Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-06-11/Board elections

This week, the Signpost covers the opening of candidacies for the Board election.

Candidate entries for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees election opened on Sunday. At least three two-year seats will be filled in the election. At press time, two users had presented themselves as candidates.

Candidates are being accepted through 23:59 UTC on 23 June, and voting will run for ten days, from 28 June through 7 July. Many of the election's rules are still being discussed by the Board Election Steering Committee, a six-person panel (Kizu Naoko, Benjamin Mako Hill, Newyorkbrad, Philippe Beaudette, Jon Harald Søby, and Tim Starling) handling the election.

Incumbent board members, Erik Möller, Oscar van Dillen, and Kat Walsh have not yet stated whether they plan to run in this election. Möller was elected in a September 2006 election to replace Angela Beesley (see archived story); Walsh and van Dillen, who finished second and third, respectively, in that election, were appointed in a board expansion in December (see archived story).

This week, WarX and Michael Snow entered the race. These two users are the only users standing for election as of press time; last year, 17 candidates ran for just one open seat.

Multilingual editors are encouraged to consider translating various election notices, candidate presentations, and other pages into as many languages as possible.

Next week: The Signpost will examine the election rules and regulations, and cover the opening of endorsements.