Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2025/Voter eligibility criteria

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Eligible voters can leave comments about the candidates and ask questions to all candidates on this page. Please post no more than 2 (two) relevant questions per candidate (in total; i.e. all questions a candidate needs to answer are counted), and keep them as concise and relevant as possible. Please limit the length of comments to max. 250 words. Voters can post comments and questions now; candidates will be asked to engage with questions during the Question period. Candidates, please answer as briefly and simply as possible.

Editors

You may vote from any single registered account you own on a Wikimedia wiki. You may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you own. To qualify, this one account must:

not be site-wide blocked in more than one public project;
and not be a bot;
and have made at least 300 edits before 13 May 2025 across Wikimedia wikis;
and have made at least 20 edits between 13 May 2024 and 13 May 2025.

The AccountEligibility tool can be used to quickly verify basic editor voting eligibility.

Developers

Developers qualify to vote if they:

are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access
or have made at least one merged commit to any official Wikimedia repos, between 13 May 2024 and 13 May 2025.

Additional criteria

or have made at least one merged commit to any repo in nonwmf-extensions or nonwmf-skins, between 13 May 2024 and 13 May 2025.
or have made at least one merged commit to any Wikimedia tool repo (for example magnustools) between 13 May 2024 and 13 May 2025.
or maintainers/contributors of any tools, bots, gadgets, and Lua modules on Wikimedia wikis.
or have substantially engaged in the design and/or review processes of technical development related to Wikimedia.

Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors

Current Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors qualify to vote if they have been employed by the Foundation as of 13 May 2025.

Wikimedia movement affiliates’ staff and contractors

Current Wikimedia chapter, thematic organization or user group staff and contractors qualify to vote if they have been employed by their organization as of 13 May 2025.
Members of formal bodies as defined in the bylaws of the current Wikimedia Chapters, thematic organizations or user groups qualify to vote if they have been serving in those functions as of 13 May 2025.

Wikimedia Foundation board members and advisors

Current members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, members of the Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board and volunteer advisors to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees committees qualify to vote.

Notes

If you meet the main criteria, you will be able to vote immediately. Due to the technical limitations of SecurePoll, people who meet the additional criteria may not be able to directly vote, unless they meet any of the other criteria. If you think you meet the additional criteria, please email u4c@lists.wikimedia.org with the reasoning and relevant documentation at least four (4) days before the last date for voting i.e. on or before 5 May 2025. If you meet the criteria, we will add you to a manual list, to be able to vote.