[Foundation-l] Board vote, need a bit of help

[Philippe Beaudette]

Harel appropriately answers your questions, Delphine.  The only thing that I 
would clarify is that the system does, indeed, rank "unranked" candidates 
with a 100 - they are assumed to be the least favored.

To be clear: you may rank as many candidates as you want with a 1, whether 
that's three candidates or one candidate.  Your rankings do not need to be 
numerically ordered (you don't need to do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... you can do 1, 
15, 27, 32, and unranked, if you want).

Philippe

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From: "Harel Cain" <harel.cain at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:49 AM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board vote, need a bit of help

> Hi Delphine,
>
> Your questions make sense and I hope my answers will be of help:
>
> Yes, you can rank any number of candidates any way you like. What
> matters is the '''relative order''' of the numbers you assign to the
> candidates, as the Schulze method only cares about relative rank. The
> numbers are only a way for you to express this relative order of
> ranking. For example, giving the candidate you dislike the most 50 or
> 173 does not matter, as long as you assign better (smaller) grades to
> the others.
> Unranked candidates are implicitly assumed to be less favored than all
> the ranked ones, and the system assigns them the rank 100 (or was it
> 99?).
>
> Harel
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Well, I tried, I really did. I read the wikipedia entries. In English
>> *and* in French. But I still don't understand the Schulze method. I
>> mean, I kind of understand that it's good (TM) and that it probably
>> will end up choosing the best person for the position. But I don't
>> understand the implications of what I vote and how I vote for some
>> things.
>>
>> I am hoping that someone can make this clearer to me.
>>
>> So here are my questions:
>>
>> The explanation says (and I quote): "You may give the same preference
>> to more than one candidate and may keep candidates unranked. It is
>> presumed that you prefer all ranked candidates to all not ranked
>> candidates and that you are indifferent between all not ranked
>> candidates."
>>
>> #Question 1
>> Does "you may give the same preference to more than one candidate"
>> mean that I can rank three candidates with rank 1, three with rank 2 ,
>> one with rank 3 and five with rank 4 (and so forth)?
>>
>> #Question 2
>> Can I actually rank one candidate with rank 1, three candidates with
>> rank 2 and 5 candidates with rank 15? That is, does the rank  (1, 2, 3
>> etc.) actually matter in the overall results, or is rank always
>> relative? (ie. If I rank 2 people with rank 1 and 10 with rank 15, the
>> 10 will be counted as being my second choice, not as being "of rank
>> 15")
>>
>> #Question 3
>> What's the best way to go about making sure that a candidate is ranked
>> as low as possible? Rank them at the lowest possible rank (this will
>> of course depend on answers to question 2)? Or not rank them at all?
>>
>> I am not sure that my questions are clear. I hope so :-)
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Delphine
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