[Election-Methods] USING Condorcet

[Markus Schulze]

Dear James Gilmour,

 > > in 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation used approval
 > > voting for the elections of its Board of Trustees.
 > > Here is the election result:
 > >
 > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Results/en
 > >
 > > No candidate was approved by a majority.
 >
 > Given that this was 3-member election, is that any
 > surprise?

Yes, I had expected that, in an M-seat election
under approval voting, most voters voted for at
least M candidates.

 > The subject line says this was a Condorcet election,
 > but the presentation of the results gives no indication
 > of that. Indeed, from the votes listed at
 > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Results/en
 > it looks like a multi-member first-past-the-post election
 > in which the top three take the three seats.

In 2007, the Wikimedia Foundation used approval voting:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/Results/en

In 2008, it used the Schulze method:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Results/en

Markus Schulze