[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[effe iets anders]

When will the results of the election been announced? (or have I
missed some email?) Congratz to the winner!

Lodewijk

2006/9/22, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com>:
> In short:
>
> --Jimbo endorses Oscar and Mindspillage
> --Everyone comes to criticise Jimbo for treating Mindspillage as if everyone
> has heard of her
> --Some other things... I haven't really been paying attention.
>
> On 9/21/06, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/16/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater at mac.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 16 Sep 2006, at 08:01, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> > > > I invite an open discussion here of the candidates.  This is your
> > > > community, speak openly of who you trust and why.
> > >
> > > Well, I'll start off then.
> >
> > I've missed a week of mail.  What was the spur for this thread?  Was
> > there a sudden drop in candidate discussions online?  A rise in
> > disendorsement?  An announcement of election results?
> >
> > I recall discussions of a more general nature -- involving input from
> > the candidates -- the week that voting started.  Those never quite got
> > off the ground... I suppose we could start building ad-hoc trust
> > networks now to identify statistically-sound community reps for the
> > future, but is this the way to go?  (are trust nets in use anywhere
> > any more on de:wp?)
> >
> > I do wish that more wikimedians -- candidates and community members,
> > in and out of election-time -- would write more often about their
> > interests and concerns, in ways that support direct comparison and
> > editing of one anothers' writing.  One of the strengths of wikis as
> > media for conversations is how powerfully they allow subtle
> > point-by-point disagreement without requiring* the rhetorical dance of
> > ad hominems and clashing sweeping statements.
> >
> > SJ
> >
> > * ad hominems and sweeping statements are still allowed, but not
> > required; and regularly lose out to persistent subtle discourse.  Of
> > course more memorable cases may be those where they do not...
> >
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