SecurePoll

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SecurePoll is a tool used in Wikimedia projects for managing elections. Since 2009 it has been the election tool of choice for major Wikimedia community elections which appoint influential positions related to the management of the Wikimedia Foundation, including seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and the Funds Dissemination Committee.

Información de fondo

Overview of the MediaWiki extension SecurePoll and the voting methods it supports as of July 2023.

SecurePoll as software is a MediaWiki extension with technical documentation at SecurePoll.

There exists additional documentation on how to use the software for Board elections on Wikitech.

Using SecurePoll for Wikimedia elections

Wikimedia Foundation staff oversee the use of SecurePoll for elections related to the Wikimedia Foundation.

SecurePoll is currently not available for general use. It is not currently available for anyone to use on request.

If it were available for use on request, then any Wikimedia community group which was holding an election might use it for their election. For example, any Wikimedia movement affiliates might use SecurePoll as a trusted way to manage their own Wikimedia election such as their own board election.

Elections for which SecurePoll is used

The following elections have made use of SecurePoll in the past. Some of these are regularly held for legacy reasons.


Elección	Comunidad	Época del año	Frecuencia	Next scheduled election
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees	Global	julio–agosto	Cada ~2 años	julio y agosto 2022
English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections	English Wikipedia	December	Every year	December 2023
Farsi Wikipedia Supervisory Board elections	Farsi Wikipedia	October	Every year	October 2022
Wikimedia Ukraine Board and Audit Committee elections	Wikimedia Ukraine	February	Every year^{[note 1]}	none
Movement Charter Drafting Committee	Global	October 2022	One-off	none
U4C Charter	Global	October 2023	One-off	October 2023
Chinese Wikipedia admin elections	Wikipedia en chino	varios	One-off^{[note 2]}	none

↑ Wikimedia Ukraine requested the use of SecurePoll in 2021 as a temporary replacement for their traditional, in-person vote.
↑ This election was originally held as a trial in 2021. See phab:T295518 for more information. Since then, elections have been held on an ad-hoc basis.

Véase también

Special:SecurePoll, interface
Extension:SecurePoll, a description of the extension
Wikitech documentation

[WMUA-1] Wikimedia Ukraine requested the use of SecurePoll in 2021 as a temporary replacement for their traditional, in-person vote.

[zhwiki-2] This election was originally held as a trial in 2021. See phab:T295518 for more information. Since then, elections have been held on an ad-hoc basis.

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