Can't we just have a schulze method article on simple Wikipedia?
;-)
Brian McNeil
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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Rosenthal
Sent: 01 June 2008 22:55
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Voting
It wasn't for me, and I was voting. That page just says "You can do X
to rank your candidates. We'll pick em with the Schulze method" But
never actually says WHAT the schulze method is. It just says go view
the Wikipedia page, which for me was completely incomprehensible.
Actually you know where I found the best description, was on the
Condorcet voting article. It explains it in pretty basic terms, but I
think they could be generalized even farther:
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Rank candidates in terms of preference. First choice is 1, second is
2, etc. Unranked candidates have a rank of 100, which is the lowest
possible rank. You may give multiple candidates the same rank if you
choose.
When you submit your ballot, each candidate's preference will be
compared with each other candidate's preference, to see which one
would win in a "one on one" race. The candidate that would win the
most "one on one races" is the winner. For example, If you ranked
candidates A,B,C,D in the order 1, 2, 3, 4, then A would be the
winner, because A beat out three other candidates (B,C,D). B would
beat 2 other candidates, C would beat 1, and D would not beat any.
In the event of a tie, where the system is unable to determine a
winner, the system will then drop the candidates who won by the
narrowest margins until there is a winner.
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Is that about correct?
-Dan
On Jun 1, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Dan Rosenthal
<swatjester(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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
It's a bit clearer when you are actually voting.
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Boardvote_intro>
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