[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

[Brian]

I'm curious (and not arguing it is the case) why due diligence here does not
involve e-mailing every person who has ever made an edit and has their
e-mail address in their profile.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Mike & I have made some updates to the Q&A today:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers
>
> Please let me know or edit the page if you feel further clarifications
> and answers are needed. Otherwise I'll prepare a translation request,
> probably on Friday.
>
> Meanwhile, I'm also working on the actual re-licensing proposal, so
> that we can discuss it with the Board this weekend. One question I'm
> struggling with, and would appreciate input on, is what voting method
> and process should be used to make the decision. I anticipate that it
> will be a simple yes/no vote, possibly with an explicit abstain
> option. I can see two approaches to implement the actual vote:
>
> 1) Use the BoardVote software. It's secure, well-tested and
> well-understood. It's more burdensome to set up, the process for
> counting votes is quite rigorous (accurate but burdensome), and it may
> be overkill for this purpose. Votes are private.
> 2) Use a vote on Meta, like we did for e.g. the Wikinews and
> Wikiversity project launch votes. It's easy, but suffers from edit
> conflicts, and accurate vote counting is hard. Votes are public.
>
> In the second case, the vote result would be less defensible - but
> since it's not a legal necessity to run a vote at all, that might be
> OK. It would be also easier to add comments, have detailed discussions
> on the talk page, etc. Importantly, since this is a complex problem,
> misunderstandings may be common, and in a public vote, they could be
> more easily corrected. In the first case, we could add a prominent
> link to the full proposal, the Q&A and all discussions to the voting
> interface, but it would still be a less wiki-like way of doing things.
>
> I'd appreciate thoughts & comments.
>
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