Dear all,
The deadline for nominations in the Affiliate Selected Board Seats process passed on Tuesday, and 10 candidates have been nominated:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominati...
This is more candidates than any previous affiliate/chapter-selected process, and I am pleased to note that 4 of the candidates are women and 5 are from countries not in North American or Western Europe. All candidates who have received one or more endorsements from voting organisations by 23 March will be added to the ballot for the election.
While only Chapters and the single Thematic Organization have a vote in this election, all community members are invited to participate by asking questions to the candidates, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Question...
Help translating candidate statements into other languages is also much appreciated.
(For more details about this process, please see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016 )
Many thanks,
Chris Keating (one of the election facilitators)
Hi Chris,
How and where the chapter will vote? I offered to do it privately, in order to avoid current votes to influence others chapters.
Itzik
- Sent from mobile On Mar 10, 2016 15:35, "Chris Keating" chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
The deadline for nominations in the Affiliate Selected Board Seats process passed on Tuesday, and 10 candidates have been nominated:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominati...
This is more candidates than any previous affiliate/chapter-selected process, and I am pleased to note that 4 of the candidates are women and 5 are from countries not in North American or Western Europe. All candidates who have received one or more endorsements from voting organisations by 23 March will be added to the ballot for the election.
While only Chapters and the single Thematic Organization have a vote in this election, all community members are invited to participate by asking questions to the candidates, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Question...
Help translating candidate statements into other languages is also much appreciated.
(For more details about this process, please see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016 )
Many thanks,
Chris Keating (one of the election facilitators) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Hi Itzik, do you mean a proper secret ballot?
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:52 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel itzik@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Hi Chris,
How and where the chapter will vote? I offered to do it privately, in order to avoid current votes to influence others chapters.
Itzik
- Sent from mobile
On Mar 10, 2016 15:35, "Chris Keating" chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
The deadline for nominations in the Affiliate Selected Board Seats process passed on Tuesday, and 10 candidates have been nominated:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominati...
This is more candidates than any previous affiliate/chapter-selected process, and I am pleased to note that 4 of the candidates are women and 5 are from countries not in North American or Western Europe. All candidates who have received one or more endorsements from voting organisations by 23 March will be added to the ballot for the election.
While only Chapters and the single Thematic Organization have a vote in this election, all community members are invited to participate by asking questions to the candidates, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Question...
Help translating candidate statements into other languages is also much appreciated.
(For more details about this process, please see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016 )
Many thanks,
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Hi Itzik,
When the process was being discussed in the Autumn, there wasn't any consensus to change it to a fully secret ballot. So, as last time, votes will be cast on a wiki-table on the Chapters wiki.
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel < itzik@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
Hi Chris,
How and where the chapter will vote? I offered to do it privately, in order to avoid current votes to influence others chapters.
Itzik
- Sent from mobile
On Mar 10, 2016 15:35, "Chris Keating" chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
The deadline for nominations in the Affiliate Selected Board Seats
process
passed on Tuesday, and 10 candidates have been nominated:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominati...
This is more candidates than any previous affiliate/chapter-selected process, and I am pleased to note that 4 of the candidates are women and
5
are from countries not in North American or Western Europe. All
candidates
who have received one or more endorsements from voting organisations by
23
March will be added to the ballot for the election.
While only Chapters and the single Thematic Organization have a vote in this election, all community members are invited to participate by asking questions to the candidates, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Question...
Help translating candidate statements into other languages is also much appreciated.
(For more details about this process, please see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016 )
Many thanks,
Chris Keating (one of the election facilitators) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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On 11/03/16 10:05, Chris Keating wrote:
Hi Itzik,
When the process was being discussed in the Autumn, there wasn't any consensus to change it to a fully secret ballot. So, as last time, votes will be cast on a wiki-table on the Chapters wiki.
Regards,
Chris
Do Chapters have to ask their membership, or are they empowered to vote without going back to the members?
Gordo
Il 11/Mar/2016 11:50, "Gordon Joly" gordon.joly@pobox.com ha scritto:
Do Chapters have to ask their membership, or are they empowered to vote without going back to the members?
Practices vary widely. Some chapters discuss how to vote in their (annual) general assemblies and they finally vote on who to vote. In other chapters it's the board that decides. In these cases usually there is a formal deliberation by the board and those are usually ratified by the members in the next general assembly.
C
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:
Il 11/Mar/2016 11:50, "Gordon Joly" gordon.joly@pobox.com ha scritto:
Do Chapters have to ask their membership, or are they empowered to vote without going back to the members?
Practices vary widely. Some chapters discuss how to vote in their (annual) general assemblies and they finally vote on who to vote. In other chapters it's the board that decides. In these cases usually there is a formal deliberation by the board and those are usually ratified by the members in the next general assembly.
Can we document this on meta? i.e. a table of which affiliates do what?
It would be interesting to see how affiliates do make decision in this process as we have only 6 weeks(4 after the endorsements are finalised) from close of nominations to final voting
Wikimedia Australia has invited it members to consider the list of nominations and whether the community will endorse any candidates, once the nominations are finalised with a list of endorsed candidates members will again be asked to express an opinion on who to vote for, with the committee voting according to consensus.
On 11 March 2016 at 20:07, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:
Il 11/Mar/2016 11:50, "Gordon Joly" gordon.joly@pobox.com ha scritto:
Do Chapters have to ask their membership, or are they empowered to vote without going back to the members?
Practices vary widely. Some chapters discuss how to vote in their
(annual)
general assemblies and they finally vote on who to vote. In other
chapters
it's the board that decides. In these cases usually there is a formal deliberation by the board and those are usually ratified by the members
in
the next general assembly.
Can we document this on meta? i.e. a table of which affiliates do what?
-- John Vandenberg
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I don't like the idea of others chapters influence others with their votes. We have many candidates and a lot of politics behind.
WMIL will have their board meeting at the end of the month, but if the case is that the votes are public, I'll advice my board to not publish his vote until the last moment in order to have fair election, without any chapter looking on the others and consider whatever to vote to each of the candidates because of the number of votes they already have.
I'll truly advising others to do the same.
Itzik
- Sent from mobile On Mar 11, 2016 12:05, "Chris Keating" chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Itzik,
When the process was being discussed in the Autumn, there wasn't any consensus to change it to a fully secret ballot. So, as last time, votes will be cast on a wiki-table on the Chapters wiki.
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel < itzik@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
Hi Chris,
How and where the chapter will vote? I offered to do it privately, in order to avoid current votes to
influence
others chapters.
Itzik
- Sent from mobile
On Mar 10, 2016 15:35, "Chris Keating" chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,
The deadline for nominations in the Affiliate Selected Board Seats
process
passed on Tuesday, and 10 candidates have been nominated:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominati...
This is more candidates than any previous affiliate/chapter-selected process, and I am pleased to note that 4 of the candidates are women
and
5
are from countries not in North American or Western Europe. All
candidates
who have received one or more endorsements from voting organisations by
23
March will be added to the ballot for the election.
While only Chapters and the single Thematic Organization have a vote in this election, all community members are invited to participate by
asking
questions to the candidates, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Question...
Help translating candidate statements into other languages is also much appreciated.
(For more details about this process, please see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016 )
Many thanks,
Chris Keating (one of the election facilitators) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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