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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection - sent to Wikimedia-L[edit]
Dear all,
(This message is also available in Arabic, French, Igbo, and more here)
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
- May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
- June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or fewer candidates apply) [5]
- June-August 2024: Campaign period
- End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
- October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
- Board’s Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page.
Thank you!
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected
[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1–3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized, and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1–3 candidates from the candidate list. Pundit (talk) 17:54, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Next Conversation with the Trustees, 21 March[edit]
Hi all,
The next Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees will take place on Thursday, 21 March at 19:00 UTC. The 90-minute call will take place on Zoom, with simultaneous streaming to YouTube, and the recording will be uploaded to Commons.
The agenda for the meeting will include topics such as Board updates after its in-person meeting in NY earlier this month; the Board’s work with the MCDC; and the WMF’s Annual Plan Process, including what was learned during the Talking:2024 initiative [3].
Please note that considering feedback received from participants in previous meetings, in this year’s meetings less time will be dedicated to updates, and more time will be allocated to free-flow conversation with Trustees.
As in last year, we’ll be hosting these meetings every quarter (March, June, August - during Wikimania, and November), and will be rotating the hour of these meetings to accommodate different time zones.
If you’d like to join us directly in Zoom, please email askcac
wikimedia.org for the Zoom link. You can also request interpretation, and ask any questions you would like to see answered, to the same address.
Hope to see as many of you as possible there.
Thanks, Mike, on behalf of the Community Affairs Committee, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation Mike Peel (talk) 14:20, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
March 2024 Meeting Outcomes[edit]
Please find my letter with March 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board Meeting Outcomes here -- NTymkiv (WMF) (talk) 18:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation feedback on Movement Charter Final Draft[edit]
Please find Wikimedia Foundation feedback on Movement Charter Final Draft here --NTymkiv (WMF) (talk) 14:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
Board of Trustees selection call for candidates[edit]
Katie Chan has just posted this:
Hello all,
The call for candidates for the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open from May 8, 2024 - May 29, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [1]. This is a volunteer position.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote to fill four (4) seats on the Foundation Board in August 2024. Could you - or someone you know - be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees?
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on this Meta-wiki page or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Community questions for candidates
All community members, including affiliates, are invited to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. From the list of questions, the Elections Committee selects 5 questions for candidates to answer, which the candidates are expected to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related. Questions can be submitted between May 8, 2024 - June 12, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Learn more about how to submit your questions on this Meta-wiki page.
Regards,
KTC
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
[1] - https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Bylaws#(B)_Term. Pundit (talk) 17:07, 8 May 2024 (UTC)