[Licom-l] License Update Demographics

Fri May 15 23:05:11 UTC 2009

Yes, probably, though it probably means my ballot count is off by 1
somewhere else.

-Robert

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Andrew Leung <andrewcleung at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Do you mean 15 test ballots? Cause I went to the test poll and it only has
> 15 votes.
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> Andrew
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> "Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
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>> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 06:28:38 -0700
>> From: rarohde at gmail.com
>> To: licom-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: [Licom-l] License Update Demographics
>>
>> This email summarizes the demographics of the participants in the
>> license update poll. The result of the poll is not yet determined.
>>
>> A total of 18691 ballots were submitted. Of these 17461 were retained
>> as valid and 1230 were discounted as invalid.
>>
>> Most of the invalid votes were obvious duplicate votes. In the event
>> that a single individual cast multiple ballots, the most recent ballot
>> cast was retained and any old ballots were discarded. This includes
>> 930 cases where the same user at the same wiki attempted to submit
>> multiple ballots, and an additional 256 cases where the same user
>> voted multiple times using accounts from different wikis (technical
>> evidence was used to establish that the accounts were shared and not
>> just coincidentally named). The final 44 ballots were eliminated due
>> to various other issues, including cases of deliberate sockpuppetry.
>>
>> From the collection of 17461 accepted ballots:
>>
>> 193 WMF projects were represented by at least 1 ballot.
>>
>> 16785 (96.1%) were cast from 102 Wikipedias
>> 397 (2.3%) were cast from 8 "special" projects (includes Commons,
>> Meta, Wikispecies, etc.)
>> 78 (0.4%) were cast from 22 Wiktionaries
>> 72 (0.4%) were cast from 18 Wikibooks projects
>> 60 (0.3%) were cast from 17 Wikisource projects
>> 30 (0.2%) were cast from 11 Wikinews projects
>> 24 (0.1%) were cast from 7 Wikiversity projects
>> 15 (0.1%) were cast from 8 Wikiquote projects
>>
>> The top 20 individual projects were:
>>
>> 7528 (43.1%) from English Wikipedia
>> 3104 (17.8%) from German Wikipedia
>> 955 (5.5%) from French Wikipedia
>> 778 (4.5%) from Russian Wikipedia
>> 738 (4.2%) from Spanish Wikipedia
>> 507 (2.9%) from Polish Wikipedia
>> 454 (2.6%) from Italian Wikipedia
>> 315 (1.8%) from Chinese Wikipedia
>> 274 (1.6%) from Commons
>> 274 (1.6%) from Japanese Wikipedia
>> 235 (1.3%) from Dutch Wikipedia
>> 210 (1.2%) from Portuguese Wikipedia
>> 158 (0.9%) from Swedish Wikipedia
>> 125 (0.7%) from Hebrew Wikipedia
>> 125 (0.7%) from Hungarian Wikipedia
>> 117 (0.7%) from Finnish Wikipedia
>> 111 (0.6%) from Czech Wikipedia
>> 105 (0.6%) from Turkish Wikipedia
>> 98 (0.6%) from Meta
>> 78 (0.6%) from Danish Wikipedia
>>
>> -Robert Rohde
>>
>> PS. Andrew previously stated the total number of ballots cast as
>> 18707. This included 16 ballots used for software testing which are
>> not including in the total of 18691 given above.
>>
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