Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/sco
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The election ended 22 June 2013. No more votes will be accepted. The results were announced on 24 June 2013. |
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Process
The 2013 Wikimedia Foundation elections will be held from 8-22 June 2013. Members o the Wikimedia community hae the opportunity tae elect candidates for three positions.
- Three candidates for the Board of Trustees tae serve a twa-year term that will expire in 2015. The Board of Trustees is the hintmaist governing authority o the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages mony sindry projects sic as Wikipedia an Commons.
- Twa candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee o the Board tae serve a twa–year term.
- Ae candidate as the Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson tae serve a twa-year term.
The elections are held securely using SecurePoll software. Votes are secret, and no one from the Election Committee, the Board, or anyone on the Wikimedia Foundation staff has access to them. The encryption key for the election is held by an independent third party; once activated, the election is halted. Some personally identifiable data on voters (for instance, IP address, user agent, and other data that is substantially similar to that obtained by the Checkuser tool) is viewable by a select few persons who audit and tally the election (the election committee). Voters submit votes using a Support/Neutral/Oppose system. The votes will be tallied and the candidates will be ranked by percentage of support, defined as the number of votes cast in support of the candidate divided by the total number of votes cast for the candidate ("neutral" preferences are not counted, so this is the sum of support and oppose votes). The candidates with the highest percentage of support will be recommended to the Board of Trustees for appointment.
The election committee will announce the results on or before 28 June 2013. Detailed results will be available.
Wittins for voters
Wants
- Editors
You may vote from any one registered account you own on a Wikimedia wiki. You may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you own. To qualify, this one account must:
- not be blocked on more than one project;
- and not be blocked on the project you are voting from;
- and not be a bot;
- and have made at least 300 edits before 15 April 2013 across Wikimedia wikis (edits on several wikis can be combined if your accounts are unified into a global account);
- and have made at least 20 edits between 15 December 2012 and 30 April 2013.
- Developers
Developers qualify to vote if they:
- Are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access;
- Or have commit access and have made at least one merged commit in git between 1 May 2012 and 30 April 2013.
- Staff and contractors
Current Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors qualify to vote if they have been employed by the Foundation as of April 30th 2013.
- Board members and advisory board members
Current and former members of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board are qualified to vote.
Wittins for candidates
All candidates must meet the requirements for voters, as well as role–specific requirements. Multiple candidacies are not permitted.
Organization
Timeline
- 24 April – 17 May 2013: candidate submissions
- 17 May 2013: deadline to send proof of identity (late or missing submissions will be disqualified)
- 8–22 June 2013: elections
- 23–25 June 2013: vote-checking
- 25–28 June 2013: publication of results