One feature of our voting system is that some editors will have more than one account that qualifies them for a vote. If the emails and notifications that were encouraging people to vote included an option along the lines of "this is a secondary account, I have already voted using my main account" then we might get a better idea as to what the real turnout was among the people in the community as opposed to among the qualifying accounts. These days I only have one account that qualifies for a vote, eleven years ago I might legitimately have had three.
It would also be useful to have an option for "not voting as this election has not been translated into any language I understand". That assumes of course that the notification emails had been translated and sent out in every language, or at least to be fair every language where one of the final candidates is active. I suspect it is currently too much of an overhead to translate the election into over 300 languages, or even to promote the election in over 300 languages. But it would be good to get an idea as to which languages most need a translation in order to take part. We also need to be conscious that promoting the vote more frequently in some languages than others could be discriminatory, especially where that involves a language that a candidate is active in. Regards WSC > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:16:50 +0100 > From: Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Final hours: 2025 Board of Trustees Voting > Period to close > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <CAHRTtW_+zFU3usaS6CZAwx2ta2DtOvywu+U= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="0000000000007862b20641e75d82" > > Hi Risker and all, > > It is true that the very controversy may have increased awareness of the > vote (we shouldn't call it an "election" any more). This might have led > some to vote who otherwise wouldn't have. > > In addition, some users reported receiving more emails for this vote than > previous ones, including some direct emails from Meta-Wiki. > > These Meta-Wiki mails appear to have been planned long ago, rather than as > a response to the boycott calls: > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392232 (hat tip to Tilman/HaeB) > > There were also "Your vote is missing" emails from the Elections Committee > (also a misnomer). I believe this year is the first time that specific > messaging has been used. > > Altogether I myself got five "official" emails about this year's vote, vs. > two last year. > > This should be borne in mind. If there was indeed a more intense email > campaign designed to encourage participation this year, then the > participation rates may not be statistically comparable. > > Andreas >
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