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May 4, 2008, 10:55 AM
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Re: Board elections: Weekly report for April 26 to May 3
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Can we please improve the system for the voting? I would like to see some
statistics. Like the percentage breakdown of votes per countries/continents
and etc. How many people from which wiki have voted? The vote percentage
breakdown for that.
I want this to have more transparency without compromising the anonymity of
the voters and votes.
-- White Cat
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard <
pathoschild[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> Following is a summary of the 2008 board elections organization for
> the week of April 26 to May 3. For detailed information on the
> elections, see <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en>.
>
> ==Timeline==
> * We began accepting translations this week.
> * Candidates will be accepted starting next week on May 8.
>
> ==Election rules==
> On April 26 we unveiled the 2008 board elections pages and structure,
> timed to coincide with the committee and Board of Trustees
> announcements. We later added a warning not to edit the official
> English rules page (this was done in previous years as well).
>
> Based on community discussion, we changed the eligibility requirements
> for candidates and voters, so that they must have 50 edits between 01
> January and 01 June (instead of 01 April and 01 June). We also relaxed
> the requirements for candidates, so that they must have 600 edits
> before 01 January 2008 (instead of 01 June 2007).
>
> We discussed whether we needed to change the voter-requirements
> exceptions to cover remote staff (who don't work in the office), but
> decided this was unnecessary this year. The persons affected were
> eligible without exceptions, and a change would require a number of
> translation updates.
>
> Two discussions are currently on hold while we examine technical
> feasibility:
> * sending an official notification email to all eligible voters;
> * the voting system.
>
> ==Translation==
> We began accepting translations 5 days earlier than planned on April
> 27, due to eager translators. The next day we added the navigation
> menu and removed the notification email (incomplete draft) as
> translatable pages.
>
> We currently have 28 translations. If you'd like to help, please see
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation>.
> Translations by percentage completed (total size of complete pages /
> total size of all pages):
> * 100: de, en, fr, nb, pl, pt, ru, sv, zh-hans, zh-hant;
> * 80+: fa, ja, nl;
> * 20+: he;
> * 10+: ca, it;
> * 1+: eo, es, eu, fi, hr, ko, ml, uk;
> * 0: ar, cs, hu, id.
>
> ==Technical details==
> There have a flurry of tweaks and fixes following the original
> publication. These have simplified translations, reduced maintenance
> overhead, fixed an overlap display glitch on candidate pages, and
> added support for right-to-left languages.
>
> We expanded the translation page, so users can see at a glance:
> * the status of each translated page (missing/not complete/update
> needed/done);
> * the overall completion percentage of each language (based on page
> size);
> * the relative size in percentage of each page (so translators can
> start with the shorter pages).
>
> --
> Yours cordially,
> Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
>
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