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/Elections

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/Candidates/Table

• 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)