There's less than 24 hours to vote in the election for the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. This is a really important one, in my opinion, and many others; in short, I believe the Foundation has been suffering from never having prioritized understanding the social dynamics in its volunteer base. That has been manifesting in many ways over the last year or two. With three of 10 seats open, this is a good opportunity to nudge things in a better direction. I wrote several blog posts about it, here: http://wikistrategies.net/tag/trustee-election-2015/

In order to vote, you have to have at least 300 edits to Wikipedia or its related projects -- 20 of them have to have been between last October and April. (There are some other ways to qualify too, but that's the main one.) All the voting info is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections/2015 Voting ends at 4pm Pacific on Sunday May 31.

Wikipedia is IMO the most widespread and in many ways most important instances of "hacker culture" having an impact. I think it's important that its social health be understood, and that such knowledge should have a strong influence in the kind of planning and intervention the Foundation does. Please take a look, and if you're eligible, vote!

Pete

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