[Foundation-l] Changes to voter eligibility

[Bjarte Sørensen]

Dear all,

Please note below communication about the changes to voter
eligibility. The election officials have unanimously decided to change
the wording on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation%2C_2005/En
 to read:

"In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May
30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote.
The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of
voting."

Cheers,

Bjarte Sorensen, Assistant Election Official

> On 13/06/05, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A highlight from the first board meeting this month:
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/June_7%2C_2005
> >
> > "The election committee is advised to discuss with their technical
> > contact the software required for the election, and to determine
> > whether the 400 edit limit is technically feasible."
> >
> > Has there been any meeting with Tim yet to check the software will
> > meet your requirements?
> >
> > Angela
> >
> 

On 14/06/05, Bjarte Sørensen <bjarte.sorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I spoke to Tim earlier about this, and he said it is not difficult to
> check for 400 edits on ONE project, neither is it difficult to check
> the date of the first edit. It IS hard/impossible to check across more
> than one wiki. When we in the end decided that it was going to be
> allowable to vote for people with 400 edits in TOTAL, I assumed that
> we were going to manually check for this with anyone who appealed to
> us. However, it's been pointed out several times the flaw with this as
> people may have different user names on different projects, IP numbers
> are not stored for long enough to check whether two users are editing
> from the same computers, and the whole thing could potentially be
> abused. Not to mention the extra work... :)
> 
> So based on this, I propose that we change the current wording
> 
> "In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits in total on the
> Wikimedia projects prior to 0:00 May 30, 2005 (UTC) and at least one
> of those must have been 90 days before the time of voting."
> 
> to
> 
> "In order to vote you must have at least 400 edits prior to 00:00 May
> 30, 2005 (UTC) on the Wikimedia project from which you cast your vote.
> The first edit must have been 90 days or more before the time of
> voting."
> 
> From what I understood when I spoke to Tim, this should be fairly
> easy, but I'll run it by him before we put it up on meta.
> 
> Everyone agrees?
> 
> Cheers, Bjarte Sorensen
>