[WikiEN-l] Suggested implementation of Jimbo's quickpoll proposal

Fri May 7 12:27:16 UTC 2004

Complementary to this, in the case of bans which seem to be improvidently
granted, a quickvote of 4 arbitrators to rescend the ban and not hear the
case could be part of this.

Fred

> From: Tim Starling <ts4294967296 at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:58:52 +1000
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Suggested implementation of Jimbo's quickpoll proposal
> 
> Jimbo has suggested expanding the power of quickpolls to allow banning
> until such time as the arbitration committee makes a decision. Hence the
> arbitration committee becomes like a court of appeal.
> 
> To date, there have been lots of criticisms of quickpolls, on the talk
> page and elsewhere. Most of them have been centred around the issue of
> frivolous use. Jimbo suggested allowing only sysops to start quickpolls.
> 
> After some pondering, I've decided I like this proposal. It's reasonably
> democratic, since someone with a real complaint is very likely to find
> at least one sympathetic sysop. The sysop body is heterogeneous. And it
> gives the community a way to take decisive action.
> 
> This could be implemented just by posting a policy statement at the top
> of [[Wikipedia:Quickpolls]], saying that only sysops may start polls.
> However, I'm of the opinion that simple technical barriers can be used
> to great effect in enforcing policies. Perhaps we could put each
> quickpoll in an unprotected MediaWiki: message, then have a list of
> {{msg:}} tags in [[Wikipedia:Quickpolls]] itself. The list would then be
> protected, preventing anyone except for sysops from adding items.
> 
> Theoretically a user could add a new quickpoll to the bottom of one of
> the included messages. But if they do that, it is clear to all that they
> have understood the policy and attempted to evade it. Others may remove
> the quickpoll not only on the basis of policy, but also because the
> listing is in the wrong place, and is incorrectly formatted.
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 
> 
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