--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Steve-
It is a mess, though
In which respect? I agree that voting using the wiki is always somewhat ugly. When I first proposed adding voting support to the software I was met with wide disapproval for suggesting that voting should be used at all for decision making. Through months of lobbying I and others have managed to erode that opposition somewhat so I hope that eventually voting boxes will just be another tag in the wiki syntax.
Yeah, its about time -- the purists lose me right around the area of obvious necessity (just like puritans are wacked about birth control) and so some added functionality is welcome.
You are very welcome to submit changes to the MediaWiki software to support voting, an external CGI-based solution would be an ugly hack with many of the same problems as the current wiki-based voting.
Il consider asking for CVS access. I may soon be too occupied in other aspects of my life to do this. But I think im ready to tinker ;-)
Sure, if you do the sifting of thousands of votes with no software support.
Well, some of this ought to be done -- if someone compiles a raw ip list from the recent changes list, and dishes it out to the other developers - Jimbo included, the five of you can do an easy tool for common/redundant ips. I dont know the best *nix software for this, since I dont run a nix yet.
We have them (except for the submission deadline, but we accepted all logos that were still submitted on the same day).
Im glad you were flexible and reasonable with that, and with other things.
*votes on the deadlines - not just a day or twos discussion.
You can vote on virtually every aspect of the contest -- logo format, number of pixels, number of colors, Wikipedia text or not, etc.
Yeah, but all of that is secondary to the issue of when. (Where is not an issue). Consensus is fine, and if somelike like you doesnt get ambitious with it and take the lead, it might never get done. 'Herding cats' is the applicable metaphor on wiki, (if your goal is control anyway) I think youve done a supremely fine job, and knowing this, you should take Antheres critiques with a grain of salt -- and consider them sincere and potentially helpful. Her English not so good, is why it comes off a little sticky ;-)
And no matter what deadline you set, you can be sure that Anthere will complain about it.
Haha. Now... lets be civil.
Seriously, -S-
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