Thank you for the Election Compass! While the quantitative ranking was not very useful for me, these clear statements and concise answers by all candidates helped me a lot in the decision, and also the Election Compass tool was quite decent to explore them. The process of wider community input to draft questions and upvoting them has clearly led to a much more useful set of questions than what we had at the Board of Trustees election.
So, while tooling could be improved in the future, I think the general approach to questions was great, and next elections (for Board of Trustees or whatever other body) should do it in a similar way. Best, Mario On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:02 PM Kaarel Vaidla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting > committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are > running for seven seats in these elections. > > As recommended by the Movement Strategy recommendations, the goal is to > assemble a Drafting Committee that will draft a Movement Charter to ensure > a common framework for decision making in the Wikimedia movement > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Ensure_Equity_in_Decision-making#Establish_a_common_framework_for_decision-making>. > The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities > vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates > through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the > Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, > 2021. > > Voting is open from October 12 10:00 UTC to October 24, 2021 23:59 (Anywhere > on Earth <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth>). > > > > Learn more about the candidates > > Candidates from across the movement have submitted their candidatures. Learn > about each candidate to inform your vote > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>. > The statements are translated to a number of languages, so you can have > access to the information in many of your preferred languages. > > Additionally, we are piloting a so-called “Election Compass > <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>” for this election. Click > yourself through the tool and respond to the 19 statements, and you will > see which candidate is closest to you! The tool is available in ~9 > languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, > Indonesian, Hausa). > > > > Voting > > Similar to the previous Board elections, we have chosen Single > Transferable Vote > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Single_Transferable_Vote> > for the voting system. The benefit of this is voters can rank their choices > in order of preference. Learn more about voting requirements > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Voting#Voting_eligibility>, > how to vote > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Voting>, > and frequently asked questions about voting > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Voting#Voting_FAQ> > . > > > To cast your vote, please go to SecurePoll > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections> > . > > > We also offer two question and answer times, if you have any questions > regarding the Movement Charter and the voting process:w > > - > > Wednesday, 19:00 UTC, on Google Meet > - > > Thursday, 13:00 UTC, on Zoom (that’s the Conversation Time with Maggie > Dennis) > > Please write a short message to [email protected] if you want to > participate in one of these. > > > > Please help select people who best fit the needs of the movement at this > time. Vote and spread the word so more people can vote for candidates. Our > aim is to have a committee with Wikimedians that combine the diversity of > the Wikimedia Movement as well as a great mix of competencies. > > > > Best, > > Kaarel Vaidla, on behalf of the Movement Strategy & Governance team, > Wikimedia Foundation > -- > > Kaarel Vaidla (he/him) > > Movement Strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030> > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/O6EYQSHWXT5JH7DZZDNLD4BRPEYPQZTF/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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