Dear all,
Please note below communication about the changes to voter
eligibility. The election officials have unanimously decided to change
the wording on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_W…
to read:
"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May
30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote.
The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of
voting."
Cheers,
Bjarte Sorensen, Assistant Election Official
On 13/06/05, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A highlight from the first board meeting this
month:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/June_7%2C_2005
"The election committee is advised to discuss with their technical
contact the software required for the election, and to determine
whether the 400 edit limit is technically feasible."
Has there been any meeting with Tim yet to check the software will
meet your requirements?
Angela
On 14/06/05, Bjarte Sørensen <bjarte.sorensen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I spoke to Tim earlier about this, and he said it is not difficult to
check for 400 edits on ONE project, neither is it difficult to check
the date of the first edit. It IS hard/impossible to check across more
than one wiki. When we in the end decided that it was going to be
allowable to vote for people with 400 edits in TOTAL, I assumed that
we were going to manually check for this with anyone who appealed to
us. However, it's been pointed out several times the flaw with this as
people may have different user names on different projects, IP numbers
are not stored for long enough to check whether two users are editing
from the same computers, and the whole thing could potentially be
abused. Not to mention the extra work... :)
So based on this, I propose that we change the current wording
"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits in total on the
Wikimedia projects prior to 0:00 May 30, 2005 (UTC) and at least one
of those must have been 90 days before the time of voting."
to
"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May
30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote.
The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of
voting."
From what I understood when I spoke to Tim, this should be fairly
easy, but I'll run it by him before we put it up on meta.
Everyone agrees?
Cheers, Bjarte Sorensen