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There is a 4-step process for setting up the committee:

1. Nomination process to create the candidate pool.
2. Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
3. Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
4. Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

Timeline

• July - August 1, 2021 - Preparations
• August 2 - September 14, 2021 - Nominations
• September 15 - October 10, 2021 - Election and selection set up
• October 11 - 24, 2021 - Community elections
• October 11 - 24, 2021 - Affiliate selection
• October 25 - 31, 2021 - WMF appointment
• By October 31, 2021 - Announcement of the Committee

== Nomination process ==

• The call for candidates takes place from August 2nd to September 14th 2021.
  • The call is open to volunteers from wiki projects and affiliates as well as paid staff from affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation.
  • The Diversity and Expertise matrices inform stakeholders about the desired qualities of the drafting committee.

• The list of all candidates is public on Meta.
  • Candidates will publicly nominate themselves filling the candidacy template with a logged in user account.
  • Candidates are expected to fill in the nomination template in its entirety.
  • The template can be filled in in any language. Candidate statements will be translated to a number of languages and in this process also English translations will be provided.

• There is one single pool of candidates regardless of affiliation.
  • All committee members will be elected, selected or appointed from this common pool of candidates.
• There is an eligibility check for the candidates.

• • Candidates should not be sanctioned in any Wikimedia project or have an event ban. There are no eligibility criteria regarding the number of edits.
  • They are identified to the Foundation as they are appointed.
• Candidates cannot be selectors of the affiliate selection process.

Election process

The election process is designed to involve online project communities in the Drafting Committee set up.

• To be eligible for voting 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.

• Affiliates and the Foundation will have their own respective processes and
  • Affiliate staff and volunteer organizers will not be eligible to vote.
  • Foundation staff will not be eligible to vote;

• Voting will be conducted using SecurePoll.
  • The elections will be set up and managed by the Movement Strategy and Governance team of the Wikimedia Foundation.
  • There will not be appointed scrutineers for the election process, yet the data will be published day-to-day for transparency.

• The elections will use the Single Transferable Vote method.
  • Top 7 candidates will be appointed to be part of the Drafting Committee with a constraint of no more than 2 elected members per wiki project.
  • The 8th and 9th candidate will remain in the stand-by list to act as an alternate if needed.

• Election process will take place from October 11 to October 24, 2021 (AoE).
• Results of the elections will be announced before the end of October 31, 2021.

Selection process

The selection process is designed to involve affiliates in the Drafting Committee set up.

• For conducting this process, a selection committee formed by affiliates will be set in place.
• The selection committee will be formed based on a regional approach.

• The proposed distribution of regions, based on the existing collaborations:
  • Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
  • East Asia, South East Asia, and Pacific
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • North America
  • South America and Caribbean
  • South Asia
  • Western and Northern Europe
  • Thematic organizations without a regional component

• Each region will appoint 1 selector in a transparent affiliate selecting process to form a 9 member Selection Committee.
  • Each region decides their preferred selection method.
  • The selectors need to be appointed and the committee formed by October 10, 2021

• The selection process will run in parallel to the election process and will focus on adding diverse expert profiles to the Drafting Committee based on the Diversity and Expertise matrices.
  • Every selector will create their list of preferences.
  • There will be a meeting to discuss the preferences and to finalize the selection across the group.
  • The selection will be conducted between October 11 - 24, 2021

• The results of the selection process and the Drafting Committee members will be announced before the end of October 31, 2021.
• Appointed selectors cannot be candidates for the Drafting Committee.

Appointment by the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation selects 2 members of the Drafting Committee.

• The Foundation will nominate two staff members, who will join the common pool of candidates.
• The Foundation will appoint 2 selectors by October 10, 2021.

• One day after the results of the projects’ election and the affiliates’ selection, the Foundation will select two additional candidates from the pool on the week of October 25 - 31, 2021.
• The results of the WMF selection process will be announced before the end of October 31, 2021.

Additional appointment and replacement

• After the committee is constituted, they can optionally select up to three additional candidates by consensus. This is to bridge any diversity and expertise gaps.
• If any of the committee members is no longer available to fulfill their duties, member replacement mechanisms will be used:
  • Election process is set up to provide 2 alternates for elected candidates.
  • Selection group will be reconvened to replace any candidate nominated by selection.
  • WMF selectors will replace any candidate nominated by WMF.

Past versions

• Initial version of this page (from July 2021).

See also

• The Movement Charter Drafting Committee
• Wikimedia Foundation's proposal for setting up the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
• Diversity and Expertise Matrices for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee