Movement Charter/Ratification/Voting
Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be held 25 June– 9 July 2024.
Background
This vote will be organized in accordance to these two documents:
- Movement Charter chapter on Ratification; and
- Movement Charter supplementary document on ratification methodology.
Voting process
The voting period is from June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC to July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.
Individual vote
If you are eligible to vote:
- Review the resources for voters.
- Decide whether to support or oppose the adoption of the Charter. If opposing, write down recommended changes to the Charter to include with your vote.
- Learn how to record your vote with SecurePoll.
- Go to the SecurePoll voting page and follow the instructions.
- Remind other community members to vote.
Affiliates vote
The Affiliates vote will be carried out using SecurePoll, with only the designated voters able to access the voting interface. The SecurePoll for the affiliate vote will be hosted as a local election on Meta, and the list of voters will be publicly visible. The personal information of the designated voter will be treated with the same level of confidentiality as is detailed in the WMF Privacy Policy as the vote will take place on a WMF site.
Resources for voters
Voter eligibility criteria
For a quick verification of whether you are eligible to vote or not, please use the AccountEligibility tool.
Reading materials
Here are some materials that voters can read before casting their vote:
- Final text of the Movement Charter (translated by contracted translators into Arabic, Czech, Persian, French, German, Hausa, Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese)
- .pdf version of the final text (English)
- Audio versions of the final text in English, Igbo, Arabic, and Kannada
- Supplementary documents to the Movement Charter, which provide further context on the Charter’s content, include information on topics related to the Charter, MCDC's suggestions for policy or process development or consideration by the Global Council after the Charter is ratified, orrocesses related to the Charter ratification vote. They are not part of the Charter, therefore not included in the ratification vote.
- Frequently asked questions about the ratification vote
Electoral Commission
Contact us:
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The Charter Electoral Commission (CEC) is a temporary commission formed specifically to provide guidance, support and management of the voting process seeking ratification of the Movement Charter. Its work will be complete at the time the vote result is published. The commission is responsible to:
- Work with the selected MCDC members to finalize rules of the election
- Formalize process for addition of voters to the SecurePoll voter list
- Review, improve, and finalize the voting process for affiliates
- Directly manage the affiliate voting process
- Oversee the SecurePoll voting process
- Resolve unplanned or unexpected issues that arise during both the affiliate and SecurePoll voting processes
- Act as liaisons with WMF staff assigned to the technical aspects of SecurePoll
- Act as liaisons with scrutineers
- Announce the result of the affiliate and SecurePoll voting processes
Members
MCDC liaisons
Advisor
Vote scrutineers
The scrutineers are responsible for completing the scrutineering of votes, signing off that scrutineering is complete, and they present their confirmation to the CEC, which is responsible to run the final tally and to report the final results. For the purpose of this vote, the scrutineers will be following a slightly modified version of the English Wikipedia election scrutineer guide.
Support staff