The Wikibase Community User Group has been asked to nominate six candidates out of twelve for the upcoming election to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, as part of a shortlisting process open to all WMF affiliates.

This is a prelude to the actual election (for two seats), where it was felt that requiring the wider community to consider more than ten candidates would be too much.

Unfortunately we only have a day and a bit to do so, as while I registered as the elector for this process as requested by the WMF, I missed the first email indicating that shortlisting would actually take place. Sorry about that. :-/

Given the limited time period (which in any case would have been before our regular monthly meeting), I've reused the voting scheme used for the 2021 primary contact election, with links to the candidate statements and users concerned, as well as information on the shortlisting process: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/2025_Board_Can...

Essentially, you get to score each candidate separately and the candidates with the highest average score will be nominated. The candidates with the highest number of nominations from all affiliates will stand as candidates for the actual election.

Nominees must be submitted before 23:59 UTC on Monday 28 July (tomorrow), so please have your votes in by 23:00 UTC so that the scores can be tallied. Daylight saving time is in effect in many places, so e.g. members in London have until midnight to vote. (Don't feel you have to wait, though; it took me ~30 minutes to review all candidate statements.)

Best regards, -- Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry https://greenreaper.co.uk