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Möller, Walsh retain seats; Brioschi elected

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Here is the original version of this historical template, from 2007:

The Wikipedia Signpost
The Wikipedia Signpost
2007 Board of Trustees elections
A Wikipedia Signpost series
June 11 Candidacies open
June 18 Election information
June 25 Candidate interviews
July 2 Elections open
July 9 Elections closed
July 16 Election results
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This week, the Signpost covers the results of this year's Board elections.

In an announcement late Thursday evening, the Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee announced the results of the 2007 Board Elections: Incumbents Erik Möller (Eloquence) and Kathleen Walsh (Mindspillage) were re-elected for a two-year term, with Frieda Brioschi (Frieda) narrowly edging out incumbent Oscar van Dillen (Oscar) for the third and final seat.

Möller finished in first, with 1,671 votes (40.1% of the vote), and Walsh finished in second with 1,427 votes (34.2%). The race for the third and final position was unusually close, with third (Brioschi) and fourth (van Dillen) separated by just 20 votes, or less than one-half of one percent of the 4,170 valid ballots cast in the election. In three prior board elections, the closest vote was a difference of just eleven votes in 2004, when Florence Devouard defeated Möller, 269-258 for one of the two seats; however, that vote was a difference of just over one percent.

Behind Brioschi and Van Dillen, who held 1,254 and 1,234 votes, respectively, was Michael Snow, who took fifth with 1,229 votes, just five votes behind Van Dillen. Danny Wool finished in sixth with 1,217 votes.

The Board of Trustees officially approved the results, and all users have officially taken their positions, which will last until July 14, 2009.

This year's elections set a record, by far, for the number of valid ballots cast. The 2004 elections received 1,088 votes; in 2005, the elections received 1,484 votes, and in 2006, 2,347 ballots were cast; this year's 4,170 valid ballots represent a 78% increase over the elections held in 2006. This year's elections also show much more turnout from the English Wikipedia than in previous years; in 2005 and 2006, English Wikipedia voters accounted for 48.92% and 45.27% of the vote, respectively. In this year's elections, English Wikipedia voters accounted for 58.67% of all votes (statistics were not kept for 2004's elections).

The final results of the election were as follows:

# Name Username Votes %
1 Erik Möller Eloquence 1,671 40.1%
2 Kathleen Walsh Mindspillage 1,427 34.2%
3 Frieda Brioschi Frieda 1,254 30.1%
4 Oscar van Dillen Oscar 1,234 29.6%
5 Michael Snow Michael Snow 1,229 29.5%
6 Danny Wool Danny 1,217 29.2%
7 Yann Forget Yann 1,153 27.6%
8 Kim Bruning Kim Bruning 1,124 27.0%
9 Steve Dunlop UninvitedCompany 1,047 25.1%
10 River Tarnell Kate 889 21.3%
11 Stephen Kennedy Kingboyk 864 20.7%
12 Pawel Dembowski Ausir 693 16.6%
13 Michael "Chad" Horohoe ^demon 672 16.1%
14 Artur Jan Fijalkowski WarX 571 13.7%
15 Jason Safoutin DragonFire1024 495 11.9%

The next elections to the Board of Trustees will be in June or July 2008. Florence Devouard's seat is currently the only seat up for re-election, though current board expansion plans call for two new seats to be added, with elections for these seats in June 2008. If these plans are enacted as anticipated, it is unclear whether the seats will be filled temporarily, as was the case when Walsh and van Dillen took expansion seats in December 2006, or whether they will first be filled by the 2008 elections.

July 30: Interviews with the elected trustees.


Also this week: From the editor — Board elections — F1 trademark — New bureaucrats — Rescue squad — Book review — WikiWorld — In the news — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration

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Just a note, I stole this (translated) for the Hebrew Wikipedia equivalent of the signpost. Yonatan talk 21:08, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Frieda who??? Never even heard of her. Anyway, who would vote for a candidate who has "NO FAIR USE" banner on their userpage. Just horrible.  Grue  07:39, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have to understand that the English Wikipedia isn't the only project covered by wikimedia. It's fair that .it gets some representation. Borisblue 15:23, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
She's from the Italian Wikipedia and seems to be very active in the Italian chapter of Wikimedia (if I'm not mistaken, they're very anti fair-use at the Italian wiki in general). Agree with Borisblue that we at the English Wikipedia can't expect to "know" everybody elected and that this is an international venture :) --kingboyk 22:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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