[Foundation-l] Unable to vote

[Jimmy Wales]

:-(

I think we should in the future do away with edit-based suffrage 
requirements in favor of something else.  First, being an editor with N 
edits is hardly what we are really looking for... what we are looking 
for is "responsible people actually associated with our community". 
Second, there are many of those people who, like Austin or some of the 
developers, are unable to vote because they have been doing other 
incredibly useful stuff.

I would almost go so far as to say that suffrage should go to project 
admins, completely ignoring edit count.

But this is just a random thought passing through my head at this 
moment, so please don't freak out on me. :)

Austin Hair wrote:
> Unfortunately, I've been so busy chairing the Chapters Committee,
> administering the Foundation mailing list, and sorting through a few
> hundred Wikimania scholarship applications that I haven't had much
> time to edit Wikipedia lately.
> 
> On 29 May, when I had planned a nice weekend of editing ahead of me, I
> was told that the cutoff for recent edits had been changed from 1 June
> to that day.  Interpreting "between 01 January and 29 May 2008" to
> mean "from 2008-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2008-05-29 23:59:59 UTC," I made
> a smattering of edits and just barely made it in, or so I thought.
> 
> Unfortunately, the definition of "between" being used for the purpose
> of suffrage is rather different, so it looks like I won't be voting
> this year.
> 
> Austin
> 
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