Re: [Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

2020-10-08 Thread Amir Sarabadani
(Sorry for late response, this email fell into cracks of my messy inbox) On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:53 PM bawolff wrote: > TBH, I was under the impression that the second round was going to be > narrowing down to top contenders (maybe the 3 or so top designs), not > choosing the top contender (I

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

2020-09-28 Thread bawolff
TBH, I was under the impression that the second round was going to be narrowing down to top contenders (maybe the 3 or so top designs), not choosing the top contender (I guess that's my fault though, it wasn't stated anywhere that that was going to be the case or anything). It was kind of hard to f

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

2020-09-28 Thread Adam Wight
Hi Amir, thank you for the patient explanation! Yes, it makes sense now.  I've been thrown off by wiki election math (again [1]). I also happily accept the community consensus even if it endorses a circle logo.  But I gently suggest that our vote tally is an unconvincing reflection of any co

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

2020-09-28 Thread Amir Sarabadani
Hey, The first round was using the standard voting process in wikis (using support/oppose and the thresholds like 70%) and this is the way we elect admins, checkusers or other user rights, or change policies in Wikis. I don't recall that there has ever been anyone elected as admin with below 70% or

Re: [Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

2020-09-28 Thread Adam Wight
Hi, thanks for helping coordinate this process! I have concerns about what happened between round 1 and round 2, it seems that we're no longer left with a real choice.  It's unclear what method was used to tally the round 1

[Wikitech-l] The Second round of voting for mediawiki logo just started!

2020-09-25 Thread Amir Sarabadani
Hello, The subject line is self-explanatory, you can go to the voting page and cast your vote. This is going to continue for a month and it's about different variants of the top contender (different colo