On 5 October 2014 13:35, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
On 05.10.2014 14:24, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel itzik@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Pine,
IMO the minimum thresholds should be set at levels such that any staff
member who has employed for a reasonable period of time is likely to be eligible, if they are engaging with the community on public projects, which is how a person becomes part of 'the community', and would be a suitable voter for community seats on the board.
e.g. Danny Horn joined in April 2014, and now has 284 edits globally, albeit spread across seven projects.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/DannyH_(WMF)
I think most of the staff (not sure specifically about Danny) have "normal" (not WMF) accounts which are eligible to vote, and they should not be voting from two accounts anyway.
Cheers Yaroslav
Speaking as one of the election monitors for the last election, we specifically checked for those types of duplicate votes, and would have de-activated the earliest vote(s) keeping only the last one. As it happens, nobody did that; the only votes we needed to strike were test votes.[1]
Risker/Anne
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Results