phoebe ayers wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa <chiesa.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The licensing update poll has been tallied. >>>> >>>> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%) >>>> "No, I am opposed to this change" : 1829 (10.5%) >>>> "I do not have an opinion on this change" : 2391 (13.7%) >>>> >>>> Total ballots cast and certified: 17462 >>>> >>> I think this is a very good result, in particular the turnout looks great >>> to me! >>> Congratulations to all who have worked hard to get to it, and I hope >>> there will be a board resolution soon. >>> >> As was commented on elsewhere, the 2008 Board Election only had 3019 >> votes, which also suggests the turnout this time was remarkable. >> > Yes -- I think this is definitely the largest group of Wikimedians to > ever collectively express an opinion on anything! It'd be worth > figuring out why the vote was successful, if possible (long period of > voting? ubiquitous sitenotices? Important topic? Lots of outside > interest?) > Deliberately low threshold for eligibility.
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