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- ၁ Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
- ၂ Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process
- ၃ We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)
- ၄ Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
- ၅ Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May
- ၆ Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app
- ၇ New Page previews feature
- ၈ New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)
- ၉ Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
- ၁၀ Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View
- ၁၁ Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia
- ၁၂ RevisionSlider
- ၁၃ Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)
- ၁၄ Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation
- ၁၅ Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections
Review of initial updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. Message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
The Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. For 15 years, Wikimedians have worked together to build the largest free knowledge resource in human history. During this time, we've grown from a small group of editors to a diverse network of editors, developers, affiliates, readers, donors, and partners. Today, we are more than a group of websites. We are a movement rooted in values and a powerful vision: all knowledge for all people. As a movement, we have an opportunity to decide where we go from here.
This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve. We hope to design an inclusive process that makes space for everyone: editors, community leaders, affiliates, developers, readers, donors, technology platforms, institutional partners, and people we have yet to reach. There will be multiple ways to participate including on-wiki, in private spaces, and in-person meetings. You are warmly invited to join and make your voice heard.
The immediate goal is to have a strategic direction by Wikimania 2017 to help frame a discussion on how we work together toward that strategic direction.
Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Beginning with this message, monthly reviews of these updates will be sent to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a review of the updates that have been sent so far:
- Update 1 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (15 December 2016)
- Introduction to process and information about budget spending resolution to support it
- Update 2 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (23 December 2016)
- Start of search for Lead Architect for movement strategy process
- Update 3 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (8 January 2017)
- Plans for strategy sessions at upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2017
- Update 4 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (11 January 2017)
- Introduction of williamsworks
- Update 5 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 February 2017)
- The core movement strategy team, team tracks being developed, introduction of the Community Process Steering Committee, discussions at WikiIndaba conference 2017 and the Wikimedia movement affiliates executive directors gathering in Switzerland
- Update 6 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (10 February 2017)
- Tracks A & B process prototypes and providing feedback, updates on development of all four Tracks
More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.
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Overview #2 of updates on Wikimedia movement strategy process[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
As we mentioned last month, the Wikimedia movement is beginning a movement-wide strategy discussion, a process which will run throughout 2017. This movement strategy discussion will focus on the future of our movement: where we want to go together, and what we want to achieve.
Regular updates are being sent to the Wikimedia-l mailing list, and posted on Meta-Wiki. Each month, we are sending overviews of these updates to this page as well. Sign up to receive future announcements and monthly highlights of strategy updates on your user talk page.
Here is a overview of the updates that have been sent since our message last month:
- Update 7 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (16 February 2017)
- Development of documentation for Tracks A & B
- Update 8 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (24 February 2017)
- Introduction of Track Leads for all four audience tracks
- Update 9 on Wikimedia movement strategy process (2 March 2017)
- Seeking feedback on documents being used to help facilitate upcoming community discussions
More information about the movement strategy is available on the Meta-Wiki 2017 Wikimedia movement strategy portal.
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We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
- This message, "We invite you to join the movement strategy conversation (now through April 15)", was sent through multiple channels by Gregory Varnum on 15 and 16 of March 2017 to village pumps, affiliate talk pages, movement mailing lists, and MassMessage groups. A similar message was sent by Nicole Ebber to organized groups and their mailing lists on 15 of March 2017. This version of the message is available for translation and documentation purposes
Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians:
Today we are starting a broad discussion to define Wikimedia's future role in the world and develop a collaborative strategy to fulfill that role. You are warmly invited to join the conversation.
There are many ways to participate, by joining an existing conversation or starting your own:
Track A (organized groups): Discussions with your affiliate, committee or other organized group (these are groups that support the Wikimedia movement).
Track B (individual contributors): On Meta or your local language or project wiki.
This is the first of three conversations, and it will run between now and April 15. The purpose of cycle 1 is to discuss the future of the movement and generate major themes around potential directions. What do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?
We welcome you, as we create this conversation together, and look forward to broad and diverse participation from all parts of our movement.
