On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:33:00AM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:
Because there were strong objections from one participant against using average (range) voting, which was already successfully used for our article count reform, for the final voting round on the logos, there is now a FPTP vote in progress on which voting method to use:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_logo_vote/ Vote_on_voting_method
And no, I am not particularly fond of that vote either, but I don't want to be accused of ruthlessly exploiting my position of incredible power as organizer of this world shattering contest to impose upon millions of Wikipedians the voting standard which I prefer, so please do take the opportunity to vote for a mind numbingly complex process that isn't used in any real world election (because people already can't distinguish between the names on their ballot and will certainly not understand the method used to determine a Condorcet winner) if that's what makes you happy. Note, however, that I will not take part in a solution with which I do not agree, so that all blame for the disaster that will inevitably ensue rests solely on the shoulders of the individuals responsible for causing it.
If you call voting on article count reform "successful" then I don't want to know what would you call "disastrous". And of course Debian, with more voters than Wikipedia, and much more serious elections than just a logo, isn't "real". Condorcet hasn't caused any trouble for Debian, and it assured fair elections without any tactical voting and less prefered outcomes being selected due to peculiarities of voting process.