[Foundation-l] Election rules modification regarding suffrage issues raised on this list

Wed Apr 30 16:48:05 UTC 2008

Practically speaking its true that qualifying for the edit requirement is
pretty easy... But having to do so means that whatever your current
activities are they are insufficient to make you a voting 'member of the
community.'

Requiring developers or folks whose contributions don't translate well into
simple edit requirements to jump through hoops to be considered "one of us"
is not good even if the hoops are placed nice and low.

Nathan

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>
wrote:

> > On Wed, April 30, 2008 16:39, Delphine M?nard wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Philippe Beaudette
> >> <philippebeaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>"at least 50 edits between January 1, 2008 and June 1, 2008".
> >> I'm just afraid I'm not gonna have the required number of edits on any
> >> one wiki. And I consider myself kind of "up to date" to be allowed to
> >> vote.
> >
> > Given that, unusually where suffrage is being determined, the closing
> date
> > for the required level of activity is still over a month away (rather
> than
> > in the past), and that no differentiation is made between minor
> wikignome
> > edits and major copyedit rewrites, then I would expect *anyone* who
> wanted
> > to ensure their ability to vote would be able to do so by finding 50
> > spelling and / or grammar mistakes. ie, imho, not a difficult hurdle to
> > leap by any stretch of the imagination.
> >
> > Alison Wheeler
> >
> >
>
> Or wikification of Incubator articles on any active project would also do
> the job. And this is the work which is badly needed anyway.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
>
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