- Find out more about the movement strategy process
- Learn more about volunteering to be a Discussion Coordinator
Sincerely,
Nicole Ebber (Track A Lead), Jaime Anstee (Track B Lead), & the engagement support teams၀၅:၀၉၊ ၁၈ မတ် ၂၀၁၇ (UTC)
Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message. This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.
The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found on Meta-Wiki. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates.
The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki.
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
- April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC) – Board nominations
- April 7 – April 20 – Board candidates questions submission period
- April 21 – April 30 – Board candidates answer questions
- May 1 – May 14 – Board voting period
- May 15–19 – Board vote checking
- May 20 – Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
- Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
- There are five positions being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.
- Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
- One position is being filled. More information about this election will be available on Meta-Wiki.
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found on Meta-Wiki. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the election talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
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Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Wikidata description editing is a new experiment being rolled out on the Wikipedia app for Android. While this primarily impacts Wikidata, the changes are also addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results.
We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias (Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan), and have seen very positive results including numerous quality contributions in the form of new and updated descriptions, and a low rate of vandalism.
We are now ready for the next phase of rolling out this feature, which is to enable it in a few days for all Wikipedias except the top ten by usage within the app (i.e. except English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, and Chinese). We will enable the feature for those languages instead at some point in the future, as we closely monitor user engagement with our expanded set of pilot communities. As always, if have any concerns, please reach out to us on wiki at the talk page for this project or by email at reading@wikimedia.org. Thanks!
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New Page previews feature[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
New Page previews feature
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Hello,
The Reading web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working to enable Page previews, a beta feature known previously as Hovercards, as opt-in behavior for logged-in users and the default behavior for logged-out users across Wikipedia projects. Page previews provide a preview of any linked article, giving readers a quick understanding of a related article without leaving the current page. For this project, we are expecting to collect feedback over the following few weeks and tentatively enable the feature in early May, 2017.
A quick note on the implementation:
- For logged-in users who are not currently testing out the beta feature, Page previews will be off by default. Users may turn them on from their user preferences page.
- For logged-out users, the feature will be on by default. Users may disable it at any time by selecting the setting cog available in each preview.
- For users of the Navigation popups gadget, you will not be able to turn on the Page previews feature while using navigational popups. If you would like to try out the Page preview feature, make sure to first turn Navigation popups off prior to turning Page previews on.
You can read more about the feature and the tests we used to evaluate performance, try it out by enabling it from the beta features page, and leave feedback or questions on the talk page.
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
- Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
- Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
- Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine
Expansions
- Gale – Biography In Context database added
- Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team ၁၈:၅၂၊ ၂ မေ ၂၀၁၇ (UTC)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
Voting has begun in 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2017 elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing authority of the Wikimedia Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
The voting phase lasts from 00:00 UTC May 1 to 23:59 UTC May 14. Click here to vote. More information on the candidates and the elections can be found on the 2017 Board of Trustees election page on Meta-Wiki.
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
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Beta Feature Two Column Edit Conflict View[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
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Prototype for editing Wikidata infoboxes on Wikipedia[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Hello,
I’m sorry for writing in English. It’d be great if someone could translate this message if necessary.
One of the most requested features for Wikidata is to enable editing of Wikidata’s data directly from Wikipedia, so the editors can continue their workflow without switching websites.
The Wikidata development team has been working on a tool to achieve this goal: fill and edit the Wikipedia infoboxes with information from Wikidata, directly on Wikipedia, via the Visual Editor.
We already asked for feedback in 2015, and collected some interesting ideas which we shared with you in this thesis. Now we would like to present to you our first prototype and collect your feedback, in order to improve and continue the development of this feature.
We present this work to you very early, so we can include your feedback before and all along the development. You are the core users of this feature, so we want to make sure that it fits your needs and editing processes.
You will find the prototype, description of the features, and a demo video, on this page. Feel free to add any comment or feedback on the talk page. The page is currently not translated in every languages, but you can add your contribution by helping to translate it.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to follow all the discussions on Wikipedia, so if you want to be sure that your feedback is read, please add it on the Wikidata page, in your favorite language. Thanks for your understanding.
