Wikimedia-l June 2007

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[Foundation-l] Elections: a new board for the future (revisited with no edit button)
by Florence Devouard 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

<edit this page> Dear all, In the next few weeks, we will be holding the 4th elections to the board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation, to replace 3 board members. Since the creation of the Foundation in 2003, and its first elections in june 2004, a lot of things have changed with regards to board membership. Jimbo created the Foundation in 2003 with the help of two business partners. He could have set up an organization in which no community members would have been involved and where he would have kept for himself this role of benevolent dictator for the rest of his life. But this is not what he did. He voluntarily decided to involve the community in reserving two seats for members to be elected from within the community. I remember criticisms at that time, some editors saying that the board was stacked, that the two business partners would only do what Jimbo would tell them to do, and that we should have a majority of people from the community. Looking back in the past, I find these comments a bit amusing, and I am glad Jimbo made the decision he made. He acted prudently and I think he was right to do so. His two business partners, Tim and Michael, were deeply commited to our values and I have no memory of them suggesting anything that would have lead us on a dangerous path. Contrariwise to what the critics said, they were (are) pretty independantly minded and did not hesitate opposing Jimbo when they felt it was needed. Tim left us when he felt we were on the right path and it was time for someone else to replace him. Michael is pretty much thinking the same, and will be willing to be replaced as soon as he is sure we have someone with good accounting skills/financial background to replace him as treasurer. Last year, we updated the bylaws, to have them better reflect what we really are, what we want to be. Jimbo, member for life till the creation of the Foundation, is now a regular (well, special person, but regular member), with limited term. Jimbo actually wanted to candidate for a elected seat this month, but we suggested it was a bad idea since the turnover is already pretty high. The big lesson though, is that we are now all equals. Last fall, Tim, Michael, Jimbo, Erik and I, decided to change several parameters on the board membership, clarifying the length of terms, the appointed versus elected, the expansion of the board, giving more room for community representative, but also clarifying how we would appoint people. All these changes led to, I hope, a more functional board, and probably a happier board. With more seats to elect, we also have more room for diversity of skills and for diversity of countries and languages. Whilst we first elect people, please keep in mind skills as well. The ideal Board has a mix of different skills: it is composed of big picture thinkers and leaders, non-profit veterans with accounting or legal experience, fundraising experts, and public figures. It is culturally diverse, mirroring the diversity found in WMF's project communities. It takes the corporate governance of WMF seriously while inspiring staff to strive for ambitious, but realistic long term goals. ---------- Thank you for our official election committee members * Kizu Naoko (Aphaia) * Benjamin Mako Hill * Newyorkbrad * Philippe Beaudette * Jon Harald Søby * Tim Starling for the hard work they will provide. As a reminder, to ensure independancy, we try to avoid as much as possible, communication on election issues between the board and the commitee. Their contact on the board is Jan-Bart (non elected member). Our only involvement as I can remember it was to give our opinion on the voting system (opinion) and on the length of the statement allowed to candidates. The committee will not tell us any results before the end of the elections. The board as a whole will not give recommandations (but individual members are free of course to support or oppose specific candidates). ---------- During the last board meeting, the board discussed the future elections. Here is what was agreed: AGREED: Public statement to be made about what the expectations are of Board members AGREED: Election 07 still going to use approval voting AGREED: Resolution on election committee powers & responsibilitites to be drafted by Jan-Bart de Vreede AGREED: Workgroup to research election methods to be set up before the end of 2007 You may find the public statement about the role of board members here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Elections_to_the_board_%28June_2007%29 A later discussion regarding the resolution about the election committee showed undecision, so no resolution was drafted. But in case anyone tries to somehow imply that the election committee is not approved, that would be incorrect. Official committee is made of the 6 people listed above, and these guys have the power to make the elections happen :-) Last, please note the suggestion of a workgroup creation to research election methods for next time. If you are interested in joining such a group, or even better to steer this group, please speak up ! ---------- A short reminder for I am sure not everyone remember this * Michael, Jimbo are on board since 2003 * I am on the board since june 2004, as elected, till june 2007 * Erik, Kat and Oscar (elected) are on board since fall 2006, till june 2007 * Jan-Bart (appointed) is on board since december 2006 * The board is made of 7 people (with the expectation to go to 9 later) * Jimbo, Michael and Jan-Bart terms end up in december 2007 * my term end up in june 2008 (as appointed) * within the board, positions or chair, treasurer and secretary are for a term of one year. Next renewal in october 2007 The current elections are for a term of 2 years, for three people. The next elections will be for a term of 2 years, for three people in june <bold>2008</bold> --------- Let me finish in wishing good luck to anyone. There are currently 10 candidates (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Candidates/en) and I hope we'll see even more. Boldly, there are not enough women, and too many americans/europeans. Please use the next two weeks as an opportunity to discuss what you think would be best for the future of the Foundation on all the talk pages. I would love it if you selected a candidate not only on his/her good looks or good standing within the community, but also because you think s/he has the right mix of skills (most necessary right now, legal, accounting, fundraising, knowledge of non profit world). Also if you could choose people who conveys opinions which are fitting with yours. A right mix of energetic people (to make things move forward) and of more lymphatic people (to avoid they move forward too quickly and unwisely). And please choose someone who will be a pleasant fellow for other board members and staff to work with. I would like to also ask those who are interested in the job, but do not dare candidating because they believe they will never be able to win against Erik or Kat, to candidate nevertheless. Elections are a useful moment in that we have the opportunity to discuss together the future of the Foundation, for the strength of the democracy, we need candidates and provocative thinking (thanks Kate :-)) The board can also identify people to possibly appoint, who we did not imagine would be interested in the job, and we can at least have an idea of the amount of support appointing them would have within the community. I guess that's it :-) ant </edit this page> /me done

