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

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 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.
> 

... we forgot Poland?

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