[Foundation-l] Fwd: Election vote strikes

[Brian]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> >>
> >
> > I'm interested in knowing the nature of the error (understanding is
> > the key to avoidance in the future!)
> >
> > I'd also like to know if any users were denied the ability to vote who
> > should have been permitted on account of this error?
> >
> > ____________________________________________
>
> It was a coding error; it was corrected.
>
> This is important:  NO ONE WAS DISENFRANCHISED BY THE ERROR. People
> were given suffrage who weren't entitled.
>
> Philippe
>
>
This comment makes my skin crawl. Everyone is entitled to have a voice and
it is only the Board's impoverished vision of the community and limited
sense of what technology can accomplish that has led them to create
arbitrary rules about how to best stifle the voices of the vast majority of
the actual community. Not only that, but the Board has forgotten the WMF's
original vision where all editors were highly valued members of the
community. Because the Board does not have to sit face to face with these
people they feel free to treat our community members as if they were not, in
fact, people, with highly valued and varied life experiences whose votes do
in fact contain useful information - in the information theoretic sense.