I served on the 2007 Eleccom so I could tell my account on attempting
the open endorsement, which aimed to give candidates more visibility
and shifted away those who had least possibility to elect (so that
voters might give thought on a reasonable number of candidates) but I
wasn't on the 2008 one which dropped the 2007 trial, so not in the
position to give the reason why it was dropped.
Phillipe could give the whole recollection perhaps? Or it would be
somehow embarrassing for now a WMF staffer? :D
Cheers,
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:42 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
I believe that we did this in... 2007, I think?
(with open
endorsements). Anyway, it seemed to lead to cabal-ism and so was
dropped.
-- Phoebe
Don't take this personally, but who is "we" and who are the
"cabals"? Who
is in them and what is their agenda?
Fred
We = the foundation, by way of the election committee: see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en
I said "cabal-ism", not specific cabals :) Meaning that endorsements
didn't seem that effective because everyone just endorsed the people
they knew.
But I wasn't on the election committee, and I'm writing this from
memory without looking at the lists archives etc, so hopefully someone
else has a more clear recollection of why it was tried and dropped can
say for sure.
best,
Phoebe
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