On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Andrew Turvey<[email protected]> wrote: > My first response is that's probably a reflection of the voting system. When > you have a non-partisan system like this, there are no clear political > pro/con reasons to vote for/against particular candidates and the > anti-incumbency factor doesn't really work. Candidates are likely to be > successful if they're well known, and that will give an advantage to more > established editors. > > However, you might be over-stating this conclusion. All three retiring > candidates stood again and only two were re-elected - Domas Mituzas lost out > to sj.
Congratulations to Ting, Kat and Sj for being elected, and to committee for handling such a complex vote so smoothly. I think the community has chosen really well, and seeing that also the runners-up are well-known people, it's clear that the voiting system works well. Cruccone _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
