Hallo, wie anthere über die foundation-Liste mitgeteilt hat, hat sie nun auf meta Steward-Wahlen eröffnet. Alles Wichtige steht im unten stehenden Mail. Für die, die nicht das ganze Maildurchlesen wollen/können: Der Link lautet http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2005 Hier noch der Abschnitt¨über "Wahlrecht" (von ebenda): Voters*:* Anyone can vote provided that he has a valid account on meta with a link to at least one user page, on a project where the editor is a participant, with at least 3 months participation to the project. Deutsch: Wähler: Alle Benutzer können wählen, sofern sie auf meta ein gültiges Benutzerkonto haben mit mindestens einem Link zu einem Wikimedia-Projekt, wo der Benutzer seit mindestens 3 Monaten teilnimmt. Übersetzung von mir erstellt und ohne Gewähr. Gruss Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> Date: 16.05.2005 22:57 Subject: [Foundation-l] On the road again.... To: foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org So... in march 2005, after several people expressed their wish to become stewards AND after many people complained that the current stewards were too slow... I suggested that new stewards elections be held. More than 2 months later, we still have no new stewards. And those suffering of this are 1) stewards and 2) those waiting for things to get done. Now... nothing happened because Jimbo suggested that stewards be nominated rather than elected, due to the reason steward is a "technical" position. Steward is indeed essentially a technical position, just as sysops are. And sysops are approved by the community, not nominated. This is how things are done on all projects and I see no reason why it would be different for stewards. I read those fears that it would be a big mess, that we were sick of votes and that only english stewards would be elected. I think it has no ground. The first set of stewards was absolutely not english only, so there is no reason to have any fears. and when elections were suggested, about 10 people made their candidacy known, not a flow of candidacies. For all I remember, most were good people we know quite well. I am tired of seeing this issue not fixed. So I opened the vote. It will stay open for two weeks. After two weeks, one of the current steward will make the most approved people stewards, and that will be it. We'll have a flow of votes in the next week, so best to do it all of them at once and be done for a while. Please, consider it a sort of sysop election. The issue is not to only *like* a person. It is not a popularity contest. The goal is to have the job done. Half of the stewards elected last year are inactive. Please let us avoid this and not make it a big deal of it. Just quietly say "yes" to those you think can help. Say "no" if you think the person is nice but will not help. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2005 Please... Ant _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l