User:Sm8900/Index/Drafts/Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation elections

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Overview

2022 BOARD ELECTION

During the 2022 Board of Trustees election, two community-and-affiliate candidates will be selected to serve on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. This page contains an overview of the 2022 Board of Trustees election.

About the election

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. Community trustees and appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees. Two candidates will join the Board of Trustees. The selected candidates will first be shortlisted by the affiliates and finally selected by the community.

Desired skills and experiences

Wikimedia is a global movement and the Board seeks candidates from the broader community. Ideal candidates align with the Wikimedia mission and are thoughtful, respectful, and community-oriented.

The Board would like to find perspectives and voices that are underrepresented and essential for our movement. To fill gaps in historic and current representation within the Board, the Board of Trustees hopes to encourage applications especially from those with experience in the following regions: Africa, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia and Pacific, and Latin America and Caribbean. Desired regional experience is not a requirement, but a bonus factor. Instead of being mandatory, these are important characteristics that the Board asks everyone to consider.

The Board understands it is possible that some candidates from deprioritized regions bring a better lens on diversity than some other candidates from prioritized regions who are not familiar with equity considerations. Candidates should share how their experiences have equipped them to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Skills

The areas of experience that the Board has indicated would be most beneficial for new trustees to bring are:

Organizational strategy and management Enterprise-level platform technology and/or product development Public policy and the law Social data science, big data analysis, and machine learning

Learn more about the desired perspectives, experiences and skills for candidates to have in this election on the Apply to be a Candidate page.

Affiliate organization involvement

Timeline of the 2022 Board of Trustees election

The affiliate organizations will vote in this election in July to shortlist six candidates from the candidate pool. Each affiliate organization will be allowed one vote. This vote will be using the Single Transferable Vote method. Affiliate organizations should discuss the candidates the affiliate organization would like to select. Candidates should be ranked in order of preference.

To assist with this selection process, an Analysis Committee will be formed.

Analysis Committee

For regional distribution of the Affiliates and facilitators who will be supporting it, see Affiliates regional distribution for the Analysis Committee

The Analysis Committee is formed from the affiliates during late April and May. The Analysis Committee is composed of 9 representatives of affiliates (including all chapters, user groups, and thematic groups) from regions across the movement. One each from:

CEE (Central & Eastern Europe); ESEAP (East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific region); Sub-saharan Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; MENA (Middle East and North Africa); North America (USA and Canada); Northern and Western Europe; South Asia; plus one for thematic affiliates.

The selection process to form the Analysis Committee will be defined by the affiliates, with support of the Elections Committee and the Movement Strategy and Governance team as needed.

The Analysis Committee evaluates the candidates against the skills and diversity, equity and inclusion criteria shared by the Board of Trustees. The Analysis Committee will use the statements the candidates answer on their application to rate the candidates. The Analysis Committee will rate candidates with a gold/silver/bronze framework. This rating will be used to provide input to the affiliate organizations when they plan their vote. The details of the evaluation of each candidate will not be shared.

After the six candidates have been selected during the affiliate organization voting process, the ratings of each selected candidate will be published to inform the community vote. This process aims to find the best balance between sharing useful information and minimizing unnecessary exposure of candidates.

Selected committee members Members of the Analysis Committee Region Representative CEE (Central & Eastern Europe) Mehman97 (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA) ESEAP (East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific) GDHFang (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA) Sub-Saharan Africa Dnshitobu (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA) Latin America and the Caribbean Superzerocool (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA) MENA (Middle East and North Africa) علاء (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA) North America Megs (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA) Western & Northern Europe SAARC (South Asia) Thematic Affiliates Joalpe (talk • meta edits • global user summary • CA)

Community voting

The community members will have the opportunity to vote to select the two trustees out of the six candidates shortlisted by affiliates. Single Transferable Vote on SecurePoll will be used this year.

Some community members noted it was challenging selecting candidates in 2021. The number of candidates was quite large. To support the selection process for community members, a voting advice tool will be developed. This will be similar to the voting advice tool used for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee selection process.

Timeline

April 2022

The Board announces the timeline for the election and the election process. The Elections Committee and the Movement Strategy and Governance team begin working with affiliates to define the Analysis Committee.

Mid-April – early May 2022 Call for Candidates Elections Committee and Trust & Safety confirmation of candidates.

Late April – early May 2022 Call for Affiliates to identify Analysis Committee members.

Mid-May – early June 2022 Analysis Committee rates candidates.

July 1, 2022 – July 15, 2022

Affiliate voting period to shortlist candidates. Shortlist of candidates is published

Mid-July – early August 2022 Community proposes questions for candidates and statements for the voting advice tool.

Mid-July – mid-August Campaign period to include community conversations with candidates.

August 15, 2022 – August 29, 2022

Community voting period Voting advice tool opens

End of August 2022 Results calculated and pre-announced before being scrutinized.

End of August – early September Results scrutinized and confirmed by the Elections Committee.

Early October 2022 Trustees confirmed