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[Foundation-l] T-Online donates to Wikimedia Germany
by Mathias Schindler 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Today, Wikimedia Germany and T-Online, a large ISP in Germany have jointly announced that T-Online is donating 20.000 Euro to Wikimedia Community. The press release (in German) can be found at http://www.t-online.net/c/11/31/87/92/11318792.html and http://www.wikimedia.de/2007/06/wikimedia-freut-sich-ueber-spende-der-deuts… Since last year, T-Online has a specialized search for Wikipedia content at http://suche.t-online.de/fast-cgi/tsc?mandant=toi&device=html&portallanguag… This donation is a very important step for WM-de towards stabilisation and we will continue to search for ways to support Wikipedia the best we can. Mathias

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[Foundation-l] Resignation as Bureaucrat and Admin from it.wiktionary ...
by Sabine Cretella 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Please find below the text of a blog I just published. It is the logical consequence following out of a chat of today. No, I don't want and I am not going to discuss it - the decision was just based on what happened today ... What I would like to ask you if you do "new things" or start to add bureaucratic rules etc. to a wiki: think about what consequences this could have before you really do it. Often rules hinder more than they can do good, in particular on small projects. And it.wikt is a fairly small project. Well normally Saturday is my day to work on another free project, yes, you know it ... it will wait to next Saturday then. Thanks for your understanding. Best, Sabine -------- Original-Nachricht -------- ... or: when things get crazy and you have to draw a line I still remember my first steps on it.wiktionary <http://it.wiktionary.org> ... 16th of June 2004, yes, exactly three years ago – the first term I edited was lunedì <http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/luned%C3%AC> (Monday). The almost only user that was seen online in these days was Paulo. He wanted to pull up the project, but shortly after he saw that I took things seriously he went away. On 30th August 2004 the idea of an universal Wiktionary was born – thanks to Gerard Meijssen who then created articles of languages with loads of templates in there – well... the whole story would be too much now, but thanks to some misunderstandings and a following very long skype conversation today we have OmegaWiki <http://omegawiki.org>. The Italian wiktionary was always subject to loads of spam. So at a certain stage, I don't remember exactly when, I became adminship ... well the only one then working there was me, so I was the only one who could have done some clean-up. Well the spam load got more and more and it became almost impossible for me to do good work there ... so I started to ask for help ... some registered, became admins, went away. Again I went ahead alone. If it was not for the pywikipediabot <http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/> I would not have been able to add so many entries to it.wikipedia since always the main work on it was to keep it clean from spam. Last year then I became Bureaucrat ... well I was not really present anymore, but I cared about a very particular user group that before that started to edit it.wiktionary – most of them teens, great and wonderful young people dedicating their free time to free projects. I am not naming them one by one here, because I could forget someone and I don't want to do this. Now many of you will ask themselves why I did not immediately leave Wiktionary when I was working on OmegaWiki (time ago called Ultimate Wiktionary and then WiktionaryZ). Well ... it is a bit like with a baby ... you feed it, see it grow and then it goes, but in some way there is still part of your life connected to it. But back to our very particular user group: they are most of all teens, partly very young, but dedicated ... and they did good. Of course not always, but it's a wiki, right? So you do what you can when you can. I admire them – they did great work. They gave part of their live to the project. A good group of them became admins – they came while others who today claim to be the only ones to be able to give rules to the project then were present, but did not care at all when I said: hey guys, I can't deal with all that anymore, I need help. No, I will never again allow people to say that the youth of this country is no good – they are great! You just need to trust them to do good and they will do it. They put their heart in it. Now today I was called through my discussion pag <http://www.omegawiki.org/User_talk:SabineCretella>e <http://www.omegawiki.org/User_talk:SabineCretella> on OmegaWiki since someone asked for the desysop of one of the admins. He was accused of being not active, not cleaning up spam and copyviolations ... ok, so I went to the chat (yes, I have the log, but anyway it is not relevant for me anymore ... so: it doesn't make a difference to publish it). So I asked for several things, most of them not really so tragic, but a desysop to one of the most valuable people at the time he joined ... well, that was something to really talk about. Now what I learnt is that some wikipedians (well, yes, the one asking for desysop is quite new to wiktionary) assume that when you become and admin you assume the responsibility to regularly clean up the wiki ... well I would say: this is perceived completely wrong. If the admins were paid and had to sign a contract, well then this is a different thing, but they are not – they DONATE their free time. Ok, then I got the following as the reason for "desysop": ... ma di aver lasciato wikizionario senza policy, senza controllo copyviol, senza importare decine di lemmi da altri progetti... (but to have left Wiktionary without policy, without checking copyviol, whtout importing tens of lemmas from other projects) .... UHMMMMMM .... Is there a contract where it is written down that who is elected Admin (well, ok, Sysop) or Bureaucrat has to do this and otherwise he gets desysoped? That is plain stupid – against any sense of collaborative projects, against any sense of humanity. Another nice sentence I got in these answers was (fairly at the beginning): " invasa di bambini che giocavano, può bastare come spiegazione?" (invaded by kids who were playing, isn't this enough of an explanation?) I can't believe it ... well maybe these teens were not perfect, but they did their best, nobody is perfect. I would very much like to remind some poeople of what the Wikimedia Foundation aims to do: provide free knowledge to all people in the world in their language. Now does this stop with the contents or are we here as well to transmit what Free Content, Free Software, Wikis and Collaborative Projects are to people, young and old, who are new to it. Also this is a kind of education, of giving knowledge – this is social knowledge. Well it seems that some do not like to invest in their future ... because instead of starting a desysop procedure this person could have talked to them, explaining them and if the explanation would have been logic enough they probably would have agreed and co-operated. But now? How can people feel good to work in such an environment? Does this really reflect the community spirit? I would clearly say: no. I am not willing to co-operate in future on it.wiktionary since obviously under these circumstances I cannot be of any help. Therefore I resign from my being Bureaucrat and Sysop on the Italian Wiktionary. It is sad and part of my life is in that project ... I don't want to see it die ... it would be too much. So: I am not going to go back there ... well with two exeptions, one of which is: just my user page will contain a link to this article and to the place where people can find me if they want to talk to me – that's all. One word to the new Amdins and Bureaucrats: according to what I learnt from the chat today it seems you signed for some kind of a contract by being elected Admin or Bureaucrat. I will have a look in one years time and hopefully you will all be there happily doing what you are expected to do ... well: it is a responsibility you took according to your new policies ... so the project is waiting for you – people are expecting you to do your job now. There would be so much more to say .... please, if you work on other projects: don't follow this example – it destroys the community. We need to build community, bring over the spirit of free projects, of all free projects. The teens of today will be among the best editors of tomorrow. Never consider a kid, even a 5 year old, to be too young to do something – they are all well able, if they have an interest and they want to do. Trust them to do good. They need it – they are our very own future. And to the editors who worked on it.wiktionary during my short period ... well during the last three years: thank you so much for your efforts and help – and a very special thanks to our young ones – I find it really special that you dedicate your free time to free projects ... like I already said: you are our future and the day will come, if it is not already here, that we will learn from you. Thanks for your attention. And yes, of course: you will always find me on the Neapolitan Wikipedia <http://nap.wikipedia.org> but mainly working on the connection of various free projects in order to maximise results with the donations in time people give us. Yes, we must value each minute highly. Thank you!!! -- Posted By Sabine Cretella to words & more <http://sabinecretella.blogspot.com/2007/06/resignation-as-bureaucrat-and-ad…> at 6/16/2007 10:07:00 PM

