[Licom-l] bug?

Tue Apr 14 15:18:05 UTC 2009

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> abigor at forgotten-beauty.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I started to strike some duplicate votes and I noticed something. I don't
>> know of this is a bug or something that can be changed now but I noticed
>> between the 5 and 10 votes on the first 1000 votes that have voted first
>> from meta at wikipedia and than again from en at wikipedia or something like that.
>>
>>
>> Can that be stoped?
>
> The easiest way to deal with it for now is by striking. We can automate
> that if need be. Pre-vote disqualification of CentralAuth linked
> accounts can be a development target for the next vote.

For next time, I would suggest it would be better is CentralAuth
accounts were treated as votes from the home wiki regardless of what
wiki was used to reach Special:SecurePoll.

-Robert