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'''From''': Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa]])
'''Date-moved-from-homepage''':
'''Updated''':
'''Subject''': My journal for electowiki-related editing
Welcome to my journal!
{{User:RobLa/AllJournals}}
== Journal ==
=== 2023 ===
==== 2023-05-25 ====
:''updated: 19:35, 25 May 2023 (UTC)''
1/ journaling in [[MediaWiki]] is still a bit complicated. Hopefully it'll get easier over time.
==== 2023-05-24 ====
:''updated: 06:59, 25 May 2023 (UTC)''
1/ Added a few [[Condorcet methods]] to [[:Category:Monotonic electoral systems]], based on seeing them listed as such on English Wikipedia: [[w:Category:Monotonic Condorcet methods]].
==== 2023-05-15 ====
:''updated: 18:16, 15 May 2023 (UTC)''
1/ Contrary to popular belief, [[ABIF]] isn't dead. Sooner or later, I'll check something in on Github: https://github.com/robla
=== 2022 ===
==== 2022-11-09 ====
:''updated 11:13, 9 November 2022 (UTC)''
1/ [https://www.quora.com/What-dont-most-liberals-realize/answer/Rob-Lanphier Careful with the microaggressions there], kids. Especially when speaking with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80B_yiN2FH8 your elders].
==== 2022-03-15 ====
:''updated 01:15, 16 March 2022 (UTC)''
1/ Two things: a) beware the [[w:Ides of March|Ides of March]], and b) I heard an interesting rumor about [[Ranked Robin]] voting. I'll leave it at that, because it's dinnertime here in SF.
==== 2022-03-03 ====
:''updated 12:13, 3 March 2022 (UTC)''
1/ Well, 2022-03-03 isn't going to be as cool as 2022-02-02, since English speakers were all celebrating 2/2/22 (and the ambiguity therein). 3/3/22 is ambiguous too, but it's not as fun to talk about. Anyway, I moved several old [[Electowidget]] pages into my user space (i.e. to [[User:RobLa/2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election - Kiss Voters]], [[User:RobLa/2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election - Montroll Voters]], [[User:RobLa/2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election - Smith Voters]] and [[User:RobLa/2009 Burlington, Vermont Mayoral Election - Wright Voters]]). And I've stayed up way too late again, editing electowiki.
==== 2022-02-02 ====
:''updated 06:32, 3 February 2022 (UTC)''
Happy Groundhog Day! (well, at least in the [[Pacific timezone]] anyway). Last night, I stayed up way too late working on things related to [[EPOV]] and [[Code of Conduct]] (more the latter than the former). See the "[https://robla.miraheze.org/wiki/Bill_of_Responsibilities Bill of Responsibilities]" I've been working on over at https://robla.miraheze.org/ for the past several years. I started it over here on electowiki, but I realized I kinda liked editing a wiki of my own as I was thinking through how I want the documents there structured. Also, I was on the board of [[Miraheze]] when I started up the "robla.miraheze.org" wiki, and I wanted practice maintaining wikis as I was learning some of the depths of [[MediaWiki]]'s access-control system.
==== 2022-01-15 ====
:''updated 21:47, 15 January 2022 (UTC)''
1/ Hi folks. First off, belated "Happy New Year!" to everyone. Secondly, you may be wondering about the slowness of electowiki over the past few days, and some of the chaos in the last 24 hours. I may write up more about this later, but see [[meta:Community noticeboard|recent conversations on "Community noticeboard" on meta.miraheze.org]] for a bit more about the recent server migration. Having been involved in many server-software upgrades and at least a couple of datacenter migrations back in my days at Wikimedia Foundation, I know how complicated it is for a non-profit organization with a reasonably large professional staffs to make big changes to their [[MediaWiki]] hosting configuration. I'm very grateful to [[Miraheze]] for doing their work with a small, volunteer staff. Hopefully, I'll get around to writing more on the topic...
=== 2021 ===
==== 2021-12-14 ====
:''updated: 08:55, 14 December 2021 (UTC)''
1/ My journal has now become the place where I whine about not updating my journal on [[electowiki]]. As anyone who has paid attention to [[Special:RecentChanges]] can see, I've been editing other pages a lot, but not this one. Oh well....
