Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees/Call for feedback: Board of Trustees elections/Discuss Key Questions

Discussion links to each question’s discussion are below. Please discuss the questions in those sections so everyone can see what is being discussed about the question. If conversations are happening elsewhere, please list them in the conversation table below.

Community members are encouraged to add proposed solutions to the questions. Please discuss solutions for a short time first and then propose the solutions and link them below each question. This way other community members may collaborate on the proposed solutions.

Questions

edit
  1. What is the best way to ensure more diverse representation among elected candidates? (Discuss this question)

Proposals related to this question

Add your proposal here

  1. What are the expectations for the candidates during the election? (Discuss this question)

Proposals related to this question

Add your proposal here

  1. How should affiliates participate in the elections? (Discuss this question)

Proposals related to this question

Add your proposal here
  • Have a process determined by affiliates collectively. There is no good reason to exclude affiliates for two main reasons. Firstly, we have a significant decentralisation (regions, hubs) movement which affects mainly affiliates but almost not online communities. Secondly, affiliates were involved in the MCDC election just a few months ago, affiliates is almost the only one without strong English Wikipedia domination, thus removing this group would be disappointing diversity-wise. I think asking affiliates to come up with the (s)election process is the most sensible way to move forward — NickK (talk) 22:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Other proposals

edit

List of discussions

edit

This is a list of past, present, and proposed conversations organized in the context of the Call for feedback: Board of Trustees election. If you are organizing a conversation, please list it on this table.

List of discussions
Date Project name Discussion link Facilitator Notes
On-going Meta-Wiki Discuss the key questions Movement Strategy and Governance team Post in any language