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

[Jimmy Wales]

oscar wrote:
> yesterday a friend of mine gave me this (script-generated) counting of votes
> cast over the languages in the various projects so far:
> (this is no final result, one can count this oneself from
> [[Special:Boardvote/list]])
> 
> english - 1003
> german - 320
> french - 124
> dutch - 101
> spanish - 89
> finnish - 52
> italian - 48
> japanese - 38
> portuguese - 37
> norwegian - 30
> turkish - 28
> commonswiki - 26
> (rest less than 25)

I think this argues for some form of indirect democracy in order to 
broaden the international participation in the foundation.

Conspicuously missing, as Oscar wrote, is Japanese, but also Polish.

--Jimbo