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After the discussion of the September Wikimedia Foundation Office Statement (Office Actions on zhwp in September 2021), discussions have been made to carry out a trial run a securepoll election within the Chinese Wikipedia of a decision to **use the election as a tool to decide whether this will be an appropriate tool to advance further admin elections.** [[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E6%98%AF%E5%90%A6%E5%9C%A8%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E5%93%A1%E9%81%B8%E8%88%89%E5%95%9F%E7%94%A8SecurePoll | Local discussions here ]]. Here is a proposed timeline of activities: * Nov 17 - Nov 24: Question decision and personnel phase ** [ ] Identify two scrutineers (should be from from current stewards) ** [x] Create a blank election on votewiki (can be modelled from other elections) ** [ ] Make the scrutineers election admins on votewiki ** [ ] Make local oversighters election admins on votewiki (haven't decided yet, but local NDA signatories seems to have been limited to only Oversights and local OTRS at this time * Nov 25 - Nov 28: Election setup ** [x] Import the list of eligible voters (should be those who can vote right now) ** [x] Import the list of questions (Decided before 20 November) ** [ ] Configure the election on votewiki ** [ ] Verify the list of election admins (i.e. remove exec committee members from list of admins) ** ~~Change the language of votewiki to Chinese (zh)~~ * Dec 10: Change the language of votewiki to Chinese (zh) * ~~Nov 29 - Dec 12~~ Dec 11 - Dec 25: Voting period ** [ ] Submit an invitation to all eligible voters using MassMessage * ~~Dec 13 -Dec 17~~ Dec 26 - Dec 30: Tallying period ** [ ] Change the language of votewiki back to English (en) ** [ ] Election exec. committee checks if any vote was cast while the user was locally blocked ** [ ] Scrutineers run necessary checks to strike votes submitted by socks or placed through proxy IP addresses *** Suggestion: use https://tools.wmflabs.org/ipcheck/splash.php to find proxy IP addresses ** [ ] The #trust-and-safety team or someone with shell access team runs the tally via command line ** [ ] Output is presented in two tables (one that shows the results of the decisions, and the other that shows the head-to-head comparison matrix of votes) ** [ ] Scrutineers confirm that the result posted on wiki matches the result from the tally

After the discussion of the September Wikimedia Foundation Office Statement (Office Actions on zhwp in September 2021), discussions have been made to carry out a trial run a securepoll election within the Chinese Wikipedia of a decision to **use the election as a tool to decide whether this will be an appropriate tool to advance further admin elections.** [[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E6%98%AF%E5%90%A6%E5%9C%A8%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E5%93%A1%E9%81%B8%E8%88%89%E5%95%9F%E7%94%A8SecurePoll | Local discussions here ]]. Here is a proposed timeline of activities: * Nov 17 - Nov 24: Question decision and personnel phase ** ~~ Identify two scrutineers (should be from from current stewards) ** [x] Create a blank election on votewiki (can be modelled from other elections) ** ~~ Make the scrutineers election admins on votewiki ** [ ] Make local oversighters election admins on votewiki (haven't decided yet, but local NDA signatories seems to have been limited to only Oversights and local OTRS at this time * Nov 25 - Nov 28: Election setup ** [x] Import the list of eligible voters (should be those who can vote right now) ** [x] Import the list of questions (Decided before 20 November) ** [x] Configure the election on votewiki ** [ ] Verify the list of election admins (i.e. remove exec committee members from list of admins) ** ~~Change the language of votewiki to Chinese (zh)~~ * Dec 10: Change the language of votewiki to Chinese (zh) * ~~Nov 29 - Dec 12~~ Dec 11 - Dec 25: Voting period ** [ ] Submit an invitation to all eligible voters using MassMessage * ~~Dec 13 -Dec 17~~ Dec 26 - Dec 30: Tallying period ** [ ] Change the language of votewiki back to English (en) ** [ ] Election exec. committee checks if any vote was cast while the user was locally blocked ** [ ] Scrutineers run necessary checks to strike votes submitted by socks or placed through proxy IP addresses *** Suggestion: use https://tools.wmflabs.org/ipcheck/splash.php to find proxy IP addresses ** [ ] The #trust-and-safety team or someone with shell access team runs the tally via command line ** [ ] Output is presented in two tables (one that shows the results of the decisions, and the other that shows the head-to-head comparison matrix of votes) ** [ ] Scrutineers confirm that the result posted on wiki matches the result from the tally

After the discussion of the September Wikimedia Foundation Office Statement (Office Actions on zhwp in September 2021), discussions have been made to carry out a trial run a securepoll election within the Chinese Wikipedia of a decision to **use the election as a tool to decide whether this will be an appropriate tool to advance further admin elections.** [[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E6%98%AF%E5%90%A6%E5%9C%A8%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E5%93%A1%E9%81%B8%E8%88%89%E5%95%9F%E7%94%A8SecurePoll | Local discussions here ]]. Here is a proposed timeline of activities: * Nov 17 - Nov 24: Question decision and personnel phase ** [ ]** ~~ Identify two scrutineers (should be from from current stewards) ** [x] Create a blank election on votewiki (can be modelled from other elections) ** [ ]** ~~ Make the scrutineers election admins on votewiki ** [ ] Make local oversighters election admins on votewiki (haven't decided yet, but local NDA signatories seems to have been limited to only Oversights and local OTRS at this time * Nov 25 - Nov 28: Election setup ** [x] Import the list of eligible voters (should be those who can vote right now) ** [x] Import the list of questions (Decided before 20 November) ** [ x] Configure the election on votewiki ** [ ] Verify the list of election admins (i.e. remove exec committee members from list of admins) ** ~~Change the language of votewiki to Chinese (zh)~~ * Dec 10: Change the language of votewiki to Chinese (zh) * ~~Nov 29 - Dec 12~~ Dec 11 - Dec 25: Voting period ** [ ] Submit an invitation to all eligible voters using MassMessage * ~~Dec 13 -Dec 17~~ Dec 26 - Dec 30: Tallying period ** [ ] Change the language of votewiki back to English (en) ** [ ] Election exec. committee checks if any vote was cast while the user was locally blocked ** [ ] Scrutineers run necessary checks to strike votes submitted by socks or placed through proxy IP addresses *** Suggestion: use https://tools.wmflabs.org/ipcheck/splash.php to find proxy IP addresses ** [ ] The #trust-and-safety team or someone with shell access team runs the tally via command line ** [ ] Output is presented in two tables (one that shows the results of the decisions, and the other that shows the head-to-head comparison matrix of votes) ** [ ] Scrutineers confirm that the result posted on wiki matches the result from the tally