On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Sue Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know how many people were eligible to vote in the license migration, > but I believe there are currently about 150,000 active editors, if active is > defined as "a registered user who has made more than five edits in the past > month." Either Erik (Moeller or Zachte), or Frank, might be able to confirm > that.
These numbers make sense to me. 10% voter turnout is relatively low when compared to public elections in general. But then again there aren't too many online votes of this size held among volunteers of charitable organizations, so there isn't a lot of direct precedent to compare to. I doubt any of the larger projects ever get to even 10% turnout for their various community discussions, and important decisions are routinely made in the project with far fewer votes then that. --Andrew Whitworth > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Gray <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:47:05 > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result > > > 2009/5/21 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>: > >>> I think this is a very good result, in particular the turnout looks great >>> to me! >>> Congratulations to all who have worked hard to get to it, and I hope >>> there will be a board resolution soon. >> >> As was commented on elsewhere, the 2008 Board Election only had 3019 >> votes, which also suggests the turnout this time was remarkable. > > Do we have a rough estimate of qualifying voters who didn't vote? > 17000 is pretty good, but it occurs to me I have no idea how large the > editing community really is! > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
