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Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2025/Coordination

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2025 Arbitration Committee Elections

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The Arbitration Committee elections are run by the English Wikipedia community. This page lists the election volunteers and their duties for the December 2025 Arbitration Committee election. If you have a question or concern about the election, please notify us on the talk page.

Election volunteer guidelines

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While coordinators have as much right to participate in ordinary voter activity during the election as all other eligible voters (i.e. voting, asking questions, discussing candidates), election volunteers should avoid acting in a way that might cast doubt on their ability to act impartially, or on the perceived neutrality of the coordinators or elections as a whole.

Election volunteers

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Electoral Commission

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The Electoral Commission is a three-member panel with a mandate to solve disputes and make decisions on unexpected problems and to carrying out any duties delegated to it by the community. The Electoral Commission is appointed by the community after input via a request for comment.

Commissioners:

  • (to be determined)

Scrutineers

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Scrutineers have technical access to the SecurePoll system allowing them to check the validity of cast ballots, and certify the final results. Scrutineers are drawn from Stewards who do not edit the English Wikipedia as their primary wiki.

Scrutineers:

  • (to be determined)

Instructions for scrutineers

Coordinators

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Coordinators are simply volunteers who help run the day to day operations of the election. Any editor in good standing who wants to help out is welcome to volunteer as a coordinator. Interested persons can add their name below. The commissioners (and reservists) are de facto coordinators and may perform activities as needed.

List

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Tasks

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Based on Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Election/Coordination § Tasks.

Prior to arbitration committee election request for comments

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Arbitration committee election request for comments

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Electoral commission request for comments

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Assuming electoral commission continues to be part of the arbitration committee election process:

Election preparation

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Setup

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  • Electoral commissioners and all co-ordinators: review the current Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Election/Rules and the outcome of the annual request for comments discussion.
  • Update process to generate voter roll, as required. Modify script that generates list of voters to accommodate latest community-determined criteria
  • Make any additional changes to process as required by the election RfC.
  • SecurePoll setup
    • Scrutineers:
      • request volunteers at m:Stewards' noticeboard
      • identify scrutineers from volunteers
      • request checkuser privileges for scrutineers (limited to the scrutineering period)
    • Poll management (currently poll runs on votewiki server; in future it may be possible to be administered by English Wikipedia users)
      • Ask WMF to assign a resource to setup and administer the poll on votewiki.
      • Schedule election period with WMF resource.
  • Testing
    • Generate voter lists to verify tools operate as desired and to allow for anyone to doublecheck the results
      • SecurePoll voter roll
      • mass mailing receiver list
    • Check that nomination process is working
  • Generate voter lists after the designated deadline date for voting criteria.
    • Announce publication of lists to allow for doublechecking

Nominations

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Election

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Voting

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  • At start of election period, check that poll is working:
    • Verify options for each candidate are correct
    • Verify candidates are correct and in expected order
    • Verify poll is accepting responses
  • Post notifications to community noticeboards
    • miscellaneous village pump
  • Send mass message notification
    • Check job queue before starting to ensure it isn't overloaded. See status on grafana server
    • Send mass messages in batches; repeat until all batches done (example). First batch is a test batch to the election commissioners; verify that message is sent correctly and text is correct.
      • Go to Special:MassMessage:
        Subject: ArbCom 2025 Elections voter message
        Body: {{subst:ACEMM}}
      • Check mass message submission log to see that message has been sent
      • Monitor job queue for any problems
      • Pick some recipients from the start, middle, and end of the list and verify that the messages are delivered
  • At end of election period, check that poll is no longer accepting votes

Post-voting

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Tools

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See Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Election/Coordination § Tools.

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