I'd just like to highlight (so no one is confused) that there actually '' is
'' an exception for sysadmins.
In the past couple of years that I've been on the committee, I haven't been
told of an issue with developers having the required edits (yes, I agree,
poor thing to judge upon but just about all we have). If that's an issue
and there actually are developers who are disenfranchised (as opposed to
hypotheticals), please encourage them to email me or any member of the
committee and we'll see what we can do to work with them.
Philippe
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From: "phoebe ayers" <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:48 PM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Election rules modification regarding
suffrageissues raised on this list
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Majorly
<axel9891(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 30/04/2008, Delphine Ménard
<notafishz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just as a matter of clarity. Can the 50 edits be
spread across
different projects?
Do internal wikis count?
I'm just afraid I'm not gonna have the required number of edits on any
one wiki. And I consider myself kind of "up to date" to be allowed to
vote.
Delphine
Delphine - it's seriously not difficult to get 50 edits. I myself have
made
over 1000 in one hour just on recent changes patrol. 50 edits is tiny,
and
considering all the tools available, it really shouldn't be very
difficult
to get 50 edits.
Well, I just took an hour to make 18 edits ;) But then, I was doing
research to source a biography. I have been known to take an hour to
make just one or two edits, doing the same kind of work. 50 edits may
or may not be a lot of work, depending on just what it is you're doing
onwiki and how familiar you are with the tools.
Generally, editcountitis is a fairly poor measure of community
participation -- it's just the only readily accessible metric we've
got. Nathan said it very well up-thread -- people whose contributions
don't translate into edits shouldn't be penalized. It seems pretty
obvious to me that Delphine, and the volunteer sysadmins, and others
in a similar position are clearly community members and should clearly
have the right to vote regardless of their RC patrolling skills. It
seems like there's a few classes of exceptions that could be easily
made in the election rules without over-compromising the process;
developers and sysadmins are the people that have come up the most so
far.
Regardless, thanks to the election committee for explaining your
reasoning on the matter.
-- phoebe
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