Mohamed Magdy wrote:
<snip> "Passed with 6 support votes and 1 abstention,"
Can we know who refused and perhaps her/his reasons? :) or that would be off-limit?
=alnokta
Jimbo did not vote (it is not a blank vote where he refused to take a position, it is that he did not come to vote).
You may ask him, but I can pretty much (say 99%) affirm that you should not read anything special in the abstention (except "I was busy with other things and did not vote in time. But I am fully in agreement with the resolution").
It is frequent that some resolutions fail to get 100% of vote expressed. To avoid blocking the decision making process, we even voted this resolution over a year ago: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Consent_Procedures
Now, thanks for asking the question, because I just realised "abstain" with "did not vote" were mixed under a unique description "abstain". Which is not correct as in one case a vote is given, in the other, no vote is given. The meaning is not the same. I will go through all the resolutions to check and correct this.
Ant