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Wikimania and trustee elections
Wikimania in Stockholm
Wikimania 2019 will be held in Stockholm from August 16 to 18 with a preconference on August 14 and 15. The venue is the Aula Magna building at Stockholm University. The theme of the conference is "Stronger together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals", based around the sustainability goals defined by the United Nations in 2015.
The program format has been redesigned this year: topics and leaders have been selected for more than a dozen tracks, or "spaces". Individual presentation proposals are selected by the leaders of the spaces. Submissions are due June 9.
The registration process involves both Eventbrite and PayPal. The "early bird" prices for the main three-day conference will be US$175, and are available only until May 31. A limited number of hotel rooms are available at 1195 Swedish krona (about US$125) per night.
Board of Trustees election
Two affiliate-selected trustees will be elected on May 31 to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. This is the first trustee election that gives user groups a vote, rather than just chapters and the single thematic organization. About 107 user groups, 41 chapters and Amical Wikimedia – the thematic organization – have a single vote each. The votes will be tallied using single transferable vote (STV) method using a Droop quota.
Eleven candidates appear on the ballot: Yuri Astrakhan, Shani Evenstein, Christophe Henner, Reda Kerbouche, Richard Knipel, Taweetham Limpanuparb, Maor Malul, Douglas Scott, Gerald Shields, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Kayode Yussuf.
Results will be announced before Wikimania, and must be approved by the Board of Trustees.
Administrator updates
Additional contributor: DannyS712
- Three administrators were desysopped for inactivity.
- Vejvančický, Euryalus, HereToHelp, and StringTheory11 all voluntarily relinquished their administrative privileges.
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There was a discussion on why this year's Wikimania travel guide plagiarized contents from the Stockholm page in Wikivoyage and didn't even link back to the Wikivoyage article. OhanaUnitedTalk page 22:18, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]