Yes, I find this situation, especially on the part of the election committee, as something between a sign of disrespect and a sign of indifference. I think the thousands of voters and the 19 candidates, who have spent a lot of time in their pursuing their candidacy, deserve better than this.
Can someone from the election committee give us a better status report?
Harel Cain Wikimedia Israel / Hebrew Wikipedia
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 15:06, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Austin Hair wrote:
What are the results, and why haven't they been released yet?
Matanya wrote:
I'm really sorry no word was said until now, but we have some technical problems. We have been working on them for last 24h, and hope they are solved. I hope (no guarantees), that results will be out in the next 24h. Sorry Matanya 14:14, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Source: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=2667116&oldid=2666426
Naturally I assume "technical problems" is a euphemism.
The Election Committee seems to have completely dropped the ball, either in setting an unrealistic deadline and/or in not effectively communicating why it's been unable to meet the deadline. Pages such as http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en have simply seen their verb tense shifted. For something of this importance, the whole situation is really rather unacceptable.
MZMcBride
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