== Esperanza elections == 

 Hi Wikizach!  Thanks very much for your offer of help with the Esperanza elections. 

 Here's some things that need doing! 

 # Visit the talk page of the Membership List and join Esperanza! The main page is locked until voting is complete, but adding your name to the list there makes you a member! 
 # Put Wikipedia:Esperanza/December 2005 elections/Vote on your Watchlist (visit the page, then click "watch" on the row of buttons at the top-middle of your screen. That way you'll see the most recent changes to the page. 
 # When you see a change, it's probably someone voting. Check the person making a vote is listed on this page. If they're not, edit the page, cut the vote out and re-post it on this page instead. Then write to the person and very nicely tell them what you've done and why (ie they're not a member). Be careful - the membership list is in plain-text, whilst the votes are signatures: peoples' account names and signature names sometimes don't match! 
 # If all is well with the vote, check the tally on the right side of the page and see if it matches the number of votes. If it doesn't, edit this page and bring the tally up to date. This page uses wikitables - as you're new, these may be a bit daunting, so feel free not to do this! 
 # If you spot a change has been made to the voting page and it looks like vandalism (someone removing votes, blanking the page, adding nonsense etc), revert the vandalism by going into the edit history, choosing the last good edit, clicking the date of that edit, "edit this page" and save it. That goes back to the previous version. Put something like "rvv" (re-vert-vandalism) or "rv blanking" (re-vert blanking) as your edit summary. 
 # Voting is "approval voting". No-one may vote "against" or "neutral". All votes must be signed and dated: you may have to pick through the edit history if you find one that isn't, then write to that person and ask them to sign their vote with ~~~~ for the avoidance of doubt. 
 # Always assume good faith on behalf of voters and candidates. Errors are likely to be simple mistakes that anyone could make.  

 If you spot anything that looks a bit odd or you don't know what to do about something, ask any one of the other Elections Staff for help or advice. The person in charge is , although we're all very happy to help. Thanks very much for volunteering! ➨ E