> They are available on the submission page if one want to see it. The > committee would just prefer they not be as visibly available until we > have confirmed the candidates meet the eligibility criteria and that > their candidate submission meet the election regulation. This is partly > to ensure fairness to all those who stand. Say a candidate submission is > too long (as has been the case a couple of time), it does take time for > them to correct it. In the mean time, if it were all widely visible, the > other candidates can/will complain about unfair advantages gained over > the exposure to the longer statement. > > KTC I can also add to this that the translation effot of the candidate presentations will only start after May 22. By chance, all four candidates presented themselves in English - but it would be perfectly legal to them to do it in other languages, and indeed the mothertongues of two of them is not English. A premature exposure of the presentation in different languages (i.e. before the translation is completed) would also make the chances unequal. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Birgitte SB <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > > --- On Wed, 5/14/08, Robert Rohde <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > From: Robert Rohde <[hidden email]> > > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pointing out to an oddity > > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" < > [hidden email]> > > Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10:55 AM > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Kwan Ting Chan > > <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 17:12 +0200, elisabeth bauer > > wrote: > > > > > > > I don't see any candidates on > > > > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates > > > > (the place where I would expect candicacies to > > show up) > > > > > > Candidate's submission is on > > > > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates/Submissions > . > > Once the close of candidate submission period comes round, > > the election > > > committee will transfer the listings of those that are > > verified to be > > > eligible to the page you linked to, and translation > > will also begin. > > > > > > Wily D wrote: > > > > Apparently we're not supposed to know that > > they exist yet - I don't > > > know why. > > > > > > They are available on the submission page if one want > > to see it. The > > > committee would just prefer they not be as visibly > > available until we > > > have confirmed the candidates meet the eligibility > > criteria and that > > > their candidate submission meet the election > > regulation. This is partly > > > to ensure fairness to all those who stand. Say a > > candidate submission is > > > too long (as has been the case a couple of time), it > > does take time for > > > them to correct it. In the mean time, if it were all > > widely visible, the > > > other candidates can/will complain about unfair > > advantages gained over > > > the exposure to the longer statement. > > > > > > KTC > > > > > > > > > Then you should remove submissions that are too long (that > > part at least is > > trivial to check), or take less time promoting the ones > > that are okay, or > > handle all submissions in private. However, hiding all of > > the ongoing > > submissions on a somewhat hard to find subpage is not a > > good answer in my > > opinion. Seeing who intends to stand for the elections and > > why has an > > important influence on recruiting others. > > > > Incidentally, my instinct was the same as WilyD's, and > > I added another link > > to the submissions page prior to seeing this discussion. > > > > I imagine keeping submissions private would hurt translation efforts. I > don't see the harm in having them somewhere hard to find so they are > available to be worked on before they are advertised as being available. > You missed my point. If they are going to be kept online, then I think they should be easy to find as this encourages further participation in the process. Incomplete or problematic submissions might be handled offline, but in my opinion, the completed submissions should be publicized on an ongoing basis to encourage others to think seriously about participating in the process before the close of the candidate submission window. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
Just to comment about the "hidden" submissions, they haven't been that well
protected - there has been a link in the sitenotice area on watchlists at en.wikipedia since the process was opened to submissions. Looks like its been taken down yesterday or today, but I don't think you can hide something by advertising it on the watchlist of the largest project's participants! To Florence's original point - I haven't even bothered to look at the petition, but I think folks interested in participating will get involved with the election when it appears the time to do so has come ;-) I hadn't seen it noted, but does the lack of a submission from you mean that you have decided not to stand for re-election? Nathan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
> Just to comment about the "hidden" submissions, they haven't been that
