Tue Oct 8 - Mon Oct 14 (7 days) - call for candidates:
Mon Oct 14 - The last day candidates can sign up is Oct 14
Tue Oct 15 - Mon Oct 23 (7 days) - intermission to set up SecurePoll with WMF, create candidate pages, etc.
Discussion phase
create candidate pages
notifications via watchlist notice, T:CENT, WP:AN, WT:RFA, WT:ORCP
Tue Oct 22 - Thu Oct 24 (3 days) - discussion phase
Tue Oct 24 - absolute last day to question candidates on the official talk pages. locked down tight at the end of the day, per the RFC, which states that questions after the discussion phase are discouraged and must go to user talk
Voting phase
notifications via watchlist notice, T:CENT, WP:AN, WT:RFA, WT:ORCP
Fri Oct 25 - Thu Oct 31 (7 days) - SecurePoll voting phase
Post voting
scrutineering by stewards
results posted
inform bureaucrats so they can promote
give barnstars to folks who helped (e.g. created subpages, scrutineered, etc.)
Next election prep
debrief: get feedback on how the election went and if the community wants to do it again on the talk page
how often should admin elections be? every 6 months?
the stewards have stated they do not want to be responsible for scrutineering this regularly due to bandwidth issues. who will do scrutineering?
early September - MMS, admin newsletter with the schedule and plans, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Suggestions
Wed Sep 25 (1 month before) - Run voter list script so we have plenty of time to get community feedback and later send to WMF to put into SecurePoll
