Hi Alice and Adamw,

Thanks for this question. This has been a question those of us on the team supporting the election asked ourselves: do we publish the participants publicly, or no?

Movement Strategy and Governance is made up of facilitators from around the world. We all have a broad experience with cultures and community experiences. Several facilitators said some affiliates from their regions decided not to participate to avoid the risk of being labeled and accused of engaging with a foreign organization. The aim is to protect those organizations and individuals who did participate from extra attention that might have real and lasting effects for them.

For the reason above, making the list of participants more obvious is not something that we wish to do so we can protect the people in our communities who are vulnerable to just how political participating in free knowledge still is in much of the world.

If any organization needs to have documentation of their participation, we can gladly supply that on an individual basis.

Best,

Jackie

On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 6:46 AM Adam Wight <adam.wight@wikimedia.de> wrote:

+1 to this question, and whether we can make the list of voting affiliates public in the same way that we publicize the voting rolls for individuals participating in Community [S]elections. The results page [1] shows that 112 affiliate organizations each cast one vote.

Regards,
[[meta:User:Adamw]]

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results/Affiliate_organization_voting

On 7/19/22 21:11, Alice Wiegand wrote:
Hi Jackie,
Thanks for sharing the result. Where can we find information about how many chapters/thematic organizations and usergroups have casted their votes?

Alice.

Am 19.07.2022 um 19:32 schrieb Jackie Koerner <jkoerner@wikimedia.org>:

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Hi everyone,

The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The selected 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:

Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)

Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)

Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)

Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)

Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)

Mike Peel (Mike Peel)

You may see more information about the Results and Statistics of this Board election.

Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of volunteer work connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you for your participation.

Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as candidates for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of Trustees is no small decision. The time and dedication candidates have shown to this point speaks to their commitment to this movement. Congratulations to those candidates who have been selected. A great amount of appreciation and gratitude for those candidates not selected. Please continue to share your leadership with Wikimedia.

Thank you to those who followed the Affiliate process for this Board election. You may review the results of the Affiliate selection process.

The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. You may view the Board election timeline here. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with in the following ways:

Read candidates’ statements and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.

Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A.

See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement.

Propose statements for the Election Compass voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.

Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

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Jackie Koerner (she/her) Communication Specialist, Movement Strategy and Governance Location: Midwestern US (UTC-5)

Wikimedia Foundation

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