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• For those of you who haven't been following my vote counting at Wikipediocracy, here's the thumbnail sketch. The notification really rocked the vote count for the first three days of the election, with daily raw vote totals (not excluding revotes) of 561, 772, and 431 (compared to just under 600 total votes in last year's election). For the next 7 days there were roughly 100 votes a day cast, give or take, falling to about 65 a day for 3 days and finishing with 97. Total raw votes I have as 2,855 with a total of about 2,673 after revotes are excluded. The Scrutineers will toss another group of votes for not meeting this criterion or that...

More democracy is good. As there are about 3,300 "very active editors" in any given month, chances are we are tapping this group very hard in this election, which is a good thing. We might want to consider a higher number of total edits to "vest" editors as voters next year, say a bar of 500 edits, but that's a matter for another day. Good luck to the candidates. Carrite (talk) 05:46, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Carrite Very insightful - thanks for sharing. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:10, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Carrite, Please provide a link to your "vote counting at Wikipediocracy." Here is my thought about eligibility criteria. 4nn1l2 (talk) 18:08, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

FYI, I updated the histogram after the close of voting; this one includes all 2674 voters in the 2015 distribution. Opabinia regalis (talk) 02:57, 8 December 2015 (UTC)