The 2008 Board election committee announces the 2008 election process. Wikimedians will have the opportunity to elect one candidate from the Wikimedia community to serve as a representative on the Board of Trustees. The successful candidate will serve a one-year term, ending in July 2009.
Candidates may nominate themselves for election between May 8 and May 22, and the voting will occur between 1 June and 21 June. For more information on the voting and candidate requirements, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008.
The voting system to be used in this election has not yet been confirmed, however voting will be by secret ballot, and confidentiality will be strictly maintained.
Votes will again be cast and counted on a server owned by an independent, neutral third party, Software in the Public Interest (SPI). SPI will hold cryptographic keys and be responsible for tallying the votes and providing final vote counts to the Election Committee. SPI provided excellent help during the 2007 elections.
Further information can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en. Questions may be directed to the Election Committee at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2008/en. If you are interested in translating official election pages into your own language, please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation.
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All,
[Copied to wikien in case of UK lurkers. ;-)]
At the meetup this afternoon we decided that it would be sensible to
schedule regular London meetups; given that the weekend worked well
(and yes, I know, selection bias), we thought to make it happen:
>From now on, at 13:00 onwards, there will be a meetup in The
Penderel's Oak on the second Sunday of every month.
I know it's not ideal for some, but it's good for many, and this won't
preclude mid-week meets on the half-month shifted cycle, for instance
(hint ;-)).
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
Is it just me, or do all the arguments about people being part of the trouble
because they're on the same mailing list remind anyone of arguments that were
thoroughly rejected in the Durova case, where it was a mailing list o
coordinated admins?
In a message dated 4/24/2008 10:59:28 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cimonavaro(a)gmail.com writes:
"The body would be given essentially unlimited authority to set
project policy, so long as it is in compliance with Wikimedia
Foundation policies and resolutions, the relevant laws, and so forth."
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I'm reminded of that scene in 1984, where after the overthrow of the farmer,
and the institution of "democracy", the pigs have now decided that they
should rule over the other animals.
Our mission is not to create more committees and more institutions.
At least I never joined with that concept in my mind, that the more *rulers*
we have the better off we would be. In my mind in fact, "Foundation
policies and resolutions" should not even be considered relevant. Neither should
laws. Anarchy! Anarchy!
OK what I mean is, rule by the masses, pure and simple.
Will Johnson
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Nathan wrote
> Are you criticizing the level of the language used, then? I don't see a
> problem with it.
It's fine, except it need totally rewriting from scratch.
Charles
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"Judson Dunn" wrote
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Governance_reform
>
> May be of interest to people.
I take it "policy stagnation" refers to the non-fixing of non-broken site rules.
Correct that the ArbCom doesn't make policy; not correct that while not making policy, it "makes" policy. What comes up in Arbitration is not judge-made law, but an indication of how the current ArbCom tries to make sense of policy in the messiest onsite situations.
Deliberative assembly. Could easily be set up as a Wikback-style forum, participation by invitation and/or qualification.
Charles
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