Hi, grad to see Election Committee think what Wikimedia community is and can be so boldly and invite the rest of the community to join discussion. I'm looking forward seeing the coming election. It'll be great.
2011/3/20 Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]>: > Hello, fellow Wikimedians. > > On behalf of the 2011 Board Election Committee I would like to ask your > input on the criteria for voters in the election. In the last election > (2009), contributors needed to have at least 600 edits before the election > began and 50 recent edits (within 6 months). Whoa, I'm not sure if my recent edit count pass the proposed criteria ... even summed up globally. But still out of curiosity: for SUL account editors, edits are summed up through all wikis? > However, we feel that the edit > counts should be lowered, to allow newer contributors and mostly-inactive > members to vote, as we feel that they are also valued members of the > community. So our current proposal is a total of 300 edits, and 20 edits > within 6 months. > > This only goes for the editing community; however, the community is more > than just editors. Previously, suffrage has been extended to (a) server > administrators, (b) paid staff and (c) current or former board members. This > still does not account for all community members though, and we would like > your input on what other community members should be eligible to vote (and > how to quantify other types of contributions). > In discussion amongst the community, the committee, board members and > others, the following categories of potential voters were brought up: > > * Advisory Board members > * Developers who are not server administrators, but who have made a certain > number of commits (what number is "sufficient"?) Strongly supported. As Gerald said, there would invoke another question if MediaWiki localization people should be invited to vote. My first instinct says yes, but I'm not sure if we can count it or what criteria are applied. Siebrand or Nike? Can you guys pick up only MediaWiki translators among twn translators? > > * Donors > ** Donors above a certain $ amount (in that case, what amount should be the > limit?) As mentioned by several folks, I don't think that is a good idea. Donation is noble, but buying out or selling vote right is not in my opinion. What if Wikimedia were a membership organization? Still we would say to have non-member donors eligible to vote? > * University students in the Ambassadors program Not supportive at this moment: are they editing/contributing through the program at any rate? If they edited the wikis, were not eligible yet to vote by their merit but given the right to vote just because their universities host the program, what can you say to the rest of editors with the same edit count or more but excluded? During I served Election Committee every year I met complaints from editors who thought they were part of the community but ineligible to vote due to their inactivity. From this experience I think that if someone participants to the community by editing mainly, edit count and alone should be better to be criteria, not editing + something else. > * Researchers with access to the research user right > So, to round up, we would very much like your input on these matters; are > the edit count requirements fair, do the additional categories seem all > right, and finally, are there any other user categories that should be > eligible to vote? > > Input can be posted here, on [[m:Talk:Board > elections/2011]]<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2011>or > to the board elections list, > [email protected]. We're looking forward to hearing your > thoughts on the matter! > > On behalf of the Election Committee, > Jon Harald Søby > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Cheers, -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
