[Foundation-l] Board elections: Weekly report for April 26 to May 3

[White Cat]

Can we please improve the system for the voting? I would like to see some
statistics. Like the percentage breakdown of votes per countries/continents
and etc. How many people from which wiki have voted? The vote percentage
breakdown for that.

I want this to have more transparency without compromising the anonymity of
the voters and votes.

   -- White Cat

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard <
pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:

> Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections organization for
>  the week of April 26 to May 3. For detailed information on the
>  elections, see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en>.
>
>  ==Timeline==
>  * We began accepting translations this week.
>  * Candidates will be accepted starting next week on May 8.
>
>  ==Election rules==
>  On April 26 we unveiled the 2008 board elections pages and structure,
>  timed to coincide with the committee and Board of Trustees
>  announcements. We later added a warning not to edit the official
>  English rules page (this was done in previous years as well).
>
>  Based on community discussion, we changed the eligibility requirements
>  for candidates and voters, so that they must have 50 edits between 01
>  January and 01 June (instead of 01 April and 01 June). We also relaxed
>  the requirements for candidates, so that they must have 600 edits
>  before 01 January 2008 (instead of 01 June 2007).
>
>  We discussed whether we needed to change the voter-requirements
>  exceptions to cover remote staff (who don't work in the office), but
>  decided this was unnecessary this year. The persons affected were
>  eligible without exceptions, and a change would require a number of
>  translation updates.
>
>  Two discussions are currently on hold while we examine technical
> feasibility:
>  * sending an official notification email to all eligible voters;
>  * the voting system.
>
>  ==Translation==
>  We began accepting translations 5 days earlier than planned on April
>  27, due to eager translators. The next day we added the navigation
>  menu and removed the notification email (incomplete draft) as
>  translatable pages.
>
>  We currently have 28 translations. If you'd like to help, please see
>  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation>.
>  Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages /
>  total size of all pages):
>  * 100: de, en, fr, nb, pl, pt, ru, sv, zh-hans, zh-hant;
>  * 80+: fa, ja, nl;
>  * 20+: he;
>  * 10+: ca, it;
>  * 1+: eo, es, eu, fi, hr, ko, ml, uk;
>  * 0: ar, cs, hu, id.
>
>  ==Technical details==
>  There have a flurry of tweaks and fixes following the original
>  publication. These have simplified translations, reduced maintenance
>  overhead, fixed an overlap display glitch on candidate pages, and
>  added support for right-to-left languages.
>
>  We expanded the translation page, so users can see at a glance:
>  * the status of each translated page (missing/not complete/update
> needed/done);
>  * the overall completion percentage of each language (based on page
> size);
>  * the relative size in percentage of each page (so translators can
>  start with the shorter pages).
>
>  --
>  Yours cordially,
>  Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
>
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