[Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/22 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?)
>
>
> I'm going to speculate and suggest "ease of decision making", perhaps even
> "polarizing topic".  "Rank the following people that you've never met and
> know nothing about from 1 to 12" is a much more intense task compared to
> "You want CC-BY-SA instead of GFDL? Yes, no, or maybe?"

You're probably on to something there.