I'm sure most of you have seen the Central Notice already (and hopefully
clicked through) but for those who haven't, or keep putting it off the
steward elections (and confirmations) are in full swing and will continue
until 23:59 (UTC) on February 28th 2010. The elections can be found
here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010>
.
You can see manually updated statistics (similar to Pathoschilds last year
with examples of oppose reasons etc) at
Stewards/elections_2010/Statistics<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010/Statistics>as
well as an automatic tool at
http://toolserver.org/~stewardbots/elections.php<http://toolserver.org/%7Estewardbots/elections.php>.
As for a "brief" summary without looking at the link:
The stated requirements for election are: at least 30 supporting votes and
an 80% support percentage (and of course approval of the Board of Directors.
So far we have 8 candidates well into the passing zone (above 90%) :
Dferg (98.2%)
Wutsje (98.1%)
Jyothis (97.2%)
Mercy (97.2%)
J.delanoy (96.3%)
Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt (96%)
Avraham/Avi (94.6%)
All 8 have minimal opposes but those that are opposing are generally doing
so with complaints that they are "career" wiki(p/m)edians and/or have to
many hats and power. There is also one person who has opposed all candidates
(because he does not like the open voting).
We also 2 candidates currently between 80 and 85%:
Mentifisto at 84.1%
Annabel at 82.1%
Mentifisto has gone down a bit recently with complaints about past
interactions and "setting himself up" for the position. Annabel has also
gone down more recently with most of the opposes complaining about a lack of
recent activity.
There are three candidates between 70 and 80% (not currently passing):
Jamesofur 74.2%
EivindJ 74.1%
Billinghurst 73.8%
All three candidates have been moving around the 70-78% range a fair bit
over the past couple days and both EivindJ and Jamesofur have a large amount
of Neutral votes mostly expressing similar opinions to the opposes.
The biggest concerns for Jamesofur are for a lack of experience sprinkled
with some concerns about languages and a lack of edits.
Most of the opposition for EivindJ is a lack of activity and worry that that
would continue if selected as a steward.
Billinghurst started strongly but has fallen down amid concerns about
language skills and cross wiki activity.
There is one candidate (Carkuni) who is currently at about 66.7% and has
support because of their Japanese language skills but has had significant
opposition for a lack of cross wiki activity. After Carkuni there is an
enormous drop off with 2 candidates at 30-35%, 2 in the 15-20% range and the
rest sub 10% (with 7 still at 0%).
The current steward
confirmations<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewards/confirm/2010>are
also ongoing and while I haven't been collecting complete stats about
that they have been getting a significant amount of comments and discussion.
So far there are at least 4-5 stewards where there is discussion about
whether they should be removed for inactivity (with some believing that
those who are still trusted should retain the tools and others wanting to
remove them if they aren't being used.)
Unless everyone is already bored out of their mind and tells me know I'll
send out another update along these lines in a week or so to show how it is
progressing. While I'm obviously kind of biased in the matter I encourage
everyone who hasn't done so yet to consider researching the candidates and
expressing your opinions so that we can get as many opinions as possible for
everyone running.
User:Jamesofur
James Alexander
james.alexander(a)rochester.edu
jamesofur(a)gmail.com
100 gmail invites and no one to give them to :( let me know if you want one
:)
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Elias Friedman <elipongo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, but I made sure that there wasn't any confidential
> information in the message before I forwarded it.
>
Well, either way, donate [at] wikimedia.org are the people who can help you. :-)
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
At a meetup in San Francisco today I was thinking about next January's 10th
Birthday for Wikipedia and recent strategic planning discussions around
participation. What about celebrating Wikipedia Day with an edit drive? We
could aim for some stretch target (e.g. 1 million edits across all projects
over 24 hours on 15 Jan 2011, or 25 million edits during the month of
January) and use the project and geo-targeted sitenotice technology from the
fundraisers.
Seems like it could be a great way to celebrate and also get the word out
about the "anyone can edit" spirit of our projects.
-stu
[[m:User:Stu]]
Hey Eli,
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, <elipongo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey! What? You guys don't want my money?
>
As this has to do with private information about you, I suggest you
e-mail donate [at] wikimedia.org about this, instead of the public
mailing lists.
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Think he meant to send this here.
~Nathan
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We should definitely do something,but I was thinking more in the lines of.
..
* giving out special wikipedia cookies / cakes
* a big - ass contest
* sending out a wishlist
* adding some amazing software feature
Or something similar
Den 2 7, 2010 11:34 AM, "Liam Wyatt" <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> skrev:
Yeah!
There's so much we could be doing (both on-wiki and in meatspace) for the
"10th anniversary" next January. I would suggest that not only should we be
investigating activities such as that you describe to improve the content,
but also that we undertake fundraising and general outreach activities
across the world around. For example, the "spread
Firefox<http://www.spreadfirefox.com/>"
project has been a success and I'd love to see this kind of thing for
Wikipedia projected on monuments around the world on the 10th anniversary
day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nois3lab/4088072729/in/set-72157622640597827/:-
)
(video of same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_8Dyhz_qbs )
And yes, as you say, it is also a very good opportunity to really utilise
the value of the geo-targeted notices if all the chapters and geographically
defined wikiprojects coordinate undertake activities simultaneously.
-Liam [[witty lama]]
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Stuart West <stuwest(a)gmail.com> wrote: > At
a meetup in San Franc...
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Hello, all.
The Living People task force begins work Monday with part one, board
recommendations and proposal. This will run for two months, with the second
half beginning in April on community focus.
This is a global project, and we highly encourage active global
participation in discussion.
More information can be found here: <
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People>.
We hope to see you all there, and everyone have a good weekend.
~Keegan
--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
I don't recall if I'd updated this publicly before, but we ended up
changing the location of the February board meeting. At Wikimania last
year, our preliminary plan was to have the meeting in New York, but for
logistical reasons it proved to be more practical to use the office in
San Francisco. There was some mild disappointment from our European
board members who thus have farther to travel, but since the April
meeting will be in Berlin (combined with the chapters meeting), they get
a break next time. We do hope to hold a future meeting in a suitable
midway point like New York eventually, as we cycle around different
locations, although the office will always be a useful fallback.
Coincidentally, there happens to be a San Francisco meetup using the
office Saturday afternoon, so I hope the board members will stop in to
say hello when our day's work is done. One of the reasons I'd like to
meet in New York sometime is for something similar, as there are quite a
few people who could make a New York meetup that I would be eager to
finally meet in person.
Anyway, our agenda for this weekend is pretty simple, aside from minor
housekeeping items. We're devoting one day to board development and one
day to strategic planning discussion. The first part means defining and
understanding our role as a board, both what it is and what it isn't,
which we've needed as the organization matures. The board is trying to
mature along with the organization, which means both integrating our
newer members and having the longer-serving ones adapt to the direction
we are going. This will be important as we get closer to our full
capacity (things are progressing, slowly but surely, on the remaining
vacancy, we expect to interview some candidates in the coming weeks).
The strategic planning portion of the agenda is not approval of a final
plan yet, but the process has advanced significantly enough to be
looking at priorities and considering some recommendations. The task
forces and the planning team have generated a lot of information that's
being synthesized here, and I appreciate all the effort people have put
in. My nose has basically been buried in this for the past week
preparing for our meeting, but it wouldn't be possible to move this
forward if it was just the board and staff, many other people have done
a lot of hard work too. Thank you, all of you.
--Michael Snow