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TKTK - Expand from brief notes meta:Talk:Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee/Announcements#2025_U4C_election_results Only 4 seats filled, just enough to reach quorum. 3/4 were re-elected. This comes after the 2025 Annual Review which passed 4 reforms including removing the homewiki criterion.
TKTK - Expand from brief notes meta:Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/Sister Projects Task Force announced two things - Not to add Wikispore and to shut down all Wikinews projects. That meta:Proposal for Closing Wikinews has gotten nearly 70,000 words on the talk page discussion with many concerns being raised about this unilateral decisionmaking.
As written it is unclear what happens to English Wikinews, with the proposal implying merging content into English Wikipedia.
There are two events scheduled for "community consultation" - 1 2, both around 16-17 July.
TKTK - Expand from brief notes meta:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candidate_application for Board of Trustees elections closed on 9 July. There are $INSERTNUMBER candidates. Now, Affliates will shortlist candidates to reduce from $INSERTNUMBER to 6.
The elections had their deadline extended by a week citing reasons meta:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard. They will elect 2 members to the BoT
TKTK - Expand from brief notes Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025 - Call for candidates open till 15 July, with discussion open from 19 to 22 July. Voting begins around 23 July 23 and will last for 7 days.
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m:Talk:Global_Resource_Distribution_Committee/Creation_of_the_interim_GRDC#Interim_GRDC_committee_members_update. Previously, multiple members had withdrawn nominations after the process was extended by 30 days without notice. BoT had first announced GRDC on ????.
The Wikimedia Foundation has just launched the community collaboration process for the 2025 English banner fundraising campaign. The "current best" baseline banner looks like this:
Lots of feedback and ideas are being explored already on the community collaboration page. AK
TKTK - Expand from brief notes Summarise meta:Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin/2025/9
TKTK - Expand from brief notes Summarise most pertinent facts about Wikimania
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