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News and notes ArbCom election results announced

2015-12-09

The three scrutineers announced the results, a little more than three days after the close of voting.

News and notes Online harassment consultation; High voter turnout at ArbCom elections

2015-12-02

How the community can have its say on two important matters.

Special report ArbCom election—candidates’ opinions analysed

2015-11-18

Our annual election coverage.

Arbitration report An election has consequences

2015-06-17

The Arbitration Committee delivered its final decision in a case that reached the attention of the UK national press.

From the editor Your voice is needed: strategic voting in the WMF election

2015-05-20

The Wikimedia Foundation's bi-annual Board of Trustees election is open for voting. Of the ten seats on the board, three are elected representatives of the global Wikimedia community—you.

Foundation elections WMF Board candidates share their views with the Signpost

2015-05-13

Board candidates share their views with the Signpost: Three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation—will be decided by Wikimedians in the election to be held 17–31 May.

Special report FDC candidates respond to key issues

2015-05-06

Elections have begun for five community members of the Funds Dissemination Committee, the Foundation's volunteer body for judging and recommending millions of dollars worth of annual grants to affiliates in the movement. The election lasts just eight days, from Sunday 3 May until 23:59 UTC on Sunday 10 May, so at the time of publication, voters will need to act promptly.

News and notes Call for candidates as the movement approaches the Wikimedia Board elections

2015-04-22

The Affiliates Committee this week announced the organization of a community referral for comment, currently open on the meta-wiki, to address upcoming changes to the way that the Affiliations Committee will review movement-affiliated user-groups in the future.

In focus 2015 Wikimedia Foundation election preparations underway

2015-04-22

2015 will see through the biennial community election for the three community-elected seats on the Board of Trustees—the "ultimate corporate authority" of the Wikimedia Foundation and the level at which the strategic decisions regarding the Wikimedia movement are made.

News and notes Annual report released; Wikimania; steward elections

2015-01-21

The municipality of Esino Lario in Italy will host Wikimania 2016.

Arbitration report Arbitration Committee election results

2014-12-17

Scrutineers give report.

Recent research Cross-language editors, election predictions, vandalism experiments

2013-12-25

Analyzing edits to the-then 46 largest Wikipedias between July 9 and August 8, 2013, a study identified a set of about 8,000 contributors with a global user account who have edited more than one of these language versions in that time frame.

News and notes Foundation to Wiki-PR: cease and desist; Arbitration Committee elections starting

2013-11-20

The Wikimedia Foundation has sent a formal cease and desist letter to Wiki-PR—the public relations agency accused of breaking Wikipedia policies and guidelines by creating, editing, and maintaining several thousand articles for paying clients through a sophisticated array of accounts. The Foundation's attorneys, Cooley LLP, have demanded that Wiki-PR's employees abide by the site's Terms of Use and the language of a community ban from the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration report Arbitration Committee election opens; WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators

2013-11-20

WMF opens the door for non-admin arbitrators: Back in March, when the March 25 Arbitration Report covered the Audit Subcommittee appointment discussion, a statement from the WMF legal division clarified its position that access to deleted revisions required an RFA or RFA-identical process; therefore AUSC committee appointments were not open to non-admins. The WMF legal team has now further clarified its position, saying that running for and winning an election for arbitrator would qualify as the type of rigorous community selection process required for the checkuser and oversight rights held by arbitrators.

Discussion report More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more

2013-10-23

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia include...

News and notes Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin

2013-10-16

Media coverage on Wiki-PR, the multi-million-dollar US-based company that has broken several policies and guidelines on the English Wikipedia in its quest to create and maintain thousands of articles for paying clients, continued this week with a feature story by Martin Robbins in the British edition of Vice magazine.

Discussion report Arbcom election procedures, Wiki Loves Monuments, Privacy policy, FDC, and more

2013-09-04

As mentioned in "In the news" on Wikipedia's main page, the Library of Birmingham in the United Kingdom has opened. This interior photo was taken a week before opening. The article reports that the library "has been described as the largest public library in the United Kingdom, the largest public cultural space in Europe, and the largest regional library in Europe."

News and notes Election results released

2013-06-26

Less than three days after the close of voting, the volunteer election committee posted the results on Meta. The worldwide Wikimedia movement has elected three WMF trustees for two-year terms on the 10-seat Board: Samuel Klein (supported by 43.5% of voters), Phoebe Ayers (38.3%), and María Sefidari (35.6%). The new trustees will take their seats at a critical time for the movement: one of the first tasks in their terms will be to help the Board to find and approve the new executive director to take up the top job when Sue Gardner departs.

News and notes Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF elections—where are all the voters?

2013-06-19

With erysichton elaborata, the Swedish Wikipedia passed the one million article Rubicon this week. While this is a mostly symbolic achievement, serving as a convenient benchmark with which to gain publicity and attention in an increasingly statistical world, the particular method by which the Swedish site has passed the mark has garnered significant attention—and controversy.

Discussion report VisualEditor, elections, bots, and more

2013-06-12

Current discussions on the English Wikipedia.

News and notes First community election for FDC positions

2013-05-27

First-ever community election for FDC positions: Alongside the Signpost's interviews with WMF Board candidates, we asked the candidates for the Funds Dissemination Committee and its Ombudsperson position a series of questions relating to the positions they may be taking on.

Foundation elections Candidates talk about the Meta problem, the nation-based chapter model, world languages, and value for money

2013-05-27

The elections for the three community seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees start on 8 June. This second and final part of the interview explores two broad themes: Meta, the site that hosts movement-wide coordination; and offline entities—the chapters and the new thematic organisations and user groups.

Foundation elections Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment

2013-05-20

Nominations closed last Friday for the three community-elected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) ten-member Board of Trustees—the ultimate corporate authority of the worldwide WMF. The Board has influential roles and responsibilities over one of the most powerful global information sources on the Internet.

News and notes Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014

2013-05-06

Although not yet in great numbers, candidates are coming forward for Wikimedia Foundation elections, which will be held from 1 to 15 June.

News and notes Arbitrator election: stewards release the results

2012-12-17

Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo.

News and notes Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's

2012-12-10

At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.

News and notes Editors want most funding for technical areas, while widespread ignorance of WMF board elections and chapters persists; voting still live on Commons best picture

2012-06-04

Recent research Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature

2012-03-26

Arbitration report The community elects eight arbitrators

2011-12-19

Arbitration report Betacommand 3 workshop revived, two cases set for acceptance and the ArbCom elections finish on a whimper

2011-12-12

Arbitration report Elections due to finish this week, little activity on Betacommand 3, Abortion case amended

2011-12-05

News and notes Arb's resignation sparks lightning RfC, Fundraiser 2011 off to a strong start, GLAM in Qatar

2011-11-28