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Subject: Re: Anonymous voting on wiki
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

Hi Stas,

Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Since in CoC discussion it was mentioned we may need anonymous voting,
> I've created a patch that allows anonymous polls to be created:
>
> https://github.com/php/web-wiki/pull/7
>
> The results still recorded per user, but everybody can see just their
> own vote (for logged in users) and total summary. People with shell
> access to the server will be able to see the votes, unfortunately I
> don't see how to avoid that without serious rewrite.
> Also, once the poll is created as anonymous it can't be turned into
> non-anonymous without resetting the results or manual admin action.
>
> Please review/comment. Is it's good, I propose to deploy it on wiki.php.net.
>

This seems useful. I do wonder whether we should use by default for 
RFCs. It's interesting to see how different people vote, and knowing who 
voted which way means you can ask them what their objections were. 
Though, anonymous voting would mean no potential for harassing people 
for the way they voted (though they're not necessarily free of 
harassment for their opinion - many people make theirs public anyway).

One concern I have with the patch is that it doesn't appear (by my 
reading of the code) to show who voted. I think it's important to know 
who participated in the vote, even if we don't know which way they 
voted. Consider that real-world elections have electoral registers, at 
least in my country. Perhaps we could implement this by showing the same 
table of votes as the normal one, but covering up the Yes/No columns 
with a colspan saying something like "concealed".

Anyway, that's just my thoughts.

Thanks for writing a patch!
-- 
Andrea Faulds
https://ajf.me/