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wikipedia at verizon

Apr 28, 2008, 9:59 PM

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Re: Official Election Notice -- concerns about suffrage requirements

phoebe ayers wrote:
> I have two suggestions:
> Either
> a) drop this part of the requirement
> or
> b) start a site notice now for logged-in users on all projects,
> reminding them of the candidacy cut-off date and suffrage requirements
> for the election.
>
> A site notice, if not already planned for, is probably useful anyway
> as potential candidates may not read the mailing list or catch the
> election posts to it.
>
If there's a need to give people notices, this could also be a good time
to prompt some of the people who took an interest during the last
election in identifying eligible voters and delivering messages to them.
That might even be more effective than using the site notice. And with
the data-crunching and mass-notifications started earlier, hopefully
that work wouldn't draw some of the objections from last time. (By
saying this I'm not trying to favor b) over a); my comment applies even
if a notice isn't required for this particular issue.)

--Michael Snow


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pathoschild at gmail

Apr 28, 2008, 10:21 PM

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Re: Official Election Notice -- concerns about suffrage requirements [In reply to]

Michael Snow <wikipedia[at]verizon.net> wrote:
> If there's a need to give people notices, this could also be a good time
> to prompt some of the people who took an interest during the last
> election in identifying eligible voters and delivering messages to them.

Please don't send out emails. The elections committee will probably
send out notification by email to all eligible voters (this is under
discussion right now). The emails will be translated on
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation> with
other board elections pages.

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Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)

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wikipedia at verizon

Apr 28, 2008, 10:31 PM

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Re: Official Election Notice -- concerns about suffrage requirements [In reply to]

Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) wrote:
> Michael Snow <wikipedia[at]verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> If there's a need to give people notices, this could also be a good time
>> to prompt some of the people who took an interest during the last
>> election in identifying eligible voters and delivering messages to them.
>>
> Please don't send out emails. The elections committee will probably
> send out notification by email to all eligible voters (this is under
> discussion right now). The emails will be translated on
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation> with
> other board elections pages.
>
Okay, good, it sounds like the committee is hopefully able to accomplish
more this year, between having slightly more lead time and a base of
past experience to learn from. Thanks for your work.

--Michael Snow


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