Practically speaking its true that qualifying for the edit requirement is pretty easy... But having to do so means that whatever your current activities are they are insufficient to make you a voting 'member of the community.'
Requiring developers or folks whose contributions don't translate well into simple edit requirements to jump through hoops to be considered "one of us" is not good even if the hoops are placed nice and low.
Nathan
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
On Wed, April 30, 2008 16:39, Delphine M?nard wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
"at least 50 edits between January 1, 2008 and June 1, 2008".
I'm just afraid I'm not gonna have the required number of edits on any one wiki. And I consider myself kind of "up to date" to be allowed to vote.
Given that, unusually where suffrage is being determined, the closing
date
for the required level of activity is still over a month away (rather
than
in the past), and that no differentiation is made between minor
wikignome
edits and major copyedit rewrites, then I would expect *anyone* who
wanted
to ensure their ability to vote would be able to do so by finding 50 spelling and / or grammar mistakes. ie, imho, not a difficult hurdle to leap by any stretch of the imagination.
Alison Wheeler
Or wikification of Incubator articles on any active project would also do the job. And this is the work which is badly needed anyway.
Cheers Yaroslav
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