Wikipedia:2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee Election

 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee Election Status as of (UTC), Monday, 29 July 2024 () For more information and context on the Movement Charter and this election process, see below. Information can also be found on the following Meta-Wiki pages:
 * Voting closed for the 7 community-elected Movement Charter Drafting Committee seats on 25 October 2021 at 11:59:59 (UTC).
 * The candidate election compass is now available.
 * About the Drafting Committee
 * Drafting Committee selection process

What is the Movement Charter Drafting Committee?
As part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Movement Strategy process, a Movement Charter is being written to define "the roles and responsibilities for all in the Wikimedia Movement". It will in a sense be a 'constitution' for the Wikimedia movement for the future. The Movement Charter Drafting Committee will create a draft of this Charter. The process for creating the Charter, and the process for agreeing/ratifying the final draft, are not specified and the Committee will have significant influence over these processes.

The Committee will have 15 members: 7 to be elected by the global Wikimedia community (with a maximum of 2 committee members per Wikimedia project), 6 to be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates, and 2 who have been selected by the Wikimedia Foundation. The candidates elected by the community will be selected by Single Transferable Vote. For more information about the selection process, see the meta description page.

Who are the candidates?
70 candidates are running for a seat on the Drafting Committee. Information about the candidates is available on meta. In addition, the Foundation is piloting an "Election Compass" feature for interactive insights on how closely candidates align with you.

created a tool for visualizing the candidates' responses to the election statement.
 * Krehel Election Compass Visualization Tool

For candidate data see also
 * m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Candidates/Table

Who is eligible to vote?
To be eligible for voting a user must:
 * not be blocked in more than one project;
 * and not be a bot;
 * and have made at least 300 edits before 12 September 2021 across Wikimedia wikis;
 * and have made at least 20 edits between 12 March 2021 and 12 September 2021.

Confused?
This election is a new process. Questions about the election can be directed to the meta page or on this page's talk page (to be answered by English Wikipedia volunteers). This page will continue to be updated in response to community questions.