Robert, Thank you for your concern. I'll take this to the Board elections committee.
Philippe ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategic Plan Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate On Jul 17, 2009, at 5:06 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > CentralNotice scripts live on the image file server. As some of you > may know, that server has been having serious performance problems > recently. One of the steps taken early on to reduce load while people > work on fixing the problem was to disable CentralNotice on all wikis > (save Meta). > > As a result, the "Candidates are currently being accepted for the > Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election" message that started on the 7th > has not been visible anywhere except Meta since the 11th. I don't > know whether the server will be fixed before the nomination period was > supposed to end on the 20th. Assuming it is not fixed, the planned > two weeks of candidate solicitations will have been reduced to less > than five days. (This also explains why there have been no new > candidate statements since early on the 12th.) > > In my opinion, that is simply not adequate. > > I know it would throw a giant monkey wrench in other plans, but I want > to raise the possiblity that the technical problems with the site > notice should justify pushing back the rest of the Board election > timeline. The Board of Trustees is one of Wikimedia's most important > institutions, and I don't think this is something we can justify > rushing through. > > -Robert Rohde > > _______________________________________________ > 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
