Hi all WikiJournal participants,

The WikiJournal User Group will have a vote in the upcoming election for members in the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation. I forward information below. I forward the information given to me, but the short version is that we can do the following during this stage:
  • Discuss involvement in our group
  • Discuss ideal candidates
  • Nominate and/or endorse someone

Best regards,

Mikael



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From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta@wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:53 AM
Subject: [All-affiliates] ASBS 2019: Nominations now open
To: Wikimedia Affiliates <all-affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hello everyone, and apologies for "cross-posting":

  • The Resolution has been approved by the Board of Trustees;
  • Nominations phase is now open, from April 15 00:00 UTC to April 30 23:59 UTC. See the Call for Candidates and Nominations pages;
    • Community members may ask questions of the candidates;
  • Your main representative has just received an email to confirm that they are indeed the primary contact and will perform official actions on behalf of your group (such as endorsing candidates and then voting). Some groups also need to verify their eligibility status in due time, as explained in the email;
  • New content is available to spread awareness around the process - the infographic I am attaching has clickable links and can be translated, and a primer is available, that we hope will be particularly helpful to those new to such a process;
  • Finally, you are welcome to help with translations! Pick one page from the ASBS category and, in the next couple of weeks, please consider translating profiles of the candidates in particular.

Thanks for your attention from myself and the Facilitators for ASBS 2019,


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Erica Litrenta
Manager, Community Relations Specialists
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From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta@wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 4:40 PM
Subject: [time sensitive; hard deadline] Request for clarity around contact for Affiliate-selected Board seats process
To: 



Hi. This email has important information about the next steps in the process to select the next two Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees members [1].


You are receiving this email because, according to our information, you are the primary contact for the user group you belong to. Therefore you, and only you, will soon cast a vote on behalf of your entire group or perform other official actions such as endorsing a candidate's nomination. By April 29, your name must be listed publicly on Meta wiki [2] to document the above (your vote will also be displayed on the same page, in June).  If the above is fine with you, you don't have to do anything, as we will add this information there.


If you need to change anything please do one or more of these things as soon as possible:


  • Would you rather go by your Wikimedia account username instead? Let us know which one we should use.

  • Are you unsure which group this email is about? Let us know if so.

  • Do you think that someone else in your group is supposed to be the primary contact for the ASBS process instead? Please provide their name and email address.


Thank you for your attention from me and the Facilitators of this process.



[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Eligible_entities
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Erica Litrenta
Manager, Community Relations Specialists