[Foundation-l] Election Results

[Andrew Turvey]

My first response is that's probably a reflection of the voting system. When you have a non-partisan system like this, there are no clear political pro/con reasons to vote for/against particular candidates and the anti-incumbency factor doesn't really work. Candidates are likely to be successful if they're well known, and that will give an advantage to more established editors. 

However, you might be over-stating this conclusion. All three retiring candidates stood again and only two were re-elected - Domas Mituzas lost out to sj. 

----- "Steven Walling" <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "Steven Walling" <steven.walling at gmail.com> 
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 20:07:00 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results 
> 
> While I personally am very pleased with the results, I wonder how the 
> election results will be perceived outside Wikimedia. 
> With numerous media outlets reacting to PARC's research about the state of 
> the community, I fear this endorsement of seemingly "old guard" Wikimedians 
> as our Board representation will support claims about the community becoming 
> unfriendly to new participants. 
> Thoughts? Am I being too nervous, or do others see that potential too? 
> 
> If I'm not alone, perhaps any official announcement about the elections 
> (i.e. on the Wikimedia blog and in press releases) should address this, even 
> if only tacitly. 
> 
> Steven Walling 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Philippe 
> > Beaudette<pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote: 
> > > The Wikimedia Foundation's Board Election Committee has concluded the 
> > > board selection process, and is pleased to announce that the 
> > > candidates ranked as follows: 
> > > 
> > > Final ranking 
> > > 
> > > 1 Ting Chen (Wing) 
> > > 2 Kat Walsh (mindspillage) 
> > > 3 Samuel Klein (Sj) 
> > > 4 Gerard Meijssen (GerardM) 
> > > 5 Domas Mituzas (Midom) 
> > > 6 Thomas Braun (Redlinux) 
> > > 7 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (Cimon Avaro) 
> > > 8 Steve Smith (Sarcasticidealist) 
> > > 9 Dan Rosenthal (Swatjester) 
> > > 10 José Gustavo Góngora (Góngora) 
> > > 11 Brady Brim-DeForest (Bradybd) 
> > > 12 Lourie Pieterse (LouriePieterse) 
> > > 13 Adam Koenigsberg (CastAStone) 
> > > 14 Ralph Potdevin (Aruspice) 
> > > 15 Beauford Anton Stenberg (B9 hummingbird hovering) 
> > > 16 Gregory Kohs (Thekohser) 
> > > 17 Kevin Riley O'Keeffe (KevinOKeeffe) 
> > > 18 Relly Komaruzaman (Relly Komaruzaman) 
> > > 
> > > A full pairwise defeats table will be posted shortly. 
> > > 
> > > These names have been respectfully submitted to the Board, which has 
> > > moved to seat the top three candidates. 
> > > 
> > > The Committee wishes to thank all those who submitted themselves as 
> > > candidates. It was a broad and diverse field this year. We also wish 
> > > to recognize the many volunteers that helped with this process. The 
> > > committee extends its gratitude and thanks to them 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > For the committee, 
> > > Philippe 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > Congrats to the winners! 
> > 
> > -Chad 
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