Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and active election, the election committee has determined that:
- Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59 (UTC) - The period for questioning candidates begins immediately. Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized by the community. The Committee hopes that the community will work to actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning. - The dates of election will not change. The election will begin on 28 July and end on 10 August.
Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates.
For the committee, Philippe
(in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation)
Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the hopefully temporary and short-lived approach of simulating the candidate notice using enwiki's local site notice.
Extending the nomination period does little if people don't actually know about it. Philippe has been posting a notice about the extension at various community noticeboards, but that will of course be rather hit and miss.
At the same time, creating a local site notice on one (or just a few) wikis could also be seen as quite hit and miss. For that reason, I wanted to mention this action here in case people wanted to take similar steps on other wikis.
Hopefully though some form of CentralNotice will be restored shortly.
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Philippe Beaudettepbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and active election, the election committee has determined that:
- Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59 (UTC) - The period for questioning candidates begins immediately. Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized by the community. The Committee hopes that the community will work to actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning. - The dates of election will not change. The election will begin on 28 July and end on 10 August.
Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates.
For the committee, Philippe
(in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation)
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Hello,
I have imported the En.wiki sitenotice on Commons and Incubator.
This isn't the best way offcourse but it will let more people know about it.
Best regards, Huib
Thanks Robert -
You're correct that extending it doesn't do much good if we don't get the word out. Thanks for doing this.
Philippe
On Jul 20, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the hopefully temporary and short-lived approach of simulating the candidate notice using enwiki's local site notice.
Extending the nomination period does little if people don't actually know about it. Philippe has been posting a notice about the extension at various community noticeboards, but that will of course be rather hit and miss.
At the same time, creating a local site notice on one (or just a few) wikis could also be seen as quite hit and miss. For that reason, I wanted to mention this action here in case people wanted to take similar steps on other wikis.
Hopefully though some form of CentralNotice will be restored shortly.
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Philippe Beaudettepbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and active election, the election committee has determined that:
- Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59(UTC) - The period for questioning candidates begins immediately. Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized by the community. The Committee hopes that the community will work to actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning. - The dates of election will not change. The election will begin on 28 July and end on 10 August.
Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates.
For the committee, Philippe
(in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation)
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It appears that perhaps centralnotice might be working again.... once you've confirmed that on local wikis, would those of you who put up local notices kindly defer to the central notice?
Many thanks!
pb On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Thanks Robert -
You're correct that extending it doesn't do much good if we don't get the word out. Thanks for doing this.
Philippe
On Jul 20, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the hopefully temporary and short-lived approach of simulating the candidate notice using enwiki's local site notice.
Extending the nomination period does little if people don't actually know about it. Philippe has been posting a notice about the extension at various community noticeboards, but that will of course be rather hit and miss.
At the same time, creating a local site notice on one (or just a few) wikis could also be seen as quite hit and miss. For that reason, I wanted to mention this action here in case people wanted to take similar steps on other wikis.
Hopefully though some form of CentralNotice will be restored shortly.
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Philippe Beaudettepbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and active election, the election committee has determined that:
- Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59(UTC) - The period for questioning candidates begins immediately. Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized by the community. The Committee hopes that the community will work to actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning. - The dates of election will not change. The election will begin on 28 July and end on 10 August.
Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates.
For the committee, Philippe
(in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation)
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Hello,
The globalsite notice is working again :D I removed the local sitenotice on incubator and Commons.
Huib
I find it somewhat ridiculous that someone would not know about the key dates. I've had them on my calendar for at least a month, if not more.
-Dan On Jul 20, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
It appears that perhaps centralnotice might be working again.... once you've confirmed that on local wikis, would those of you who put up local notices kindly defer to the central notice?
Many thanks!
pb On Jul 20, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Thanks Robert -
You're correct that extending it doesn't do much good if we don't get the word out. Thanks for doing this.
Philippe
On Jul 20, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Robert Rohde wrote:
Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the hopefully temporary and short-lived approach of simulating the candidate notice using enwiki's local site notice.
Extending the nomination period does little if people don't actually know about it. Philippe has been posting a notice about the extension at various community noticeboards, but that will of course be rather hit and miss.
At the same time, creating a local site notice on one (or just a few) wikis could also be seen as quite hit and miss. For that reason, I wanted to mention this action here in case people wanted to take similar steps on other wikis.
Hopefully though some form of CentralNotice will be restored shortly.
-Robert Rohde
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Philippe Beaudettepbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and active election, the election committee has determined that:
- Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59(UTC) - The period for questioning candidates begins immediately. Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized by the community. The Committee hopes that the community will work to actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning. - The dates of election will not change. The election will begin on 28 July and end on 10 August.
Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates.
For the committee, Philippe
(in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation)
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