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Initially, stewards from enwiki were the norm, and some of the most recognizable and longest-serving stewards came from this project. However, in recent years, this has fallen off. No users primarily active on enwiki have been elected in the past two elections, and users from enwiki are generally under-represented within the group; while enwiki holds 30% of Wikimedia's active users, only 3 of the current 32 stewards are from this project. This is not necessarily a bad thing; steward work is overwhelmingly on global issues, and stewards are discouraged from performing actions on their homewikis anyway, so the job can be done just as well by users from other projects. However, it still represents a pattern of poor representation of this project at the global level. This essay will look at why this is, and give advice to enwiki users who want to get more involved in global work or potentially stand for election in the future.