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

[Kwan Ting Chan]

Brian wrote:
> 
> The WMF is a far cry from the original vision of it as a membership
> organization. Also, the board propagates stale laws under the notion of
> status quo for which the original "consensus" is no longer remembered. There
> is further no top down effort to ask the community if they have any good
> ideas, and then ask the community what they think about the best of those
> ideas. That, in my view, is a broken system.

I'm going to take particular issue with the last point here.

On 3 June *2008*, right after last year election, Jesse 
Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild), one of last year election committee 
member, posted on the talk page of either Election 2009 or election 2008 
(and subsequently merged with this year) "If you have an idea on how to 
improve the 2008 board elections system for 2009, please post them below 
under a section name that briefly summarizes the subject".

Philippe posted this year rules on this mailing list on 27 May. It has 
always been the case that election committee will take any feedback or 
concern expressed and change the rules based on those concern if needed. 
Example of that happened last year when the recent edit over last 3 
months requirement was added and subsequently modified based on feedback 
to last 6 months. This year, the period of candidate presentation was 
extended significantly, right up to the start of the election, again 
based on feedback here on this mailing list.

You can't complain that the election committee don't take on board new 
ideas or feedbacks if you haven't expressed it before the election started.

KTC

-- 
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
     - Heinrich Heine
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