I'm surprised to see that this announcement includes no mention of the

To be clear, the decision to channel campaign activities into video

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Hello, Emufarmers and Andreas This was pointed out on Meta as well. The message announcing the opening of the vote was prepared months in advance, including translations, before the decision was made to create campaign videos. The link to the videos wasn't included in this version because of this, but the suggestion was to link the videos from the Candidates page, [1] which IS linked and translated. That was overlooked. While we haven’t got time to get the update to that page translated, we have added the links under a header that makes them easy to find and should be easy to translate. We will also include a note about the videos when we send our voting reminder. Best regards, Mahuton (WMF) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candida… On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 2:17 AM Andreas Kolbe &lt;jayen466(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: The on-wiki voting instructions in all the other languages still make no mention of the videos. Andreas On Tuesday, August 23, 2022, Benjamin Lees &lt;emufarmers(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: of the videos that the candidates created answering community questions[1] and instead highlights the affiliate questions from the earlier phase of the election.  The on-wiki instructions also made no mention of the videos until a community member added them,[2] and the posting of the videos was not announced on this list until Andreas did it.[3] video rather than text settings was both inconvenient and inequitable, both for the candidates and for voters, and probably doomed any chance to have the candidates' answers translated for non-English-speaking voters.  There are no usable transcripts available[4], except for the written answers from the one candidate who has opted to provide them.[5]  But since this is the path that was chosen, I don't think it's right to bury what little community engagement we had. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Campaig… https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting&diff=23706531&oldid=23660982> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elec… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting/Questions_for_Candidates&diff=prev&oldid=23691840> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elec… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Campaign_Videos&oldid=23709100> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Communi… &lt;mpossoupe-ctr(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote: different topics. the Analysis Committee found candidates aligned with those skills page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. Force and the Elections Committee* <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/yBcvUBz7x7xW_texDbyEnK7BKs9wPMPAI4NuqDit5ipBVl-TBu9JIdHdySi6iZA1UTcm3AzWcx8bfkDvjMaftQqxtKRkjORZgmQ53i7g9bVQ6rEy7NhGdz4mZ6AcTe2tIAyMD9wH> guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org -- *Mahuton POSSOUPE (He/Him)* Movement Strategy & Board Governance facilitator French-speaking communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list --wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines andhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives athttps://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.o… To unsubscribe send an email towikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

Hello Florence, Thank you for voicing your concerns. We are doing what we can to design a process that achieves its goals and satisfies everyone, but this is very hard - balancing the absolute freedom of action with not privileging people who have the luxury of extra time is one of many considerations to make. Last year's elections had a very different approach to the campaign, there was no hard limit to events or questions to candidates, and that raised concerns as well. In some non-profit organizations, elections happen without any candidate campaign at all. There are different ways to approach democratic elections, and we still need to find the best approach that is appropriate for our context and our goals. In my view, there are really great many improvements we can make to the process - including both more detailed parametric evaluation of candidates, better understanding of diversity, better organization of the process of differentiating candidates and their skills (debates, answering questions without the privilege of knowing the answers of other candidates, etc.). We will ask the foundation to, at a quiet point after the election, organize a conversation about lessons learned and improvements to be applied next time. The time and the format are yet to be decided. All processes can be improved, but now we hope those who are eligible will take the opportunity to vote in the election and encourage others to vote. Participation looks promising so far: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Stats Best regards, Dariusz On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 4:18 PM Florence Devouard &lt;fdevouard(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- __________________________________ ​​ prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry MINDS <https://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/>, Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego członek korespondent Polskiej Akademii Nauk <https://pan.pl/> faculty associate Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society <https://cyber.harvard.edu/>, Harvard University Ważniejsze książki: Collaborative Society <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collaborative-society> (2020, MIT Press, z A. Przegalińską), Thick Big Data <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thick-big-data-9780198839705?cc=gb&lang=en> (2020, Oxford University Press), Common Knowledge? <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24010> (2014, Stanford University Press) W niedawnych badaniach wykryłem dezinformację nt. #AstraZeneca <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350621003462?via%3Dihub> , analizowałem międzynarodowe sieci medialne dot. rozmów klimatycznych <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221081426?fbclid=IwAR1cLrZOfbfshdVqWLu-YUUDSWf3dkzpO4m4RysF7K7gmhUAORnifMmOs44>, pokazałem, że prawo Godwina nie działa <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448211062070>, że open source umiera powolną śmiercią, <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257192> że najlepsze artykuły na Wikipedii tworzy wikiprojekt o cyklonach <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094721000475>, że naukowczynie raczej nie publikowały mniej w lockdownach <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01655515211068168>, że bibliografie na Wikipedii korespondują z rankingami czasopism <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0894439321993836>, czy że prawnicy z Harvardu akceptują piractwo. <https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asi.24592> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

Hello, It seems that the vote is now closed. I made a script [1] to check that voters comply with some of the rules of voting eligibility [2]. I found two cases of non-compliance: * one person voted twice, once with their main account and once with their bot account (User:Uziel302 and User:Uzielbot, the latter vote has been struck after I reported the case to the elections committee); * one person voted twice, once with their personal account and once with their professional account as an employee of Wikimedia Deutschland (User:Masssly [3] and User:Mohammed_Sadat_(WMDE) [4]). Note that Masssly is a member of the Wikimedia Foundation elections committee [5]. I'm only providing the data, I have no official role in this election and I don't wish to comment (I certainly don't have the whole picture), even though I'm sad to see some people repeatedly causing concerns at the occasions of elections. [1] https://github.com/envlh/wmf-board-elections [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Voter_e… [3] https://vote.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:SecurePoll/list/1364&a… [4] https://vote.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:SecurePoll/list/1364&a… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee Cheers, Envel Le Hir On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 7:22 AM Mahuton Possoupe < mpossoupe-ctr(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org