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@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/Campaign_Videos
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting&diff=23706531&oldid=23660982
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting/Questions_for_Candidates&diff=prev&oldid=23691840
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Campaign_Videos&oldid=23709100
> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting/Questions_for_Candidates/Sorted
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 1:22 AM Mahuton Possoupe <mpossoupe-ctr@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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
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>> 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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