[Foundation-l] Election results?

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Tue Jun 15 20:15:55 UTC 2004


On 06/15/04 10:14, Jimmy Wales wrote:

> The reason I think that the numbers are not so meaningful is that I
> think that a lot of people agreed with the idea of having a more
> international board.  So I think some of the Americans got fewer votes
> not because they were thought to be unsuitable, but rather than when
> people felt that two candidates were otherwise equal, they tended to
> vote European.


I dunno about that. I was very pleased it was ticky-box for as many
candidates as you like, rather than PICK ONE. So I ticked the boxes
for every candidate I was familiar with and knew was clueful in their
Wikipedia work to date.


> It is no big deal either way, but of course I understand that it is a
> Wikipedia tradition to make a huge deal out of everything. ;-)


Battles to the death for insanely low stakes!


- d.





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