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

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Ehm, Dutch: two candidates :P (although kim is mostly active on en:,
he is Dutch)

2006/9/21, Angela <beesley at gmail.com>:
> 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
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