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[Foundation-l] #wikipedia changes
by Sean Whitton 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Hello all, I am writing to introduce a number of changes to #wikipedia. The aim of this is to improve the channel's image and to make it more useful for everyone. The changes are being initiated this afternoon (GMT) and I hope to have them done pretty quickly. 1: New contacts The channel will now be managed by Mark_Ryan and Dmcdevit (their IRC nicks, as most of us probably know them). At the moment it's pretty ad hoc and so we (the [[m:IRC Group Contacts]]) that it might be a good idea to put someone and a deputy very clearly with the responsibility so that we don't get "who do I go to for this...?" with the response "not me" from everyone, a common online scenario, or so I've observed. 2: New guidelines/rules Together with some community input (although of course more is welcomed - it's a wiki, so let's take advantage of that) we have written some new guidelines for user and operator conduct at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_guidelines/wikipedia>. These are a lot more enforcable than the old ones. The key thing is that operators will try and resolve issues with words rather than powers whenever possible. 3: New operators We realised that the op list was becoming a bit messy. Additionally, we're not sure that all operators are in agreement on the above guidelines. We decided that it would be a bit pointless to ask them to enforce guidelines they didn't support and do so using methods they preferred not to use and so we have opted to clear out the access list and start afresh. We welcome new applications from our experienced operators to rejoin the team. On this note we are going to be a little more formal on application for this, as only the contacts named above will have the authority to manage the ops team. The key thing with all these changes is to make #wikimedia-ops more useful, and to ensure that operators use words rather than technological 'force' wherever possible (as a rule of thumb, in the majority of cases where their intervention is required). We aim to keep a list on meta of these ops too to make it easier for people to get in touch with them. You may be wondering if this applies to places other than #wikipedia: not now, but we are considering rolling it out elsewhere if it proves a success. Stay tuned! Thank you for your support. Yours, Sean Whitton Wikimedia IRC Group Contact http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sean_Whitton -- —Sean Whitton (seanw) <sean(a)silentflame.com> http://seanwhitton.com/

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[Foundation-l] [Board election] Endorsement acceptance is open
by Aphaia 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

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

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[Foundation-l] Endorsements are OPEN
by Philippe Beaudette 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

Candidate endorsements for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees are now open at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Endorsements. For the committee, Philippe ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Tulsa, OK philippebeaudette(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 39, Issue 31 (was #wikipedia changes)
by Dan Rosenthal 17 Jun '07

