[Foundation-l] Official Election Notice -- concerns aboutsuffrage requirements

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 22:42:56 UTC 2008


Hoi,
I am likely not to qualify for a vote. I will have more then 1 edit in fifty
WMF projects though. I might qualify in Meta.. but I do not expect that. Can
I add my contributions on the mailing list as well ?
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
philippebeaudette at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Phoebe,
>
> Thanks for your comments.  As you note, our intent is not to
> disenfranchise
> anyone who is a part of this community.  I'm curious about how many people
> we're actually talking about, and perhaps we can get someone to run some
> numbers... (x number of community members who would otherwise meet voting
> requirements would be disenfranchised by the "50 edit" clause).   I'll
> take
> them to the election list and discuss; once we have an outcome I'll share
> it
> with you and the group.
>
> Philippe
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "phoebe ayers" <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:35 PM
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Official Election Notice -- concerns
> aboutsuffrage requirements
>
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Philippe Beaudette
> > <philippebeaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The 2008 Board election committee announces the 2008 election process.
> >> Wikimedians will have the opportunity to elect one candidate from the
> >> Wikimedia community to serve as a representative on the Board of
> >> Trustees. The successful candidate will serve a one-year term, ending
> in
> >> July 2009.
> >
> > Thanks Phillipe for the announcement and thanks to the election
> > committee for their work!
> >
> > I have one concern about the new requirement that voters must have 50
> > edits between April 1->June 1 on their voting project, as well as the
> > old total edit requirement, in order to gain suffrage in this year's
> > election.
> >
> > To quote the election information page:
> >
> > "You may vote from any one registered account you own on a Wikimedia
> > wiki (you may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you
> > own). To qualify, this one account must:
> >    * not be blocked, and
> >    * not be a bot, and
> >    * have made at least 600 edits before 01 March 2008 on that wiki
> > (edits on several wikis cannot be combined), and
> >    * have made at least 50 edits between 01 April and 01 June 2008 on
> > that wiki."
> >
> > I know several previously very active editors, people I would consider
> > core Wikimedians who know the projects as well as anyone, that happen
> > to be taking a wikibreak this spring -- and this new requirement would
> > disenfranchise them. I can't imagine this was your intent.
> > This problem is compounded by the fact that a) April is already almost
> > over, leaving people just a month to get their edits in; b) the
> > editors most affected by this may not be paying attention to these
> > early election notices (but will want to vote when the time comes); c)
> > since we have not had this requirement in previous elections, it is
> > unlikely that people will be expecting it.
> >
> > I have two suggestions:
> > Either
> > a) drop this part of the requirement
> > or
> > b) start a site notice now for logged-in users on all projects,
> > reminding them of the candidacy cut-off date and suffrage requirements
> > for the election.
> >
> > A site notice, if not already planned for, is probably useful anyway
> > as potential candidates may not read the mailing list or catch the
> > election posts to it.
> >
> > thanks!
> > -- phoebe
> >
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