[Foundation-l] [Election] Unqualified votes striking

[Jan-Bart de Vreede]

Hi All,

I know the election committee is working hard since yesterday on 
devising a way of contacting all affected individuals through different 
means.

Thanks

Jan-Bart de Vreede
Vice Chair Wikimedia Board of Trustees


Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
> 2007/7/5, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> The Election Committee regretfully announces that we will have to
>> remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by
>> people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must
>> have at least 400 edits by March 1 to be eligible to vote.
>>
>>     
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to use a bot to send a short messages
> to all those 220 users on their discussion pages in their projects. I
> guess it should not be a big deal. For example you could as interwiki
> bot owner to do this. Interwiki bot has bot status on all major
> Wikipedias.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yurik/Interwiki_Bot_FAQ
>
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