Hello,
The Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee invites all community
members to endorse candidates they support. Endorsements may be submitted
on meta now till next Saturday, 23:59 June 23, 2007.
Each qualified community member can submit up to three endorsements.
Please note several things:
- Only confirmed candidates are listed by Election Committee or its
delegate, so the list can be updated during the endorsements phase.
- You need an account on meta, not just the project that you are
qualified to vote under, unless you meet the criteria on meta too.
- Please link your meta user page and your home wiki page. Detailed
procedure can be found on the meta endorsement page.
All information is available on meta at:
On endorsements:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements/en
On candidates each:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates/en
Election general: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en
FAQ: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/FAQ/en
Questions about election are welcome at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2007/FAQ
Thanks to devoted volunteering translators, those pages are also
available in some languages other than English. We thank those
translators as well editors who have helped to disseminate the news
about this Election, including the latest sitenotice updates on several wikis.
Please consider forwarding to the project(s) you take part in
as well the mailing list(s) you belong to.
Sitenotice update and localization would also be appreciated.
Thank you for your attention, we look forward to your participation.
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee, Chair
Hello,
please translate the message on the below and forward it to your
language mailing list(s).
Thanks!
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Philippe Beaudette <philippebeaudette(a)gmail.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2007 1:01 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Election Committee announces Endorsements Procedure
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Posted on behalf of the election committee,
Philippe
This page can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements/en
_____________________________
==Endorsements==
===Introduction===
The purpose of the endorsement requirement is to try to make sure that
the election only includes serious candidates. We need to do this
because this election is being conducted for Wikimedia which includes
many languages, and therefore we are trying to have every candidate's
statement translated into as many languages as we can. This work is
done by volunteer translators and can only be done only if the number
of candidates is limited to a reasonable number.
The requirements for time-on-wiki and edit-count requirements help to
make sure that only serious candidates participate, but the Elections
Committee did not wish to raise these requirements too high because
then some genuine candidates might be excluded, so we have added the
requirement for endorsements. Because the Elections Committee
believes that the endorsement requirement is important to the Board
election process, we urge that reasonable requests and discussion
concerning endorsements should '''not be considered a violation of any
local anti-canvassing guidelines or norms.'''
===Criteria for Endorsement===
All candidates standing for election are required to obtain 12
endorsements for their candidacy. Criteria for endorsement are the
same as criteria to vote: users endorsing must have 400 edits in any
namespace or combination of namespaces on a single Wikimedia project
and at least 3 months edit history prior to June 1, 2007. Candidates
who have not received the required number of endorsements will not be
allowed to stand for the election.
===Qualified candidates only===
Only qualified candidates may be submitted for endorsements. If you
are not willing to be confirmed through the candidacy process
(including verifying your identity to the Foundation, and meeting the
minimum qualifications for candidacy), your name will not be submitted
for endorsements.
===How to endorse===
In order to endorse a candidate, locate their endorsement section on
the endorsements page [NOT YET AVAILABLE, ENDORSEMENTS HAVE NOT OPENED
YET], and "sign" it using four tildes <nowiki>(~~~~)</nowiki>. You
may also leave a very brief (up to '''100 characters''', roughly
equivalent to 25 word in many languages) statement for the reason of
your endorsement. Statements longer than 100 characters '''may be
removed''' at the discretion of the [[Board
elections/2007/Committee/en|Election Committee]], though the
endorsement will remain valid. Endorsements will open 0:00 June 17,
2007 (UTC) and can only be withdrawn during the endorsement period,
which closes 23:59 June 23, 2007 (UTC). After 23:59 June 23, 2007
(UTC) you may not submit or withdraw any endorsements. Endorsements
may be removed '''by members of the election committee only''', and
''only if the endorser is found to not be a qualified voter in this
election'' or the endorser has endorsed too many candidates in the
election. In that case, all endorsements by that endorser will be
withdrawn by the committee and the endorser notified so that they can
re-submit endorsements up to the maximum number allowed.
===How many candidates may I endorse? I'm a candidate, how many
others may I endorse?===
Each qualified voter may endorse up to 3 candidates for election.
Candidates may only endorse two others (their endorsement of
themselves is implied by virtue of their self-nomination). Candidates
should not "sign" their own endorsement section, and their own
endorsement will not count toward their required number of
endorsements.
===When may I endorse a candidate?===
The endorsement period will begin 7 days after we begin accepting
candidates for office. On the current timeline, you may begin
endorsing on June 17, 2007, at 0:00UTC.
===A candidate received an invalid endorsement! What do I do?===
Please contact a member of the [[Board
elections/2007/Committee/en|Election Committee]] who will investigate
the claim.`
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KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
Dear Wikimedians,
The local information pages (including "about Taipei", and "local
transportation") have been completed on the official website of Wikimania
2007. Please take a look and I think many questions will be solved after you
read them.
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_information
Translation to other languages is welcome too.
