I think an analysis of the past Wikimedia community election results, with a variety of different voting (and counting) methods, could show the best path toward achieving diversity in elected seats, without necesarilly resorting to quotas or separate contests.
Thanks, Pharos On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/30/2016 07:19 AM, Risker wrote: > > While we're at it...diversity remains a very serious problem for the > > Board. Does the community voting process want to try to take that on? > How > > would we do such a thing? > > I wildly speculate that it could be done through a voter pledge, > sketched at > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Linksvayer/Community-led_board_diversity_quotas > > Mike > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
