Hi Everyone
Thank you to the Election Committee for all the hard work in both these and the FDC
elections! It is amazing to see how many votes were cast this year, which is great. And
voters came from a much larger spread of projects than before. As we can see from the
results every vote really can make a difference. I would like to give a special thanks to
all the affiliates who facilitated discussion within their community’s and encouraged
people to vote.
Congratulations to Dariusz, James and Denny on being elected to the Wikimedia Board of
Trustees! Their formal appointment will take place at Wikimania. When that time comes we
will also thank Maria, Phoebe and SJ properly for all the hard work over the past years
:)
Apart from thanking all those who voted I would like to do a final thank you to everyone
who ran in these elections. It is an incredible amount of work to run in these elections
(especaily with all the questions that have to be answered, often not in a native
language). You are a great pool of volunteers and hopefully you are able to help in other
places within the movement. As discussed with some of you we are looking at a way to keep
the candidates involved and somehow benefit from your expertise in the future :)
Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair
Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation
On 06 Jun 2015, at 01:14, Gregory Varnum
<gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
election are now available on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results
Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman
(User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most
community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees,
after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania.
These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia
Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees.
There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote
difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots
to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4.
Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results
More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a
blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the
coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well
for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These
reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful,
and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mo…
The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for
helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the
movement’s history.
Sincerely,
– 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha,
Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel
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