>> 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. > I did not vote myself, because I did not have an opinion on the issue, and I did not want to vote on the issue I have no opinion of. On the other hand, I would definitely consider myself as an active user with probably around 1000 edits per month from my SUL. This is definitely not only the issue of information.
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