2006/9/19, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
They didn't. The last election was an open and
publicly visible vote,
and possibly the most acrimonious possible method of running it.
English Wikipedia has used a more or less modified version of the BoardVote
software at least once
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_July…
and as it looks to me actually twice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_Dece…
Maybe someone who knows the whereabouts of elections to enwikis arb com can
tell us the story of how enwiki, as it seems, decided to have secret ballots
in elections to arb com, used it a couple of times and then abandoned it?
What are the conclusions after the last round of elections at enwiki,
regarding the method?
What are the experiences from French, German etc elections to their
arbitration committees?
/habj