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

[Andrew Lih]

On 9/18/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

One of the best, and concise, posts of the year.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)