Thanks, Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
RevisionSlider[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
Birgit Müller (WMDE) ၁၄:၄၄၊ ၁၆ မေ ၂၀၁၇ (UTC)
Join the next cycle of Wikimedia movement strategy discussions (underway until June 12)[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
The Wikimedia movement strategy core team and working groups have completed reviewing the more than 1800 thematic statements we received from the first discussion. They have identified 5 themes that were consistent across all the conversations - each with their own set of sub-themes. These are not the final themes, just an initial working draft of the core concepts.
You are invited to join the online and offline discussions taking place on these 5 themes. This round of discussions will take place between now and June 12th. You can discuss as many as you like; we ask you to participate in the ones that are most (or least) important to you.
Here are the five themes, each has a page on Meta-Wiki with more information about the theme and how to participate in that theme's discussion:
- Healthy, Inclusive Communities
- The Augmented Age
- A Truly Global Movement
- The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
- Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem
On the movement strategy portal on Meta-Wiki, you can find more information about each of these themes, their discussions, and how to participate.
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Machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
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Hello, machine translation support for Content Translation (beta feature) has now been extended and enabled for users of Burmese Wikipedia using Yandex. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Burmese with Content Translation. To start using this service, please choose ‘’Yandex.Translate’’ from the ‘’Automatic Translation’’ dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article. Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Yandex.Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support.
Wikimedia Foundation’s Legal team and Yandex had collaborated earlier to work out an agreement that allows the use of Yandex.Translate without compromising Wikipedia’s policy of attribution of rights, privacy of our users and brand representation. Since November 2015, Yandex machine translation has been used for articles translated for Wikipedias in many languages. For more information, we request you to kindly take a look at the details about machine translation services in Content Translation and about Yandex translation services, including a summary of the legal contract. Please note, translations made using Content Translation are also used to improve machine translation services.
We have tested the service for use on the Burmese Wikipedia, but there could be unknown problems that we are not aware of yet. Please do let us know on our Project Talk page or phabricator if you face any problems using Content Translation. This message is only in English and we will be very grateful if it could be translated into Burmese for other users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of WMF Language team: --Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (ဆွေးနွေး) ၀၅:၁၉၊ ၁၇ မေ ၂၀၁၇ (UTC)
Content Translation အတွက် စက်ဖြင့် အလိုအလျောက် ဘာသာပြန်စနစ် ယနေ့ ထောက်ပံ့မှုပေးခြင်း[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
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ဟဲလို၊ Content Translation (စမ်းသပ်) အတွက် Yandex ကို အသုံးပြုပြီး စက်ဖြင့် အလိုအလျောက် ဘာသာပြန်စနစ်ကို မြန်မာဝီကီပီးဒီးယား အသုံးပြုသူများအတွက် ထောက်ပံ့မှုပေးလိုက်ပါပြီ။ ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား ဆောင်းပါးများကို Content Translation အသုံးပြုပြီး မြန်မာဘာသာသို့ ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုနေစဉ် အသုံးပြုနိုင်မှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဝန်ဆောင်မှုကို စတင်အသုံးပြုနိုင်ဖို့အတွက် ဆောင်းပါးတစ်ပုဒ်ကို စတင်ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုနေချိန်တွင် sidebar တွင် ‘’Automatic Translation’’ မှ ‘’Yandex.Translate’’ ကို ရွေးချယ်နိုင်ပါတယ်။ Yandex.Translate မှ ထောက်ပံ့မှုပေးသော ဘာသာစကားများအတွက် စက်ဖြင့် ဘာသာပြန်ခြင်းကို ရရှိနိုင်သော်လည်း ဘာသာစကားအားလုံးမှ တဆင့် ပုံမှန်အတိုင်း ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုရန်အတွက်မူ Content Translation ကို အသုံးပြုနိုင်ပါတယ်။
ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား မူပိုင်ခွင့် မူဝါဒများ၊ အသုံးပြုသူများ၏ ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ရေးရာများနှင့် အမှတ်တံဆိပ်ကိုယ်စားပြုအချက်အလက်များ ပေါက်ကြားခြင်းမရှိစေဘဲ Yandex.Translate ကို အသုံးပြုခွင့် ရရှိစေရန် ဝီကီမီဒီယာ ဖောင်ဒေးရှင်း ဥပဒေအဖွဲ့နှင့် Yandex တို့အကြား သဘောတူညီချက်တစ်ရပ် ကို ပူးတွဲချမှတ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ၂၀၁၅ ခုနှစ် နိုဝင်ဘာလမှ စတင်ပြီး Yandex စက်ဘာသာပြန်စနစ်ကို ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား ဆောင်းပါးများကို ဘာသာစကားများစွာမှ ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုရာတွင် အသုံးပြုခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဥပဒေရေးရာစာချုပ် အကျဉ်းချုပ် အပါအဝင် နောက်ထပ် အချက်အလက်များအတွက် Content Translation ရှိ စက်ဘာသာပြန် ဝန်ဆောင်မှုစနစ်အကြောင်းနှင့် Yandex ဘာသာပြန် ဝန်ဆောင်မှု အကြောင်းတို့မှာ ဝင်ရောက် ဖတ်ရှုပေးပါရန် ပန်ကြားပါတယ်။ Content Translation နဲ့ ဘာသာပြန်ဆိုချက်တွေကို စက်ဘာသာပြန်စနစ် ပိုမိုကောင်းမွန်လာစေဖို့ အသုံးပြုကြောင်း သိစေလိုပါတယ်။
မြန်မာဘာသာ ဝီကီပီးဒီးယားမှာ အသုံးပြုနိုင်ဖို့ ဝန်ဆောင်မှုကို ကျွန်တော်တို့ စမ်းသပ်ပြီး ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဒါပေမယ့် ကျွန်တော်တို့ သတိမမူလိုက်နိုင်တဲ့ ပြဿနာများ ရှိနေနိုင်ပါတယ်။ Content Translation အသုံးပြုနေချိန်မှာ ပြဿနာတစ်စုံတစ်ရာ ကြုံတွေ့ရပါက ကျေးဇူးပြု၍ ပရောဂျက် ဆွေးနွေးချက် စာမျက်နှာ သို့မဟုတ် phabricator မှတဆင့် ကျွန်တော်တို့ဆီကို ပြောကြားစေလိုပါတယ်။ ဤစာကို အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာဖြင့်သာ ရေးသားထားပြီး ဤဝီကီပီးဒီးယားပေါ်ရှိ အခြားသော အသုံးပြုသူများအတွက် မြန်မာဘာသာသို့ ပြန်ဆိုပေးနိုင်ပါက အထူးကျေးဇူးတင်မိမှာပါ။ ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်။ WMF ဘာသာစကားအဖွဲ့ ကိုယ်စား --Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (ဆွေးနွေး) ၀၅:၁၉၊ ၁၇ မေ ၂၀၁၇ (UTC)
Start of the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee elections[ပြင်ဆင်ရန်]
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee, we are pleased to announce that self-nominations are being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson elections. Please read the letter from the Wikimedia Foundation calling for candidates at on the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Funds Dissemination Committee
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC elections page.
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
The Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at the FDC Ombudsperson elections page.
The candidacy submission phase will last until May 28 (23:59 UTC).
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates until May 28. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki. Once the questions submission period has ended on May 28, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to.
The goal of this process is to fill the five community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Funds Dissemination Committee and the community-selected ombudsperson. The election results will be used by the Board itself to make the appointments.
The full schedule for the FDC elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
- May 15 (00:00 UTC) – May 28 (23:59 UTC) – Nominations
- May 15 – May 28 – Candidates questions submission period
- May 29 – June 2 – Candidates answer questions
- June 3 – June 11 – Voting period
- June 12–14 – Vote checking
- June 15 – Goal date for announcing election results
More information on this year's elections can be found at the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation elections portal.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta-Wiki, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-electionswikimedia.org.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation