----- Исходное сообщение ----- От: "Anthere" Anthere9@yahoo.com Кому: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Копия: wikien-l@wikipedia.org; foundation-l@wikimedia.org; wikifr-l@wikipedia.org Отправлено: 16 сентября 2006 г. 20:49 Тема: [Wikipedia-l] Endorsement
On 9/16/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I personally strongly strongly support the candidacies of Oscar and Mindspillage.
Angela wrote "My view on who should be elected is already public, but for those who don't read meta, I believe Erik is the only candidate capable of having any positive influence within the current Board."
If you care about the POV of a user from the virtual street... I voted for Erik, for the simple reason that I know him (although very superficially) and I had a few chances to work in projects where he is involved, so I can at least have a personal opinion about him. I do not even know WHO the other candidates are, therefore I won't try to judge them at all. I believe that such a lack of information is far from being uncommon among us voters.
When we have a flyer calling up people to vote, we should also have the very same flyer point the people to SOME information about the candidates (projects in which they were/are involved, personal background, etc). If the info was there, I absolutely miss it, and many others may have missed it much in the same way. I did not look for further info myself, but that's just my own life style. I stopped voting for political elections *many* years ago, because I won't choose anyone who I do not personally know and trust. Nevertheless many people on this planet seem to vote anyway, even just based on a supermarket-style approach. So possible any relevant info would be useful for them, as a minimal consumer's rights protection.
From a personal "political" POV I will add is that I shall not vote for
anyone working on *en-wiki only* or being limited to english only, as far as communication is concerned. IMHO, the community needs bridges and interlanguage co-operation, and anyone being uncapable to address this won't be of any use in the WMF's Board, because he/she will biased from the very start. He/she is welcome to be elected as the "emperor of en-wiki" and even to be given the royal privilege to trasmit such a title to his/her son (since life memberships have already been called for), but WMF has a much larger set of activities and members, than just "en-wiki and a few weird guests".
Even just by focusing on 3 main language areas as spanish, russian and chinese we get the potential for multiplying our audience and communities by 3 or 4 times in the next decades. As a matter of fact, a board member unable to address such an option will only play a purely conservative game. Too bad that passive defense won't take us much far from where already we got to be, while our competitors will not sleep at all. I invest my time in this thing, and as an investor I want to make sure that the Board will produce interesting dividends. Nothing personal, business is business.
My five-pence worth :) Bèrto