Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce the Steward Elections 2016 [1]. We are now taking nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can check their eligibility and procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines page [2]. We are open to candidate submissions till January 28, 2016, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until February 6, 2016, 23:59 (UTC). Guidelines about questioning can also be found on our guidelines page [2].

As always, the confirmation of existing stewards [3] will take place at the same time as the election, which begins on February 8, and will finish on February 27, 2016.

Please remember, the voting has not yet begun and will be not until February 8, 2016, 00:00 (UTC). We will poke you once again when the voting starts.

As you all know steward elections are a global event, so we need help from volunteers to translate necessary pages into languages they speak. For those who want to help us out with translation, please see our translation portal [4]. And if you have any queries related to translation or anything related to the election, you can ask us on the talk page [5]. Alternatively you are free to poke us in the freenode IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards-elections.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any list if you think it will be useful.

Regards, Shanmugam Pachamuthu

(On behalf of the Election Committee.)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2016 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2016/Guidelines [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2016 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2016/Coordination#Transla... [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/Elections_2016