[Foundation-l] Board elections: Weekly report for May 10 to May 18

[Jesse Plamondon-Willard]

Hello,

Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections for the week of May
10 to 18. For detailed information on the elections, see
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en>.

==Timeline==
* Last chance for candidates to apply! The candidate submission period
ends May 22. There are currently 10 candidates.
* Candidate statements will be ready for translation on May 23. The
main translation phase continues until 01 June 2008.

==Election system==
As separately announced, the elections this year will use preferential
voting using the Schulze method, with winning votes as the default
measure for the strength of pairwise defeat.
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/30111>

==Email notification==
Preliminary consultation with Wikimedia system administrators about
the technical feasibility of sending email notification to all
eligible voters is promising. More information on email notification
will be in the next weekly report.

==Translation==
We currently have 30 translations. If you'd like to help, please see
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation>.

Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages /
total size of all pages):
* 100: ca, cs, de, el, en, es, fa, fr, it, ja, ko, nb, nl, pl, pt, ru,
sv, yue, zh-hans, zh-hant.
* 40+: fi.
* 20+: he.
* 10+: ar.
* 1+: eo, eu, hr, ml, uk.
* 0: hu, id.

==See also==
* detailed information: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en>
* ask a question: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2008>
* previous reports:
 <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/29567>
 <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/29783>

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)