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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'
... 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 p
2015-05-31 22:57 GMT+02:00 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 e
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 pos
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 1:
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 fo
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
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 3:20 PM, James Alexander
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 some
> of the smaller
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 els
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 30, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
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> @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
> feedback over the
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 t
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Pine W wrote:
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> 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
On 30 May 2015 at 17:03, Sam Klein wrote:
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>
> > And also a little addition (from [1]):
> > «The FDC would like to encourage the WMF to share more data in
> > advance, and to do so publicly as much as possible.
>
>
> Very much agreed.
>
>
>
> > The Board may need to adjust the
> > calendar of
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