https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23727
Summary: Extend SecurePoll to allow voters to enter optional
comments in some polls
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: SecurePoll
AssignedTo: tstarl...@wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: ft2.w...@gmail.com
In some polls, it is desirable and useful to allow participants to enter
comments with their vote. The poll configuration would indicate whether a
comment was ( for each vote | for the vote as a whole | not at all)
and whether comments could be seen ( by everyone after the election | by
election monitors only | by the candidates for their own votes )
Rationale: In some !votes it is desirable to consider the rationale for votes
as well as the pure vote count. A lot of discussions on-wiki work that way.
Switching to SecurePoll allows privacy and simplicity, but also removes that
option. So votes where the result is to some extent not a matter of pure
numbers suffer when moved to SecurePoll or cannot be run on that extension.
Quick examples from enwiki, which uses it internally: -
At a recent CU/OS election almost all candidates polled at under the "minimum
level", an unsatisfactory result. Not having any comments, it was impossible to
interpret what went on and therefore approaches to improve matters lacked any
information what happened.
At RFA the "pass level" is 70 - 80%. SecurePoll could handle RFAs in voting
terms, but as a crat needs to be able to assess reasons not just vote count the
extension would be inadequate to the task even if the community wished to use
it.
Comments would be disabled by default so elections and polls not requiring
them, would run without them. However other elections and polls could benefit
from a comment capability, and it could allow SecurePoll to be wider used.
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