2009/5/20 Robert Rohde <[email protected]>: > The licensing update poll has been tallied. > > "Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%) > "No, I am opposed to this change" : 1829 (10.5%) > "I do not have an opinion on this change" : 2391 (13.7%)
I do want to state for the record that the only reason a "no opinion" option was included in the vote was to give users an option to "not vote" explicitly if they didn't feel they could have an informed opinion on such a complex issue, so that they wouldn't feel compelled to make one up. In other words, it was a measure intended to increase the quality of the yes/no votes. But I don't think these neutral votes should be given greater weight than the people who expressed no opinion by not voting. In other words, I consider this for all intents and purposes an 88%/12% result (it was also stated in the proposal that "votes that express a preference" would be the basis of any decision). I say this because that is important if people want to view it through the lens of our traditional standards of "rough consensus". :-) -- 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
