Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-02/Board elections

This week, the Signpost covers the opening of the 2008 Board elections.

The fifth election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees opened on Sunday. Fifteen users are vying for one (1) one-year seat, to be filled in the election. As of press time, 1,774 valid votes had been cast.

This week, a statistics page was provided by election committee member Jesse Plamondon-Willard. The statistics show the votes by date, project, language and individual wiki. Unsurprisingly, English and the English Wikipedia had the most turnout numerically so far. What was perhaps surprising was the turnout from Hebrew wikis; as of press time, 90 of 272 Hebrew Wikimedians (33.1%) had voted in the elections (more than four times the 8.1% turnout so far across all languages). English turnout is currently at 7.4%.