Hello, Emufarmers and Andreas
This was pointed out on Meta as well.
The message announcing the opening of the vote was prepared months in
advance, including translations, before the decision was made to create
campaign videos. The link to the videos wasn't included in this version
because of this, but the suggestion was to link the videos from the
Candidates page, [1] which IS linked and translated. That was overlooked.
While we haven’t got time to get the update to that page translated, we
have added the links under a header that makes them easy to find and should
be easy to translate. We will also include a note about the videos when we
send our voting reminder.
Best regards,
Mahuton (WMF)
[1]
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 2:17 AM Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The on-wiki voting instructions in all the other
languages still make no
mention of the videos.
Andreas
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm surprised to see that this announcement
includes no mention of the
videos that the candidates created answering community
questions[1] and
instead highlights the affiliate questions from the earlier phase of the
election. The on-wiki instructions also made no mention of the videos
until a community member added them,[2] and the posting of the videos was
not announced on this list until Andreas did it.[3]
To be clear, the decision to channel campaign
activities into video
rather than text settings was both inconvenient and
inequitable, both for
the candidates and for voters, and probably doomed any chance to have the
candidates' answers translated for non-English-speaking voters. There are
no usable transcripts available[4], except for the written answers from the
one candidate who has opted to provide them.[5] But since this is the path
that was chosen, I don't think it's right to bury what little community
engagement we had.
Emufarmers
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Campaig…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elec…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elec…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Communi…
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 1:22 AM Mahuton Possoupe <
mpossoupe-ctr(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is
now
open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need
to vote:
>
> Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different
topics.
> Read the candidate statements and answers to
Affiliate questions
> Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis
Committee
found candidates aligned with those skills
>
> If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote
now.
You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59
UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter
eligibility page.
>
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>
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