[Foundation-l] 2008 Wikimedia Board Election results

[Jerry~Yuyu]

Congratulations to Wing!

I'm really happy about the news, & so do most members of the Chinese
Wikimedia Community,  I think

Good luck to Wing, and thank all those who had helped in the election.

Jeromy-Yu Chan
User:Yuyu
Laudamus quae laudentur

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:53:40 +0800
> From: "Mark Ryan" <ultrablue at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] 2008 Wikimedia Board Election results
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> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The 2008 Election Committee would like to announce the results of the
> 2008 Board Election of one seat to the Board of Trustees. We are
> pleased to announce that the successful candidate was Ting Chen
> (User:Wing).
>
> Over the course of the three weeks of voting, 3019 valid ballots were
> submitted by members of the various communities which make up
> Wikimedia.
>
> In previous elections, an approval system had been used, whereas this
> year a new interface and tallying script was developed by Election
> Committee member Kwan Ting Chan (User:KTC). The election system used
> this year was a preferential system, whereby voters could rank
> candidates according to their order of preference. These ballots were
> then tallied using the 'Schulze Method' (also notably used by the
> Debian project), in order to find the most preferred winner. To
> determine the winner, each candidate is individually compared to each
> of the other candidates, to determine which of the two was ranked
> better by the most people. In every case, more voters ranked Ting Chen
> higher than the other candidate than ranked him equal or lower than
> the other candidate. As a result, Ting Chen represents the "Condorcet
> winner" in this election, and so is the winner according to the chosen
> Schulze Method.
>
> More details about the Schulze Method may be found at its English
> Wikipedia article:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method>
>
> Detailed election results can be found on the Meta election results page:
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Results>
>
> The Election Committee would like to thank all of the candidates for
> the time and effort they invested in the election process, and would
> once again like to congratulate Ting Chen on his success.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> ~Mark Ryan
> on behalf of the Election Committee
>
>
>