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

[Philippe Beaudette]

Allow me, please, to reinforce this, wearing my "election committee  
member" hat.

This years' rules were mostly carryovers from last years' rules.  When  
we started, we looked around, realized that no significant opposition  
to last years' rules had been expressed, checked the talk pages to be  
sure, and modified the rules to cover anything we thought needed to be  
changed (for instance, this year we were able to use edits from across  
wikis, using SUL - which was one of the points of opposition that was  
raised last year, but there was not a technically feasible method to  
do it at the time).

I'm sure that if there is significant response to the edit count  
requirement, next year's committee will happily (he said confidently,  
with no intent to volunteer for next year's committee) review it then.

Philippe





On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Kwan Ting Chan wrote:

>
> And from experience, I can tell you the reality of establishing the  
> rules work by starting from last year, and updating or modifying  
> based on feedbacks. And that mean, given no strong community  
> consensus to change our present form of requiring some form of edit  
> requirement, having that requirement.