*I'm adding my part to Kaarel's message:* Hi all, We are very happy about the wide range of diverse Wikimedians that are running for the election and selection processes for the drafting committee of the Movement Charter! As the number of candidates is quite large and thus informing yourself about them might be a bit more complicated, we want to try something different this time: In many countries of the world during election campaigns so-called “Voting Advice Applications'' (or “Election Compasses'') are quite common. Thanks to an open source project called “Open Election Compass'', we’d like to adapt the same for this election. We have built a prototype of it, which you can access on Toolforge: https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/ It works like this: - You will see statements that we have asked the candidates to position themselves to (support, neutral, oppose; and some lines of reasoning). - The tool asks you to position yourself to these statements. - At the end, you will see who of the candidates is closest to you. The Election Compass is by far not a voting recommendation, but it should help to navigate and orient yourself, and, ideally, spark conversations about the Movement Charter! To be able to run such an election compass, we need clear, sharp, concise statements that the candidates can position themselves to. We would like to ask you to propose these statements (until Sunday, 26th) and then have a quick poll on them (from Monday, 27th, to Friday, 1st), to select 15 to 20 of these statements. Candidates would then have roughly 10 days to position themselves, before the election starts and the tool goes online. Please propose your statements here until Sunday 26th. On the page itself, we have some more guidance and fictional examples on how they should look like: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio… As said, this is an experiment to help all of us to make it easier to vote. Please let us know what you think. Best regards, Cornelius On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 4:54 PM Kaarel Vaidla &lt;kvaidla(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- Cornelius Kibelka (he/him) Event Coordinator Movement Strategy + Governance 2030.wikimedia.org <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>