[Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 30 10:08:31 UTC 2013


On 30 April 2013 10:47, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:

> At least in the theory, if someone is blocked in a project, than he has a
> serious problem with that community. And the reason that his block is not
> lifted should be a serious one. And if someone has a serious problem with
> more than one community, than it is questionable if he should be eligible to
> take part in the decision of such an office. So from the theory I think the
> rule is ok.


So if two trolls have admin rights on three tiny wikis, and block you
because they don't like you, then you'd be fine with being
disenfranchised by that? (Remember that we've had an entire project,
Wikiversity, pretty much taken over by disgruntled Wikipedia trolls.)


- d.



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