** Personal views follow **
On 22/08/2017 20:10, Andy Mabbett wrote:
MarĂa and Dariusz, were re-elected after the
recent community election.
This is not correct. There was no "community election"; the community
is only empowered to /nominate/ candidates, which the board may or may
not appoint, at its whim.
Please be more careful to use accurate terms on such points, in the future.
Multiple people put themselves forward for the community considerations.
The community then voted on it, resulting in a ranking by who got most
votes based on the voting system used. By definition, that's an
election. The electoral consisted of members of the Wikimedia community.
Ergo, there was a community election.
That the winning candidates does not automatically become a member of
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as a result due (at least
partly) to legal reasons does not make it any less of an election.
"A vote by the Wikimedia community for X numbers of winners to be
considered by the WMF BoT for appointment as its members" is still an
election.
Regards,
Katie
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