[Foundation-l] Notice of the results of the WMF Board of Trustees election

[Aphaia]

Hi (sigh), Jailed due to typhoon coming (and the weather report says
my region is not YET in the most suffered area), and with a
unfortunately broken TV set, I found there is nothing entertaining
except the Net. *sigh*

On 7/14/07, Dedalus <dedalus at wikipedia.be> wrote:
>  Walter wrote:
> > "But bothem line is that is the responsibly of very Wikimedia project
> > wiki community to organize there own community and inform there local
> > community. That it is not the task of the WMF to hire people to make
> > translations. Like was written before here this is not a kindergarden."
> >
> My impression is that voter turn out in countries with a local chapter
>  of the Wikimedia Foundation are highest ranking. Correct me if I'm
>  wrong.

It could be a part of reasons, while I have a different view comparing
with the past results, it rather may depend if at least one candidate
is active/speaking their language on their project.

* Top 6 projects are
enwiki 2448: Mindspillage, Micheal Snow ...
dewiki 332: (Eloquence) ...
frwiki 245: Yann
itwiki 192: Frieda
plwiki 184: Ausir, WarX
nlwiki 80: Oscar, (KimBruning)
* Serbs have a chapter but less than 10 people voted from srwiki* this year.
* As for Taiwan (zh) and  Israel (he), it could be arguable: 25 and 22
respectively. I don't know the size of their communities, but 25 from
zh sounds sort of a small number ...
* From es, 92 people voted in 2006 when Juan David Ruiz ran for the
election. This year it reduced into 38. Relatively higher than other
projects, but less than a half of previous votes.
* Similarly, in 2006 when WMIT and WMPL were fairly active already,
the votes from those projects were 49 and 52 respectively.

>  Walter's suggestion to "organize there own community" would I read as
>  increasing the number of local chapters rapidly.
>
>  My suggestion to the election process would be not to change anything
>  - but only to start preparing and planning the election - starting
>  with appointing a election committee as soon as possible to have
>  plenty of time for arranging evertything that is needed.

Indeed. I am amazed what an aggressive schedule we have been working
... it would be nice to team up the committee much before, perhaps
months before, and to allow them to schedule the Election more
flexibly.


>  Dedalus
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