2008Arbitration Committee Election status
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TheElections to the English Wikipedia'sArbitration Committee commenced on 10 November 2008 (candidate statements opened). Nominations were accepted from 10–24 November 2008. Voting opened on 1 December 2008. The newly elected Arbitrators will joinboth Tranches Beta and Gamma. Voting ran for two weeks (exactly fourteen days), and the results were determined and announced byJimbo Wales on 20 December 2008. In announcing the new appointments, Jimbo decided to expand each Tranche by one seat. Additionally, an arbitrator who resigned during the election was not replaced. Therefore, after the election, ArbCom was composed of 17 members, ten of whom were newly elected.
Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/General Summary provides an at-a-glance overview of this year's Election.
This year's Election was held to fill the following outgoing Arbitrators' seats:
Additionally,Deskana (talk ·contribs ·email) resigned two years before his term would expire (statement); his seat was kept unfilled for the time being.
The agreed process being used this year is based around the following seven points.
Final tallies of votes can be found atWikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Results.
On 20 December 2008, at 23:32 UTC, Jimbo Wales announced the results of the ArbCom elections.[4] As a change to this year's ArbCom, Jimbo decided to add one new position to each Tranche, thus expanding the size of the ArbCom to 18 members. He did this because, as he stated, "My exploration of the voting results tells me that this was an election for change...This was a key factor in my decision to expand the committee...As it stands, we have 10 of 18 seats filled with new members" Additionally, one standing Arbitrator,User:Deskana, resigned during the election. Rather than fill his seat in Tranche Alpha, Jimbo elected to leave it unfilled, and to hold an interim election in "at some point in 2009", likely "March or June or so". He stated that he expects the possibility of some additional retirements in the coming months, and would like to handle the replacements under a single election.
Additional ruminations by Jimbo on the operation of ArbCom, and on the 2008 ArbCom elections, can be foundhere.
The following were all appointed to 3-year terms in Tranche Beta, with terms expiring in December 2011:
The following were all appointed to 2-year terms in Tranche Alpha, with terms expiring in December 2010:
Additionally, the seat recently vacated by Deskana in Tranche Alpha will be left unfilled, leaving 5 (instead of 6) members of Tranche Alpha for the time being.
The following was appointed to a 1-year term in Tranche Gamma, with a term expiring in December 2009:
