Anthere wrote:

Hi

Just a little comment to the organisers of the vote on wikiversity (or at least to the people interested in the matter).

Currently, half of the votes are invalid, due to the user failing to link his meta user page to a wikimedia project user page.

It would be best to inforce this a bit, or to strike all those votes from now on to make voters realise that without a valid link to a user page, their vote will count for nothing at all.

Anthere

I realize that many of those "invalid" votes are from people who are not regular participants at Meta. Indeed, this is getting a much broader group of participants that I ever anticipated, with many people coming in from projects or users that have never really cast a vote like this before. Some of them do link back to their user page where they normally participate, and perhaps they should "create" an account on meta. I havn't seen too many obvious "sock puppet" votes, however.

Yes, the voting instructions do say that you must be a "registered user" on Meta, and I believe that instruction was translated correctly to the other voting instruction pages that are in other languages. There has been some strikeout text applied to some of the votes already. Thanks to all who are helping with the verification on this vote. We really don't have an "independent voting observer" for this vote, even though technically it was required by the new project policy. I did ask for one on the Bable page at Meta, and so far there havn't been any takers.

On this issue, I think it would be hard pressed to find somebody without an opinion anyway.