[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Philippe Beaudette philippe at wikimedia.org
Sun Sep 4 18:56:12 UTC 2011


On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 03:08:54PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On German language Wikipedia, there is a poll of its own.
> >
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%C3%B6nlicher_Bildfilter
> >
>
> Assuming that the .de community is similar to the wikimedia community at
> large, I think that the difference in results can largely be
> explained directly by the design of the !referendum.
>
> The emerging discrepancies between the german vote and the
> !referendum, together with the known deficiencies in the !referendum
> design warrant some -slight- cause for concern, perhaps.
>
> I'd like to run some sort of audit to allay potential concerns.
> Any ideas as to practicability and/or execution?
>
> sincerely,
>        Kim Bruning
>
>
>
What type of audit?  If you're speaking of data security/integrity, that's
handled by SPI and there could be no tampering.  If you're speaking of
design, etc, there's room for a conversation.  :)  ~~~~


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