[EM] Wikiversity and voting systems, including delegable proxy

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

Once again, I'd like to invite all writers interested in voting 
systems to create or help create educational "resources" on 
http://en.wikiversity.org covering voting systems. While Wikiversity 
uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia, original research is 
allowed on Wikiversity, and it is possible to create pages there that 
are basically essays, personal opinions, as part of an overall 
resource (which, in theory, must still be "neutral," from the overall 
WikiMedia Foundation neutrality policy). The practical result is that 
Wikiversity resources may be far deeper and are not limited to what 
is found in Wikipedia "Reliable source," which exclude much of the 
developed knowledge on voting systems of the past two decades.

I'm a "custodian" (sysop) on Wikiversity, even though I'm banned on 
Wikipedia. I can assist any Wikiversity user in interfacing with and 
finding consensus with the rest of the Wikiversity community (which 
includes users who pop in from Wikipedia, often with "Wikipedian" 
habits). Wikiversity is still a wiki, and can still have some of the 
problems that show so strongly on Wikipedia, but there are, on WV, 
more creative possibilities for resolving disputes, that allow much 
deeper "educational resources" to be developed.

In particular, just about anything on electowiki (the Election 
Methods wiki) could be appropriate for Wikiversity. I believe I can 
assist in importing articles from there, assuming that permissions, 
etc., are proper. It is then theoretically possible that Wikiversity 
pages can be linked from Wikipedia articles, there is a template for 
doing that on Wikipedia; Wikiversity is a place where topics can be 
discussed (like any academic environment); discussion of topics is 
generally restricted on Wikipedia, supposedly discussion on article 
Talk pages there is limited to discussion of the specific text of the article.

There is also the possibility of participation in the 
Wikiversity:Assembly, which is an experiment designed to test certain 
approaches to deliberative process and, in addition, the usage of 
Delegable Proxy. What will really work with that, though, is the 
enrollment of users in the Wikiversity Assembly who are active in the 
creation of educational resources there. I personally appreciate all 
support, even from users who register for the purpose of 
participating in that experiment, but what will really be effective 
is the participation of users actually engaged in educational 
resource creation. I know that there are many here who would be well 
qualified to write on voting systems, so the purpose of this 
invitation is to invite content creation on that.

If you have a Wikipedia account already, and have made this into an 
SUL account (Single Unifited Log-in), you should be able to use that 
at Wikiversity. You may also specially create an account there. Email 
to me, through the Wikiversity interface or otherwise, is welcome. 
I'm User:Abd on Wikiversity.

This invitation is sincerely extended to all with an interest in 
voting systems, regardless of opinion or position, and I intend to 
assist all who take it up.