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Administrator Elections | Instructions for candidates

Thank you for choosing to run in the October 2024 administrator elections. This bulletin contains some important information about the next stages of the election process.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• October 15–21: SecurePoll setup phase
• October 22–24: Discussion phase
• October 25–31: SecurePoll voting phase
• November 1–?: Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the SecurePoll setup phase. Your candidate subpage will remain closed to questions and discussion. However, this is an excellent opportunity for you to recruit nominators (if you want them) and have them place their nomination statements, and a good time for you to answer the standard three questions, if you have not done so already. We recommend you spend the SecurePoll setup phase from October 15–21 getting your candidate page polished and ready for the next phase.

The discussion phase will take place from October 22–24. Your candidate subpage will open to the public and they will be permitted to discuss you and ask you formal questions, in the same style as a request for adminship (RfA). Please make sure you are around on those dates to answer the formal questions in a timely manner.

On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. Anyone can see who has voted, but not who they voted for. You are permitted and encouraged to vote in the election, including voting for yourself. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see your tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RfA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, you must have received at least 70% support, calculated as support ÷ (support + oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("'crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation as a candidate, and best of luck.

You're receiving this message because you are a candidate in the October 2024 administrator elections.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. As we're preparing to move from one stage to the next, this is just a quick note from one member of the test group to another, wishing you well in the process of this new alternative to RfA. It seems that there are more of us in this group than some in the community anticipated, so i hope that doesn't make the experience any the worse for all of us. Whatever our individual results, i thank you, along with the rest, for stepping up and testing this process; happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 07:19, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Best wishes to you as well! – SD0001 (talk) 10:28, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Should have run a couple of hours ago but apparently didn’t. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 08:34, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved now per User_talk:SDZeroBot#NPP sorting. – SD0001 (talk) 11:20, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On your election as a new admin! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Plantaest (talk) 13:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both! – SD0001 (talk) 13:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Congrats! Andre🚐 22:55, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I may not be able to offer you the baton, but I hope you can savour these bâtonnets as you study all the new admin buttons! Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 21:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, TIL what a bâtonnet is . – SD0001 (talk) 13:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You deserve it after winning adminship. Congrats! Wikibear47 (talk) 18:58, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. – SD0001 (talk) 13:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The axe of responsibility
	Shiny new tools might be used to mete out justice, mercy or a dose of reality. Let us commit to not losing our cool when using them. Our only armor is the entire community's trust. We wear it for each other, each new contributor, and each new generation to come. May you ever be the community's champion. BusterD (talk) 14:21, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's poetic, thanks BusterD. I hope to yield the axe well! – SD0001 (talk) 13:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The new admin baton
	Dr vulpes has passed the baton to me and, after a few hours of pure joy, I am passing it on to you! Congrats on winning your election and make sure to pass a baton on to the next admin once you're done! Sincerely, Ahecht :)

--Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:15, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot. Belatedly noting that the baton has been passed on. – SD0001 (talk) 13:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SD0001 (and congrats on your recent adminship)! I just wanted to follow up about Wikipedia:Bot_requests/Archive_84#Bot_to_maintain_lists_of_Wikipedians_by_good_article/featured_article_views, as I still think it'd be a nice thing to have! Any chance it'd be possible to create this list? Sdkb ^talk 05:00, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sdkb It's a busy month for me. Probably next month! (Belated congrats on your adminship too! By the way, and I really mean this, you have a lot of great technical ideas about improving the project. You should learn to code. It's the one thing that improves productivity many times over. I'd suggest starting with Python.) – SD0001 (talk) 07:18, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I learned some Python back in college, but I've never put in the effort to re-learn it and other coding languages. I think you're probably right, as that is often a bottleneck! Sdkb ^talk 19:38, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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