Pardon me, Zana, but why?
Oppose is just as good as Support, I believe. It means that people have
feelings about you.
And you can change that. Indifference is the problem, imho
<small>And I still cannot understand why the voting is not open and
public...
We are supposed to get used to express our opinions without fear being
(mostly) Wikipedians, aren't we?
If I vote against someone and it means anything to him/her, (s)he can just
ask me why and we can talk (we can do it beforehand, of course :))
The same thing is about voting for smb. Is it not interesting to know who
supports you and why?
And the other way around. I would love to know what motivates people to
vote against me.
It helps to see if one is going in the right direction, whatever they may
think about it</small>
Best regards,
antanana
ED of Wikimedia Ukraine
2015-06-08 20:37 GMT+03:00 Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 6 June 2015 at 18:32, Zana Strkovska <777.zana(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everybody,
Thank you Anne for mention "only one woman candidate for FDC this year",
it was me.
I would like to say something: not time, not money is issue for me (I am
free lancer, meaning I can manage my time). My theory is that I didn't pass
because I didn't answer questions in the way the community wanted.
I am not sure how many woman we have who are free to help, serve and
travel. But, what I found discourage after mine failure is the oppose
votes. One thing is to see how many Wikipedians voted for you, but it's not
so pleasant to count oppose votes.
I hope my words could help on why women aren't generally volunteering to
run.
Regards,
Zana
(user:Violetova)
Zana - I would really like to encourage you to post that at the election
post-mortem page, perhaps in the section about voting methodology (which is
titled "Electoral system").[1] Your perspective, as a candidate, is really
important on this issue. I have said for a while now that I am unlikely
to ever participate in another WMF-related election, but it was only on
reading what you wrote here that I realized how demoralizing the opposes
are in any of these elections for me as well.
Risker/Anne
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mo…
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