Ah, OK, sorry for my misunderstanding of the question.
Indeed, we had that same discussion amongst the committee. In the
end, the vote timing is driven by Wikimania and the need to purchase
tickets for the new trustees-designate to get there (at a reasonable
price, which usually requires a 14 day advance purchase), while also
taking the time to get the translations done as completely as possible.
In addition, it was our feeling that last year that the first week had
- by far - the vast majority of the votes cast with relatively little
movement afterwards.
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philippe
On May 27, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Angela wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:54 AM, philippe
<philippe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
The reason not to have it in two weeks is that it
generally takes
longer than that to effectively translate both the policy pages and
the candidate statements to allow as many people to participate in as
many languages as possible. Two weeks would almost guarantee a
primarily english-centric election. In the past we've had no problem
getting the votes counted/confirmed in two days; we did it last year.
I believe the suggestion is to have the vote lasting for 2 weeks, not
starting in 2 weeks from now.
Voting last for 3 weeks in past elections.
Angela
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