[Foundation-l] election ballot

Sun May 16 17:06:15 UTC 2004

Feedback from a french contributor, named coeur (cœur)

* he mentions the fact a user could be registered
under different name on 30 wikipedias, hence vote 30
times

-> my answer. This could happen. Some people do have
different names, and a tiny few could do it on purpose
and could cheat. However, the risk is limited, we
trust people per default not to abuse the system, and
likely it would be an artifact.
We could limit the risk by setting a minimum of
contribution, perhaps ?

* he mentions the fact different users could have same
name under different wikipedias, hence good votes
would be discarded

-> my answer. This will happen, we already know
several cases. Checking and discarding will not be
automatic but be human powered with control. 
I suppose I am correct :-)

* he mentions he is *bound* to have different names on
en and fr, as his name need utf8 encoding. 

-> my answer. I said we trusted him to be honest here.
And he should have stick to a good old name with no
weird caracters ;-)

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