Yeah, that one's noted for the post-mortem. Philippe
On Aug 8, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Gerard > Meijssen<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hoi, >> This is a huge improvement over the last election where not all >> projects >> were targeted for this type of mail. As a result there is less bias >> in the >> system. So you can opt out if you do not want to receive an e-mail >> for the >> next election. >> >> Iit is a huge improvement to have an e-mail by the organisers of the >> election over someone who does because he can and has thinks it a >> good idea. >> This is very much a friendly nudge to go and do your democratic >> duty because >> you can. > > Although it's not an improvement in that its very close to the > election and the rate of response to the mail appeared to lag several > days in a prior election. > > A lot of people are going to notice the mail next week and be annoyed > that they were left out. > > Someone should make a note of that for the future. My rule of thumb > for any notification procedure on Wikipedia, based on meetup and other > events, is that one week is required to even reach a majority of the > eventual targets and that two is much better. Sufficient notice is > important— Especially when responding to the notice is something that > may require reading a half meg of text or so. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
