[Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

[phoebe ayers]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The licensing update poll has been tallied.
>>>
>>> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" :  13242 (75.8%)
>>> "No, I am opposed to this change" :  1829 (10.5%)
>>> "I do not have an opinion on this change" :  2391 (13.7%)
>>>
>>> Total ballots cast and certified:  17462
>>>
>>
>> I think this is a very good result, in particular the turnout looks great to me!
>> Congratulations to all who have worked hard to get to it, and I hope
>> there will be a board resolution soon.
>
> As was commented on elsewhere, the 2008 Board Election only had 3019
> votes, which also suggests the turnout this time was remarkable.

Yes -- I think this is definitely the largest group of Wikimedians to
ever collectively express an opinion on anything! It'd be worth
figuring out why the vote was successful, if possible (long period of
voting? ubiquitous sitenotices? Important topic? Lots of outside
interest?)

-- phoebe