17 Jun '07

And my support as well. These were up on the list of "proposed changes" with zero consultation to the channel users, of which quite a few are indeed against it. The rules are FAR too draconian, and far too bureaucratic: it's bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy. I can understand no "off topic" chat, because of wikipedia-social, even if I MASSIVELY disagree with it. But no discussion of individual projects? What then? Everything is an individual project. Really, what purpose does the channel have then? -Swatjester/Dan Rosenthal On Jun 16, 2007, at 4:06 PM, foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:05:49 +0100 > From: Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] #wikipedia changes > To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Message-ID: <f51fqt$le4$1(a)sea.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Gurch wrote: >> Sean has casually neglected to mention that "off-topic" discussion >> is no >> longer permitted in the channel. And by that I literally mean that >> entering the channel and sending one-line greetings to a couple of >> users >> will get you told, in-channel and via a bombardment of PMs, to stop >> talking off-topic. > > Let me add my support to this: off-topic chat is important and > should be > allowed. A variety of forums for off-topic chat between Wikipedians > should > be provided. Wikipedians are humans, not machines, and just like > all other > humans have a deep-seated need to socialise with their colleagues, > and to > discuss matters of shared importance. > > -- Tim Starling

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[Foundation-l] Spam from the Archives?????
by Klaus Graf 16 Jun '07

16 Jun '07

Quoted from the archives listserv: "Inspired by the listserv's Wikipedia discussion a few months back, I began adding links to our finding aids, as well as occasional content, to relevant Wikipedia articles. I followed the advice given on here the list and created an account, and put a short note on my talk page explaining what types of articles I would be contributing to. When I checked my watchlist yesterday, I found a message asking me to view this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Unusual_univer… I, along with 2 or 3 other library/archives types, have been flagged as a possible spammer for adding these links. Another contributor attempted to explain how libraries are trying to reach out to users, how links to actual primary sources are useful, etc., but the argument doesn't seem to be getting through. I have not yet contributed to the conversation but feel I should, and am trying to figure out the best tack to take. Does anyone know if this discussion has already taken place elsewhere on Wikipedia? It seems unlikely that these users are the first to raise the question, and if it's been discussed (and resolved?) elsewhere on the site it would be nice to point them toward that conversation. Otherwise I was thinking of pointing them to the D-Lib article by Ann Lally and Carolyn Dunford (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/lally/05lally.html), which more fully explains the reasons libraries and archives are doing this. It seems that the trend of libraries and archives contributing to Wikipedia is only going to keep growing, so people like this objector are probably fighting a losing battle. But in the meantime, it would be nice to be able to convince them that telling people about primary sources related to the article topic is actually a useful exercise (not to mention convincing them not to delete all the links they find from archives). Any advice from you Wikipedia-savvy types out there would be greatly appreciated! Julie Kerssen, Archivist Seattle Municipal Archives" My opinion: It is a legitimate aim of archives or libraries to hint users to primary sources. We should be glad to get such contributions which are in no way spam. Dr. Klaus Graf University archivist at the RWTH Aachen

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[Foundation-l] only six new accounts per day per ip?
by Ragib Hasan 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Here is the background: To publicize wikipedia, the Wiki philosophy etc. in Bangladesh, and to create new users and help them in editing in Bengali and English wikipedias, we have been conducting Workshop sessions as part of Open Source Workshops. Since many users are not familiar with editing, the workshop involves showing them how to create an account, how to set up the unicode Bengali rendering and typing tools, basic wiki markup etc. However, it came to our notice that from a single IP address, no more than 6 new accounts could be created. Is there any setting that allows modification of this limit? I looked up MediaWiki system messages, but didn't find the setting. We need more people for Bengali wikipedia, but it is frustrating if our wiki evangelism workshops fail to guide them properly. Thanks in advance ... Ragib bn:User:Ragib en:User:Ragib -- Ragib Hasan PhD Student Dept of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 201 N Goodwin Avenue Urbana IL 61801 Website: http://www.ragibhasan.com http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rhasan/www

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[Foundation-l] Election Committee announces Endorsements Procedure
by Philippe Beaudette 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

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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