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Hello everyone,

The voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.

The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is available on Meta in different languages and attached here in PDF format for your reading.

Voting commenced on SecurePoll on June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC and will conclude on July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

After reading the Charter, please vote here and share this note further.

If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at cec@wikimedia.org.

On behalf of the CEC,

RamzyM (WMF) 10:51, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

A humble request

Hi, Kevin! I'm glad to see that you are still active at WP and involved in so many areas. It's been a long time, but I am sure that you are thriving in your offline life, on top of all you do at WP.

I'm writing to ask you for a small favor. It happens that another editor and I have been working on separate articles on the same subject: a current California wildfire known as the Post Fire. I was working on Post Fire (although I didn't create it), while he was working on Post Fire (2024), which he did create. The articles should be merged and I have forgotten how to do that. Would you be willing to undertake it?

Here's the story: The other user, Dripwoods, created the article Post Fire (2024). Some days later he discovered the pre-existence of Post Fire and posted on its talk page. We agreed the articles should be merged. His article, Post Fire (2024), is much more detailed, so we believe it should be the surviving article. The other article, Post Fire, had some more recent updates, so I have moved that material to Post Fire (2024). I think the information is now in one place. Next step?

IMO the title "Post Fire" should be given to the larger and more complete article, which is currently known as Post Fire (2024). Not sure how to do that. Would "Post Fire (2024)" become a redirect to Post Fire? Sounds messy. Alternatively, we could just delete the lesser article "Post Fire" (maybe first move the talk page discussion to the other talk page?) and then change the name of "Post Fire (2024)" to "Post Fire".

The problem is, I am years away from doing anything like that and am clueless where to begin. So I thought maybe I could (pretty please) get you to do the honors? What do you think on that subject? Do you have time to set this up?

In any case, nice to "see" you again! MelanieN (talk) 03:02, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

@MelanieN: Great to hear from you! I've swapped the two pages (so what was previously "Post Fire (2024)" is now "Post Fire", and vice versa), so the more detailed article's survived. Then I've redirected the new "Post Fire (2024)" to the other article, and added the necessary tags etc. Assuming you've gotten everything you needed to keep into the new article, I think we're all set! KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 14:00, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Kevin! I could never have figured all that out. -- MelanieN (talk) 14:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon

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This is a kind reminder that the voting period to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter will be closed on July 9, 2024, at 23:59 UTC.

If you have not voted yet, please vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 03:45, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hello all,

A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

In this special election, according to chapter 2 of the U4C charter, there are 9 seats available on the U4C: four community-at-large seats and five regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement. No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.

Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki.

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