[Wikipedia-l] New logo and further process

[Richard Grevers]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 09:20:44 +1200, Richard Grevers <lists at dramatic.co.nz> 
gave utterance to the following:

> On 26 Sep 2003 22:28:00 +0200, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> gave 
> utterance to the following:
>
>> Richard-
>>> On 26 Sep 2003 18:44:00 +0200, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> gave
>>> utterance to the following:
>>
>>>>
>>>> The total points are irrelevant. The logos were ranked by the average
>>>> score, it doesn't matter at all how many people voted on each logo
>>>> because
>>>> the score is the sum divided by the number of voters *for that 
>>>> variant*.
>>
>>> In that case, why isn't the number of votes for each logo identical - a
>>> requirement for average voting to work.
>>
>> No. Read the above again. There are no zero votes -- not voting does not
>> influence the average for that submission.
>>
> The calculation actually works in the opposite direction to tht 
> expected, but
> your assertion is false. 549/180 != 548/179 Not voting for an entry 
> increases its average.

Actually, I just found my vote amone the invalids. Wikipedia was down 
immediately after I voted so I wasn't able to check. For some reason ~~~~ 
didn't get decoded.


-- 
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried