<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span>
</span>Not abandoned, but on my personal backburner. Setting aside the tech<br>
issues (e.g. getting logged in, getting messages through, etc), what<br>
is it that y'all are hoping to accomplish:<br>
a) on the mailing list?<br>
b) on the wiki?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>a) I don't like mailing lists. I'm just here to ask about wiki account.<br><br></div><div>b) When I first encountered it months ago, I was excited about fixing and updating things on it, and posting my own research on my user page. I started to make a list of needed edits, expecting to quickly get an account:<br><ul><li><a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting">http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting</a></li><ul><li>Fix "United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian Party"</li><li>Clarify "preferential vote" term also applies more broadly to other systems with preferential ballots</li><li>Remove redlinks to non-election topics or link them to Wikipedia instead</li><li>Update about adoption by Maine</li><li>capitalize "australian", "green party"</li><li>shorten to "IRV" in lots of places</li></ul><li><a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Template:Tenn_voting_example">http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Template:Tenn_voting_example</a></li><ul><li><span class="gmail-">Fix the image<br></span></li></ul><li><a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Range_voting">http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Range_voting</a></li><ul><li>Clarify that cardinal is a class that includes range/score, approval, cumulative, etc.</li></ul><li><a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Approval_voting">http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Approval_voting</a></li><ul><li>See Also should be a list</li><li>Move <a href="http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Consensus_voting">http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Consensus_voting</a> into a subsection of Approval page</li></ul><li>etc.</li></ul></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
As for Electowiki, perhaps you could give someone else privileges to<br>
approve users -- or choose the Wikipedia model where anyone (possibly<br>
except spammers) can edit.<br></blockquote></div><br></div>Yes, please. I imagine it shouldn't be as open as Wikipedia because there aren't as many users monitoring for spam, but MediaWiki can be locked down to varying degrees and you can give trusted users the ability to approve new users, etc.:<br><br><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam</a><br><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Moderation</a><br><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRateLimits</a><br><br><br></div></div></div>