And what about the people reading all the mail of all the mailing list, they know Wikimedia damn, they too should be allowed to vote. And the people making donations, they're supporting the projects too, they should get a vote.
Or not. I'm not fond of the idea. Contributors to the project elect part of the board. If you don't meet the criteria then you can't vote.
You need a solid and strong criteria, I don't think the number of sent mails is one.
Cheers,
Christophe
Envoye depuis mon Blackberry
-----Original Message----- From: John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:07:00 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing Listfoundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
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.
It is for this reason that it would be extra-ordinary. Most people who send email to foundation-l would meet the normal suffrage requirements.
All I am saying is that _if_ we do agree that emails should be counted as edits, *I* can count them or publish stats that allow others to more easily count them.
We have the technology.
Do we have the need?
Each year there are people who should have suffrage that do not.
If I remember correctly, last year the techies were allowed to vote even if they didnt meet the edit criteria. We should learn from the previous elections, and have a panel that reviews extra-ordinary cases.
It is worth the effort.
-- John Vandenberg
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