Hello, fellow Wikimedians. On behalf of the 2011 Board Election Committee I would like to ask your input on the criteria for voters in the election. In the last election (2009), contributors needed to have at least 600 edits before the election began and 50 recent edits (within 6 months). However, we feel that the edit counts should be lowered, to allow newer contributors and mostly-inactive members to vote, as we feel that they are also valued members of the community. So our current proposal is a total of 300 edits, and 20 edits within 6 months. This only goes for the editing community; however, the community is more than just editors. Previously, suffrage has been extended to (a) server administrators, (b) paid staff and (c) current or former board members. This still does not account for all community members though, and we would like your input on what other community members should be eligible to vote (and how to quantify other types of contributions). In discussion amongst the community, the committee, board members and others, the following categories of potential voters were brought up: * Advisory Board members * Developers who are not server administrators, but who have made a certain number of commits (what number is "sufficient"?) * Donors ** Donors above a certain $ amount (in that case, what amount should be the limit?) * University students in the Ambassadors program * Researchers with access to the research user right So, to round up, we would very much like your input on these matters; are the edit count requirements fair, do the additional categories seem all right, and finally, are there any other user categories that should be eligible to vote? Input can be posted here, on [[m:Talk:Board elections/2011]]<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/201… to the board elections list, board-elections(a)lists.wikimedia.org. We're looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the matter! On behalf of the Election Committee, Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by