[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[Kelly Martin]

On 9/17/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I personally would like rather to provide equal amount of information
> to "every" language communities. I don't welcome nor that only English
> editors can access the information about the people they are voting
> for nor that there is enouous different of amount which voters can
> consider between editors having English competence and not. It would
> mean the elected one cannot represent the community as a whole, but
> not only a part of it, community of a certain language, in the worst
> case, I am afraid.

Actually, the translation issue is a very strong argument against
direct election of Board members.  Indirect election, via elected
delegates at each project (or other appropriate grouping), would avoid
much of this issue.  It would also curtail the "popularity effect" of
enwiki -- we could use a diminishing-returns allocation of delegates
to minimize the "hulking gorilla" effect that enwiki otherwise has on
popular polling within Wikimedia.

Kelly