Hello developers, could you please update those two system messages until the Election begins (00:00 September 1, 2006, UTC)? MediaWiki:boardvote_notqualified & MediaWiki:boardvote_notloggedin. On all Wikimedia wikis, though personally I don't recommend you to vote from a closed/not public wikis ...

It would be great, if you avoid override some newly updated version on some projects, but overwritten might be better than having the outdated version. /me confesses the lack of foresight on this matter, (again) as techno-laity

... and not all wiki can be expected to be properly updated by sysop hands. (I'm a pessimist in some occasions, don't you know?)

See also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_UI_text_2006 Thank you for your help, always!

P.S. Or you perfer to get like the above on bugzilla? I am not sure on your preferences ...

On 8/29/06, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:

The board vote interface is going to be the same as last year, except for the requested change in qualifications. We now require that the first edit occurred more than 90 days before August 1, which by my calculations is May 3. I'm proposing that the boardvote_notqualified message is changed so that $4 is the date of the first edit and $5 is "May 3, 2006" in the user's language. Also, boardvote_notloggedin will have $3 available as "May 3, 2006". So the text could be:

boardvote_notqualified: You are not qualified to vote in this election. You need to have made $3 edits before $2, you have made $1. Also, your first edit was at $4, it needs to be before $5.

boardvote_notloggedin: You are not logged in. To vote, you must use an account with at least $1 contributions before $2, and with a first edit before $3.

-- Tim Starling