Fine with me if the three potential participants discuss it among themselves. As long as they don't go online with their discussion or divulge of the result of their discussion prematurely but only do so if they've come to an agreement (even if that agreement is to ask an independent person to set up a vote).
Otherwise . yeah, you guessed it: Not impressed with today's mailing list discussion. My humble suggestion: Let someone else proofread your contribution to a disputed argument before you hit the <send> button (and better still: if possible, sleep over it just once).
Still hoping for a good and peaceful outcome of this, and all the best to you three!
Oliver (aka BT)
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From: wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Abbas Mahmood Sent: 21 June 2011 13:06 To: Wikimedia Kenya Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] New voting link
hi Alex, et al.,
I don't know the right way to do this, but to avoid a lot of unnecessary debates over who should go and how we decide whose going; I think it's best if the participants themselves first discuss what they want off-list. If the participants are comfortable with discussing and deciding who should go -- well and good. If they can not decide, then they can request for a broader input from the mailing list.
I don't know how we will do it, but i am ready to discuss this with Oscar & Alex first (off-list).
--Abbas.
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:53:08 -0700 From: xelawafs@yahoo.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] New voting link
Hey Abbas,
As I've hinted on my previous post, this is not the right way of coducting
an election.
Grace, this all seems rushed and forced and currently, Oscar's idea seems
better.
Alex.
On Tue Jun 21st, 2011 3:15 AM PDT Abbas Mahmood wrote:
Grace,
thanks for the link. However, Oscar earlier shared his concerns over who
has the right to vote. Which brings me to the question: is everyone OK with Grace overseeing the voting process or do you want the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge participants to decide for themselves?
--Abbas.
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:05:34 +0300 From: gkariuki99@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] New voting link
Hello, this is the new voting link: http://www.doodle.com/5wawrwb3zex66qxe Thanks,Grace