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Mentioning administrator elections to your WMF contact in your monthly meeting[edit]

Hello arbitrators. We were wondering if you might be willing to mention administrator elections to your WMF T&S contact in your monthly meeting. I've sent them a couple emails now but it is not moving very fast. Basically we can't move forward until they state that they are willing to set up a mw:Extension:SecurePoll election for us and give us a date window in which they're willing to do it. Thoughts? Thank you. More context. –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:53, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting that there are a lot of global SecurePoll instances that will take priority over anything else. Specifically, the U4C elections have just completed; in June/July, there will be the Movement Charter ratification vote (running both a local instance and a global instance simultaneously); in August/September, there will be the WMF Board of Trustees election. T&S is also currently short-staffed, with their lead SecurePoll person not available at present. I do understand the frustration, but an experiment on English Wikipedia (when we are already carrying out a bunch of other RFA experiments at the same time) probably shouldn't be the priority for their team. I'd suggest holding off until they get through this unusual glut of global SecurePoll instances, perhaps until September, before raising any red flags. That will also give time to see how the other RFA-related experiments work out. Risker (talk) 05:18, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Risker. Always good to see you :) If T&S emails me back with an explanation like that, I'd be totally understanding, and would be happy to pick a date in the calendar that is many months from now. I disagree with the idea that we need to intentionally move slowly due to other RFA reform efforts. The T:CENT-advertised RFC passed with a consensus to do one trial, so I no longer see the consensus part as being ambiguous. –Novem Linguae (talk) 06:01, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~I have now added it to the next meeting's agenda, but to my personal understanding,~~ sending e-mails is the right decision and there's no huge urgency. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 06:27, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We are not EN Wikipedia's Foreign Office. This is a gross misuse of our political capital and time. Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 11:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't think much about it and have removed it again. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:39, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Guerillero Ironically, a topic of discussion highly related to the question of increased SecurePoll use appeared on the committee agenda while I was on it. As such I don't think calling it a gross misuse of capital and time is whatsoever reasonable. Izno (talk) 16:06, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how convincing the WMF to set up SecurePoll is in our remit in any reasonable way. Local scrutineering, however, is due to the committee's oversight of the CheckUser team. -- Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 10:33, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]