While the total number of eligible voters is reliable (and also made
general available), the breakdown of numbers by project is much less
reliable, of the reason you bring up. And for the small, and even more
the very small projects, the numbers could even be said to be unreliable.
For us in the Election Committee, this breakdown per project, even with
non-perfect figures, has been of enormous help. One use is when we
verify the result - in order to understand inconsistencies in figures
(and here we talk of a factor 2-3 in differences not in decimal points).
Also to understand the general picture - The election to Board attracted
voters evenly from all project all over the world, while the election of
members to FDC got a much lower participation rate from most medium and
small project compared with participation rate from some of the biggest
(note also the difference in total votes 5200+ vs 1100).
As a number-crunching nerd myself I would love all my fellows with this
interest to also be able to study the detailed numbers. But in order to
keep secrecy of who voted, the figures for small project can not be
made general available. And to work with the figures from the bigger and
medium projects, probably a more qualified analysis of the quality of
the numbers used would be needed, just along the reasoning you bring up.
I do hope, though, that some of these numbers will be made available in
the election post-mortem work
Anders
Yaroslav M. Blanter skrev den 2015-06-03 11:49:
On 2015-06-01 11:17, Anders Wennersten wrote:
Just a clarification on numbers
In James (internal) table enwps share of total number of eligible
votes is 35,4%
Participation rate state from enwp was 8,26% against mean for all
9,5%. If enwp is excluded the participation rate for all of the rest
stands at 10,2%
Enwp users also include users from non-en countries, and user from en
countries will also be found on other wikis like Commons (3,5% of
total eligible voters, with a turnout similar to enwp) but this does
not change the bottom line, participation rate from enwp has been
lower then from the rest of the communities (de, fr, it, ru, es, pl
rates being a little above mean of rest, zh and pt a little below and
ja much below)
Anders
Hi Anders,
are there significant intersections between the project which can
distort statistics? I believe I am eligible on at least 10 projects,
and on a couple of them I might be the only eligible voter (making for
them 100% participation), but my feeling is that this is rather an
exception. Is let us say a high participation rate from it.wp
significally affected by users who are also active on en.wp and are
eligible there as well?
Cheers
Yaroslav
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