Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-08-31/Discussion report


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This month's discussion report is shorter than usual, but not for lack of trying.

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 * Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics (see below)
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Election Compass statements
An "Election Compass" has been made available to support the community members in the selection process. The Election Compass is based on the open source project called "Open Election Compass", whose source code is publicly available. The tool has been widely used also in other contexts, e.g. by media pages for the German parliamentary elections in 2022. Every member of the community was requested to submit statements within the larger scope of the Board of Trustees. Following the period of proposing statements, community members upvoted the declarations they considered as the most distinct and therefore useful in learning about the candidates' positions. The last 15 statements were chosen by the Election Committee.

Ongoing discussions

 * Review of English Wikimedia fundraising emails (see News and notes)
 * Reliability of Fox News for politics and science
 * Process for changing Wikipedia's default appearance (see Technology report)
 * Open letter to the WMF about new page patrol (see News and notes)
 * Reliability of Royal Central and one of its authors
 * Appearance of the external links icon