I'm curious (and not arguing it is the case) why due diligence here does not involve e-mailing every person who has ever made an edit and has their e-mail address in their profile.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike & I have made some updates to the Q&A today: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Questions_and_Answers > > Please let me know or edit the page if you feel further clarifications > and answers are needed. Otherwise I'll prepare a translation request, > probably on Friday. > > Meanwhile, I'm also working on the actual re-licensing proposal, so > that we can discuss it with the Board this weekend. One question I'm > struggling with, and would appreciate input on, is what voting method > and process should be used to make the decision. I anticipate that it > will be a simple yes/no vote, possibly with an explicit abstain > option. I can see two approaches to implement the actual vote: > > 1) Use the BoardVote software. It's secure, well-tested and > well-understood. It's more burdensome to set up, the process for > counting votes is quite rigorous (accurate but burdensome), and it may > be overkill for this purpose. Votes are private. > 2) Use a vote on Meta, like we did for e.g. the Wikinews and > Wikiversity project launch votes. It's easy, but suffers from edit > conflicts, and accurate vote counting is hard. Votes are public. > > In the second case, the vote result would be less defensible - but > since it's not a legal necessity to run a vote at all, that might be > OK. It would be also easier to add comments, have detailed discussions > on the talk page, etc. Importantly, since this is a complex problem, > misunderstandings may be common, and in a public vote, they could be > more easily corrected. In the first case, we could add a prominent > link to the full proposal, the Q&A and all discussions to the voting > interface, but it would still be a less wiki-like way of doing things. > > I'd appreciate thoughts & comments. > > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- You have successfully failed! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
