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

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Angela wrote:

>On 9/21/06, oscar <oscar.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>yesterday a friend of mine gave me this (script-generated) counting of votes
>>cast over the languages in the various projects so far
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>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.
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>The top 6 are the 6 with candidates who speak that language:
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>english - 1003 (10 candidates)
>german - 320  (2 candidates)
>french - 124 (1 candidate)
>dutch - 101 (1 candidate)
>spanish - 89 (1 candidate)
>finnish - 52 (1 candidate)
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No Native American voters are represented. Very sad.

Jeff

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>Angela
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