Template talk:WMF elections

Protection

Is protection still needed? --Nemo 10:04, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

time to update

In the spirit of this request, this navbox should be discussed. If it is considered for all elections, as the generic title suggests, than it should include also a link Affiliate-selected Board seats and their elections year in the final list. It's less confusing than two separated template, IMHO. Otherwise, we create a small template for these elections but the name of this template is changed to something like "WMF community elections". For a few line more, I would not create two templates but you decice.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:28, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Bluerasberry FYI a general reorganization will include also this lateral navbox.--Alexmar983 (talk) 20:57, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

I have updated the underlying templates for 2020, but given that the FDC 2019 elections were not held as announced, Wikimedia Foundation elections/2020 is tentatively worded with "TBD" for the details. EllenCT (talk) 21:35, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Updates for 2021 - How do I start?

Hi all, The Board Election facilitation team is working on adding content on Meta to support the 2021 Board of Trustees election. A step in this process is to update this template for 2021. I have not done this before. How would I start this process? I see the "submit an edit request" option but I do not know what to put there. Do I describe what needs to be changed or do I put the wiki text updates there? Thanks for your guidance on this. Best, JKoerner (WMF) (talk) 17:45, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

@JKoerner (WMF): Thanks, I was just noticing the same thing. The 2020 links are visible on pages like Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Board_elections. Maybe look into whether the template can be removed entirely? Newer pages use {{Board_Elections_2021_Nav}} instead.

To edit protected pages, you should request temporary admin privileges, or find a colleague on this list. —Adamw (talk) 19:51, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 4 November 2021

Please change all instances of <div style="text-align:center"> to <div style{{=}}"text-align:center"> to avoid the equals sign getting interpreted as markup and putting thousands of pages in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:39, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Coded at Template:WMF elections/sandbox * Pppery * _{it has begun} 21:41, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

@Pppery: using a div clear is rather routine, what is subsequently calling this template that can't handle it? — xaosflux ^Talk 15:39, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Nothing is subsequently calling this template. The problem is that the div is inside of a call to {{menu}}, and the = in the styling is being interpreted as a parameter separator for {{menu}}, not as styling. The thing that is not routine is a div clear inside of a template argument. This is causing actual pages like Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Committee to not render properly (the entire "History" section at the bottom of the sidebar is blank). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 15:43, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Done — xaosflux ^Talk 15:59, 12 November 2021 (UTC)