User:Mackensen/RfA is a vote

This proposal addresses the perennial question of whether adminship is (as many aver) or is not (as policy states) a vote by emphatically declaring that it is a vote and describing a mechanism for guaranteeing a fair, equitable, and representative vote.

Interests
Wikipedia has numerous different "interests:" content editors, vandal-fighters, administrators, functionaries, wiki-gnomes, IRC fairies, and mailing list correspondents.

The Electorate
Wikipedia shall have 460 electors, each of whom may exercise one or more votes based on a set of electoral criteria. The electors shall be drawn from Wikipedia's interests thusly:

Content editors (220)

 * 140 seats shall go to the 100 editors who of the date of compiling the register have by a mutually-agreed mechanism the most edits in the main namespace, provided that they have at least 100 edits in the project namespace and 10 each in at least two other namespaces.
 * 80 seats shall be divided between the 20 WikiProjects or other registered corporate interests who have the most edits and associated articles. Individual users may "compound" their edits with an associated WikiProject by presenting a statement of intent to the Electoral Board prior to the compiling of the register. The selection of electors by an individual WikiProject may be left to an agreed-upon method within that project, provided that its validity is certified by the Electoral Board.

Administrators (120)

 * 10 seats shall go to administrators who have shown the greatest diligence in policing OTRS requests.
 * 80 seats shall go to the administrators not in the first group with the highest aggregate numbers of administrative actions at the date of compilation.
 * 20 seats shall go to administrators not in the first two groups who enjoy the longest active and unbroken tenure as an administrator.
 * 10 seats shall go to administrators not in the first three groups who have deleted the most images.

Vandal fighters (60)

 * 25 seats shall go to those editors with the highest frequency of reporting vandalism at WP:AIV that results in a block.
 * 35 seats shall go to those editors with the highest number of rollback edits in the previous electoral period.

Wiki-gnomes (20)

 * 15 seats shall go to the editors with the highest ratio of mainspace edits to edits in all other namespaces, provided the each has at least three thousand edits.
 * 4 seats shall be in the gift of WikiProject stub-sorting.
 * 1 seat shall go to the present primary developer of the AutoWikiBrowser.

Functionaries (16)

 * All seats shall be divided up in a matter suitable to them between all users who hold one or more of the following permissions: bureaucrat, boardvote, checkuser, or oversight.

IRC fairies (14)

 * 2 seats shall be in the gift of Wikipedia's primary freenode contact or designated successor.
 * 4 seats shall selected from all current #wikipedia channel operators.
 * 8 seats shall go to those users who, in the judgement of the six electors above, have contributed the most to intra-wiki communication via IRC.

The mailing list (10)

 * 7 seats shall go to the users who have been most prolific on the English Wikipedia mailing list in the previous electoral period.
 * 3 seats shall be in the gift of the mailing list moderators.

Plural voting
Any elector is permitted up to ten votes, based on the following rules:
 * 1 vote for every ten thousand edits; no elector may have less than one or more than five.
 * 1 vote if an elector has over a thousand edits in at least four different namespaces.
 * 1 vote if the elector is a current or former member of the Arbitration Committee.
 * 1 vote for every featured article for which the elector is considered the primary author; no elector may have more than 5.

An elector may case all or none of his votes in each RfA.

Compounding
The mechanism for compounding determines which WikiProjects may select electors. After this selection an elector's votes are subject to the same restrictions as individually-selected electors. Editors may not compound their edits at this stage.

The Electoral Board
The Electoral Board shall compile a voting register every electoral period. It shall have the authority to certify the validity of corporate elections and is the final court of appeal for all voting irregularities, real and alleged.

The Electoral Board shall comprise sixteen members, chosen in the following manner:
 * 6 shall be selected by the Arbitration Committee.
 * 6 shall be elected by the community.
 * 4 shall be bureaucrats, acting in an advisory capacity.

The Boundary Commission
The Boundary Commission shall regulate the apportionment of seats on Wikipedia. It shall have the authority to redraw the boundaries once every six months. It may not change the apportionment of any interest by more than 15% without submitting the plan to a referendum.

The Boundary Commission shall comprise ten commissioners, chosen in the following manner:
 * 4 shall be drawn from editors of at least three year's standing.
 * 4 shall be elected by the community.
 * 2 shall be selected by the Arbitration Committee.

The Electoral Period
The Electoral Period shall be defined as a period of two months.