[ERR5RS] Wiki voting mechanisms

[Harold Ancell]

At 12:24 PM 9/13/2007, Lynn Winebarger wrote:
>On 9/13/07, Harold Ancell <hga at ancell-ent.com> wrote:
>> A note on technology and time frames:
>>
>> Let's not worry about the technology, especially since Will quite properly
>> wants "Action This Day" (results in weeks, not years).  With the wiki and
>> it's history feature (note that I make backups of it), before we get any
>> further technology in place we can just do manual voting and counting.
>>
>     I didn't know if there was something ready-made for the task.  If
>not, then perhaps we should just make an "ERR5RS:Polling Place" page.
>The protocol would be one section per poll, the statement of the issue
>at the top of the section, and votes recorded at one indent below
>that.  The votes would be yea/nay/mu followed by the voter's name,
>possibly followed by explanation or pointer to an explanation,
>depending on the length.

Sounds like a plan; as I remember, David said there's a way
to freeze a page, which we'd want after all was said and done
(for that, add a "Summary of Results" section at a logical
location near the top).

>    I'd prefer to only count votes from logged-in accounts.

While for various reasons (including the fact that staying logged
in is reported to not be reliable), I don't want to limit editing
to only logged-in people, I think a minimal hurdle of making an
account and being logged in is not to much to ask from the polity.

Voting is sufficiently consequential that the above is a bare
minimum of effort that should be put into it.

                                        - Harold