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:2021%E5%B9%B4%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%91%E6%9C%83%E9%87%9D%E5%B0%8D%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E7%99%BE%E7%A7%91%E7%9A%84%E8%A1%8C%E5%8B%95/%E6%9C%AC%E5%9C%B0%E7%A4%BE%E7%BE%A4%E6%94%BF%E7%AD%96%E7%9B%B8%E9%97%9C%E8%A8%8E%E8%AB%96#%E9%87%8D%E6%8F%90%E4%BD%BF%E7%94%A8SecurePoll%E6%9C%BA%E5%88%B6%E9%80%89%E4%B8%BE%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E5%91%98 | 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)
** [ ] 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
** [ ] Import the list of eligible voters (should be those who can vote right now)
** [ ] 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)
* Nov 29 - Dec 11: Voting period
** [ ] Submit an invitation to all eligible voters using MassMessage
* Dec 12 -Dec 16: 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