Hoi,
You have been told that you need to make a back link from your home
wiki to the Meta account as well, if you don't have a global account
(because everyone can link to a certain enwiki account on their Meta
userpage and the real user won't notice it, but on your user page on
enwiki people are unlikely to edit without your consent, don't you
think? ;o) The link on Meta is still necessary to identify you so that
people can find your home wiki user page.) That's a very simple thing,
the people must be able to verify (at least to a certain extend) that
you are indeed that user on enwiki, which they were not obviously, so
your vote was correctly marked invalid. For the next one, just get
yourself an SUL account and vote with that, or add a link on enwiki to
your Meta account, and everything is fine. :o)
Th.
2011/3/7 brock.weller(a)gmail.com <brock.weller(a)gmail.com>om>:
So I had an enormously unsatisfying experience in the
recent steward
elections, and I'm hoping there might be some lessons learned from this
going forward. I don't spend much time on Meta, notwithstanding the fact
that im almost inexplicably mentioned at the top of the Live mirrors page
the only visits I make to meta are for votes on presumably now deleted
pages, and even that hasn't been for some years. My en.wiki account is
substantially older (edited since 2004, registered since 2005) and more
active (thousand of edits versus a few on meta) so I freely confess that I
may be a little out of the loop in how Meta works, but i think most voters
are, we are funneled here through election notices. My userpage has had a
link to my home wiki since 2007. That's the only thing on the page. I voted
in the Steward elections when I saw a name I recognized on the list. He was
an employee of the foundation and a personal friend of mine and I was very
pleased to see him running considering how helpful he's been to me through
the years. I pay no more attention to this process before coming back to
check election results to find out my vote was struck. No warning a day
before close or similar, no note or even bot-posted warning template. This
is frankly ridiculous. In something as important as a Steward Election our
determining the will of the community seems pretty willing to cut out parts
of the community without giving an opportunity to correct any technical
issues with the casting of the vote. I've been discussing things with the
admin who struck it, and while there's nothing wrong with his responses,
he's not being very helpful in correcting this for the future, and being
vague about what the requirements are for verification. I was told i needed
both a link from meta to my home wiki and from my home to meta, i added the
half that was missing (an edit made by me to the top of my talkpage on en
giving my account name on meta, stating i am that account and providing a
link) still wasnt sufficient but not informing me what more I'd have to
provide to insure disenfranchisement doesn't occur.
Quite simply, if we give a rats ass what the community thinks we need to
come up with a better system for measuring it.
Refs:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dungodung#Possibly_inappropriate_v…
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mask
--Brock