> well > protected - there has been a link in the sitenotice area on watchlists at > en.wikipedia since the process was opened to submissions. Looks like its > been taken down yesterday or today, but I don't think you can hide > something > by advertising it on the watchlist of the largest project's participants! > There was always (and is now) a link from the page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Translation Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Florence Devouard <[hidden email]>
wrote: > There are now three candidates. Does no one feel like asking them > questions beyond their 2000 words candidate statements ? I'd like to state, as one of the candidates, I am more than happy to accept and answer any questions posted to any of my talk pages, but preferably to my Wikinews talk page [1], as I check that most often. I have already been asked a few questions on my Wikinews talk page, and I am more than happy to answer any other questions you may have before the official grilling begins. ~ Paul Williams ~ [[User:Skenmy]] [1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User_talk:Skenmy _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
Hello,
The candidate submissions page is linked to: * prominently in a big red box at the top of every election page, * in the section about submitting candidates in the rules, * in the candidate instructions section on the candidates page, * and indirectly in an announcement to virtually every mailing list for the Wikimedia Foundation. It's not well-advertised to voters, but it's certainly not hidden. We could add a link to it from the navigation menu; we only decided not to so we could spare the translation updates for something that didn't seem to need any extra linking to. -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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Hello,
The candidate submissions page is linked to: * prominently in a big red box at the top of every election page, * in the section about submitting candidates in the rules, * in the candidate instructions section on the candidates page, * and indirectly in an announcement to virtually every mailing list for the Wikimedia Foundation. It's not well-advertised to voters, but it's certainly not hidden. We could add a link to it from the navigation menu; we only decided not to so we could spare the translation updates for something that didn't seem to need any extra linking to. -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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There is this question I've been wanting to ask, and I might as well
ask it pose it here to representatives of the election committee : I have seen on the meta RC a draft of an e-mail to eligible voters being drafted. Is there really an intention to mass mail this e-mail to (all eligible) voters (in all languages)? Harel On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hello, > > The candidate submissions page is linked to: > * prominently in a big red box at the top of every election page, > * in the section about submitting candidates in the rules, > * in the candidate instructions section on the candidates page, > * and indirectly in an announcement to virtually every mailing list for the > Wikimedia Foundation. > > It's not well-advertised to voters, but it's certainly not hidden. We could > add a link to it from the navigation menu; we only decided not to so we > could spare the translation updates for something that didn't seem to need > any extra linking to. > > -- > Yours cordially, > Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [hidden email] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
2008/5/14 Harel Cain <[hidden email]>:
> There is this question I've been wanting to ask, and I might as well > ask it pose it here to representatives of the election committee : I > have seen on the meta RC a draft of an e-mail to eligible voters being > drafted. Is there really an intention to mass mail this e-mail to (all > eligible) voters (in all languages)? Hopefully. E-mailing voters last year did wonders for turn-out (though it was patchy, due to translation, sadly). Yours, -- James D. Forrester [hidden email] | [hidden email] [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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Harel Cain <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I have seen on the meta RC a draft of an e-mail to eligible voters being > drafted. Is there really an intention to mass mail this e-mail to (all > eligible) voters (in all languages)? We're hoping to do that, but it depends on technical feasibility. We need to send emails directly to the registered email addresses (we can't realistically use [[Special:Emailuser]] for such a large-scale mailing without many problems), which requires either access to the email addresses or a system administrator willing to do the mailing for us. -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 21:39 +0300, Harel Cain wrote:
> There is this question I've been wanting to ask, and I might as well > ask it pose it here to representatives of the election committee : I > have seen on the meta RC a draft of an e-mail to eligible voters being > drafted. Is there really an intention to mass mail this e-mail to (all > eligible) voters (in all languages)? From our weekly report: "Two discussions are currently on hold while we examine technical feasibility: * sending an official notification email to all eligible voters;" Regards, KTC -- Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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And...of course...the translation issues.
