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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6[edit]

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period is now open[edit]

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Hi everyone,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions
• Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

MPossoupe (WMF) (talk) 00:24, 23 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MPossoupe (WMF) Is there a reason the Campaign Videos were omitted from this announcement? TomDotGov (talk) 01:53, 23 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi @TomDotGov,

Thanks for asking. The message announcing the opening of the vote was prepared months in advance, including translations, before the decision was made to create campaign videos. The link to the videos wasn't included in this version because of this, but the suggestion was to link the videos from the Candidates page, which IS linked and translated. That was overlooked. While we haven’t got time to get the update to that page translated, we have added the links under a header that makes them easy to find and should be easy to translate. We will also include a note about the videos when we send a voting reminder.

Thanks

MPossoupe (WMF) (talk) 06:50, 24 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

They are included now, at least in the English version (and I tweaked the German translation a wee bit), but they have to be made translatable by someone with some kind of administrative rights. Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 08:13, 24 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MPossoupe (WMF): Thanks for explaining what happened. Andreas JN466 05:51, 25 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Fix, removed translation markup. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 03:03, 2 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close[edit]

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Hello,

The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions.
• Learn more about the skills the Board seek and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
• Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

MPossoupe (WMF) (talk) 05:36, 30 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Fix, removed translation markup. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 03:03, 2 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Help needed with stalk toy[edit]

How do I use stalktoy to view expired blocks in addition to active ones on a IPv4 range globally? Thanks! – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 08:43, 4 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Camouflaged Mirage: Do you know? Thanks. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 07:08, 6 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Stalk toy is not managed here, from a quick read displaying prior blocks is not a current feature. You may submit feature requests for that external tool here. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:47, 6 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  @Xaosflux: I do not have a github account. Is there any other tool I could use instead? – 00:55, 7 September 2022 (UTC) Ilovemydoodle (talk) 00:55, 7 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  That's the only link I found. Pretty sure it's free to register on github. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:42, 7 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  @Xaosflux: I know that it's free, but I don't like registering an account unless I have to. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 17:30, 7 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

rename User Group[edit]

Can we rename Wikimedia Community of Kazakh language User Group to Wikimedia Kazakhstan User Group? Kaiyr (talk) 08:09, 9 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct[edit]

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Hello everyone,

The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee is requesting comments regarding the Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period will be open from 8 September 2022 until 8 October 2022.

The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input gathered from the community discussion period from May through July, as well as the community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are focused on the following four areas:

1. To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
2. To simplify the language for more accessible translation and comprehension by non-experts;
3. To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
4. To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused

The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by 8 October 2022. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further revising the guidelines based on community input.

Find the Revised Guidelines on Meta, and a comparison page in some languages.

Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome comments in any language on the Revised Enforcement Guidelines talk page. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or during conversation hours. There are a series of conversation hours planned about the Revised Enforcement Guidelines; please see Meta for the times and details.

The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large number of communities. If you do not see a conversation happening in your community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in setting up the conversations. Discussions will be summarized and presented to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published here.

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 08:32, 11 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Wikimedia fundraising emails judged to be misleading[edit]

Judging by the samples the WMF has made available on the Fundraising page, Wikimedia fundraising emails for the ongoing English email campaign asking donors for money to keep Wikipedia online are substantially misleading – that was the verdict of a poll on the English Wikipedia's Village Pump.

• For a summary of the poll to date, see post on Wikimedia-l.
• The poll itself is part of this Village Pump section, which includes the email texts volunteers critiqued: en:Wikipedia:Village_pump (proposals)#Review of English Wikimedia fundraising_emails

The Wikimedia Foundation has accumulated several hundred million dollars in reserves. In the 2020/2021 financial year, it had a surplus of almost $90 million (increase in net assets + increase in the value of the Wikimedia endowment).

Three of the six shortlisted community-and-affiliate candidates currently in the running for a Wikimedia Foundation board seat supported the following statement: "WMF fundraising is deceptive: it creates a false appearance that the WMF is short of money while it is in fact richer than ever" (statement #5 on the linked page). Andreas JN466 12:24, 11 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

 Strong support – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 18:10, 11 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please reformat message to ja.wikipedia.org[edit]

On ja.wikipedia.org, messages from "MediaWiki message delivery" are post to ja:Project:お知らせ/ウィキメディア共通, and messages are included on ja:Project:お知らせ（discussion:ja:Wikipedia‐ノート:お知らせ#財団さんからのお知らせと日本語版内部のお知らせを分けませんか）. So, please change message's header from h2 tag（== xxx ==） to h3 tag（=== xxx ===）, and post on section "ja:Project:お知らせ/ウィキメディア共通#ウィキメディア共通のお知らせ" . --Miraburu (talk) 06:36, 12 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Training on using the Wiki Applications[edit]

I've just re-donated to support Wikipedia for another year. But, I think I only scratch the surface of using it and the other related Wiki offerings. How can I get training (e.g. videos) on how to use all of the offerings?

Announcing the preliminary results of the 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period[edit]

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Hi everyone,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2022 Board of Trustees election process. Your participation helps seat the trustees the community seeks on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

These are the preliminary results of the 2022 Board of Trustees election:

• Shani Evenstein Sigalov
• Mike Peel

You may see more information about the Results and Statistics of this Board election.

The Board will complete their review of the most voted candidates, including conducting background checks. The Board plans to appoint new trustees at their meeting in December.

Best,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 06:22, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]