Hello,
I am unable to report which chapters voted. The voting process is closed. Right now I have to recommend encouraging all chapters to vote.
The election rules are decided by chapters and chapters have said closed election. I do not think this was a well-discussed rule, but whatever the case, it cannot be changed by the community and needs to be changed by chapters. Community discussion could influence it. I think that it is a rule that could change. Asking chapters to have open voting could be another reason to contact chapters, or open voting might be a problem - I am not sure.
Even if voting were not completely open, there could be other kinds of openness, like just a list of who voted. Right now, I cannot provide that. Any chapter can look at the list and see who voted and who did not.
For the next election (in three years) I will propose a change. I want it to be easier for chapters to self-report their votes in a public way, if they choose to do so. Even if the election is closed, enough individual chapters seem to want to self-disclose.
yours,
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi Lane,
While I agree that it's good for people to encourage their chapters/other organizations to vote, we would need to know whether they've voted before doing this...
As far as I can see, the voting is entirely done on chapterswiki - which is fair enough, and it's reasonable to have this semi-private. However, it means that the only people who can tell if a given chapter has voted or not are people closely associated with the chapters, who presumably already know whether they've voted or not.
Would it be possible to have a public list of which organizations have voted and which ones have yet to do so? I don't think this would materially affect the confidentiality of the vote itself, and it might help encourage some groups to actually vote.
Andrew.
On 3 May 2016 at 12:43, Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com wrote:
Hello,
As of now, 13 of 42 eligible organizations have voted in the 2016
chapters'
election for 2 of 10 Wikimedia Foundation seats on the board of trustees. In the last election, 1/3 of organizations did not vote. Anyone who
wishes
to influence the election could do so by asking sleepier chapters to vote by the May 7 end of election.
Feel free also to pressure more active chapters to do their duty to
support
less organized chapters in voting. Support can mean having chapter-to-chapter encouragement to vote. All chapters appreciate being reminded. All eligible organizations are supposed to vote. The election result is more sound with more votes.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016
yours,
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