rolling vote in a nutshell[edit]

wiki uses electronic cooperative technology, which could also be used for votes. an innovative approach to voting which should scale much better is rolling vote.

to carry out a rolling vote, the following is needed:

a page where votes for a person may be entered
the election timestamp
the criteria an applicant needs to fullfill
the criteria a voter needs to fullfill

apply for beeing administrator[edit]

a user creates a voting page in his namespace and enters User:ThurnerRupert/Template:Vote on his page, see here for an example. A category comes with the template.

right to vote and voting[edit]

the following rules apply:

everybody can enter a vote at the applicants voting page.
the vote stays valid forever and can be updated at any time.
standard wikipedia right to vote is not applied when entering the vote but later on when the vote is counted (see election below).

note: "valid forever" means anyway the vote is counted only if the right to vote at the election time is fulfilled.

rfa[edit]

if the votes for beeing admin are sufficient, anybody can place a rfa by adding category "Category:Wikipedia:RFA" to the vote page. this is then also the election timestamp (see below).

election[edit]

on an rfa, the votes which are valid at the election timestamp are counted, i.e. the voter must have the voting right when his vote is counted, not when he entered his vote. if there are more candidates the order is given as by wikipedia standards (yes/all votes i guess, isn't it?).

to make the election valid, the applicant:

must agree the election
must fullfill the criteria for the position at the election timestamp

advantages[edit]

the number of applicants is not limited as anybody may create such a vote page
the order is clarified, so stewards may set the limit as high or as low as necessary to get sufficient personnel
users may vote at any time for one year in advance
replace somebody existing es very easy, examples:
- somebody resigns, the resignment timestamp is the election timestamp for this position, see "election" above.

disadvantages[edit]

counting votes might be more complicated

remarks[edit]

this idea is mainly inspired by bewerten statt wählen.