Hoi, When it is agreed that people can vote based on their mail contributions, the one thing necessary is connecting people to their WMF user. When this information is available on a user, the global user may be made known as a voter. In my opinion you do not want to involve people when there is no need. Automate what can be automated and through a link to a user it can be automated.
While I agree that this makes sense, I doubt very much that many people will have a vote as a result of this and even more, I doubt people will cast their vote because they can in this way. Thanks, GerardM 2009/7/31 John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Gerard > Meijssen<gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hoi, > > When we have consensus on that one, someone has to count them.. So what > > piority do we give it and, what do we bumb down the list ? Alternatively > who > > is volunteering to write the necessary software anyway and how are we > going > > to get it operational ?? > > I have been developing a python library that does the mailing list > analysis, grouping together posts from the same user that were sent > with different email addresses, etc. and doing stats. > > Those stats can be published monthly onto meta. > > I think the easiest method of converting this into suffrage is to have > a special list where people can be added when they have been granted > suffrage for extra-ordinary reasons. At election time we inform > people who dont qualify via normal means to check the various > extra-ordinary suffrage criteria, such as their mail stats, and notify > the election committee if they qualify. The election committee would > then add the person to the special list. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l