If there was an option to indicate that the user was willing to vote but did not know any of the candidates well enough to have an opinion on their suitability for the positions you might find that this is often the case. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Alexander Sent: 06 October 2014 08:46 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:12 AM, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
A completely un deduped (and so is double+ counting anyone who is eligible on multiple wikis because of activity there) number is 207911 for 2013.
Caveats:
This number is quick and dirty and 'reasonable' as a starting point but far from perfect, among other things:
- It doesn't include 100% of the staff or developers, only the staff
who had staff rights or asked and developers who asked because they couldn't vote in other ways). This is a relatively small amount of missing people.
- It still includes bots and blocked users, because that was checked
later in the process. I, again, think this is a relatively small amount given number of bots + blocked users with more then 300 edits relative to the total. It is possible some of the bots are very active across the board though which will be helped by the de dupping.
- It is not de dupped meaning it double+ counts people who were active
on many wikis or accounts, sometimes a lot (for example there are 7 entries for my personal account, 7 for my work account, and 69 for the steward DerHexer given global work). Sorting through the crap that the script spat out is more then I'm willing to do at 5am but I will try to do this later today and get this number down. My guess is this is in the 10k range.
So I was wrong about the extent of the de duplication. In the end there were about *50124* unique people marked off on the voter list (again, like above, that does still include some bots/blocked on multiple wiki users but they are only counted once each) so call it 50k.
Using that number:
- With a total of 1809 valid votes that is about a 3.6% turnout. - We know that another 534 people authenticated to vote but did not actually cast a valid vote (and so most likely left after seeing the ballot)[1]. That would account for an additional 1%
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