Anyone else gets excited about participation metrics during voting periods? I confess I do! Any commentary here is personal and casual, stats chit-chat. If you also like metrics, join the conversation!
Ok, so (again based on unofficial data), after two days of vote we seem to have 40 more votes than last year’s election, which had the highest turnaround at the time. The question is, will this be the beginning of a path to a new record of participation, or is this just a matter of having more people voting quickly in the first days? We’ll see…
The first of two mass mailings has been sent in the past hours, and now there are more than 2000 votes. Let’s see how the number of votes compare to the 2021 election next Monday, after the dust of this mass mailing settles.
By then it should be also possible to see which wikis have the lowest relative participation, which might be useful for focused promotion on those communities.
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Here we can see some projects that are currently underrepresented in this election.
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The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:
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Compared to a few days ago (see above) the number of votes has increased, but the % of votes compared with the rest has slightly decreased.
EDIT: @Omotecho HOWEVER, last year after 8 days of voting, Wikipedia in Japanese had 33 votes and now you have 65. This is a big improvement! On the other hand, the curve of votes last year was very interesting, and after an impressive final sprint the number of votes was 175 in the end. How will this compare with the results this year? (Gosh, why is it that Japanese stories are always interesting until the last minute?)
Hahaha, you hit the bull’s eye, yes, we have a saying “you pull up your heavy bottom” or “raise the mikoshi”; {{lang|ja|重い腰をあげる}} aka {{lang|ja|御輿をあげる}} in old saying, finally stand up and do what you feel obliged to. Mikoshi is a portable shrine for a festival, and not all people are allowed to join the pack of carriers, the selected ones.
Then why an avalanche of voters come running to cast theirs, at the last minute (?_?)
I am not sure if it applies here as long as election matters. Maybe the sensitivity against social pressure is so high tuned in our society-in-general, which is then mirrored to onwiki activities.
Added coment here on jawp/VillagePump , summed up how I used Election Compass, Videos are now with captions in ja and you change settings.
Oops, seems that I should not change archived thread? Then where should I move my post to, on VillagePump/ja? Hint me please, thank you.
We have reached another important milestone!
More than 4,000 members of Wikimedia’s diverse communities have voted by Thursday evening (UTC) in the 2022 Board of Trustees election.
This is the final sprint! 32 hours left. Will more people vote this year than in 2021? You can follow the hourly stats at https://vote-tracker.toolforge.org/
Thank you to all who participated in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election! Voting closed September 6 at 23:59. The official data, including the two most voted candidates, will be announced on or after September 21st. Please note these will be preliminary results. The official announcement of the new trustees will happen later, once the candidates have been approved and appointed by the Board.
5,955 community members from 194 wiki projects have voted. This makes 8.8% global participation. In 2021, 6,946 people from 216 wiki projects cast their vote. A full analysis is planned to be published when the results are announced. In the meantime, you can check the data produced during the election.
Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the Board of Trustees election were translated into about 40 languages thanks to election volunteers and community members.
During the election process, statistical information were be posted on the Meta page. The Movement Strategy and Governance team has shared additional statistics after the voting period concluded.
Among the available stats, there are:
Total voter number compared to 2015, 2017 and 2021 elections;
Votes by period compared to 2015, 2017 and 2021 elections;
Running difference in the number of votes between the 2022 and 2021 elections.
In this article, you can find extended eligibility statistics for the 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period. This data set differentiates between three different categories of voters:
“home wiki voters”: voters whose home wiki value is set to this project
“+most edited voters”: additional voters where this project was their most edited project as of 5 July 2022
“+qualifying voters”: additional voters who had 20 edits at this project between 5 January 2022 and 5 July 2022
The data has been sourced and prepared by the Movement Strategy and Governance team.
I confess I do! Any commentary here is personal and casual, stats chit-chat. If you also like metrics, join the conversation!
