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October 2025 update on the Board of Trustees election candidate ballot
[edit]Please find an update from Nat Tymkiv about the list of candidates for the 2025 Board of Trustees election. --ELappen (WMF) (talk) 18:24, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
- Why was this new process Foundation:Policy:Board of Trustees Candidate Review Process introduced just two days before two candidates were removed from the 2025 elections? The rules should have been finalized prior to this. I encourage all Board members and candidates to take a strong stance on this issue. We need answers as to why these candidates were disqualified. We need more transparency around this process. The Board's October update posted by ELappen above insufficiently answers the questions raised by the community. Hexatekin (talk) 17:32, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
- I don't know why this was published at the end of the review period rather than at the start; not ideal. But this looks like a formalization of the process described + scheduled on August 21 when the election timeline was pushed back. And having anything written down is an improvement over the previous unwritten process. –SJ talk 15:53, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
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