Hello, Emufarmers and Andreas This was pointed out on Meta as well.
The message announcing the opening of the vote was prepared months in advance, including translations, before the decision was made to create campaign videos. The link to the videos wasn't included in this version because of this, but the suggestion was to link the videos from the Candidates page, [1] which IS linked and translated. That was overlooked. While we haven’t got time to get the update to that page translated, we have added the links under a header that makes them easy to find and should be easy to translate. We will also include a note about the videos when we send our voting reminder. Best regards, Mahuton (WMF) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates#Community_Questions On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 2:17 AM Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > The on-wiki voting instructions in all the other languages still make no > mention of the videos. > > Andreas > > On Tuesday, August 23, 2022, Benjamin Lees <emufarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm surprised to see that this announcement includes no mention of the > videos that the candidates created answering community questions[1] and > instead highlights the affiliate questions from the earlier phase of the > election. The on-wiki instructions also made no mention of the videos > until a community member added them,[2] and the posting of the videos was > not announced on this list until Andreas did it.[3] > > To be clear, the decision to channel campaign activities into video > rather than text settings was both inconvenient and inequitable, both for > the candidates and for voters, and probably doomed any chance to have the > candidates' answers translated for non-English-speaking voters. There are > no usable transcripts available[4], except for the written answers from the > one candidate who has opted to provide them.[5] But since this is the path > that was chosen, I don't think it's right to bury what little community > engagement we had. > > Emufarmers > > > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Campaign_Videos > > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting&diff=23706531&oldid=23660982 > > [3] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting/Questions_for_Candidates&diff=prev&oldid=23691840 > > [4] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Campaign_Videos&oldid=23709100 > > [5] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting/Questions_for_Candidates/Sorted > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 1:22 AM Mahuton Possoupe < > mpossoupe-...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is > now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need > to vote: > >> > >> Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different > topics. > >> Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions > >> Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis > Committee found candidates aligned with those skills > >> > >> If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote > now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 > UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter > eligibility page. > >> > >> Best, > >> > >> Movement Strategy and Governance > >> > >> *This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and > the Elections Committee* > >> > >> -- > >> > >> < > https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/yBcvUBz7x7xW_texDbyEnK7BKs9wPMPAI4NuqDit5ipBVl-TBu9JIdHdySi6iZA1UTcm3AzWcx8bfkDvjMaftQqxtKRkjORZgmQ53i7g9bVQ6rEy7NhGdz4mZ6AcTe2tIAyMD9wH > > > >> > >> Mahuton POSSOUPE (He/Him) > >> > >> Movement Strategy & Board Governance facilitator > >> > >> French-speaking communities > >> > >> Wikimedia Foundation > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, > 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/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/XXYJNFPMRW3KH4BU2X22SML7OM7PPTYA/ > >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, 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/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/YQ3WETNCOPCZZDHTPXIFHREHY74A36CB/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- *Mahuton POSSOUPE (He/Him)* Movement Strategy & Board Governance facilitator French-speaking communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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