[Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

[FT2]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> But, let's say $100 based on US nominal GDP PPP (let's say, according
> to CIA Factbook, as it is giving the widest range of countries) and
> adjusted for other countries' nominal GDP PPP would be, actually, a
> positive sign. That would mean that inhabitant of Qatar would have to
> give ~$350 to vote, while inhabitant of Burundi ~$0.5. That would,
> actually, raise a level of awareness that Wikimedia projects are
> working thanks to everybody's donations, while it would say that there
> is no need to be rich to give valued contribution.
>

Even so, it means that within a given country one can "buy votes", and
distribution can be very lop-sided. Still sends the wrong message.


> I would give that right not to 50-100
> random users, but to 10,000. It is not likely that more than ~10%
> would use that right and readers are important to us.
>

Because most readers would not vote (you reckon 10%, could be right), I
suggested a different way of handling it. Instead of giving 10,000 readers
at random a right to vote and expecting 10% to exercise it (=1000), I'd
solicit all readers interested, and offer the desired number the right from
within those who express interest. This means we know fairly closely how
much "say" readers have in voting terms and aren't wrong-fotted by under or
over response.

An alternative would be that we decide the fixed percentage of the total
vote given to readers (1/4? 1/3?), then however many readers vote, scale it
as the agreed proportion of the cast votes.

FT2