On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 2 February 2012 00:06, Cristian Consonni <kikkocrist...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Anyway, from the results of the least chapter and community seats > > election my opinion is that the former are *waaaayyy* more > > en.wiki-centered than the first. > > Really? How do you work that out? The current occupants of the chapter > seats are one English Wikipedian and one German Wikipedians (50% > en.wiki), the community seats are two English Wikipedians and one > German/Chinese Wikipedian (67% en.wiki). (Judging by their biographies > at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees ) > > He was talking about the election, not necessarily the result. But in any case, that is still a 33% difference. I think the community elections are sometimes perceived as en.wikipedia centric, even if the actual voter turnout could suggest otherwise. (I haven't been able to find voter statistics per project, so the perception might actually be correct even if the people who win are at least partially international.) Anyhow, the nice chart at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_of_Trustees does suggest that editors of the English Wikipedia or people of an Anglo-Saxon background tend to occupy around half of the elected seats at any time; while the majority of the appointed seats seem to be held by people who fit this category. At least this is a general perception, of course many of them edit other projects, live in different countries and speak languages, but you can't help if people have a perception that the chapter selected seats might not be as en.wiki centric (although, there is a good chance that we simply continue the pattern of choosing an English and a non-English native speaker trustee). Best regards, Bence _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l