Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-31 Thread Pine W
Hi Sam, That all sounds good. A couple of quick points: 1. What is meant by excellent goals and plans is open to interpretation and dependent on context. For example, an excellent annual plan for a new user group will look much different than an excellent annual plan for WMFR or WMF, and I'm not

[Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread Milos Rancic
... it would be good to talk a bit about the state of our community and movement. Initially, I was quite positively surprised by the fact that this will be the best WMF Board elections ever in the terms of turnout of voters. It will beat 2007 elections and it will be likely 2.5 times better than

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-31 Thread Amy Vossbrinck
Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: @Garfield - I would love to hear what sort of community feedback you are hoping for; and what you would ideally get out of it. Was this past week's input helpful? Are you looking for additional

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread James Alexander
A couple comments inline from a technical election process (not commenting on much of the rest not because I'm not interested but just for simplicity right now given other work :) ). James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, May 31, 2015 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread Anders Wennersten
I believe the Ukrain case well illustrates a key characteristic of this election - the high participation rate from the middle and small sized communities. It looks like we have we had voters from 184 wikis participating, an amazing number! As greg already pointed this is probably related to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread James Alexander
Ukraine has done great this year! Your work clearly paid off, currently 11.74% of the eligible users on ukWiki have voted (making it one of the highest % wikis, and the highest if you only count medium/large wikis some of the smaller ones get an advantage when % is factored in). It also accounts

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:20 PM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Ukraine has done great this year! Your work clearly paid off, currently 11.74% of the eligible users on ukWiki have voted (making it one of the highest % wikis, and the highest if you only count medium/large wikis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread Denny Vrandečić
25% turnout is amazing!! Thank you, and congratulations to WM UA, particularly given the political situation at home. I also collected a few thoughts about the elections here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Denny/Thoughts_Board_Election_2015 Thanks to the Election Committee and everyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread attolippip
There were only 9 votes from Ukrainian community in 2013, I believe So this year we just made sure that our community REALLY knows about the elections, thus we: - translated the candidates statements into Ukrainian - prepared a short table with the essence of these statements in Ukrainian and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread Johan Jönsson
2015-05-31 22:57 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: ... it would be good to talk a bit about the state of our community and movement. Initially, I was quite positively surprised by the fact that this will be the best WMF Board elections ever in the terms of turnout of voters. It will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-05-31 Thread Gregory Varnum
There were a lot of factors that went into the vote turnout. Some of it we should be able to build on going into the next election, others are likely snapshot moment in time factors that we may not be able to capture again. James has pointed out a number of key technical considerations, and there

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-31 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: 1. What is meant by excellent goals and plans is open to interpretation and dependent on context. For example, an excellent annual plan for a new user group will look much different than an excellent annual plan for WMFR or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16 (Ido)

2015-05-31 Thread ido ivri
From: Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com To: Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl, Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16 Message-ID: