Dariusz, James and Denny on being elected to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! Their formal appointment will take place at Wikimania. When that time comes we will also thank Maria, Phoebe and SJ properly for all the hard work over the past years :) Apart from thanking all those who voted I would like to do a final thank you to everyone who ran in these elections. It is an incredible amount of work to run in these elections (especaily with all the questions that have to be answered, often not in a native language). You are a great pool of volunteers and hopefully you are able to help in other places within the movement. As discussed with some of you we are looking at a way to keep the candidates involved and somehow benefit from your expertise in the future :) Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation > On 06 Jun 2015, at 01:14, Gregory Varnum <gregory.var...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > election are now available on Meta-Wiki: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results > > Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman > (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most > community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees, > after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania. > > These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia > Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees. > > There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote > difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots > to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4. > > Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results > > More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a > blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the > coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well > for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These > reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful, > and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mortem > > The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for > helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the > movement’s history. > > Sincerely, > – 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee > Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha, > Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
