Jimmy Wales wrote:
It is very very important that everyone vote.
I personally strongly strongly support the candidacies of Oscar and Mindspillage.
Oscar is an amazing Dutch Wikipedian with strong support from that community but who does not have broad exposure in the English Wikipedia... I hope we can change that by introducing him to people.
Mindspillage is Mindspillage. We all know and love her. Give her some votes.
There are other candidates, some good, but at least some of them are entirely unacceptable because they have proven themselves repeatedly unable to work well with the community.
Please, everyone, vote... and vote for people who you can know and trust and care about as human beings.
I invite an open discussion here of the candidates. This is your community, speak openly of who you trust and why.
--Jimbo
Hoi, Where you assume that Oscar needs introduction because of him being little known in the English Wikipedia, the same is true for Mindspillage. She is not well known outside of the English Wikipedia. You did both Oscar and Mindspillage a disservice by not properly introducing either.
Where you state that some are "entirely unacceptable", you forget that democracy is about the electorate choosing it's champions. It is said that an electorate gets the representation that it deserves. It is for the people that are elected and who are not elected to work together. When this is entirely unacceptable, the notion of people being elected and being able and allowed to make a difference in that role will not be fulfilled. It will be a mockery of democracy.
When a person is to be chosen for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, it has been said that it is extremely important that the notion of the WMF being about the English Wikipedia is a false notion. I am afraid that you damaged Mindspillage by portraying her as an English Wikipedia person. I think all candidates that focus on Wikipedia in their statements disqualify themselves as the Wikimedia Foundation is NOT about Wikipedia.
Thanks, GerardM