==== 2021-06-25 ====
:''updated: 00:18, 26 June 2021 (UTC)''
1/ I haven't been keeping up with my unstated goal of welcoming everyone who contributes (and I haven't even looked at "[[User:RobLa/Welcome]]" in a while), but so much has changed over the past year that ... eh, whatevs. There's an interesting discussion happening over on the birdsite<ref name="tweet21a">https://twitter.com/robla/status/1408571132601532418</ref> regarding the [[Condorcet winner criterion]], and I'm delighted that we have a new contributor here ([[User:AmericaRepair]]). As I've said in many other places, I was an "all-third-party-all-the-time" POTUS voter back in 1992, 1996, and 2000, so I can relate to AmericaRepair's journey. Anyway, I should rename the [[Condorcet winner]] article to match up with its [[enwiki]] counterpart.
==== 2021-05-27 ====
:''updated: 08:41, 27 May 2021 (UTC)''
1/ I added this earlier: [[User:RobLa/ABIF]]. ABIF stands for "Aggregated Ballot Image Format". When election results are published in [[IRV]] elections, it's typically in a very unreadable format. ABIF is intended to be a simplified format that can be used as election shorthand on the [[EM-list]] as well as in the /r/[[EndFPTP]] forum.
The format is a riff off of a format recently proposed on [[EndFPTP]]. The user who proposed it was focused on [[score]] ballots. My format also works with ranked ballots, without forcing phony ratings into the format. I merged that format with the format that /user/jman722 proposed on reddit. I used back in 1996 (see [[User:RobLa/TPJ]], and made the beginnings of a specification in my email to the [[EM-list]]. It seems it would be interesting to write a parser for my proposed format, and does some cleanup on raw ABIF files.
==== 2021-01-01 ====
:''09:33, 1 January 2021 (UTC)''
1/ Happy New Year everyone!!!! I decided to fix up the [[Main Page]] of [[electowiki]], and then got distracted figuring out how to use [[Special:CategoryTree]], and experimenting with transclusion. I also rewrote the lead section above.
=== 2020 ===
==== 2020-12-28 ====
:''updated: [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 01:45, 29 December 2020 (UTC)''
1/ I learned about [[Legiscan]] today. Here's an example of a search:
* [https://legiscan.com/gaits/search?sort=desc&order=Last+Action&state=ALL&keyword=%22approval%20voting%22%20OR%20%22ranked%20choice%20voting%22 search for "approval voting" OR "ranked choice voting"]<ref>https://legiscan.com/gaits/search?sort=desc&order=Last+Action&state=ALL&keyword=%22approval%20voting%22%20OR%20%22ranked%20choice%20voting%22</ref>
I suppose it's going to be important not to hammer their search engine too badly...
==== 2020-12-27 ====
:''updated: 09:40, 27 December 2020 (UTC)''
1/ I don't remember when the last time I donated to Miraheze, but I'm probably due. I'm a Miraheze board member, but that doesn't exempt me from donating when I can.
If you rely on [[electowiki]], you should donate too. The staff has been busy working over the holidays to make sure we don't get hacked, and to ensure that the security of the website is sound. That's not as easy as you might think. Hosting a website that anyone can edit is challenging. We even (currently) allow people to edit quasi-anonymously, if you don't mind giving away your IP address (and I'm asking myself if that's a good idea).
Miraheze accepts donations via GoFundMe, PayPal, [[electowiki:GitHub Sponsors|GitHub Sponsors]] or even BitCoin. See [[electowiki:Miraheze fundraising]] for more details specific to donors from electowiki, or see '''[[meta:Donate]]''' (the meta.miraheze.org page) for more general details on donating for all users of Miraheze's services. Thanks!
