[Foundation-l] for the future...

[Dan Rosenthal]

The results are already biased. The most popular project has one of  
the lowest turnouts. And not to mention, other projects have been  
campaigning for quite some time now.

-Dan


On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Peter van Londen wrote:

> offlist?
>
> The results for this voting will be biassed, because of this action of
> yours. I sincerely doubt if the results can be accepted. In most  
> countries
> it is forbidden to campaign on election day.....
>
> Next time you have a good idea, please make sure that it will be  
> fair for
> all and think and propose *before* you act. Your intentions might  
> have been
> fair, the results of your actions are not.
>
> I always thought that the best persons should be on the board, not the
> representatives of the strongest project; in the end it all turns  
> out to be
> political.... I always hoped that wikimedia would have grown beyond  
> that.
> Too bad.
>
> Kind regards, Londenp
>
> 2007/7/4, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
>>
>> [offlist]
>>
>> Hi David. As always, thanks for the clue hammer.
>>
>> On 7/4/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> We have a header at the top of each page, that's enough.
>>>> Why would people need more?
>>> Because, as has been discussed at length in this thread, it's (a)
>>> inadequate (b) was demonstrably misleading *in practice*.
>>
>> Comparative effectiveness:
>> http://myrandomnode.dyndns.org/votes.png
>>
>> I took action at around 400,000 seconds.. but I guess I don't have to
>> tell you that.
>>
>> I have a slight concern that we may end up a bit English heavy in the
>> results.. but not much of one: If enwiki had the same relative  
>> turnout
>> percentage as DE enwiki would be around 70% of the voters.... and
>> we're currently a long way from that.
>>
>> I have no idea what the election outcome will be... which is far less
>> than I knew when turnout was really miserable. I don't know how these
>> people will vote, since as far as I can tell this is the first time a
>> lot of them have ever been asked about how we run things (most of the
>> eligible don't participate much in the normal community drama)...
>>
>> I do know that is has been a wild ride.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
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