Hello, I am unable to report which chapters voted. The voting process is closed. Right now I have to recommend encouraging all chapters to vote.
The election rules are decided by chapters and chapters have said closed election. I do not think this was a well-discussed rule, but whatever the case, it cannot be changed by the community and needs to be changed by chapters. Community discussion could influence it. I think that it is a rule that could change. Asking chapters to have open voting could be another reason to contact chapters, or open voting might be a problem - I am not sure. Even if voting were not completely open, there could be other kinds of openness, like just a list of who voted. Right now, I cannot provide that. Any chapter can look at the list and see who voted and who did not. For the next election (in three years) I will propose a change. I want it to be easier for chapters to self-report their votes in a public way, if they choose to do so. Even if the election is closed, enough individual chapters seem to want to self-disclose. yours, On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > 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 <l...@bluerasberry.com> 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 > > l...@bluerasberry.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 l...@bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
