Dear all,

Please note below communication about the changes to voter eligibility. The election officials have unanimously decided to change the wording on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_Wi... to read:

"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May 30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote. The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of voting."

Cheers,

Bjarte Sorensen, Assistant Election Official

On 13/06/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:

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A highlight from the first board meeting this month: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/June_7%2C_2005

"The election committee is advised to discuss with their technical contact the software required for the election, and to determine whether the 400 edit limit is technically feasible."

Has there been any meeting with Tim yet to check the software will meet your requirements?

Angela

On 14/06/05, Bjarte Sørensen bjarte.sorensen@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

I spoke to Tim earlier about this, and he said it is not difficult to check for 400 edits on ONE project, neither is it difficult to check the date of the first edit. It IS hard/impossible to check across more than one wiki. When we in the end decided that it was going to be allowable to vote for people with 400 edits in TOTAL, I assumed that we were going to manually check for this with anyone who appealed to us. However, it's been pointed out several times the flaw with this as people may have different user names on different projects, IP numbers are not stored for long enough to check whether two users are editing from the same computers, and the whole thing could potentially be abused. Not to mention the extra work... :)

So based on this, I propose that we change the current wording

"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits in total on the Wikimedia projects prior to 0:00 May 30, 2005 (UTC) and at least one of those must have been 90 days before the time of voting."

to

"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May 30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote. The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of voting."

From what I understood when I spoke to Tim, this should be fairly easy, but I'll run it by him before we put it up on meta.

Everyone agrees?

Cheers, Bjarte Sorensen