Cheers,
Theodoranian
Posting on behalf of Election Commttee,
--
KIZU Naoko
aphaia(a)gmail.com
* Vox populi, vox dei *
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Dear all,
We, the election committee, hereby announce the opening of a new
election for members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.
At least three positions will be filled from this election, with the
elected members serving a two year term.
It is important to note that election processes are slightly different
this year than in previous years: all candidates should be certain to
thoroughly read the FAQ at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en
>From today, June 10th, we're accepting candidates for the Board of Trustees. If
you're interested, you must make a candidate statement and list
yourself on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates/en
We also need the help or translators for the elections, so if you're
fluent in any language other than English, and willing to help, please
list yourself here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Translations
If you have any questions, please first read the FAQ, then list your
questions to the talk page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/FAQ/en
The official announcement is available on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en
We are confident that this election will draw very qualified
candidates, and we wish them the best of luck.
Regards,
Kizu Naoko (Aphaia)
Newyorkbrad
Philippe Beaudette
Jon Harald Søby
Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee, 2007
Hello,
meta users & translators,
as you know, Meta:Template:Welcome is multilingualized. Oscar added
one more useful link to the template:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Welcome&curid=47634&di…
Could you please check your language version(s), and make it more
natural expression, if necessary?
Thanks,
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
Hello,
New accomodation note is announced on Wikimania website. If your
language have the page there, and you are sure multiple people from
your languagfe community will attend, your translation will be very
helpful.
Many thanks in advance,
====
ACCOMMODATION NOTE TO REGISTRARS (2nd June, 2007)
1. Those who have registered with accommodations before 15th May ,
please PAY BEFORE 5th JUNE (00:00 UTC), OR YOUR REGISTRATION AND
ACCOMMODATIONS WILL BE CANCELED.
2. The organizing office is arranging accommodation for speakers,
scholarship awardees now. All SPEAKERS AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEES please
do as follows:
1. Register right after you know your paper accepted or
scholarship approved.
2. Mail wikimania-registration(a)wikimedia.org to tell which
nights will you stay (8/1-8/5) by 5th JUNE (00:00 UTC).
3. Awardees please pay before 6th JUNE also, otherwise
accommodation and registration fees will be taken out of your
scholarship directly.
3. Accommodation booking will be re-opened on 7th June. If you made
your reservation after 15th May, your accommodation booking is not
confirmed. Attendees reserving accommodation after 15th May are on the
waitlist for accommodation, even if your registration is active.
Please send a message to wikimania-registration(a)wikimedia.org with
your name and the nights that you wish to stay at CYOTAC. Important:
please indicate if you are a speaker or scholarship awardee in this
message.
4. NEW REGISTRATION and ACCOMMODATION BOOKING POLICY since 7th
JUNE: for registration with accommodation, PAYMENT SHOULD BE MADE
WITHIN 48 HOURS. Otherwise, registration and accommodations will be
canceled by system automatically. Accommodations will be arranged
according to the order of the time you pay. This is a waiting list, so
there's no guarantee. The organizing office will try to do our best
for all participates.
Thanks for your cooperation.
=====
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KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
Hello there,
I'd invite you to take a look at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_election/Candidate_presentation_guidel…
Eventually I'm in charge of the election organzation, I spoke there as
one of regular meta editor. While it is a guideline about election, it
is not written on behalf of Election committee (at least now, and
currently I foresee no possiblity of changes). In my opinion the
characters of this document may be suggestions from the community, so
I would love all interested people to join its editing.
At first, I put a widely heard complaint from translators, since it
has been repeated by several translators. Some facts may be wrongly
remembered. My wording may be brunt even to the unnecessary extent, so
your copyedit would be very appreciated :)
Cheers,
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
I'd say too, please distribute this information as appropriate to your local
projects/languages.
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From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: May 8, 2007 7:17 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Password security notes
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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As noted in other threads on several mailing lists, a few admin accounts
on en.wikipedia have been compromised recently, used to vandalize
high-traffic protected pages.
We're starting to roll out some additional protections against
password-guessing attacks, including but not limited to:
* Additional logging to better detect dictionary-style attacks
* Speed-bump measures against multiple failed logins
[But not that should DoS legitimate users. The traditional "lock out the
account after three tries" would make it trivial to lock out all the
site's sysops -- not wise. :)]
* Weak-password checks on existing sysops on our largest sites. Several
accounts have had their weak passwords invalidated and will need to
reset by mail before logging in again.
* Several targeted blocks against known cracking attempts.
Over the coming days we will additionally be rolling out more automated
password-strength checkers at login / set-password / change-password
time to reduce the danger of guessable passwords.
Please distribute this information as appropriate to your local
projects/languages.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *
Hi,
Wikimania website main page is changed to be more informative. Now the
new version is available in Chinese and English.
It include a list of sponsors which many language versions lack now
regretfully. Check your language version and consider to match the
English one. The sponsor section is highly recommended to update as
soon as possible.
Cheers,
--
KIZU Naoko
Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org
* habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *