Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Coordination

2023 Arbitration Committee Elections

Status as of 15:30 (UTC), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 (Purge)

Thank you for participating in the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. The certified results have been posted.
You are invited to leave feedback on the election process.

WP:COORD23

The Arbitration Committee elections are run by the English Wikipedia community. This page lists all of the volunteer staff and their duties. If you have a question or a concern about the election, please notify us on the talk page.

Election volunteer guidelines[edit]

While coordinators have as much right to participate in ordinary voter activity during the election as all other eligible voters (i.e. voting, asking questions, discussing candidates), election volunteers should avoid acting in a way that might cast doubt on their ability to act impartially, or on the perceived neutrality of the coordinators or elections as a whole.

Election volunteers[edit]

Electoral Commission[edit]

The Electoral Commission is a three-member panel with a mandate to solve disputes and make decisions on unexpected problems. The Electoral Commission is appointed by the community after input via a request for comment.

Commissioners

Scrutineers[edit]

Scrutineers have technical access to the SecurePoll system allowing them to check the validity of cast ballots, and certify the final results. Scrutineers are drawn from Stewards who do not edit the English Wikipedia as their primary wiki.

Scrutineers

Superpes15
Mykola7
Martin Urbanec
(vacant) - (1st reserve)

Instructions for scrutineers

Coordinators[edit]

Coordinators are simply volunteers who help run the day to day operations of the election. Any editor in good standing who wants to help out is welcome to volunteer as a coordinator. Interested persons can add their name below. The commissioners (and reservists) are de facto coordinators and may perform activities as needed.

List[edit]

To do[edit]

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T348902

Done create general framework pages
Done conscript the coordinators :D
Done review prior year feedback pages for any non-rfc changes needed
Done conduct the 2023 RfC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023
- Done Setup framework, launch RfC
- Done Ensure RfC is well advertised
- Done find a closer for the RfC
- Done Close RfC
- = Not needed update ELECCOM RfC if ACERFC introduced any new changes
- Done update Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections/ACERFC decisions to date
Done conduct the 2023 ELECCOM RfC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Electoral Commission
- Done set up framework, launch RfC
- Done - ensure that community consultation phase is running, add advertisements.
- Done close Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Electoral Commission, empaneling the ELECTCOM
= Not needed modify SecurePoll listGen script to account for RfC changes, namely partial blocks and bot exclusions. (Shouldn't be necessary; I think there have been no changes since last time)
Done Scrutineer setup
- Done request scrutineer volunteers (m:Stewards' noticeboard#English Wikipedia ACEE2023 scrutineers)
- Done Empanel scrutineers
- Done Request local CU for scrutineers
Done engage WMF for a resource to be assigned
Done schedule the election time on votewiki with WMF resource
Done Build lists (may be useful to do this very soon to work out any kinks in the generation process – many fixes were needed last year)
- Done Electoral rolls
- Done Mass message lists
Done ensure nominations are open and working.
- Done update the candidate guide
Done set up candidates on SecurePoll (WMF or election admin)
Done ensure questions period opens.
Done remove extra election admins
Done ensure election starts
Done Collect votes on votewiki
- Done ensure the election is open, has the correct options, and is accepting votes
- Done ensure the election closes
Done send MMS's /MM
Done scrutineering processing
Done publish results
Done certify results (by scrutineers)
Done send notifications (candidates, WT:ACN, UT:Jimbo Wales)
Cleanup
- Done revoke temporary scrutineer checkuser access
- Pending review lessons learned, file notes for next election