Daniel-
Christopher Mahan wrote:
Question:
Is voting open only to editors or to readers-only as well?
I personally welcome input from all people, since it is in fact readers we are trying to reach with the logo, not just editors.
How exactly are we going to ensure each vote is legit then?
For the first stage, we simply assume that there's no significant level of cheating. This assumption may be wrong, but I doubt it. Keep in mind that the logo contest was advertised on the Main Pages of several Wikipedias. That means that it was one of the first things that many people saw of Wikipedia, and some of them probably thought: logo contest? That sounds interesting! And a minority of these people probably managed to get some votes in by figuring out how to edit the page.
I don't think that's a big deal, and the outcome so far pretty much reflects my personal feelings (most people did not like the hydra, unfortunately!), but because we have actual prizes in this contest, we'll take better care to prevent cheating in the second stage. I hope that's a satisfactory solution. I encourage you and others to filter out non- existent users from the voting results to see if the results differ significantly.
Regards,
Erik