[conlang_learners] Voting procedure wiki page

[Philip Newton]

2009/8/29 Tony Harris <tony at alurhsa.org>:
> lets people select one

That won't work for instant-runoff voting, where the idea is that you
can pick as many as you like, and you have to impose an ordering on
them.

You could make a page that does that, but making it easy to use will
be more difficult.

For example, the easiest page to build would have a text-entry box
next to each candidate where you enter the rank as a number, and leave
the ranks blank for ones you're not interested in.

But that's hard to use since you have to remember which ranks you've
already assigned, and you'd have to decide what to do if someone
assigns the same rank to multiple entries, and the user can't easily
re-shuffle them. Not to mention that you'd have to decide whether 1 =
#1 rank, or 1 = 1 point = least liked.

Better might be something where you drag-and-drop languages from a
left pane into a right one, in the order you want them, and dragging a
language over an existing one will make it move down a little so that
you can drop the language in between two existing choices. But that
probably takes more time to program. (Let alone test.)

> Failing that, the list does sound like the best idea.

That might work out best, if it can be set up in time.

One single point of contact for the users, and vote counters can use
their own methods. (Whether it's "print out the votes and shuffle
pieces of paper", Excel, Perl, or whatever.)

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>