On 7/2/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
I can't speak for other English wikipedia contributors, but the reason that I as an english wikipedia user will not be visible as an English wikipedia voter, is that unlike in past years, when I most closely identified with that particular project, I shall not be voting *from* that project, but rather from the Finnish Wikipedia.
I suspect many regulars of the English wikipedia will be voting from other projects too. So that figure of 16 percent may be hugely misleading.
Even if made the outrageous assumption that every single person who has currently voted in the election is really an enwiki user wearing an alternative hat, we're still left with a small percentage of recently active eligible enwiki voters... There are a LOT of eligible people, and the other projects don't have fantastic turnout.
Also, in my count I would have counted to as a 'voted' enwiki user... because I ignored the wiki and considered an en user to have voted no matter what project they voted from... (thus over-estimating the number who have voted in those rare causes where different people have the same username).