Information concerning the election rules, candidacy, and suffrage/
voting requirements for the 2009 election to the Board of Trustees is
now posted at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/en.
I have copied it below, but for the wiki-links to work, you will - of
course - need to be on meta.
For the election committee,
Philippe
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The 2009 elections to the Board of Trustees will be held between
August 3rd and August 10th 2009. Members of the Wikimedia community
have the opportunity to elect one candidate to a two-year term which
will expire in 2011. The Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing
authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation
manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The elections will be held securely on servers belonging to an
independent third party (to be confirmed). Votes are secret and are
only visible to the select few persons who audit and tally the
election. Voters will submit ranked preferences by numbering
candidates. The votes will be tallied using the Schulze methodto rank
candidates based on the number of voters who prefer that candidate
over other candidates.
The Election Committee intends to announce the results on or before
August 12th. Detailed results will be available. All times on this
page are 00:00 (midnight) UTC.
Contents [hide]
1 Information for voters
1.1 Requirements
1.2 How to vote
2 Information for candidates
2.1 Responsibilities as member of the Board
2.2 Prerequisites to candidacy
2.3 How to submit your candidacy
3 Organization
3.1 Time line
3.2 Translators
[edit]Information for voters
[edit]Requirements
You may vote from any one registered account you own on a Wikimedia
wiki (you may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you
own). To qualify, this one account must:
not be blocked; and
not be a bot; and
have made at least 600 edits before 01 June 2009 across across
Wikimedia wikis (edits on several wikis can be combined if your
accounts are unified into a global account); and
have made at least 50 edits between 01 January and 1 July 2009.
Special exceptions: the following may vote regardless of the above
requirements:
Wikimedia server administrators with shell access;
paid staff of the Wikimedia Foundation who started working at the
office before 01 March 2009;
current or former members of the Board of Trustees.
[edit]How to vote
If you are eligible to vote:
Read the candidate presentations and decide which candidates you will
support.
Go to the wiki page "Special:Securepoll" on one wiki you qualify to
vote from. For example, if you are most active on the wiki
meta.wikimedia.org/, go to
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Securepoll.
Follow the instructions on that page.
[edit]Information for candidates
A detailed description of the responsibilities of a member of the
Board can be found at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_member.
[edit]Responsibilities as member of the Board
Being a Board member of a small organization like the Wikimedia
Foundation, which faces immense challenges, can be time-consuming. The
position is voluntary and unpaid. While board members are not expected
to bring personal money to the organisation, they are welcome to help
raise funds.
Board members are expected to attend at least 3–4 meetings per year in
person, attend Wikimania (our annual conference), and attend other
scheduled online meetings and votes. The Board communicates
intensively via e-mail, wiki, and IRC. Individual trustees sometimes
participate in strategic meetings with other organizations and
companies, relaying results back to Board and staff.
Individual board members are expected to be involved in certain
activities (such as fundraising, Wikimania, or auditing) and to help
draft policies, charters and resolutions on such topics.
Because Board members owe duties by virtue of their position,
candidates who currently hold paid positions with the Wikimedia
Foundation must resign from those position before they can be
appointed to the Board of Trustees. This is to avoid potential
conflicts of interests.
[edit]Prerequisites to candidacy
To be eligible as a candidate, you must:
have made at least 600 edits before 01 March 2009 on any one
registered account (edits on several wikis can be combined if your
accounts are unified into a global account); and
have made at least 50 edits between 01 January and 01 July 2009; and
publicly disclose your real name in your candidate presentation
(because the identities of Board members are a matter of public
record, it is not possible to hold a position on the Board of Trustees
anonymously or under a pseudonym); and
be at least 18 years old and of legal age in your home country.
Special exceptions: current members of the Board of Trustees may be
candidates regardless of the above requirements.
[edit]How to submit your candidacy
If you are eligible, you can submit your candidacy by doing the
following:
Write a brief summary of no more than 1200 characters stating what you
would do if you were elected to the Board of Trustees, your relevant
opinions and experience, and anything else you think is relevant. You
may not use your candidate summary to link to lists of endorsements or
other platform pages, and may not run on a slate with other candidates.
Submit your summary between 00:00, 06 July 2009 (UTC) and 23:59, 20
July 2009 (UTC). After July 20, it cannot be changed except for minor
corrections or translation. Any additions submitted after this
deadline will be time-stamped and presented separately from the
original summary, and will only be presented to voters if they get
translated into all of the same languages as the original summary.
Submit proof of your identity to Cary Bass (Volunteer Coordinator)
before 20 July 2009. You will be privately contacted by a member of
the Election Committee with further information about meeting this
requirement when you list yourself as a candidate.
Candidates who fail to comply with the above requirements and
deadlines will be disqualified.
[edit]Organization
[edit]Time line
01–30 June 2009: primary translation phase; subcommittee actively
coordinates and promotes translation.
06–20 July 2009: candidate submissions.
20 July 2009: deadline to send proof of identity (late or missing
submissions will be disqualified).
03–10 August 2009: elections.
10–12 August 2009: vote-checking.
12 August 2009: publication of results.
[edit]Translators
To ensure that a representative cross-section of the Wikimedia
community takes part in this election, it is important to translate
election notices and candidate statements into as many languages as
possible. To help translate, please see the translation page.