I recently noticed at Meta - and was a bit surprised - that the BoardVote extension has been used in elections to the Arbitration Committee att English Wikipedia. Since several other Wikipedias also have arbitration committées, but there is no note of these elections can be found on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_officials_2006 where the elections to the English Arc Coms are listed along with the elections to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, I suppose the other arbitration committees have been elected openly on the wiki, the way administrators are normally chosen.
Why did English Wikipedia choses to have secret ballots in the election to their arb com? Why have the other wikipedias chosen not to?
On the more general scale: Why should votes for adminship be open, and votes to the Board of Trustees secret ballot? Where on the scale between these two types of elections do we find elections for an arbitration committee?
/habj
On 19/09/06, habj sweetadelaide@gmail.com wrote:
Why did English Wikipedia choses to have secret ballots in the election to their arb com? Why have the other wikipedias chosen not to?
They didn't. The last election was an open and publicly visible vote, and possibly the most acrimonious possible method of running it.
- d.
2006/9/19, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
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_Decem... 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
Hi Wikipedians,
habj schrieb am 19.09.2006 17:09:
What are the experiences from French, German etc elections to their arbitration committees?
This is an easy answer for German speaking Wikipedia: We don't have an elected arbcom.
Bye, Tim.
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