> Well, congratulations to 4 people living in Western Europe. If this result doesn't get the Wikimedia Foundation to rethink their approach to how they select their board members, I don't know what will.

The candidates this year weren't very balanced. When I was deciding who to vote for, I used edit count as a proxy for Wikimedia experience and excluded most of non-US/Europe candidates because their edit counts were too low. Though, I voted for people outside of this area. The issue isn't that there are no suitable editors from Asia or the Global South whom I would vote for—I know there are—but for some reason, none of them were among the candidates.

Based on this, my two cents are that we should try to get people with a solid editing history to run as candidates if we want to elect them to the board. If they aren’t even in the candidates, we can’t vote for them.

Br,

-- Kimmo Virtanen, Zache

On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopetzky@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, congratulations to 4 people living in Western Europe. If this result doesn't get the Wikimedia Foundation to rethink their approach to how they select their board members, I don't know what will.

I guess it's up to communities, affiliates and regional structures to create the change we want to see, noe more than ever.
On Fri, 11 Oct 2024, 11:38 Katie Chan, <ktc@ktchan.info> wrote:
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Hello all,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.

The following four candidates were the most voted:

Christel Steigenberger

Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz

Victoria Doronina

Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.

Read the full announcement on Meta-Wiki

Best regards,

The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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