Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Larger suggestions/Improvement of private vote systems
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Improvement of private vote systems
- Problem: Chinese Wikipedia plans to use SecurePoll to carry out administrative rights (such as admin and checkuser) elections. There are a number of issues: First, as a workaround the content language must be changed to make interface translated so it would be a pain if other elections are ongoing. Furthermore, many works need to be done to carry out one election, where admin elections may be somewhat frequent.
- Proposed solution: # (most important) allow user to view votewiki in specific language (without changing content languages)
- allow polls to be created by a community user group without developer effort
- For example "bureaucrats" may (1) create new poll (2) strike out ineligible votes and (3) get a tally (thing to consider: to prevent misuse of #3 to get individual votes, either such action should be logged, or after a tally is generated, the poll is locked and may only be unlocked by a steward); stewards may strike votes and do checkusers on voters. (In this sentences it is assumes bureaucrat do not require NDA, but it is also OK to restrict poll management to a NDA group)
- (optional) let users to vote in their own wiki instead of votewiki (therefore votewiki will only be used for vote management; or even use another wiki, such as Meta, to manage votes and get rid of votewiki entirely. Frankly I do not know why we need a dedicated wiki for this)
- another solution is developing enother extension for private votes, though it is not much realistic
- Who would benefit:
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T108748 (part 1 only)
- Proposer: GZWDer (talk) 07:10, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- @GZWDer: This is a very large suggestion and includes some of the same ideas in Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Larger_suggestions/Make_SecurePoll_accessible_through_local_wikis. So, I am moving it to larger suggestions. Thanks for taking part in the survey. DWalden (WMF) (talk) 15:27, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- Support Silver hr (talk) 15:05, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Thingofme (talk) 14:10, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 19:26, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(Talk) 07:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Carlosguitar (talk) 23:28, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support ✍️ Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 19:13, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Jl sg (talk) 08:59, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support WormTT 13:51, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 14:05, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Qwerfjkl (talk) 14:55, 11 February 2022 (UTC)