Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee/October 2009 election


 * Background: Audit subcommittee &bull; CheckUser and Oversight procedures &bull; Audit Subcommittee procedures
 * Election sub-pages: Bugzilla - for reporting bugs and issues &bull; Feedback - for comments and suggestions
 * The supervising arbitrator is Roger Davies and the technical administrator is Happy-melon.

The purpose of this election is to appoint the three non-arbitrator members of the Audit Subcommittee ("AUSC"). The sub-committee was established by the Arbitration Committee to investigate complaints concerning the use of CheckUser and Oversight privileges on the English Wikipedia, and to provide better monitoring and oversight of the CheckUser and Oversight positions, and use of the applicable tools.

AUSC membership is made up of three arbitrators selected by the Arbitration Committee, who serve six-month terms, and three at-large members elected by the community for one-year terms. All members of the Audit Subcommittee are identified to the Wikimedia Foundation, are given the Oversight and CheckUser permissions, and have access to the Functionaries-en, Oversight-l, and Checkuser-l mailing lists. They must also be at least eighteen years old.

Voting and appointment

 * This election uses secret voting, using SecurePoll.
 * Broadly, any registered editor with 150 main space edits prior to 1 October 2009 has franchise; SecurePoll automatically accepts votes from editors meeting this criterion. Editors without franchise are redirected to an explanatory text.
 * Voting is either support or oppose. (The default option is neutral, which has no impact on the result.) You may change your votes at any time until the poll closes at 23:59 (UTC) on 8 November 2009. You can confirm whether your vote has been registered by visiting the real time voter log at: Special:SecurePoll/list/60.
 * Additionally, alphabetically sorted lists of voters will be posted in the voting log every day or so for community scrutiny. The election administrators and scrutineers know which editors have voted but do not know for whom they have voted. Similarly, the final tally of votes per candidate is anonymised.
 * By long tradition, sockpuppets and blocked/banned users are disenfranchised. Concerns should be raised on the voting log talk page. The election administrators will strike the votes of sockpuppet/blocked/banned accounts. A log of editors, if any, whose votes have been stricken will appear in a "Disenfranchised editors" section of the voting log.
 * The total numbers of support and oppose votes for each candidate will be collated and published as soon as is practical after the poll closes.
 * The appointments will be made no later than 13 November 2009.

Supervision and scrutiny
The role of the scrutineers is to ensure that the poll is conducted fairly and that the published results accurately reflect the computer-generated data. The scrutineers are all stewards: Erwin, Thogo, Mike.lifeguard, and Mardetanha.

Time line

 * Applications: 7–22 October Candidates self-nominate by email to . They will receive an application questionnaire which should be completed and returned by email to the Arbitration Committee at the same email address. This should include a nomination statement, to a maximum of 250 words, for inclusion on the nominated candidate's election sub-page.
 * Review period by the Arbitration Committee: 22–29 October During this period, the Arbitration Committee will review applications, notify the candidates going forward to the election pool, and create candidate sub-pages as necessary. The pages will be transcluded on the eve of the election to the Candidates section below.
 * Voting: 00:01 30 October until 23:59 8 November (UTC) The election commences, using traditional support/oppose voting, using SecurePoll. Questions may be put to the candidates on their individual sub-pages.
 * Appointments by: 13 November The results and appointments will be published. The successful candidates will be required to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation prior to receiving the permissions.

Results

 * Reproduced from Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 5

The final votes for the AUSC Elections - held 00:01 30 October to 23:59 8 November (UTC) - are as follows:


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! colspan=1 | Candidate ! colspan=1 | Support ! colspan=1 | Oppose ! colspan=1 | Net ! colspan=1 | Total ! colspan=1 | Percentage A total of 370 editors voted, including one banned user whose votes were struck. The tallies above have been certified by email to ArbCom by the scrutineers, who will append their signatures below in due course.
 * Dominic || 195 || 67 || 128 || 262 || 74.43%
 * Jredmond || 140 || 52 || 88 || 192 || 72.92%
 * Tznkai || 182 || 85 || 97 || 267 || 68.16%
 * MBisanz || 202 || 95 || 107 || 297 || 68.01%
 * Frank || 96 || 93 || 3 || 189 || 50.79%
 * KillerChihuahua || 126 || 136 || -10 || 262 || 48.09%
 * }
 * MBisanz || 202 || 95 || 107 || 297 || 68.01%
 * Frank || 96 || 93 || 3 || 189 || 50.79%
 * KillerChihuahua || 126 || 136 || -10 || 262 || 48.09%
 * }
 * KillerChihuahua || 126 || 136 || -10 || 262 || 48.09%
 * }
 * }


 * 1) Results certified by: Erwin (talk) 09:16, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Results certified by: Mardetanha  talk 22:45, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Results certified by:  &mdash; Mike.lifeguard &#124; @en.wb 22:44, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Results certified by: --Thogo (Talk) 22:48, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Appointment motions
1. That when appointing the successful candidates, a fourth is nominated as an alternate should any retire prior to the next election.
 * With thirteen arbitrators, seven is a majority.
 * Support: Carcharoth, Coren, John Vandenberg, FloNight, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Stephen Bain, Vassyana and Wizardman.
 * Oppose: None.
 * Abstain: None
 * Not voting: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF.

2. That Dominic, Jredmond and Tznkai be appointed to the Audit Subcommittee and that, because of the close vote, MBisanz be invited to serve as an alternate member.
 * With thirteen arbitrators, and three inactive, six is a majority.
 * Support: Carcharoth, Coren, FloNight, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Rlevse, Roger Davies.
 * Oppose: Stephen Bain, John Vandenberg.
 * Abstain: None.
 * Not voting: Wizardman.
 * Inactive: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF, Vassyana.

3. That, while noting that seven voting members prevents deadlocks and that the subcommittee will have a majority of directly elected members, the Arbitration Committee recommends that the Audit Subcommittee determine its own procedure with regard to voting rights of alternate members.
 * With thirteen arbitrators, and three arbitrators inactive, six is a majority.
 * Support: Carcharoth, Coren, FloNight, Newyorkbrad, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Stephen Bain.
 * Oppose: None.
 * Abstain as AUSC members: John Vandenberg, Risker.
 * Not voting: Wizardman.
 * Inactive: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF, Vassyana.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger Davies  talk 21:38, 10 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Belated support for items 2 and 3. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:48, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Votes updated accordingly.  Roger Davies  talk 22:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Archived discussion

Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop
Interested editors are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. SecurePoll was recently used in the Audit Subcommittee election, and has been proposed for use for the upcoming Arbitration Committee election at this current request for comment (RFC). Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome. For the Arbitration Committee, Dougweller (talk) 09:05, 12 November 2009 (UTC)