--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@epost.de wrote:
OK. Proposal (probably number 10^10, but anyway):
- Have a special page (or another project?) for "consensus management" ;-)
- Logged-in people only (just for ease of reading; user names are free...)
- Anyone can create a topic that needs a consensus decision
- Anyone can add solution proposals, as a wikipedia (meta) link, like
"Difficult topic (proposal Magnus)"
- Everyone can add (and remove) himself to the"decision finding" on any topic
- Options on a topic are all proposals, "I don't like any of this", and "I don't know yet", the latter being the default
- Anyone can change his vote (sorry: opinion) on the topic any time, and give a reason for prefering that option
- For a topic, anyone can mark a checkbox "I think we should get this
done now"
- When some criteria are met (example: topic exists for 1 week, more than 5 people are signed up, more than 70% think it's done now), consensus is declared.
It has some voting elements (like actually deciding at one point), but also the "flow" of consensus making. And, we know where the participants stand at any moment.
I like this. It's plainly visible who voted how and why. I would hope though that the "reason for my vote" is not just a little textbox like the current edit summary, which many people would leave blank. Often, you would want to write a paragraph or two explaining your vote and trying to convince others, maybe to be revised later. So full wiki power would be nice there.
Axel
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