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From: Andrew Lih <andrew(a)andrewlih.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 3:25 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] REMINDER: Voting for Movement Charter Drafting
Committee open until October 24, 2021
To: Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) <
wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
REMINDER
Community voting to fill 7 of the 15 seats of the Movement Charter Drafting
Committee (MCDC) is open and runs until the end of Sunday, October 24,
2021. This is a very important group that will help draft a charter for the
Wikimedia Movement that will undergo community feedback and eventual
ratification.
BASICS
Basic information about the MCDC is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee
An "election compass" was created as a Q&A system to help voters evaluate
how well the candidate's views matched their own. That official site is
here:
https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/
Voting happens with single transferable vote (SVT) using SecurePoll here
until October 24:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio…
ADDENDUM
That is the base information. However, I am including more practical
knowledge and wisdom from various sources. Why? There are 70 candidates for
7 seats. If that sounds daunting, you are correct. There has been
widespread concern that the average voter cannot meaningfully evaluate the
candidates.
Therefore, here are some of the best practices and resources so far. These
are all publicly available tools and content, but I am highlighting them
here for the benefit of the community.
-
A table of all the candidates, locales, languages, and basic
information. This was gleaned from the original candidate statements but is
more easily viewable (and sortable) in table form.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…
-
Browse the full election compass results with this tool (full
disclosure, it was created by one of the candidates, but it faithfully
reports the compass answers in a different format). I would recommend
browsing all the questions, but these specifically show the widest range of
responses: 1, 6, 11, 24, 34, 45, 92
https://krehel.sk/Candidates_Drafting_Committee_Movement_Charter_Statements/
-
A user perspective of how to navigate the election process from longtime
Wikimedian Lodewijk Gelauff, posted on Facebook and publicly readable even
without an account.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/posts/4382804991767298/
Regards,
- Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
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Hi everyone -- I tried to send this message last night, but it disappeared
into the ether. That means that what was once time-sensitive is now in the
urgent category. There's also a lightning talk about this this afternoon in
the 5:15 hour at WikiConference North America.
***
Hello everyone,
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our meeting yesterday. If you
weren't able, we hope to see you next month at our November meeting.
Yesterday we discussed where things stand with the movement strategy
process, and I didn't do a great job of explaining it. I just attended an
info session with Xeno from the Wikimedia Foundation to learn more about
this. The long and the short of it is this:
- Members of the global Wikimedia movement have been collectively
crafting a movement strategy for years. (You can learn more about that
here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>
if you're curious.)
- The next big step is drafting the movement charter, a process that
will be done by a committee. But first! The movement charter committee must
be elected.
- The affiliates from each region will put forward one selector, and
those selectors will vote on the charter committee members. The regions are
big -- our region is North America (which, for the purposes of this process
is defined as the US and Canada). So all of the US and Canada will choose
just one selector, and that selector will work with the selectors from all
the other regions to vote on the members of the movement charter committee.
Did you get all that? It's a pretty elaborate process, and I've found it
confusing until just now, meeting with Xeno. You can think of the selectors
as the electoral college. We, the North Carolina Wikipedians, have to work
with all the other affiliate groups across the US and Canada to choose *one*
person to send to this electoral college. And the deadline is Monday. Oh,
and nobody yet has self-nominated to be that selector!
So! Here's what I'd like to know:
- First, would anyone from our group like to nominate themselves to be a
selector? I believe this would be a 5-10 hour commitment. The selector
would read the bios of all 70 candidates
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>,
and then vote for the 13 they think would do the best job according to the
priorities of the North American affiliate groups. Because nobody has
self-nominated, there's a good chance that anyone self-nominating would end
up as the selector representing all of the US and Canada. (But no pressure.
😉 )
- Second, whoever the selector ends up being, it would be great to tell
them what our values are as a user group. If anyone has the time and the
inclination to look at this list of "compass statements"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio…>
and respond to this message with what they think is important, I'll gather
that info and add it to this talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/…>
on behalf of our group.
If you're inclined to do either of the above, please do so sometime this
weekend -- the window closes soon!
And let me know if anyone has questions!
Emily
Hello everyone,
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our meeting yesterday. If you
weren't able, we hope to see you next month at our November meeting.
Yesterday we discussed where things stand with the movement strategy
process, and I didn't do a great job of explaining it. I just attended an
info session with Xeno from the Wikimedia Foundation to learn more about
this. The long and the short of it is this:
- Members of the global Wikimedia movement have been collectively
crafting a movement strategy for years. (You can learn more about that
here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>
if you're curious.)
- The next big step is drafting the movement charter, a process that
will be done by a committee. But first! The movement charter committee must
be elected.
- The affiliates from each region will put forward one selector, and
those selectors will vote on the charter committee members. The regions are
big -- our region is North America (which, for the purposes of this process
is defined as the US and Canada). So all of the US and Canada will choose
just one selector, and that selector will work with the selectors from all
the other regions to vote on the members of the movement charter committee.
Did you get all that? It's a pretty elaborate process, and I've found it
confusing until just now, meeting with Xeno. You can think of the selectors
as the electoral college. We, the North Carolina Wikipedians, have to work
with all the other affiliate groups across the US and Canada to choose *one*
person to send to this electoral college. And the deadline is Monday. Oh,
and nobody yet has self-nominated to be that selector!
So! Here's what I'd like to know:
- First, would anyone from our group like to nominate themselves to be a
selector? I believe this would be a 5-10 hour commitment. The selector
would read the bios of all 70 candidates
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>,
and then vote for the 13 they think would do the best job according to the
priorities of the North American affiliate groups. Because nobody has
self-nominated, there's a good chance that anyone self-nominating would end
up as the selector representing all of the US and Canada. (But no pressure.
😉 )
- Second, whoever the selector ends up being, it would be great to tell
them what our values are as a user group. If anyone has the time and the
inclination to look at this list of "compass statements"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio…>
and respond to this message with what they think is important, I'll gather
that info and add it to this talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/…>
on behalf of our group.
If you're inclined to do either of the above, please do so sometime this
weekend -- the window closes soon!
And let me know if anyone has questions!
Emily
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 7:50 PM
Subject: Your Lightning Talks wanted for WCNA this Friday-Sunday
To: Wikimedia U.S. Chapter <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
5 minutes on any wiki topic, sign up today!
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2021/Lightning_Talks
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi everyone!
Pharos reminded me that WikiConference North America is happening virtually
from Oct. 8-10: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2021/Main_Page
He writes: "It will be virtual too of course, with local picnics in one or
two places as well. The period for major submissions is done, but there's
still plenty of room for lightning talks and unconference."
And, of course, it's worth just attending!
Take a look at the link above and register if you're interested!
Emily