==== 2020-12-02 ====
:''updated: 08:29, 2 December 2020 (UTC)''
1/ Wow, it's been a while since I've written anything here. I've been a very active editor on this wiki, but haven't done much metawriting. Anyway, I think I want to create an article for [[Free & Equal Elections Foundation]], since Wikipedia already has an article for the organization (see [[wikipedia:Free & Equal Elections Foundation]]). Someone reminded me earlier today (er... Monday) about a forum they held late last year.<ref>https://youtu.be/FDZYPhGkK-4?t=20963</ref>
==== 2020-10-07 ====
:''updated: 22:18, 7 October 2020 (UTC)''
1/ The debate is happening this evening. For those of you that don't read [[UTC]], I'm writing this on a delightful Wednesday afternoon in [[San Francisco]]. Well, it ''looks'' delightful out there if you don't look too hard. The AQI (according to Purple Air) is roughly 130 to 140, which isn't great. I haven't been outside in days, so I'm not an authority on what constitutes a "beautiful" day in SF. Anyway, we're about to have a debate this evening! With plexiglass! (there's a lowercase "P" on "plexiglass" to make it clear I'm not referring to Plexiglas, though maybe it will have some Plexiglas(tm) acrylic<ref>https://twitter.com/robla/status/1313965554600869890</ref>).
==== 2020-08-29 ====
:''updated: 10:15, 29 August 2020 (UTC)''
1/ There's call happening on Sunday by the [[California Clean Money Campaign]]<ref>https://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/MSC0NRM5CPZ0YUX</ref>. I really shouldn't stay up this late, btw....
==== 2020-07-10 ====
:''updated: 05:41, 11 July 2020 (UTC)''
1/ been playing around with [[Flow]] on [[electowiki]]. I've left things in kind of a weird state. More in a bit....
[[File:StructuredDiscussions-error-msg-2020-07-10.jpg|thumb|An error message when I tried responding to my own comment on one of the StructuredDiscussions pages. The topic url: [[Topic:Vpwhuppokp8jfqha|https://electowiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vpwhuppokp8jfqha]]]]
:''updated roughly: 06:18, 11 July 2020 (UTC) (or 11:18pm PDT)''
2/ I was starting to get optimistic this morning when I figured out the hierarchy of things in the lingo of "StructuredDiscussions"
* 1 - Board (a long-lived discussion board)
** 2 - Topic (a topic that generally is assoicated with a page)
*** 3 - Comment (a dated message that potentially starts a discussion)
**** 4 - Thread (the replies to "3-Comment")
The challenge that the developers have is that they're trying to replace "Talk:" pages on Wikipedia. I was at Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) when this project was started (back when WMF called it "Flow"). It was meant as a replacement for "LiquidThreads". Like almost any name, the name "Flow" was flawed, and was baked into the code. There seem to have been more name changes since then, but many of the administrative features still say "flow" or "Flow".
"StructuredDiscussions" is a mouthful (and I'll sometimes accidentally omit a letter), but I'm starting to see the strategy for wider deployment on [[MediaWiki]] sites (like [[electowiki]]). I think it makes sense to limit the number of people that can deploy a "Board", but then have as many "Topics" as people want within a board. I may write more about this later after I make the bug reports in the necessary place (and potentially dig into the code; my [[MediaWiki]]+PHP skills are a little rusty, but I can still find my way around the codebase)
==== 2020-07-09 ====
:''updated: shortly after midnight [[PDT]] on July 9th''
1/ Well, VisualEditor is still kind of tough for editing journals (see [[Help:VisualEditor]]). Oh well.
:''updated: 07:24, 9 July 2020 (UTC)''
2/ putting in a clean timestamp for my second journal entry of July 9th. But really, I should be getting to bed!
==== 2020-07-08 ====
:''06:57, 9 July 2020 (UTC)'''
1/ interesting....: https://metavote.netlify.app/
==== 2020-07-06 ====
:''updated: 04:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)''
1/ I'm enough of a n00b admin that I may be very close to accidentally deleting this log event from the database:
Selected log event:
* (Logs) 00:49, 24 May 2020 RobLa created page [[EM-list]] (#REDIRECT Election-methods mailing list)
:''updated: 05:32, 7 July 2020 (UTC)''
2/ I'm a little worried that [[electowiki]] is getting jealous (per my tweet on the subject: <ref>{{url-ref|url=https://twitter.com/robla/status/1280372519543779328|comment=my tweet from a few minutes before ~~~~~}}</ref>)
:''updated: 05:39, 7 July 2020 (UTC)''
3/ Adding a "Footnotes" section to my journal (see [[User:RobLa/Journal#Footnotes]])
==== 2020-07-05 ====
:''updated: 09:47, 5 July 2020 (UTC)''
1/ I'm staying up way too late. I was able to get the Electorama site over on Medium set up though: https://medium.com/electorama/
Also, I did some minor tweaks to [[Electorama.com]]. See https://github.com/electorama/electorama-website/blob/master/README.org
==== 2020-06-30 ====
:''updated: 21:48, 30 June 2020 (UTC)''
1/ Some typos are hard to fix: (like [[:Template:Electorama!/doc]])
:''updated: 01:22, 1 July 2020 (UTC)''
2/ The "Electorama" misspelling in my first journal entry of the day had many cascading effects. I'm still figuring them out.
