[Foundation-l] Restricting Appointed members (Proposal).

Sat Mar 22 12:55:42 UTC 2008

or you could organize an international wikimedia conference in the
Middle-East.

BR, Lodewijk

2008/3/22, Lars Aronsson <lars op aronsson.se>:
>
> Lars Aronsson (that's me) wrote:
>
> > The requirement for voting in these board elections has been at
> > least 400 edits in a single project over at least 90 days. The
> > number of voters have increased from 1484 (2005) to 4170 (2007).
> > But I find no information on meta how many voters were eligible.
>
>
> So I did a little analysis of the database dumps.  It appears that
> we would have 800 eligible voters on the Swedish Wikipedia.  I've
> only counted usernames (not IPs) with at least 400 edits, and I
> have excluced usernames that contain "bot".  However, I have not
> removed sock puppets or recently created accounts, so I could be
> off a little, but not by an order of magnitude.  However, the
> democratic aspect is evident in this comparison:
>
>   Language   Worldwide    Eligible       Speakers   Admins  W/A
>              speakers     wikipedians  /Wikipedian
>   Icelandic      300,000       54          5,500      24     2
>   Swedish     10,000,000      800         12,500      81    10
>   Danish       6,000,000      245         24,500      38     6
>   Arabic     422,000,000      197      2,140,000      14    14
>
> The Arabic Wikipedia could maybe use a few more admins.  With only
> five more they would have one admin for every ten eligible voters,
> just like the Swedish Wikipedia. But then they need to recruit,
> recruit, recruit.  Only 197 contributors have done more than 400
> edits.  All Arabic countries can't be all that poor, computer
> illiterate or censored.  You could probably double that number by
> only recruiting students at U.S. universities, not to mention
> France.  Print some posters and brochures in Arabic.
>
>
>
> --
>   Lars Aronsson (lars op aronsson.se)
>   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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