Jimmy Wales wrote:
Oh, I think publishing the names as we go is a very good thing. I think possible influences are good. If people I respect are voting differently from me, it may give me pause. If people I don't respect are voting the same as me, it may give me pause.
The programmer inside me cries "deadlock";) You wait until some/all of the respected and some/all of the others made their vote, to know what you will vote? If this will be done by everyone, voting won't work.
I think time for influences is in the discussion before the voting and not during voting. But this topic isn't realy important in case of wikipedia desissions.
For example: one important thing (IMHO) for Wikipedia is the speed of a database request. In the voting and in the discussion about the Article count nobody calculated the complexity of some of the options. I think some of the admins will refuse methods for this count which will need a lot of performance. And I would respect such a decision.
Smurf