Yes, I find this situation, especially on the part of the election committee, as something between a sign of disrespect and a sign of indifference. I think the thousands of voters and the 19 candidates, who have spent a lot of time in their pursuing their candidacy, deserve better than this. Can someone from the election committee give us a better status report? Harel Cain Wikimedia Israel / Hebrew Wikipedia On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 15:06, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote: -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

Update from Mardetanha: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=2669988&oldid=2669838&rc… "As far as I can say, we are very hopeful that we can announce the results within several hours, we are almost done *Mardetanha*<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mardetanha> talk <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mardetanha> 13:24, 17 June 2011 (UTC)" Thehelpfulone On 17 June 2011 13:36, Amir E. Aharoni &lt;amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il&gt; wrote: -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone

Hi! I'm told that some volunteers can be extremely obnoxious too. Domas

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:05 PM, MZMcBride &lt;z(a)mzmcbride.com&gt; wrote: Now, now, everyone be nice. The moderation button isn't that far from me. Austin

Results are out. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en Theo On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Harel Cain &lt;harel.cain(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Congratulations!! and thanks for the fun experience of running for the board... One thing the board might want to concern itself with now is how to allow for more change in the next elections, in other words how to counteract the built-in advantages of the incumbent(s), which in the board elections is even bigger than in usual political elections. Harel Cain Wikimedia Israel / Hebrew Wikipedia On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 17:58, Nathan &lt;nawrich(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Alec Conroy &lt;alecmconroy(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Most of these people are already involved in the foundation and meta-level, which is why they ran for the board in the first place. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Congrats to all the participants, particularly the three re-elected incumbents: I think this was the single most predictable single outcome-- we can poke and prod individual candidates, but collectively, _as a board_ , they've never done anything too controversial. The servers keep running, the lights stay on, and the funding looks great. Re-electing all incumbents is a credit to the individuals in question and to the foundation organization as a whole. Good work everyone! Special thanks to the election committee members who had so much work to do in this process. Alec

Congrats Ting, Sj and Kat ... Well deserved. I personally wished to see at least one new face, though. :) Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Theo10011 &lt;de10011(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Thank you all for your congratulations and your support! (And congratulations to the rest of the candidates, whose leadership and dedication are obvious in chapters, committees, and other projects; I look forward to continuing to work with you.) Cheers, Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: kat(a)wikimedia.org * Personal: kat(a)mindspillage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:mindspillage IRC(freenode,OFTC):mindspillage * identi.ca:mindspillage * phone:ask

Hello all, at first thank you all for take part in the election, especially to the volunteers on the Elections Committee. As most of organizing-an-event-job, there are always a lot of work that the attendees of the events don't necessarily see. I also want to thank everyone who take part in the voting. Whoever you have voted, it is an important feedback for us all, and an important feedback for our works in the past and our works ahead. Many thanks to the candidates who had competed in a very fair and civil manner. The exchange of ideas and views with all of you is very refreshing and gives me new impulses. A very special thank this time to Alec McConroy, who had put up very tough questions and as soon as I had caught breath (see below), I will continue our conversation on meta. Actually in this year I got the news of the election result later than most of you. I was mostly on travel last week, and had visited Almaty, Kazakhstan. Something really remarkable is happenning there. Our volunteers there had started to organize a nationwide movement and had found support in the politics, companies and media. The Kazakh Encyclopedia had decided to put its up-to-date 16-band encyclopedia under a free licence. There are initiatives in the parliament to make the copyright law more clear and supportive in respect of free-licenses, and the biggest national welfare fund "Samruk-Kazyna" had decided to fund activities to build up the Kazakh Wikipedia. Our volunteers there are going to start ambassador programs in the universities in Almaty and had set the very ambitious goal to expand the Kazakh Wikipedia into 200k articles until December 16th, the 20th independance day of the Republic Kazakhstan, not by using bots, but by writing and translating qualified articles. That would mean about ten fold of the article amount than at the moment. It was on my way from airport back how when I got the first congratulations, before I got know the result. And tomorrow I am going to Den Bosch to celebrate with our volunteers in the Netherlands 10 Years Netherlandish Wikipedia. It is by chance that these two events lye so near by each other, but I also think that there is an intrinsic link between them. It is our work until now, and I mean really OUR, every volunteer, that inspire and attract new people from around the world. Our success hetherto shows how a world of sharing and a world of free knowledge could look like. It is really true, that we are building a heritage, a world heritage, recognized officially or not. It is a world heritage because so many people, from so many places, put their hands on it. All of us collected it, shaped it, byte by byte, section by section. And because of this, as in every of my speech, my best and sincere thank, goes to our volunteers, every single one of you. Greetings Ting On 17.06.2011 16:54, wrote Theo10011: -- Ting Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/

On Friday, June 17, 2011, Patricio Lorente &lt;patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Thank you Patricio, and all who shared congratulations. This is a tricky time for the projects and the Foundation - we are squarely facing a drop in participation for the first time. Among other things, we need fresh ideas and insights more than ever. So I sympathize with Tinu - change is important. - and with Harel, we should take care to balance the advantages of incumbency. A longer period for debate and questions and translation, and an official debate or set of well-organized questions, would help. Patricio writes: I thought you in particular made some excellent points about equity in communication and accountable governance. I hope you will continue to push for your suggestions. Regards, SJ -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

On 6/17/2011 9:31 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: Thank you for this update, we appreciate it. I am disappointed that these potential problems weren't thought about previously when choosing to use a third-party. In the future, I think we need to come up with a list of potential problems to prevent situations like this. -- Joe Gazz84 - Wikimedia Wikis Home Wiki: ENWP (Retired) Meta Commons If you need to contact me, please use "reply" and make sure the email goes to foundation-l(a)wikimedia.technology-hub.com

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Jan-Bart de Vreede &lt;janbart(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: Perfectly reasonable. Best way to forestall criticism in future elections is to just be open and communicative -- before the results are late.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede &lt;janbart(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: It shouldn't be thankless, so let me express my sincere appreciation to Abbas, Jon, Mardetanha, Matanya, and Ryan. I know that it's not easy, and I know that getting it right is more important than getting it fast. I won't speak for anyone else's motivations, but let me be clear that I was only looking for something, anything, updating us on an overdue deadline that many of us—the candidates, surely not the least—are eagerly awaiting. And yes, it's easy to let personal curiosity get overtaken by a feeling of righteous indignation, but I have to say that a message from ElecCom would have been really nice. Austin