oh wow, apologies for the stupid grammar mistakes, most importantly if you don't want another one of these in a week or so you should probably tell me No instead of "know". James
James Alexander james.alexan...@rochester.edu jameso...@gmail.com 100 gmail invites and no one to give them to :( let me know if you want one :) On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:20 PM, James Alexander <jameso...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm sure most of you have seen the Central Notice already (and hopefully > clicked through) but for those who haven't, or keep putting it off the > steward elections (and confirmations) are in full swing and will continue > until 23:59 (UTC) on February 28th 2010. The elections can be found > here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010> > . > > You can see manually updated statistics (similar to Pathoschilds last year > with examples of oppose reasons etc) at > Stewards/elections_2010/Statistics<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2010/Statistics>as > well as an automatic tool at > http://toolserver.org/~stewardbots/elections.php<http://toolserver.org/%7Estewardbots/elections.php>. > > > > As for a "brief" summary without looking at the link: > > The stated requirements for election are: at least 30 supporting votes and > an 80% support percentage (and of course approval of the Board of Directors. > > So far we have 8 candidates well into the passing zone (above 90%) : > Dferg (98.2%) > Wutsje (98.1%) > Jyothis (97.2%) > Mercy (97.2%) > J.delanoy (96.3%) > Sir Lestaty de Lioncourt (96%) > Avraham/Avi (94.6%) > > All 8 have minimal opposes but those that are opposing are generally doing > so with complaints that they are "career" wiki(p/m)edians and/or have to > many hats and power. There is also one person who has opposed all candidates > (because he does not like the open voting). > > We also 2 candidates currently between 80 and 85%: > Mentifisto at 84.1% > Annabel at 82.1% > > Mentifisto has gone down a bit recently with complaints about past > interactions and "setting himself up" for the position. Annabel has also > gone down more recently with most of the opposes complaining about a lack of > recent activity. > > There are three candidates between 70 and 80% (not currently passing): > Jamesofur 74.2% > EivindJ 74.1% > Billinghurst 73.8% > > All three candidates have been moving around the 70-78% range a fair bit > over the past couple days and both EivindJ and Jamesofur have a large amount > of Neutral votes mostly expressing similar opinions to the opposes. > > The biggest concerns for Jamesofur are for a lack of experience sprinkled > with some concerns about languages and a lack of edits. > Most of the opposition for EivindJ is a lack of activity and worry that > that would continue if selected as a steward. > Billinghurst started strongly but has fallen down amid concerns about > language skills and cross wiki activity. > > There is one candidate (Carkuni) who is currently at about 66.7% and has > support because of their Japanese language skills but has had significant > opposition for a lack of cross wiki activity. After Carkuni there is an > enormous drop off with 2 candidates at 30-35%, 2 in the 15-20% range and the > rest sub 10% (with 7 still at 0%). > > The current steward > confirmations<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stewards/confirm/2010>are > also ongoing and while I haven't been collecting complete stats about > that they have been getting a significant amount of comments and discussion. > So far there are at least 4-5 stewards where there is discussion about > whether they should be removed for inactivity (with some believing that > those who are still trusted should retain the tools and others wanting to > remove them if they aren't being used.) > > Unless everyone is already bored out of their mind and tells me know I'll > send out another update along these lines in a week or so to show how it is > progressing. While I'm obviously kind of biased in the matter I encourage > everyone who hasn't done so yet to consider researching the candidates and > expressing your opinions so that we can get as many opinions as possible for > everyone running. > > User:Jamesofur > > James Alexander > james.alexan...@rochester.edu > jameso...@gmail.com > 100 gmail invites and no one to give them to :( let me know if you want one > :) > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
