On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, 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.
You mileage may vary of course, but the Licensing Update vote had roughly 60%, 25% and 15% of votes cast during each of its three weeks. I'd hate to have ignored 40% by stopping after only 1 week. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l