[Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-22 Thread Erik Zachte
My best guess for currently active editors, if active is defined as "a registered user who has made more than five edits in the past month." is somewhere between 70,000 and 90,000. Feb 2009 roughly 50,000 editors on all Wikipedia's except English made 5 or more edits in that month. http://stat

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-22 Thread John at Darkstar
>From some voting in no.wp it seems like it takes some time for the real trends to kick in. If the voting is open for a to short period only the most eager users will vote and the result will be biased. John Brian skrev: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > >> phoebe ayers w

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-22 Thread John at Darkstar
No opinion means no opinion and should not be interpreted in any way, the group represents an uncertainty in the result. John Erik Moeller skrev: > 2009/5/20 Robert Rohde : >> The licensing update poll has been tallied. >> >> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" : 13242 (75.8%) >> "No, I am oppose

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Ray Saintonge
Robert Rohde wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde 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" : 182

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/22 Anthony : > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > >> 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 >> votin

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Anthony
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > 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?

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/22 Michael Snow : > Deliberately low threshold for eligibility. Do we have any statistics for what the turnout was among different demographics? In particular, do we know how many people voted that wouldn't have been eligible under the board election suffrage rules? If it isn't many then th

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Brian
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > phoebe ayers wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Robert Rohde > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa > wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde > wrote: > >>> > The licensing up

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Snow
phoebe ayers wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: >>> The licensing update poll has been tallied. "Yes, I am in favor of t

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote: >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: >>> The licensing update poll has been tallied. >>> >>> "Yes, I am in favor of this change" :  13242 (75.8%) >>> "No, I am opposed

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Anthony
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:12 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > 2009/5/22 Anthony > > > > > > > Which way do neutral votes count on RfA? > > > > 1) at which project (and please dont use enwiki abbreviations) The important one (and why not). > 2) does it matter? :) Just wondering. I see from htt

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Anthony
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:19 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > > > 2009/5/22 Anthony > >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:12 PM, effe iets anders < >> effeietsand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 2009/5/22 Anthony >>> >>> > >>> > >>> > Which way do neutral votes count on RfA? >>> > >>> >>> 1) at which project

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread effe iets anders
2009/5/22 Anthony > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:12 PM, effe iets anders < > effeietsand...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/5/22 Anthony >> >> > >> > >> > Which way do neutral votes count on RfA? >> > >> >> 1) at which project (and please dont use enwiki abbreviations) > > > The important one (and why

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread effe iets anders
2009/5/22 Anthony > > > Which way do neutral votes count on RfA? > 1) at which project (and please dont use enwiki abbreviations) 2) does it matter? :) eia ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Anthony
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2009/5/20 Robert Rohde : > > 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
>> I don't know how many people were eligible to vote in the license >> migration, but I believe there are currently about 150,000 active >> editors, if active is defined as "a registered user who has made more >> than five edits in the past month." Either Erik (Moeller or Zachte), or >> Frank, mig

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/5/20 Robert Rohde : > 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%) I do want to state for the record that the only reason a "

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/5/21 Robert Rohde : >> I believe there are around 600,000 qualified accounts (roughly half of >> which from enwiki). > > What is your source for that? > >> PS. Incidentally enwiki has 9.7 M registered accounts, but 70% of >> these have e

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/21 Robert Rohde : > I believe there are around 600,000 qualified accounts (roughly half of > which from enwiki). What is your source for that? > PS. Incidentally enwiki has 9.7 M registered accounts, but 70% of > these have exactly 0 edits and 90% have less than 5 edits. 90% with less tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Whitworth
at. --Andrew Whitworth > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Gray > > Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:47:05 > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result > > > 2009/5/21 Robert Rohde : > >>> I thi

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Sue Gardner
, might be able to confirm that. -Original Message- From: Andrew Gray Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:47:05 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result 2009/5/21 Robert Rohde : >> I think this is a very good result, in particular th

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/5/21 Andrew Gray : >> 2009/5/21 Robert Rohde : >> 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/21 Andrew Gray : > 2009/5/21 Robert Rohde : > >>> 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/5/21 Robert Rohde : >> 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 301

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Robert Rohde
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde 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 o

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Robert Rohde 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 cer

[Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-20 Thread Robert Rohde
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 Additional information and background is available