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Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections for the week of May 18 to 26. For detailed information on the elections, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en.
==Timeline== * Candidate submissions closed on May 22. A total of 15 candidates nominated themselves during the submissions period. All fifteen have been confirmed as meeting the requirements and have submitted proof of identity as required by the rules.
* Eligible voters can now ask questions to candidates on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates/Questions.
* This week is dedicated to translation. Under the current rules, a translated candidates page will not go live until *all* the statements are translated! Please check your languages and help finish translations.
* Voting starts on 01 June 2008.
==Email notification== This election the committee will send official email notification to all eligible voters. If a translation is not available, it will be sent in English. Users can opt out of the notification on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list until a better way is developed.
==Translation== We currently have 30 translations. If you'd like to help, please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation.
Due to the candidate statements, the percentage completed has dropped significantly for most languages. The voting interface is also available for translation starting this week, but is not calculated in the completion percentage.
Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages / total size of all pages): * 100: ca, de, en, id, zh-hans, zh-hant. * 32: ar, cs, el, es, fa, fi, fr, it, ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt, ru, sv, uk, yue. * 25: eo. * 10: he. * 1+: eu, hr, ml. * 0: hu.
==See also== * detailed information: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en * ask a question: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2008 * previous reports: - April 26 - May 3: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/29567 - May 3-10: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/29783 - May 10-18: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/30134