On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 5:47 AM Butch Bustria <bustr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations to the 4 winners. > I saw that the STV system unveiled how the 4th and 5th positions (appears to > be from a G7 country and a non G7 country) had switched. I am interested to > know from which sector/s or Wikimedia project brought the switch of those two > positions (starting from the 8th iteration). > I also observed that I have no option to choose which wiki I will represent. > It appears that the system only allows which wiki I first clicked the central > notice link. I tried to go to the other projects and vote, it allowed me to > change my vote (still one eligible ballot) but it did not change the project > I will represent. I am saying this because it would allow people reading the > statistics which project the eligible voter truly represents. > Despite all the consultations made prior to the elections to bring the > emerging communities/ global south to the board it had not accurately painted > the picture. I would personally suggest in the future not all candidates vie > for the same set of seats. So for instance, there are 4 seats up for grabs, > two seats must be reserved for sector A and two seats for sector B. > Candidates must select which sector they represent and cannot be both. Then > the whole electorate votes for candidates for Sector A board seats and Sector > B board seats using the same STV system. Qualifications for Sector A and > Sector B seats shall be different and will be decided by the board of > trustees with consent from an advisory/ electoral committee. I personally > suggest developed communities (from big chapters and wiki projects with large > edit participation) and emerging communities (small to medium sized > affiliates and wiki projects with medium to small edit participation). > Kind Regards, > Butch
I think these are excellent points and should be discussed in general as a freedom of (de-)association and self-identification. Best Z. Blace _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/QU32KFBBJ2K4C6Z5V4OUZHXPI3WZWV3O/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
