Re: [Advocacy Advisors] German national parliament election questionnaire

Greetings, Wikimedia Deutschland has just released the answers we received to our election questionnaire. Complete answers are at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Wahlpr%C3%BCfsteine/B… (German) Our analysis can be found at http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/09/11/bundestagswahl-wahlpruefsteine-wikimedi… (German) Previous questionnaires ("Wahlprüfsteine") are published at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Wahlpr%C3%BCfsteine We are aware that this kind of questionnaire is not equally common in every country, so here are a few introductory infos. Wahlprüfsteine are a set of questions (usually very specific questions) that are sent to parties which participate in elections. The answers are usually released in a compiled form before the election date. Among the Wahlprüfsteine's advantages are the compatibility with non-partisanship. The organisation asking the question can refrain from commenting them or refrain from making any kind of endorsement for a particular candidate or party while at the same time offering the public a service to inform them about differences in specific policy topics. The German national parliament elections will be held on September 22, 2013. Our questionnaire had 11 questions (3 on copyright, 2 on access, 3 on net neutrality and 3 on education). 10 replies were received, representing 11 parties, including all parties that are currently in the parliament and most likely will remain there. Topic selection was based on the responses we received from a survey that was sent to the German language Wikimedia community: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/08/01/wahlpruefsteine-bundestagswahl-beta/ (German) We carefully picked questions that actually belong to the national level (some are overlapping with EU legislation, a few border to topics left to the German states (Länder). If you haven't done so, please consider answering a few questions in this survey here that can help contribute to a questionnaire for the upcoming EU parliament election in 2014: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.de/forms/d/1vSrFiYCAN-RPXdikdkkHmT_ZzWP… This survey will last until September 30. Mathias -- Mathias Schindler Projektmanager Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. web: http://www.wikimedia.de mail: mathias.schindler(a)wikimedia.de Ceterum censeo opera officiales esse liberandam - http://urheberrecht.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Advocacy_Advisors mailing list Advocacy_Advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors