[Foundation-l] stewards elections

[Anthere]

by the way, sorry for breaking all threads, but my
computer is dead, and I do not receive mails, so I do
as I can on other computers :-) sorry

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Developer_access&oldid=31732
Might be relevant for everyone to consult. This is the
page of previous elections.

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As one of the people who has requested stewardship, I
want to comment on  
some of the proposed rules:
 
In a message dated 3/5/2005 3:14:08 AM Eastern
Standard Time,  
anthere9 at yahoo.com writes:

* it is  useless to keep in steward list an inactive
steward. Activity is show best  by activity on
"request
for permission" (log is sometimes lost). I  hence
suggest that any steward with no edits on RfP and no
mention in  the log for 6 months be listed as inactive
and with no activity for a year,  be removed.
Fully agree. I do, however, think that there should be
a cap on the number  
of stewards. 

Ant : yes. Something about 18.


* a  new election will be held in march (or soon)
It should be very clear who will be eligible to vote
in this new election.  
What are the criteria for voting. 

Ant : anyone with an account on a project. We might
wish to add a requirement of an account at least one
month old with 50 edits.

*  candidates should have shown implication in
international matters, so we  could possibly require
that the candidate has sysop status on  meta.
Working on meta does not necessarily indicate
proficiency in  international 
matters. On the other hand, I do think that there
should be  some criteria for 
becoming a steward that should be clearly defined. 

Ant : yes, but WHICH ones ?

*  Candidates should have at least 80% support
(neutral
not  counted)
To date, I have organized the board election and the
two arb comm elections  
in Wikipedia. To the best of my recollection (and I
can check), no candidate 
has  ever reached 80 percent of the vote. While I
agree on a high threshhold, 
this  may not be it.

Ant : I think last elections had precisely this value
as a requirement, 80%. And 8 people made it. I nearly
did not :-) I had opposition... I think it is a
reasonable value. There are some elections you did not
organise Danny ;-)

*  Anyone can vote provided that the editor has a
valid
account on meta with a  link to at least one user page
on a project where the editor is a  participant
Valid account on meta from when? are we suddenly going
to see a rush on  meta 
accounts?
 
Ant : a valid account on meta so that this account can
link to another project user page. This is standard on
all meta elections Danny.

* In  case of suspicion of sock puppetry, developers
could be asked to check and  sock puppet votes
cancelled.

What do you think  ?

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards

Ant



While the ideas are good in principle, I think that
they have to be  thought 
out a bit more.
 
Danny

Ant : This is exactly why I made a proposal and
suggested feedback.



	
		
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