2024 Arbitration Committee Elections
Status as of 23:50 (UTC), Saturday, 23 November 2024 ()
- Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open to eligible editors until 23:59, 02 December 2024 (UTC). If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page.
- Community members are welcome to ask questions of the candidates.
During the 2012 Arbitration Committee Election request for comment, it was decided by consensus that a three-member Electoral Commission would be created to address issues arising during the Arbitration Committee elections. This decision was reaffirmed in subsequent years and the existence of the Commission is now part of the standard procedure for the annual elections. The Electoral Commission is reconstituted each year for purposes of that year's election.
The mandate of the Electoral Commission is to deal with any unforeseen problems that may arise in the Arbitration Committee election process, and to adjudicate any disputes during the election. While the Electoral Commission is not responsible for logistics of the election, the Commissioners should help ensure that preparations for the election—such as setting up the relevant pages, posting notices of the election in the appropriate places, and asking the Office to configure the SecurePoll voting interface—move forward in a timely fashion.
During the nomination period, editors wishing to volunteer as a Commissioner for the 2024 Arbitration Committee election should create a new subsection on this page.
Eligibility criteria: Per WP:ACERULES, any extended-confirmed editor is eligible to nominate themselves for the Electoral Commission if they:
- (a) are over 18 years of age,
- (b) meet the Wikimedia Foundation's access to nonpublic information policy, and
- (c) are not blocked or banned from the Wikipedia or Wikipedia talk namespaces.
Nominations may be removed if the candidate does not satisfy all of the foregoing criteria. Commissioners and reserve members are not eligible for election to the Arbitration Committee during this year's election.
During the evaluation period, this RFC will gather comments and endorsements for candidates. All editors are encouraged to comment on the suitability of the volunteers for this role. Important: Endorsements/comments are not accepted until the evaluation period.
In general: the three candidates with the most endorsements will be selected as Commissioners. Additional candidates exceeding 50% of the endorsements of the third-place candidate will be selected as reserve Commissioners, to be called upon if one or more of the Commissioners are unable to serve. Variances and exceptions, including ties, will be resolved by the RFC closer using the standard consensus-building process.(last updated from 2024 RfC)
Per the consensus developed in previous requests for comment, the Electoral Commission timetable is as follows:
- Nominations: Wednesday 00:00, 02 October 2024 (UTC) – Tuesday 23:59, 08 October 2024 (UTC) (7 days)
- Evaluation period: Wednesday 00:00, 09 October 2024 (UTC) – Tuesday 23:59, 15 October 2024 (UTC) (7 days)
- Commission selection: completed by Wednesday 00:00, 23 October 2024 (UTC)