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
Beaudette<pbeaudette(a)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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