Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008

2008 Arbitration Committee Election status

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 ( ·  · ) resigned two years before his term would expire (); 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 at .

On 20 December 2008, at 23:32 UTC, Jimbo Wales announced the results of the ArbCom elections. 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 found .

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:

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