[Foundation-l] 2008 Wikimedia Board Election results

[Mark Ryan]

Dear Wikimedians,

The 2008 Election Committee would like to announce the results of the
2008 Board Election of one seat to the Board of Trustees. We are
pleased to announce that the successful candidate was Ting Chen
(User:Wing).

Over the course of the three weeks of voting, 3019 valid ballots were
submitted by members of the various communities which make up
Wikimedia.

In previous elections, an approval system had been used, whereas this
year a new interface and tallying script was developed by Election
Committee member Kwan Ting Chan (User:KTC). The election system used
this year was a preferential system, whereby voters could rank
candidates according to their order of preference. These ballots were
then tallied using the 'Schulze Method' (also notably used by the
Debian project), in order to find the most preferred winner. To
determine the winner, each candidate is individually compared to each
of the other candidates, to determine which of the two was ranked
better by the most people. In every case, more voters ranked Ting Chen
higher than the other candidate than ranked him equal or lower than
the other candidate. As a result, Ting Chen represents the "Condorcet
winner" in this election, and so is the winner according to the chosen
Schulze Method.

More details about the Schulze Method may be found at its English
Wikipedia article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method>

Detailed election results can be found on the Meta election results page:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Results>

The Election Committee would like to thank all of the candidates for
the time and effort they invested in the election process, and would
once again like to congratulate Ting Chen on his success.

Yours sincerely,

~Mark Ryan
on behalf of the Election Committee