[Foundation-l] Board elections : some thoughts

Sat Apr 30 22:23:53 UTC 2005

On 4/30/05, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/30/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Second, the participation rate of languages have been very diversed.
> > English participants represented a huge number of voters.
> > German were second and french third. Other languages had basically not
> > participated but for a very few people.
> > Link : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image%3AElection_participation2.png
> 
> I don't agree with the conclusion you draw from this graph. The
> English and German Wikipedias are much larger than those in other
> languages, so it's only to be expected there will be more votes coming
> from those. Taking the number of active editors in April 2004 as my
> measure, I find that French participation is remarkably large, but
> English and German is not much more than would be expected from a fair
> division over the languages. In numbers (top 16 Wikipedia languages;
> numbers are number of editors, number of voters, and the second as a
> percentage of the first):
> 
> French  321  89  28%
> Finnish 33   5   15%
> Norse 27  3  11%
> Italian 69  7 10%
> German 1613 145 9%
> English 2746 238 9%
> Dutch 191 16 8%
> Chinese 143 11 7%
> Esperanto 44 3 7%
> Polish 124 8 6%
> Swedish 98 6 6%
> Danish 67 4 6%
> Japanese 360 18 5%
> Spanish 123 6 5%
> Hebrew 69 3 4%
> Portuguese 67 0 0%

Very interesting.  Thanks for that analysis!  Fr: users are also
unusually well integrated with IRC.  Clearly the conclusion is that
eating well makes you productive.

SJ