On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Philippe Beaudette <philippebeaudette(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thanks Phillipe for the announcement and thanks to the election committee for their work! I have one concern about the new requirement that voters must have 50 edits between April 1->June 1 on their voting project, as well as the old total edit requirement, in order to gain suffrage in this year's election. To quote the election information page: "You may vote from any one registered account you own on a Wikimedia wiki (you may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you own). To qualify, this one account must: * not be blocked, and * not be a bot, and * have made at least 600 edits before 01 March 2008 on that wiki (edits on several wikis cannot be combined), and * have made at least 50 edits between 01 April and 01 June 2008 on that wiki." I know several previously very active editors, people I would consider core Wikimedians who know the projects as well as anyone, that happen to be taking a wikibreak this spring -- and this new requirement would disenfranchise them. I can't imagine this was your intent. This problem is compounded by the fact that a) April is already almost over, leaving people just a month to get their edits in; b) the editors most affected by this may not be paying attention to these early election notices (but will want to vote when the time comes); c) since we have not had this requirement in previous elections, it is unlikely that people will be expecting it. I have two suggestions: Either a) drop this part of the requirement or b) start a site notice now for logged-in users on all projects, reminding them of the candidacy cut-off date and suffrage requirements for the election. A site notice, if not already planned for, is probably useful anyway as potential candidates may not read the mailing list or catch the election posts to it. thanks! -- phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

I know several previously very active editors, people I would consider core Wikimedians who know the projects as well as anyone, that happen to be taking a wikibreak this spring -- and this new requirement would disenfranchise them. I can't imagine this was your intent. This problem is compounded by the fact that a) April is already almost over, leaving people just a month to get their edits in; b) the editors most affected by this may not be paying attention to these early election notices (but will want to vote when the time comes); c) since we have not had this requirement in previous elections, it is unlikely that people will be expecting it.