Stewards/Elections 2017

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Stewards (2017 elections)

Guidelines  →

New stewards are elected roughly once per year. Stewards perform technical tasks on all Wikimedia wikis based on community consensus and on the Stewards policy: changing user access, viewing user information in cases of abuse, and so on (see details). For more information on voting, translating, or being a candidate, read the guidelines. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote. Candidate submissions are open from 15 January 2017, 00:00 (UTC) until 28 January 2017, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until the election concludes. The voting begins on 08 February 2017, 14:00 (UTC) and ends on 28 February 2017, 13:59 (UTC). Candidates must meet the criteria and obtain at least 30 votes in favor with an 80% support ratio. You can track the results with collected statistics. The confirmation process of the current stewards is being held in parallel.

Index

• All candidates' statements (without votes)

Candidate	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	Result
Cekli829	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	not elected
Defender	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	elected
Ellywa	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	not elected
HakanIST	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	elected
Hindustanilanguage	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	not elected
Matiia	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	elected
Sjoerddebruin	Yes	No	Neutral	Questions	elected
Confirmation of current stewards

Disqualified

The following candidates do not meet the requirements outlined in the guidelines and were disqualified:

Candidate	Result
Mogoeilor	disqualified
Ramesh S.Bohara	disqualified

Election Committee

Stewards organise the elections themselves. The Board of Trustees decided in 2009 that they will abstain from confirming the result of new elections. Therefore, stewards create an election committee for every election consisting of volunteers for the following tasks:

• Closing the steward elections;
• Certifying the outcome of the elections, after all votes cast in all candidatures were verified for eligibility;
• Appointing the elected candidates;
• Closing the steward confirmations;
• After the steward confirmation, weighing consensus by community and stewards, and then decide whether to confirm them or not.

Members

You can contact the Election Committee by emailing stewards-electionslists.wikimedia.org.

• Ajraddatz (talk · contribs)
• DerHexer (talk · contribs)
• Einsbor (talk · contribs)
• MBisanz (talk · contribs)
• MF-Warburg (talk · contribs)

To help out with the organisation of the 2017 steward elections, please see the coordination page.
If you require any help, feel free to ask in #wikimedia-stewards-elections-chat^connect or on the talk page. There is a recent changes feed for tracking on IRC at #wikimedia-stewards-elections^connect.

Results

Results: The following candidates were elected as stewards:

1. Defender (talk · contribs)
2. HakanIST (talk · contribs)
3. Matiia (talk · contribs)
4. Sjoerddebruin (talk · contribs)

See also

• Election statistics page
• Category of all valid candidacies
• Category of all invalid candidacies
• Confirmation page of existing stewards in 2017