On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 01:05 +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
The problem you will have is hosting it on a MediaWiki installation somewhere, and ensuring those and only those you want to be able to vote is able to vote, either each with local accounts on said MediaWiki installation, or get WMF's dev to redirect anyone going to *.wiki*edia.org/wiki/BoardVote to this wiki so the software can query WMF's wiki for account information.
We could ask the devs to create a wiki for us (uk.wikimedia.org) and run it on that. We're not too picky about who gets to vote (if you're interested enough to vote, you're welcome to), so that's not a problem.
Just a general note (for anyone who think IP address is private information *rolleyes*) if one is using BoardVote that the election official will get to see the browser user agent string and the IP address of those who's voted.
KTC