[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

[Dan Rosenthal]

Sure. Those wide number of people on any one specific project or  
language are just as much members of the constituency as you are.  
Disenfranchising them is against everyone's best interest. The  
interests of a few (individuals who end up better off if a core group  
of users are the only ones who vote) are not as important as the  
interests of the whole. The Wikimedia Foundation represents everyone,  
not just a core group of users, and if we continue to have just a  
core group of users voting, our elections will become inbred, sick,  
and unrepresentative.

-Dan Rosenthal
On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

> On 7/3/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> As such, so long as we are holding public elections it is in all of
>> our interests to ensure that there is wide participation.
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> Wide as in broad and representative of the variety of projects,
> yes. Wide as in numerous at any one specific project or
> language, please no.
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> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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