On 20 April 2011 17:59, Chris McKenna <cmcke...@sucs.org> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, David Gerard wrote: >> (Sam Korn was on the en:wp arbcom at 16 ...) > > Getting off topic (sorry), but I've just been looking up age limits and > things and in the most recent elections candidates were required to be at > least 18. I've not looked at previous elections, but I haven't been > able to find where that restriction came from.
We changed the ArbCom election rules in (I think?) 2007 to add in an age limit after we had created the CheckUser and OverSight tools and Arbitrators started to get much more significant levels of access to personal information. Before then it was only infrequently that personal information was disclosed to the Committee, and then generally voluntarily by the individuals in question, so it wasn't really an issue. J. -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
