[Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When it is agreed that people can vote based on their mail contributions,
the one thing necessary is connecting people to their WMF user. When this
information is available on a user, the global user may be made known as a
voter. In my opinion you do not want to involve people when there is no
need. Automate what can be automated and through a link to a user it can be
automated.

While I agree that this makes sense, I doubt very much that many people will
have a vote as a result of this and even more, I doubt people will cast
their vote because they can in this way.
Thanks,
        GerardM

2009/7/31 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Gerard
> Meijssen<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > When we have consensus on that one, someone has to count them.. So what
> > piority do we give it and, what do we bumb down the list ? Alternatively
> who
> > is volunteering to write the necessary software anyway and how are we
> going
> > to get it operational ??
>
> I have been developing a python library that does the mailing list
> analysis, grouping together posts from the same user that were sent
> with different email addresses, etc.  and doing stats.
>
> Those stats can be published monthly onto meta.
>
> I think the easiest method of converting this into suffrage is to have
> a special list where people can be added when they have been granted
> suffrage for extra-ordinary reasons.  At election time we inform
> people who dont qualify via normal means to check the various
> extra-ordinary suffrage criteria, such as their mail stats, and notify
> the election committee if they qualify.  The election committee would
> then add the person to the special list.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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