Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections organization for the week of April 26 to May 3. For detailed information on the elections, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en.
==Timeline== * We began accepting translations this week. * Candidates will be accepted starting next week on May 8.
==Election rules== On April 26 we unveiled the 2008 board elections pages and structure, timed to coincide with the committee and Board of Trustees announcements. We later added a warning not to edit the official English rules page (this was done in previous years as well).
Based on community discussion, we changed the eligibility requirements for candidates and voters, so that they must have 50 edits between 01 January and 01 June (instead of 01 April and 01 June). We also relaxed the requirements for candidates, so that they must have 600 edits before 01 January 2008 (instead of 01 June 2007).
We discussed whether we needed to change the voter-requirements exceptions to cover remote staff (who don't work in the office), but decided this was unnecessary this year. The persons affected were eligible without exceptions, and a change would require a number of translation updates.
Two discussions are currently on hold while we examine technical feasibility: * sending an official notification email to all eligible voters; * the voting system.
==Translation== We began accepting translations 5 days earlier than planned on April 27, due to eager translators. The next day we added the navigation menu and removed the notification email (incomplete draft) as translatable pages.
We currently have 28 translations. If you'd like to help, please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation. Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages / total size of all pages): * 100: de, en, fr, nb, pl, pt, ru, sv, zh-hans, zh-hant; * 80+: fa, ja, nl; * 20+: he; * 10+: ca, it; * 1+: eo, es, eu, fi, hr, ko, ml, uk; * 0: ar, cs, hu, id.
==Technical details== There have a flurry of tweaks and fixes following the original publication. These have simplified translations, reduced maintenance overhead, fixed an overlap display glitch on candidate pages, and added support for right-to-left languages.
We expanded the translation page, so users can see at a glance: * the status of each translated page (missing/not complete/update needed/done); * the overall completion percentage of each language (based on page size); * the relative size in percentage of each page (so translators can start with the shorter pages).
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote:
Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections organization for the week of April 26 to May 3. For detailed information on the elections, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en.
Thank you for the very clear report Jesse. And big thanks for the whole election committee team AND translators.
I am quite impressed because from outside, every thing seems to be running smoothly. I hope it is the same internally. Congrats for the organization so far ;-)
ant
On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 19:42 -0400, Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote:
Based on community discussion, we changed the eligibility requirements for candidates and voters, so that they must have 50 edits between 01 January and 01 June (instead of 01 April and 01 June). We also relaxed the requirements for candidates, so that they must have 600 edits before 01 January 2008 (instead of 01 June 2007).
Just to avoid any potential feeling or accusation that the election committee slipped it in. Please note the last sentence in the above paragraph of the report.
Regards,
KTC
Can we please improve the system for the voting? I would like to see some statistics. Like the percentage breakdown of votes per countries/continents and etc. How many people from which wiki have voted? The vote percentage breakdown for that.
I want this to have more transparency without compromising the anonymity of the voters and votes.
-- White Cat
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard < pathoschild@gmail.com> wrote:
Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections organization for the week of April 26 to May 3. For detailed information on the elections, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en.
==Timeline==
- We began accepting translations this week.
- Candidates will be accepted starting next week on May 8.
==Election rules== On April 26 we unveiled the 2008 board elections pages and structure, timed to coincide with the committee and Board of Trustees announcements. We later added a warning not to edit the official English rules page (this was done in previous years as well).
Based on community discussion, we changed the eligibility requirements for candidates and voters, so that they must have 50 edits between 01 January and 01 June (instead of 01 April and 01 June). We also relaxed the requirements for candidates, so that they must have 600 edits before 01 January 2008 (instead of 01 June 2007).
We discussed whether we needed to change the voter-requirements exceptions to cover remote staff (who don't work in the office), but decided this was unnecessary this year. The persons affected were eligible without exceptions, and a change would require a number of translation updates.
Two discussions are currently on hold while we examine technical feasibility:
- sending an official notification email to all eligible voters;
- the voting system.
==Translation== We began accepting translations 5 days earlier than planned on April 27, due to eager translators. The next day we added the navigation menu and removed the notification email (incomplete draft) as translatable pages.
We currently have 28 translations. If you'd like to help, please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation. Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages / total size of all pages):
- 100: de, en, fr, nb, pl, pt, ru, sv, zh-hans, zh-hant;
- 80+: fa, ja, nl;
- 20+: he;
- 10+: ca, it;
- 1+: eo, es, eu, fi, hr, ko, ml, uk;
- 0: ar, cs, hu, id.
==Technical details== There have a flurry of tweaks and fixes following the original publication. These have simplified translations, reduced maintenance overhead, fixed an overlap display glitch on candidate pages, and added support for right-to-left languages.
We expanded the translation page, so users can see at a glance:
- the status of each translated page (missing/not complete/update
needed/done);
- the overall completion percentage of each language (based on page
size);
- the relative size in percentage of each page (so translators can
start with the shorter pages).
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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