I'm certainly not empowered to say yes or no to that on my own, but I'll carry it back to the committee and see what the feeling there is. :-)
Philippe ___________________ philippe On May 27, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) wrote: > Would a 10-day period (including two weekends) be possible? > > Newyorkbrad > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:16 PM, philippe <philippe.w...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Ah, OK, sorry for my misunderstanding of the question. >> >> Indeed, we had that same discussion amongst the committee. In the >> end, the vote timing is driven by Wikimania and the need to purchase >> tickets for the new trustees-designate to get there (at a reasonable >> price, which usually requires a 14 day advance purchase), while also >> taking the time to get the translations done as completely as >> possible. >> >> In addition, it was our feeling that last year that the first week >> had >> - by far - the vast majority of the votes cast with relatively little >> movement afterwards. >> >> >> >> >> ___________________ >> philippe >> >> On May 27, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Angela wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:54 AM, philippe <philippe.w...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> The reason not to have it in two weeks is that it generally takes >>>> longer than that to effectively translate both the policy pages and >>>> the candidate statements to allow as many people to participate >>>> in as >>>> many languages as possible. Two weeks would almost guarantee a >>>> primarily english-centric election. In the past we've had no >>>> problem >>>> getting the votes counted/confirmed in two days; we did it last >>>> year. >>> >>> I believe the suggestion is to have the vote lasting for 2 weeks, >>> not >>> starting in 2 weeks from now. >>> >>> Voting last for 3 weeks in past elections. >>> >>> Angela >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
