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,antananaED of Wikimedia Ukraine2015-06-08 20:37 GMT+03:00 Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com>:_______________________________________________On 6 June 2015 at 18:32, Zana Strkovska <777.zana@gmail.com> wrote:(user:Violetova)ZanaI 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.Hi everybody,Thank you Anne for mention "only one woman candidate for FDC this year", it was me.
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 - 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
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