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

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi Jussi, et al...

Just as an update, the Election Committee is actively discussing these 
issues.  Since we're pretty geographically distributed, it's not going to be 
an "immediate" answer, but please know that these concerns have been 
presented and the discussion on them is beginning.

Philippe

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From: "Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:36 PM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Official Election Notice -- concernsaboutsuffragerequirements

> Philippe Beaudette 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
>
>
> <raises hand>
>
> There are virtually certainly times  in the over 5 years that I have
> been happily considering myself a member of the wikimedian/pedian
> community, when this requirement would have disenfranchised me.
>
> I think particularly of several episodes when I was nearly obsessively
> involved with the Distributed Proofreaders project for proofing texts
> collaboratively for Project Gutenberg.
>
> Even though I may have not made a huge number of wikiedits during such
> periods of obsession at those projects, I virtually certainly still
> remained active in policy etc. discussions off-wiki (and yes, I know
> some may - in their own view, deservedly - scoff at that), I do wish
> to positively state that I didn't feel I had left wikimedia then, or
> was somehow out of touch with what was going on with people and persons
> on-wiki.
>
> Frankly 50 edits in 61 days is not right as a measure. I would hesitate
> to say even 50 edits in 6 months would be lenient enough, though perhaps
> such a requirement would not affect many people, one has to ask, why
> use a coliander that strains out so few grains, when it is virtually
> sure some of those rule ineligible by the criterion, will find it
> hurtful and perhaps even insulting.
>
>
> Yours in Wikimedia;
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>
>
>
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