[Foundation-l] Steward election issues

[Thomas Goldammer]

Hoi,

You have been told that you need to make a back link from your home
wiki to the Meta account as well, if you don't have a global account
(because everyone can link to a certain enwiki account on their Meta
userpage and the real user won't notice it, but on your user page on
enwiki people are unlikely to edit without your consent, don't you
think? ;o) The link on Meta is still necessary to identify you so that
people can find your home wiki user page.) That's a very simple thing,
the people must be able to verify (at least to a certain extend) that
you are indeed that user on enwiki, which they were not obviously, so
your vote was correctly marked invalid. For the next one, just get
yourself an SUL account and vote with that, or add a link on enwiki to
your Meta account, and everything is fine. :o)

Th.

2011/3/7 brock.weller at gmail.com <brock.weller at gmail.com>:
> So I had an enormously unsatisfying experience in the recent steward
> elections, and I'm hoping there might be some lessons learned from this
> going forward. I don't spend much time on Meta, notwithstanding the fact
> that im almost inexplicably mentioned at the top of the Live mirrors page
> the only visits I make to meta are for votes on presumably now deleted
> pages, and even that hasn't been for some years. My en.wiki account is
> substantially older (edited since 2004, registered since 2005) and more
> active (thousand of edits versus a few on meta) so I freely confess that I
> may be a little out of the loop in how Meta works, but i think most voters
> are, we are funneled here through election notices. My userpage has had a
> link to my home wiki since 2007. That's the only thing on the page. I voted
> in the Steward elections when I saw a name I recognized on the list. He was
> an employee of the foundation and a personal friend of mine and I was very
> pleased to see him running considering how helpful he's been to me through
> the years. I pay no more attention to this process before coming back to
> check election results to find out my vote was struck. No warning a day
> before close or similar, no note or even bot-posted warning template. This
> is frankly ridiculous. In something as important as a Steward Election our
> determining the will of the community seems pretty willing to cut out parts
> of the community without giving an opportunity to correct any technical
> issues with the casting of the vote. I've been discussing things with the
> admin who struck it, and while there's nothing wrong with his responses,
> he's not being very helpful in correcting this for the future, and being
> vague about what the requirements are for verification. I was told i needed
> both a link from meta to my home wiki and from my home to meta, i added the
> half that was missing (an edit made by me to the top of my talkpage on en
> giving my account name on meta, stating i am that account and providing a
> link) still wasnt sufficient but not informing me what more I'd have to
> provide to insure disenfranchisement doesn't occur.
>
> Quite simply, if we give a rats ass what the community thinks we need to
> come up with a better system for measuring it.
>
> Refs:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dungodung#Possibly_inappropriate_vote_strike
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mask
>
> --Brock