[Wikimedia-l] Call for Election Volunteers

[Mahuton Possoupe]

Hello all,

The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members
to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021
Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be
successful. With the help of Election Volunteers, we were able to increase
outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017.
Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were
represented in the election.

But a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 produced voters in
the 2021 election. Can you help change the participation?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

   - Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in
   community channels
   - Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and
   questions

Volunteers should:

   - Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
   - Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a
   neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is
represented in the vote? Sign up here

to
receive updates. You can use the talk page

for
questions about translation.


Thank you,


Mahuton (WMF)
Facilitator, Movement Strategy & Governance


-- 

*Mahuton POSSOUPE (He/Him)*

Movement Strategy & Board Governance facilitator

French-speaking communities

Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Call for Election Volunteers

[Jackie Koerner]

Hi all,


Would you like to get more people taking part in the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Board of Trustees election?

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced the plan for the 2021
Board elections
.
That plan includes outreach and communication support for the Board
elections. The Board election facilitators will:

   - Inform communities of the trustee selection process
   - Invite communities to engage in voting
   - Encourage people representing emerging Wikimedia communities to run as
   candidates

Voter turnout in prior elections was about 10% globally. It was better in
communities with volunteer election support. Some of those communities
reached over 20% voter turnout. We know we can get more voters to help
assess and promote the best candidates, but to do that, we need your help.

We are looking for volunteers to serve as Election Volunteers. Election
Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities. The
facilitation team sees Election Volunteers as doing the following:

   - Promote the election in their communities’ channels
   - Organize discussions about the election in their communities
   - Translate messages for their communities

*Who are the Election Volunteers to connect your community with this
movement effort? Is it you? Or someone you know?* *Check out more details
about Election Volunteers*

and
add your name next to the community you will support in this table

 or get in contact with a facilitator
.
We aim to have at least one Election Volunteer for Wiki Projects in the top
30 for eligible voters. Even better if there are two or more sharing the
work.


Best,

-- 
*Jackie Koerner*

*she/her*
Board Election Facilitator
*English language and Meta-Wiki*
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