To echo Risker, I'd encourage the use of more advanced tools by voters. On meta, I've pointed to the two tools that hopefully help:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections#Tools_for_examining_candidates

The links point to:

- A table of all the factual information supplied by the candidates in a wiki table, in which each column is sortable.

- A browsable interface to all the compass questions and responses, providing much better candidate comparisons. An issue Adam brought up is that there may not be a good understanding of the variance in the answers of candidates. For that reason, this tool is valuable in showing that the following questions had the most diverse responses and are likely to be the most useful for voters to examine directly.

6 - limit the role of WMF to "keep the servers running"

11 - democratic governance structure

20 - new forms of knowledge representation

24 - regional elections

27 - "counter-voice"

45 - "percentage of movement money" to be allocated

92 - ratification from all

I'd encourage voters to experiment with these tools.

-Andrew

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 9:39 AM Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:

Adam, you may find the tool discussed here to be helpful. It is created by one of the candidates, is based on the information submitted by candidates for the election compass, and is quite visual. (Disclosure: I am also a candidate.)

I'd also suggest that the written answers illustrate the differences between candidates a little more specifically than the general five-point compass. Perhaps, also, part of the reason that there's some consensus amongst candidates (at least on the surface) is that they could be representative of a pretty broad consensus throughout the global community on some points.

Risker/Anne

On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 09:26, Adam Wight <adam.m.wight@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 12:02 PM Kaarel Vaidla <kvaidla@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Additionally, we are piloting a so-called “Election Compass” for this election. Click yourself through the tool and respond to the 19 statements, and you will see which candidate is closest to you!

Hi, thank you for facilitating this process and for sharing the interesting "election compass" experiment. After trying the tool, I urge you to take it offline. Its algorithm is opaque, and in my opinion very unlikely to give a helpful result. It's explicitly meant to influence how we vote, but without us having done any validation of what it's actually calculating. If you want to test this tool, you could position it as an "exit poll", to compare the tool's results with how each person actually voted, or you could turn off the "alignment" scoring.

My suspicions started with the fact that I answered "strongly support" or "support" to almost every question, which suggests that the axes were not chosen in a way that differentiates between the candidates. Instead, it seems like it's going to amplify tiny differences like "strongly" vs "support"—is this true?

Was the tool analyzed with this sort of concern in mind? Are there reasons to believe that the "alignment" scores are meaningful in our scenario?

Kind regards,
Adam Wight
[[mw:User:Adamw]]
Writing in my volunteer capacity.
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