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<span style="font-size:2.75em; font-weight: bold; height: 100px; line-height: 50px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica, Impact, sans-serif; color:#46A;">2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee Election</span>
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* '''[[m:Special:SecurePoll/vote/390|Voting closed]]''' for the 7 community-elected Movement Charter Drafting Committee seats on 25 October 2021 at 11:59:59 (UTC).
* The '''[https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/ candidate election compass]''' is now available. 
For more information and context on the Movement Charter and this election process, see below. Information can also be found on the following Meta-Wiki pages:
* [[m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee|About the Drafting Committee]]
* [[m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Set Up Process|Drafting Committee selection process]]
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== About ==
===What is the Movement Charter Drafting Committee?===
{{See also|m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee|m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Set Up Process}}
As part of the Wikimedia Foundation's [[m:Movement Strategy|Movement Strategy]] process, a [[m:Movement Charter|Movement Charter]] is being written to define "the roles and responsibilities for all in the Wikimedia Movement". It will in a sense be a 'constitution' for the Wikimedia movement for the future. The [[m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee|Movement Charter Drafting Committee]] will create a draft of this Charter. The process for creating the Charter, and the process for agreeing/ratifying the final draft, are not specified and the Committee will have significant influence over these processes. 

The Committee will have 15 members: 7 to be elected by the global Wikimedia community (with a maximum of 2 committee members per Wikimedia project), 6 to be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates, and 2 who have been selected by the Wikimedia Foundation. The candidates elected by the community will be selected by [[m:Wikimedia Foundation elections/Single Transferable Vote|Single Transferable Vote]]. For more information about the selection process, see [[m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Set Up Process|the meta description page]].

=== Who are the candidates? ===
70 candidates are running for a seat on the Drafting Committee. '''[[m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Candidates|Information about the candidates is available on meta]].''' In addition, the Foundation is piloting an "[https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/ Election Compass]" feature for interactive insights on how closely candidates align with you.

{{u|Dušan Kreheľ}} created a tool for visualizing the candidates' responses to the election statement.
*'''[https://krehel.sk/Candidates_Drafting_Committee_Movement_Charter_Statements/ Krehel Election Compass Visualization Tool]'''

For candidate data see also
*[[:m:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Candidates/Table]]

=== Who is eligible to vote? ===
To be eligible for voting a user must:
*not be blocked in more than one project;
*and not be a bot;
*and have made at least 300 edits before 12 September 2021 across Wikimedia wikis;
*and have made at least 20 edits between 12 March 2021 and 12 September 2021.

== Confused? ==
This election is a new process. Questions about the election can be directed to [[m:Talk:Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Candidates|the meta page]] or on [[RetroWikipedia talk:2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee Election|this page's talk page]] (to be answered by English RetroWikipedia volunteers). This page will continue to be updated in response to community questions.