[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

I still believe that a screening phase where people with limited support below a certain threshold can quit the race or be removed is the best way to have a functional ballot... to me it's just simpler this way. Even at real-life elections you need to show some signatures to access the race.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Hi all, To me, a slightly better approach would have been to divide the 70 candidates into 7 blocks of 10 each, chosen in a random way, but the block remaining fixed. Then force the voter to visit each block and view the candidates ( so that nobody has any undue advantage). After that, the voter

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Just for quick context: I was mostly trying to say that any *simple* system may have benefits in the scenario when you don't have the resources to make a complex system work properly (read: userfriendly). A 7-member district was intended as shorthand for "out of these 70 people, pick 7 favorites".

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Just for the record, the Wikimedia Foundation Election Committee has been a standing committee since 2015, and reports to the Board Governance Committee. It is tasked with making recommendations on how elections are

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Summit 2022

Hello Thank you for this information Nicole. I think it is important for the other conference organizers to be aware of this change so that they anticipate with regards to calendar (right now... for example... wikiarabia, wikiindaba and wikiconvention francophone are already quite packed).

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

There's that, +1 for sure. But even within the current limitations, there are some configuration options that could have been chosen to improve user experience. For example, various WMF staff members have communicated different cutoff points when people shouldn't have to worry about their ranking

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Agreed. Is this something that the Election Committee , as a standing committee not tied to a single election, can help with? SJ On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 7:30 AM Jan Ainali wrote: > Thanks for your reply Kaarel, > > I

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Summit 2022

Hi everyone, We have some good and some bad news for you. First, the bad news: Wikimedia Deutschland will not host the Wikimedia Summit in April 2022. We believe that the global pandemic will not allow for safe and equitable travel for participants, especially from regions outside of Europe and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Let me suggest an improvement for the next time: the Election Compass gives the username and the voting system is orded by real name. It would be great to have both/be consistent. But... 70 candidates! It seems hard to make something perfect. From: Jan Ainali

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Thanks for your reply Kaarel, I just wanted to note that UI of SecurePoll caused problem in the board election too, and that the same excuse was used then "in a short time once". Obviously this is a piece of infrastructure that we need in the movement and that any team doing one election should

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

Thank you everyone for taking the time to vote on the elections, for engaging with the tools that have been created to facilitate the voting, and for taking the time to provide the feedback. Running these elections with 70 candidates is a pilot and it is a great opportunity to learn together and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 3:57 AM effe iets anders wrote: > This is a horribly problematic election. Not only does it take hours to go > through the candidates if you actually want to rank them, but you would > also need to be willing to spend about a lot of time to enter them into the > broken