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

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 13:46:58 UTC 2007


On 14/07/07, 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.

I think this is a correlation, not a causation - the same factors
which lead to large turnout lead to a local chapter. Relatively small
community, high sense of involvement, close links between editors.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk




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