agreed - I actually don't see a reason why the elections should not be limited to Wikimedia editors with some edit count. I would assume that if there are people in other categories currently eligible to vote, who would lose this privilege if they were required to do some minimal amount of editing, it is not too much of a burden to ask them to start editing, if they indeed want to participate in the community also through elections.
best,
dj / pundit
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:15 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.comwrote:
also agree to simplify the rules. what i'd really love would be to better standardize and with it simplify "volunteer community", for all elections and votes. and at least my wish would be that people who donate their time by sending code patches to software considered essential to run the site are included.
rupert.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Also agree with Nathan. Those chapter board members who are not active
on
the projects already have a far greater relative weight in selecting the chapter-selected board seats.
A.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
nemowiki@gmail.com>wrote:
Nathan, 27/04/2013 21:34:
I would go the other way, and limit the participants in the election
for the community seat to people who are members of the volunteer community. Presumably that would include most members of most organizational boards, but only include those staff and other paid workers who also participate as volunteers.
I agree with Nathan, simplifying the rules is useful while complicating them for a few dozens voters is not.
Nemo
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