Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-29433180-20160821052702/@comment-29433180-20160823021145

LordWeirdo wrote: Alemas2005 wrote: Um, yes, this vote would make perfect sense...

...if only we could actually know how big the active community is.

Using Special:ListUsers, even after deselecting all the irrelevant groups, we get over 900 records, including dupes and blocked users. While I would be voting A), I'll hold back until we can sort this out. We'd need a census.

While yes, we usually have around 40 active members at any one time, it often happens that inactive users pop back in for a vote. It's definitely not as straightforward as you think. My concerns exactly with this vote. Ironically, in attempting to bypass a bureaucratic hiccup, we find ourselves looking at a bureaucratic mess. I look to Roddy's comment. If it's that awful, all we need is a blog with a poll on it with one option: "I am active here." Users are directed there and the poll's results are the official number of active people on the wiki.