Pardon me, Zana, but why? Oppose is just as good as Support, I believe. It means that people have feelings about you. And you can change that. Indifference is the problem, imho
<small>And I still cannot understand why the voting is not open and public... We are supposed to get used to express our opinions without fear being (mostly) Wikipedians, aren't we? If I vote against someone and it means anything to him/her, (s)he can just ask me why and we can talk (we can do it beforehand, of course :)) The same thing is about voting for smb. Is it not interesting to know who supports you and why? And the other way around. I would love to know what motivates people to vote against me. It helps to see if one is going in the right direction, whatever they may think about it</small> Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine 2015-06-08 20:37 GMT+03:00 Risker <[email protected]>: > > On 6 June 2015 at 18:32, Zana Strkovska <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> Thank you Anne for mention "only one woman candidate for FDC this year", >> it was me. >> I would like to say something: not time, not money is issue for me (I am >> free lancer, meaning I can manage my time). My theory is that I didn't pass >> because I didn't answer questions in the way the community wanted. >> >> I am not sure how many woman we have who are free to help, serve and >> travel. But, what I found discourage after mine failure is the oppose >> votes. One thing is to see how many Wikipedians voted for you, but it's not >> so pleasant to count oppose votes. >> >> I hope my words could help on why women aren't generally volunteering to >> run. >> >> Regards, >> Zana >> (user:Violetova) >> >>> >>> >> > Zana - I would really like to encourage you to post that at the election > post-mortem page, perhaps in the section about voting methodology (which is > titled "Electoral system").[1] Your perspective, as a candidate, is really > important on this issue. I have said for a while now that I am unlikely > to ever participate in another WMF-related election, but it was only on > reading what you wrote here that I realized how demoralizing the opposes > are in any of these elections for me as well. > > > Risker/Anne > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mortem > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please > visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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