Hi Lane, While I agree that it's good for people to encourage their chapters/other organizations to vote, we would need to know whether they've voted before doing this...
As far as I can see, the voting is entirely done on chapterswiki - which is fair enough, and it's reasonable to have this semi-private. However, it means that the only people who can tell if a given chapter has voted or not are people closely associated with the chapters, who presumably already know whether they've voted or not. Would it be possible to have a public list of which organizations have voted and which ones have yet to do so? I don't think this would materially affect the confidentiality of the vote itself, and it might help encourage some groups to actually vote. Andrew. On 3 May 2016 at 12:43, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > As of now, 13 of 42 eligible organizations have voted in the 2016 chapters' > election for 2 of 10 Wikimedia Foundation seats on the board of trustees. > In the last election, 1/3 of organizations did not vote. Anyone who wishes > to influence the election could do so by asking sleepier chapters to vote > by the May 7 end of election. > > Feel free also to pressure more active chapters to do their duty to support > less organized chapters in voting. Support can mean having > chapter-to-chapter encouragement to vote. All chapters appreciate being > reminded. All eligible organizations are supposed to vote. The election > result is more sound with more votes. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016 > > yours, > > -- > Lane Rasberry > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > 206.801.0814 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
