[Foundation-l] Unable to vote

[Waerth]

For the record, I was able to vote now .....

But I do find the requirements odd.

I have more than 29.000 edits on nl. alone, I used to be an admin on 
multiple projects, I used to be a steward, I have done a couple of 
things behind the scenes. I am just a lot less active now. And that 
might have cost me my right to vote?? So I support Jimmy on this!

Waerth

> :-(
>
> 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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