Given that CentralNotice still isn't working, I've taken the hopefully temporary and short-lived approach of simulating the candidate notice using enwiki's local site notice.
Extending the nomination period does little if people don't actually know about it. Philippe has been posting a notice about the extension at various community noticeboards, but that will of course be rather hit and miss. At the same time, creating a local site notice on one (or just a few) wikis could also be seen as quite hit and miss. For that reason, I wanted to mention this action here in case people wanted to take similar steps on other wikis. Hopefully though some form of CentralNotice will be restored shortly. -Robert Rohde On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Philippe Beaudette<[email protected]> wrote: > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > As you may be aware, there is concern that the sitenotices regarding > submission of candidacy for the Board of Trustees election were not > seen anywhere but Meta after the 11th of this month. Because of the > potentially massive consequence of this, and to encourage a full and > active election, the election committee has determined that: > > - Candidacies will be accepted through July 27th at 23:59 (UTC) > - The period for questioning candidates begins immediately. > Candidates that are "late to the party" will, no doubt, be scrutinized > by the community. The Committee hopes that the community will work to > actively ensure that all candidates receive equivalent questioning. > - The dates of election will not change. The election will begin on > 28 July and end on 10 August. > > Please know that we recognize the radical nature of altering the > schedule in the midst of the election and would not do it if we did > not absolutely believe that there was a possibility that others may be > interested and qualified and may not have known about the key dates. > > For the committee, > Philippe > > (in my capacity as a volunteer, and not as an employee of the > Wikimedia Foundation) > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
