[Foundation-l] Voting

[Brian McNeil]

I'd certainly like to see the documentation on voting improved. It is
perfectly possible to put your first choice candidate as 1 and if there are
three or four other people you'd prefer over the rest of the pack you can
put in a 5 or 6 for them. You are not obliged to use 1, 2, 3, etc. For those
you ignore a 100 is in your signed score.

Can I put in a 200 for someone I *really* don't want to see elected? [No,
not you Dan ;)].


Brian McNeil

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Rosenthal
Sent: 01 June 2008 22:23
To: effeietsanders at gmail.com; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Voting

As an aside (disclosure: I too am a candidate), there is terrible  
explanation of the voting procedure on the voting page. It just says  
"use the schulze method" and links to the Wikipedia article on the  
topic, which is incomprehensibly technical, and describes all sorts of  
code features and matrices and stuff, and never once really explains  
what kind of voting system it is. I realize that's more of a criticism  
of the Wikipedia article than of the voting system, but the voting  
page doesn't really explain the operation of the system. I think it  
ought to do so.

-Dan
On Jun 1, 2008, at 11:26 AM, effe iets anders wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I hear a lot of problems with the voting. First of all, i had
> apperently to hear it in the pub, and it is not spread through other
> channels? (but this might come later?)
>
> Second, I cant log in anyhow because of security certificates which
> are invalid, and i cant get around... (especially people who are even
> less technically advanced will have problems with that, which gives
> systemic bias)
>
> third, I hear many nlwiki people complaining that they are denied
> access, because of too little edits, even though they fit the rules
> easily...
>
> BR< Lodewijk
>
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