User blog comment:Ale-Alejandro/"We'll Vote On It In Council" - My Opinion/@comment-1944824-20110410173649

The reason we vote on things in council is because council consists of sixteen easy-to-find users who worked hard to get in, and know a lot about this wiki and its users. When a decision is passed, it's generally, "Okay, it's a 6-8 Can someone tell ____ and ____ to vote when they get online? Thanks!" and most of us vote based on how we see users reacting to ideas.

IMO it's a lot more logical than getting about 5000 users to vote. How do we decide? Once more than 2500 vote "yes"/"no" the vote is over?

I agree with WM that we should use wiki-wide votes, but the numbers will be ridiculous no matter how it's conducted. I tried to promote the idea of a wiki-vote to decide on new admins, but the idea was shot down, so I sort of understand what you mean there.