Hello Florence,
Thank you for voicing your concerns. We are doing what we can to design a
process that achieves its goals and satisfies everyone, but this is very
hard - balancing the absolute freedom of action with not privileging people
who have the luxury of extra time is one of many considerations to make.
Last year's elections had a very different approach to the campaign, there
was no hard limit to events or questions to candidates, and that raised
concerns as well. In some non-profit organizations, elections happen
without any candidate campaign at all. There are different ways to approach
democratic elections, and we still need to find the best approach that is
appropriate for our context and our goals.
In my view, there are really great many improvements we can make to the
process - including both more detailed parametric evaluation of candidates,
better understanding of diversity, better organization of the process of
differentiating candidates and their skills (debates, answering questions
without the privilege of knowing the answers of other candidates, etc.).
We will ask the foundation to, at a quiet point after the election,
organize a conversation about lessons learned and improvements to be
applied next time. The time and the format are yet to be decided.
All processes can be improved, but now we hope those who are eligible will
take the opportunity to vote in the election and encourage others to vote.
Participation looks promising so far:
Best regards,
Dariusz
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 4:18 PM Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello
There were a lot of improvements in that election process and I really
think the compass system is an awesome tool and was usefully used during
those elections.
However, I am very unpleased by the very severe restrictions on
candidates freedom of speech and on attempts of restriction on voters
freedom of speech regarding those elections.
By and large, for the arguments of
1) equity of treatement of all candidates and
2) time and energy requirements of all voters
the democratic process is largely impaired.
*In fact... an election IS by essence a competition.* And whilst equity
of treatment must be in our minds, we should not let it damage the
democratic process. And restricting candidates from campaigning and
restricting community from discussing and recommanding is a flawed
democratic process.
So what do we have in the end to decide on a candidate ?
1) Candidate statement. Text-based, translated in various languages.
Excellent.
2) An election compass based on 12 questions. Very interesting, though
on a limited number of topics.
3) Videos on a few restricted questions. It saves time to the voters. But
it is not very visible. It is in English. And it is on a limited number of
questions.
4) A rating provided by the Analysis Committee, which evaluated the
candidates against the skills and diversity, equity and inclusion criteria.
Well, there could be suscipions over any process where a committee tell us
what to vote. If our individual recommandations are considered unfair and
bringing inequity, then those recommandations are unfair and bringing
inequity too.
I found interesting to look at this page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Events
Sections "Schedules events" and "Tentative events" are completely
empty.
The restrictions placed over the rights to speak this year really had a chilling
effect <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect>.
I hope that in the future, the candidates and the community voices are
given more liberty.
Florence
Just in case, I am sharing the last WikiAfrica Hour episode, where all 6
candidates finally had the right to speak up *(2 months struggle to get
there though)* :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwZ_7Bg1ENk
Le 24/08/2022 à 08:54, Mahuton Possoupe a écrit :
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]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida…
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.
>
> 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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prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry MINDS
<https://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/>, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
członek korespondent Polskiej Akademii Nauk <https://pan.pl/>
faculty associate Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society
<https://cyber.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University
Ważniejsze książki: Collaborative Society
<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collaborative-society> (2020, MIT Press,
z A. Przegalińską), Thick Big Data
<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thick-big-data-9780198839705?cc=gb&lang=en>
(2020,
Oxford University Press), Common Knowledge?
<https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24010> (2014, Stanford University
Press)
W niedawnych badaniach wykryłem dezinformację nt. #AstraZeneca
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350621003462?via%3Dihub>
, analizowałem międzynarodowe sieci medialne dot. rozmów klimatycznych
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221081426?fbclid=IwAR1cLrZOfbfshdVqWLu-YUUDSWf3dkzpO4m4RysF7K7gmhUAORnifMmOs44>,
pokazałem, że prawo Godwina nie działa
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448211062070>, że open
source umiera powolną śmiercią,
<https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257192> że
najlepsze artykuły na Wikipedii tworzy wikiprojekt o cyklonach
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094721000475>, że
naukowczynie raczej nie publikowały mniej w lockdownach
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01655515211068168>, że bibliografie
na Wikipedii korespondują z rankingami czasopism
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0894439321993836>, czy że prawnicy
z Harvardu akceptują piractwo.
<https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asi.24592>
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