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zhwiki's admin election (Apr 2025)
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Description

The Chinese Wikipedia holds admin elections twice a year using SecurePoll.

Timeline:

  • Mar 25 - Apr 8: Nomination period
  • Apr 8 - Apr 22: Q&A period
  • Mar 25 - Apr 22: Election setup
    • Create votes on votewiki
    • Generate and import the list of eligible voters (who can vote before 2025-03-25T00:00:00Z)
  • Apr 22 - May 6: Voting period
  • May 6 - May 9 : Tallying period
    • Make the scrutineers (@jimmyxu, @Wong128hk and @AT) election admins on votewiki
    • Scrutineers check if any vote was cast while the user was locally blocked, run necessary checks to strike votes submitted by sockpuppets
    • Scrutineers confirm that the result posted on wiki matches the result from the tally

Configurations: Wikipedia:申请成为管理人员/Apr2025.json (Replace [placeholder] with the name of candidate)

Voter list: P74611

Special instructions:

  • We would like to have a dedicated voting page for each candidate, each permission, which means there will be 11 voting pages.
  • There should be 3 options for each candidates, "support", "oppose" and "neutral". Please leave NO default value.
  • We would like to set request-comment, voter-privacy and must-answer-all to 1

Candidates:

  • SCP-2000(管理员)
  • S8321414(管理员)
  • 0xDeadbeef(管理员)
  • Kanashimi(管理员)
  • Diskdance(界面管理员)
  • LuciferianThomas(界面管理员)
  • Kanashimi(界面管理员)
  • Manchiu(行政员)
  • Ericliu1912(监督员)
  • Manchiu(监督员)
  • Peacearth(监督员)

Event Timeline

Just noting here that the proposed dates could clash with UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter Annual Review vote. (per T388931)

Just noting here that the proposed dates could clash with UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter Annual Review vote. (per T388931)

This is OK so long as zhwiki doesn't need votewiki's interface to be in zh. We can still translate the ballot ("support", "oppose", etc) as usual.

Just noting here that the proposed dates could clash with UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter Annual Review vote. (per T388931)

This is OK so long as zhwiki doesn't need votewiki's interface to be in zh. We can still translate the ballot ("support", "oppose", etc) as usual.

So out of curiosity, why not just set uselang param in the redirect link? That way, there shouldn't be a need to switch the interface language, right?

Just noting here that the proposed dates could clash with UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter Annual Review vote. (per T388931)

This is OK so long as zhwiki doesn't need votewiki's interface to be in zh. We can still translate the ballot ("support", "oppose", etc) as usual.

So out of curiosity, why not just set uselang param in the redirect link? That way, there shouldn't be a need to switch the interface language, right?

This would work, but only for the first page as I understand it; the "Thank you for voting" page will still be in English. (I could be wrong there, I haven't actually tried that)

That is probably OK for most voters and might be a better experience than just English. But to be clear, the ballot will otherwise use the translations in the configuration.

Do we know when the candidate list will be confirmed? Once that is done I can set the elections up.

Do we know when the candidate list will be confirmed? Once that is done I can set the elections up.

I'm still waiting for the lazy bureaucrats :) It should be confirmed in one or two days.

@jrbs The candidates list got confirmed. 11 votes is a really huge amount, thanks for the hard work in advance :)

Hi @jrbs, these votes should end at 2025-05-06T00:00:00Z, not May 7

@jrbs We've modifed the voter list, please update it on votewiki, thank you

Hi @jrbs ,蕰川公路 (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:蕰川公路) said he cannot vote in this election. I noticed he changed his username after P74611 was generated. I think this might have caused the issue. Do we have any way to fix it? Thank you in advance.

FYI: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=59440680

I can fix this but in a few hours. I am not working today and will not have access to my laptop until I get home tonight. Apologies for the inconvenience - I will update here when the changes are synced

Hi @jrbs ,蕰川公路 (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:蕰川公路) said he cannot vote in this election. I noticed he changed his username after P74611 was generated. I think this might have caused the issue. Do we have any way to fix it? Thank you in advance.

FYI: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=59440680

This is now fixed.

Thanks again for your help, @jrbs . But 蕰川公路 says he still can't vote.

Thanks again for your help, @jrbs . But 蕰川公路 says he still can't vote.

He is not in P74611 - is he eligible to vote?

Thanks again for your help, @jrbs . But 蕰川公路 says he still can't vote.

He is not in P74611 - is he eligible to vote?

I've updated the voter list. "WenChuanHighway" is indeed inside the list and they changed their name to "蕰川公路" (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P74611$2995)

I've updated the voter lists. Hopefully after T380020 you all can do this without me :)

Thanks for your help,I voting successfully.

I've updated the voter lists. Hopefully after T380020 you all can do this without me :)

This vote has ended, please start the tally process.

This vote has ended, please start the tally process.

I have added the scrutineers to the elections, I think that process needs to happen first before we tally?

I have added the scrutineers to the elections, I think that process needs to happen first before we tally?

Indeed, thanks for the help!

Hi @jrbs, I see three scrutineers have no permission granted on votewiki, can you check again? Thank you.

Hi @jrbs, I see three scrutineers have no permission granted on votewiki, can you check again? Thank you.

Oops! They should have access now. cc @jimmyxu @Wong128hk @AT

Result posted on-wiki, thanks for everyone's help.