Hi all WikiJournal participants,

The WikiJournal User Group will have a vote in the upcoming election for members in the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation. I forward information below. I forward the information given to me, but the short version is that we can do the following during this stage:

- Discuss involvement in our group - Discuss ideal candidates - Nominate and/or endorse someone

Best regards,

Mikael

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Erica Litrenta elitrenta@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:53 AM Subject: [All-affiliates] ASBS 2019: Nominations now open To: Wikimedia Affiliates all-affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello everyone, and apologies for "cross-posting":

- The Resolution https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019 has been approved https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2019&type=revision&diff=19007735&oldid=19002749&diffmode=source by the Board of Trustees; - *Nominations phase is now open, from April 15 00:00 UTC to April 30 23:59 UTC. See the Call for Candidates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Call_for_Candidates and Nominations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominations pages* ; - Community members may ask questions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Questions of the candidates; - Your main representative has just received an email to confirm that they are indeed the primary contact and will perform official actions on behalf of your group (such as endorsing candidates and then voting). Some groups also need to verify their eligibility status in due time https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports, as explained in the email; - New content is available to spread awareness around the process - the infographic I am attaching has clickable links and can be translated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Infographic_translations, and a primer https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Primer_for_user_groups is available, that we hope will be particularly helpful to those new to such a process; - Finally, *you are welcome to help with translations*! Pick one page from the ASBS category https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_2019_election and, in the next couple of weeks, please consider translating profiles of the candidates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_2019_election_nominations in particular.

Thanks for your attention from myself and the Facilitators for ASBS 2019,