Hello, Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections for the week of May 10 to 18. For detailed information on the elections, see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en>. ==Timeline== * Last chance for candidates to apply! The candidate submission period ends May 22. There are currently 10 candidates. * Candidate statements will be ready for translation on May 23. The main translation phase continues until 01 June 2008. ==Election system== As separately announced, the elections this year will use preferential voting using the Schulze method, with winning votes as the default measure for the strength of pairwise defeat. <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/30111> ==Email notification== Preliminary consultation with Wikimedia system administrators about the technical feasibility of sending email notification to all eligible voters is promising. More information on email notification will be in the next weekly report. ==Translation== We currently have 30 translations. If you'd like to help, please see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation>. Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages / total size of all pages): * 100: ca, cs, de, el, en, es, fa, fr, it, ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt, ru, sv, yue, zh-hans, zh-hant. * 40+: fi. * 20+: he. * 10+: ar. * 1+: eo, eu, hr, ml, uk. * 0: hu, id. ==See also== * detailed information: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en> * ask a question: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2008> * previous reports: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/29567> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/29783> -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)