Hi Jussi, et al...
Just as an update, the Election Committee is actively discussing these
issues. Since we're pretty geographically distributed, it's not going to be
an "immediate" answer, but please know that these concerns have been
presented and the discussion on them is beginning.
Philippe
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From: "Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:36 PM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Official Election Notice -- concernsaboutsuffragerequirements
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Hi Phoebe,
Thanks for your comments. As you note, our intent is not to
disenfranchise
anyone who is a part of this community. I'm curious about how many
people
we're actually talking about, and perhaps we can get someone to run some
numbers... (x number of community members who would otherwise meet voting
requirements would be disenfranchised by the "50 edit" clause). I'll
take
them to the election list and discuss; once we have an outcome I'll share
it
with you and the group.
Philippe
<raises hand>
There are virtually certainly times in the over 5 years that I have
been happily considering myself a member of the wikimedian/pedian
community, when this requirement would have disenfranchised me.
I think particularly of several episodes when I was nearly obsessively
involved with the Distributed Proofreaders project for proofing texts
collaboratively for Project Gutenberg.
Even though I may have not made a huge number of wikiedits during such
periods of obsession at those projects, I virtually certainly still
remained active in policy etc. discussions off-wiki (and yes, I know
some may - in their own view, deservedly - scoff at that), I do wish
to positively state that I didn't feel I had left wikimedia then, or
was somehow out of touch with what was going on with people and persons
on-wiki.
Frankly 50 edits in 61 days is not right as a measure. I would hesitate
to say even 50 edits in 6 months would be lenient enough, though perhaps
such a requirement would not affect many people, one has to ask, why
use a coliander that strains out so few grains, when it is virtually
sure some of those rule ineligible by the criterion, will find it
hurtful and perhaps even insulting.
Yours in Wikimedia;
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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