[Foundation-l] Pointing out to an oddity

[Harel Cain]

You have to remember the low turnout rates in earlier board elections.
My impression, based on talking to many active wikimedians at the
local project level, is that whatever happens in meta is somewhat out
of reach, or they don't care, or it's too much to keep track of. The
local level of activity is what's important for most people. That's
especially true for the smaller languages. Choosing between candidates
who are [at least partly] unfamiliar to most voters is something that
many people will just avoid, it may feel as a "cat in the bag" to
them, or they just wouldn't care enough. People care much more about
"rogue admins" in their home project than about the identity of board
members. It's probably natural.
Attending the panel devoted to a post-mortem of the 2007 elections at
Wikimania 2007, I could just feel that this matter was of interest to
a quite distinct and not very big group of people, but not to most.

Full disclosure: I am myself one of those three brave candidates :-)


Harel

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I cannot fully reconcile requests from the community to get involved in
>  WMF's activities; a petition from prostestors of now over 100 people...
>  and the total absence of discussion related to this year elections.
>
>  There are now three candidates. Does no one feel like asking them
>  questions beyond their 2000 words candidate statements ?
>
>  Ant
>
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