Hoi, When it is agreed that people can vote based on their mail contributions, the one thing necessary is connecting people to their WMF user. When this information is available on a user, the global user may be made known as a voter. In my opinion you do not want to involve people when there is no need. Automate what can be automated and through a link to a user it can be automated.
While I agree that this makes sense, I doubt very much that many people will have a vote as a result of this and even more, I doubt people will cast their vote because they can in this way. Thanks, GerardM
2009/7/31 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, When we have consensus on that one, someone has to count them.. So what piority do we give it and, what do we bumb down the list ? Alternatively
who
is volunteering to write the necessary software anyway and how are we
going
to get it operational ??
I have been developing a python library that does the mailing list analysis, grouping together posts from the same user that were sent with different email addresses, etc. and doing stats.
Those stats can be published monthly onto meta.
I think the easiest method of converting this into suffrage is to have a special list where people can be added when they have been granted suffrage for extra-ordinary reasons. At election time we inform people who dont qualify via normal means to check the various extra-ordinary suffrage criteria, such as their mail stats, and notify the election committee if they qualify. The election committee would then add the person to the special list.
-- John Vandenberg
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