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

[oscar]

i wasn't so much interested in how is this possible, of course there are
many ways explaining this.

i am primarirly intereseted in raising the question as to how to overcome
this "cultural issue", as anthere rightly called it. with my final sentence
"it is my conviction that for the future, more than "just" translations for
elections (i take them as an example of a bigger thing to consider here) are
mandatory to evercome this *gap in culture*. (a point of attention for the
board retreat imho)" i addressed this very issue.

this is not only about the elections, but a larger issue!

not: how can this be explained?
but: what can we do about it lest the gap grows larger?

oscar

On 9/21/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Angela wrote:
> > On 9/21/06, oscar <oscar.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>yesterday a friend of mine gave me this (script-generated) counting of
> votes
> >>cast over the languages in the various projects so far
> >
> >
> > I think this partly reflects the number of candidates per language. I
> > remember checking this for the earlier elections and seeing that a
> > candidate in a language increased the number of voters above what
> > you'd expect if the number of votes had any relation to the number of
> > editors. It's to be expected that people be more interested in voting
> > if they know at least one candidate, even if they don't want to vote
> > for that candidate.
> >
> > The top 6 are the 6 with candidates who speak that language:
> >
> > english - 1003 (10 candidates)
> > german - 320  (2 candidates)
> > french - 124 (1 candidate)
> > dutch - 101 (1 candidate)
> > spanish - 89 (1 candidate)
> > finnish - 52 (1 candidate)
> >
> >
> > Angela
>
> For reference for the (relatively) new comers
>
> Here is a graph for participation in 2004:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Election_participation2.png
>
> Note, there was a chinese candidate): 11 votes
>
> Same in 2005 :
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Election_results_2005/statistics
>
> Note, there were 89 votes from french speaking project in 2004 (compare
> to figures this year. The community increased greatly in two years, but
> votes are hardly more numerous. Hmmm, well, actually, I believe most
> french editors do not know the french candidate :-)
>
> fr: ~89 (2004) - 106 (2005) - 124 (2006)
> en: ~238 (2004) - 726 (2005) - 1003 (2006)
> ja: ~18 (2004) - 19 (2005) - 38 (2006)
>
> Japanese lack of participation was also noted last year and we got some
> explanation from Aphaia. Apparently, it is not only lack of knowledge of
> candidate, lack of ja candidate, but also a cultural issue.
>
> Kuddos for the turkish !!!
>
> ant
>
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