[Foundation-l] Voting

[Casey Brown]

I like Brian's solution better... it doesn't involve calling up all
the translators and making them re-translate the interface and then
getting that propagated on the wiki. :P

/me goes to make Pathoschild or Philippe or someone do it

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> Can't we just have a schulze method article on simple Wikipedia?
>
> ;-)
>
>
> Brian McNeil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Rosenthal
> Sent: 01 June 2008 22:55
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> 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:
> -----
> 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.
> ------
>
> Is that about correct?
>
> -Dan
>
>

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