Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2024/Coordination/Instructions for scrutineers
Usefulness of 'Account Security'?
editScrutineers are highly encouraged to use a unique passphrase and enable two-factor authentication on votewiki and enwiki. This will help ensure the integrity of the election and protect the sensitive data of the voters.
Stewards are subject to stricter password policy (while the page says steward have same policy as ordinary users, users are required to hold admin permission on a content wiki, which makes them subject to hardened PW role, and as part of the S package you get CU on loginwiki, also subscribing you to hardened rules), and are required to enable 2FA as part of their tool packages. (This is WMF decree-mandated for getting access, and double checked before getting access.) It might be applicable for votewiki, but certainly not for metawiki (and by shared nature of credentials via SUL, enwiki too). So that section may get some adjustment, I think :-p — regards, Revi 20:45, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
Query for the scrutineers
editHello, all,
I noticed that beginning in 2022, the Results section of the main ACE page no longer includes the total number of ballots/votes reviewed by the scrutineers. This vote count had been part of all of the previous ACE results sections (see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2019 as an example) and I'm not sure why it has been omitted for the past 2 years. Since voting tallys have varied so widely (from 593 editors participating in an ACE to 2,674 editors), it would be nice to know how this year compared. And if you could fill in total numbers for 2022 and 2023, that would be appreciated, too. I'm going to cross-post this to the coordinators' talk page. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 03:57, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- It looks like Xaosflux responded to my message regarding posting previous ballot totals. If you could include that information in 2024, that would be great. Liz Read! Talk! 05:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- IIRC, scrutineers do not have access to historical data; I recall only being able to see stuff related to the ongoing !votes. Also I think it was filled by enwiki people, not us. 2018 result did not include the stats- stats were filled by local, 2019 was filled by Joe who is WMF employee, not S. 2020 was delivered by local people, as well. — regards, Revi 11:18, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Scrutineers! You're up!
edit@Mykola7:, @EPIC:, @Johannnes89: with the elections closed, you guys are up. Please reach out to us at EC if you have any problems/questions. —CYBERPOWER (Merry Christmas) 00:28, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the ping. I finished checking the votes and wrote a mail with my findings to @EPIC and @Mykola7. Johannnes89 (talk) 12:32, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Done for my part as well. I've emailed the CU team for a query. EPIC (talk) 15:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)