I have a lot of personal opinions on the method, questions process, etc. Many of them will be shared in the committee's post mortem (others I will be discarding as I now process the last several weeks).
Also, we are beginning to post some statistics that folks may find helpful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Stats We will be posting more on the blog next week about what all goes into running the elections, and I am open to feedback on what additional information we can share that would be helpful to the community. Our group made an early commitment to transparency, and I hope that has come across in our posting of major meeting minutes, posting of these stats, open dialogue on Meta and email, a post mortem from the committee, and the upcoming blog post. Finally, I want to give a big thank you to my colleagues on the Elections Committee. I was, by the nature of my tasks, a bit more visible - but please know that everyone worked very hard, did a great job, and deserves equal gratitude. Thank you Adrian, Anders, Daniel, Katie, Mardetanha, Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel - as well as Risker, James, Alice, Philippe, Geoff, Stephen, Sylvia, Heather, Tim, and a few others I'm sure I'm forgetting. -greg (User:Varnent) On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations to the new Board members - I am sure you will do a great > job. And commiserations to those who will be leaving the Board - thank you > for all your hard work over many years. > > Also it is good to see a much higher turnout in this year's elections than > in 2013 - well done to those involved :) > > On the subject of voting systems, though... > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Anders Wennersten < > m...@anderswennersten.se> > wrote: > > > > > David Cuenca Tudela skrev den 2015-06-06 09:01: > > > >> However I must say that the results of this election are hilarious. The > >> person with the most support votes doesn't win because of oppose votes > :D > >> > >> Why hilarious? We had a full consensus in the election Committee to go > > for S/N/O voting, it is a kind of standard procedure in the Wikimedia > world. > > > > Many people looked at voting systems before the Wikimedia movement existed > and virtually none of them settled on the system we ended up with. Perhaps > this should tell us something! > > To my mind the key problems with the present system are: > 1) Oppose votes have greater weight than support votes. In this case, Maria > would have needed 136 additional support votes to win, or 46 fewer oppose > votes. In effect an Oppose vote was worth 2.96 times as much as a support > vote for her. As a result, being non-opposed is much more important than > being supported. The penalty for doing anything controversial is > significant. > > 2) There is nothing in the process to produce any diversity in the result. > Say that there was a 2/3 to 1/3 split in the electorate on some important > issue. The right answer would surely be that you elect 2 people with one > view and 1 with the other. However, in this voting system you would likely > end up electing 3 people from the majority point of view. Because the > Wikimedia movement is much more complex than this it is difficult to > conclude that there was any particular issue like this that would have > affected the result, but still, the point applies. The voting system builds > in homogeneity not diversity. > > Regards, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