Philippe -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jesse Plamondon-Willard" <[hidden email]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:49 PM To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pointing out to an oddity > Harel Cain <[hidden email]> wrote: >> I have seen on the meta RC a draft of an e-mail to eligible voters being >> drafted. Is there really an intention to mass mail this e-mail to (all >> eligible) voters (in all languages)? > > We're hoping to do that, but it depends on technical feasibility. We > need to send emails directly to the registered email addresses (we > can't realistically use [[Special:Emailuser]] for such a large-scale > mailing without many problems), which requires either access to the > email addresses or a system administrator willing to do the mailing > for us. > > -- > Yours cordially, > Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [hidden email] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Nathan <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I hadn't > seen it noted, but does the lack of a submission from you mean that you have > decided not to stand for re-election? > If I remember correctly, Ant decided long ago that she did not wish to run for re-election. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Casey Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Nathan <[hidden email]> wrote: >> I hadn't >> seen it noted, but does the lack of a submission from you mean that you have >> decided not to stand for re-election? >> > > If I remember correctly, Ant decided long ago that she did not wish to > run for re-election. According to one "IF" at the email about the next Board meetings, she is doubtful :) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote:
> Harel Cain <[hidden email]> wrote: >> I have seen on the meta RC a draft of an e-mail to eligible voters being >> drafted. Is there really an intention to mass mail this e-mail to (all >> eligible) voters (in all languages)? > > We're hoping to do that, but it depends on technical feasibility. This is (*frankly*) not good enough. The whole point of this excercise is that it was not technically *unfeasible* for a single actor on the english language Wikipedia to mass spam all the editors on that wikipedia (and with a generous offer to help - but not initiate - efforts on other languages). Yours Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[hidden email]> wrote:
> The whole point of this excercise > is that it was not technically *unfeasible* for a single actor on the > english language Wikipedia to mass spam all the editors on that > wikipedia (and with a generous offer to help - but not initiate - > efforts on other languages). > Certainly, but doing so on 700 or so more wikis using the Special:Emailuser interface has some complications. For example, it would result in many editors getting multiple notification emails if they have several eligible accounts with different names (which is common). For another, none of us have the time to do it by loading Special:Emailuser for every eligible user (unless you're offering to do so). The ideal solution is to send a single notification email to a list of the confirmed addresses belonging to eligible voters, filtered to remove duplicates. This is easy and efficient and resolves the above problems, but we need help from a system administrator to do so since we don't have access to those email addresses. We have a system administrator who will generate the list of eligible accounts, so getting the list of emails should be relatively easy (although we may not see them ourselves, depending on privacy considerations). Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[hidden email]> wrote: > This is (*frankly*) not good enough. This frankly is good enough. We're not obliged to even try; we are only volunteers serving in our free time, and sending email notification is purely an extra service beyond what we were asked to do. You're welcome to mention any suggestions, but I think starting a conversation like that is inappropriate. -- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
Hoi,
I do have a profile on probably all Wikipedias and Wiktionaries... I would be positively aghast if I am spammed everywhere. It was a bad idea at the time and imho it still is a bad idea to mail all people urging them to get an interest in the voting process for a new board member.. Thanks, GerardM On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard < [hidden email]> wrote: > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[hidden email]> wrote: > > The whole point of this excercise > > is that it was not technically *unfeasible* for a single actor on the > > english language Wikipedia to mass spam all the editors on that > > wikipedia (and with a generous offer to help - but not initiate - > > efforts on other languages). > > > > Certainly, but doing so on 700 or so more wikis using the > Special:Emailuser interface has some complications. For example, it > would result in many editors getting multiple notification emails if > they have several eligible accounts with different names (which is > common). For another, none of us have the time to do it by loading > Special:Emailuser for every eligible user (unless you're offering to > do so). > > The ideal solution is to send a single notification email to a list of > the confirmed addresses belonging to eligible voters, filtered to > remove duplicates. This is easy and efficient and resolves the above > problems, but we need help from a system administrator to do so since > we don't have access to those email addresses. We have a system > administrator who will generate the list of eligible accounts, so > getting the list of emails should be relatively easy (although we may > not see them ourselves, depending on privacy considerations). > > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[hidden email]> wrote: > > This is (*frankly*) not good enough. > > This frankly is good enough. We're not obliged to even try; we are > only volunteers serving in our free time, and sending email > notification is purely an extra service beyond what we were asked to > do. You're welcome to mention any suggestions, but I think starting a > conversation like that is inappropriate. > > -- > Yours cordially, > Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild) > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [hidden email] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[hidden email]>
wrote: > Hoi, > I do have a profile on probably all Wikipedias and Wiktionaries... I would > be positively aghast if I am spammed everywhere. It was a bad idea at the > time and imho it still is a bad idea to mail all people urging them to get > an interest in the voting process for a new board member.. > Thanks, > GerardM > I'm sure this problem is being considered. It's certainly possible to remove all duplicate e-mail addresses from the database, so that each e-mail address gets one message. -- [[User:Ral315]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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2008/5/14 Casey Brown <[hidden email]>:
> If I remember correctly, Ant decided long ago that she did not wish to > run for re-election. And if *I *remember correctly, Ant has always said she hadn't decided yet. ;-) -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [hidden email] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l |
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