==== 2020-06-28 ====
:''updated: 06:14, 29 June 2020 (UTC)''
My edits from today (which is still June 28 in [[PDT]]).
* [[Talk:The Center for Election Science#C4ES discourse.org server]] I moved the [[C4ES Election-Theory Forum]] over to [[Project:C4ES discourse.org server]]. More discussion over on that page:
** [[Project_talk:C4ES discourse.org server#July 2020]]
* [[The Center for Election Science#Wikipedia]] - now links to [[wikipedia:electionscience.org]] (note: I did this after [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Electionscience.org&oldid=965054223 putting the redirect on [[Wikipedia]])
* [[Discourse.org]] - "Discourse" is software created by the hosting company "Discourse.org". See wikipedia:Discourse.org. It's not clear if it's a for-profit or non-profit company based on their website.
* [[Project:C4ES discourse.org server]] - Used VisualEditor to remove duplicate reference to Felix's announcement
* [[C4ES discourse.org server]] -> [[Project:C4ES discourse.org server]]
* Moved [[C4ES Election-Theory Forum]] to [[Project:C4ES discourse.org server]]. This is about to become of much less import to the [[electowiki]] community.
====2020-06-25====
:''updated: 23:03, 25 June 2020 (UTC)''
1/ I want to start replacing a lot of the templates that were copied over from [[Wikipedia]] over to this wiki. There was a lot of [[Project:cargo cult|cargo cult]] copying of templates that I didn't even fully understand myself. A lot of the [[Project:Lua|Lua]] and other [[Project:template magic|template magic]] that is way too complicated for the skill level of [[electowiki]] editors who specialize in [[electoral theory]].
2/ I made my first [[Quora]] post today (titled "[https://www.quora.com/q/qtkvhbkbtpsobszu/Pseudoanonymous-identities-and-how-to-spell-pseudoanonymous Pseudoanonymous identities (and how to spell "pseudoanonymous"]"). It was about the [[C4ES]] decision to shut down the [[C4ES Election-Theory Forum]] (currently found at https://forum.electionscience.org ). I hope that [[Electowiki:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]] is able to back it all up so that we can still have reliable citations on this wiki and on [[Wikipedia]].
====2020-06-24====
:''updated: 23:46, 24 June 2020 (UTC)''
1/ I wanted some [[help]] on using [[Help:PrefixIndex|PrefixIndex]]; more specifically, the act of [[Help:Transclusion|transcluding]] them. That turned into quite an adventure, editing mediawiki.org and en.wikipedia.org. Whee!.
Anyway, I'm trying to come up with a sustainable way of including events on [[electowiki]], like the [[C4ES]] call they're having later today on [[Zoom]] about [[Colorado]]. Perhaps [[Help:Transclusion|transcluding]] an events page (from [[Events]], perhaps) would be good. Or we can just have subpages for events (like [[Events/June 2020]]. Much to think about....
====2020-06-17====
:updated: 03:01, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
{{wikipedia|yakshaving}}
1/ I did some editing on the other wikis. And then I also did many more edits that represent [[User:RobLa/yakshaving|yakshaving]]. If you don't know what I mean, go look it up on Wikipedia. Actually, don't; go search your favorite search engine ({{User:RobLa/search}}) and find the Seth Godin piece. His blog has a search engine of its own: https://seths.blog/?s=yakshaving . You can also find it on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16911347 . Perhaps I should create a template for linking to that entry on Wikidata: {{wikidata|q=Q16911347}}. Nah, that would be yak shaving.
:updated: 05:46, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
2/ Well, there are a lot of confused bald yaks roaming around now....
====2020-06-16 ====
:updated: 04:05, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
1/ I created an [[Advocacy/Europe]] page earlier today. It's not very good, but it's a stub we can use to fill some stuff in.
My most recent work today has been on [[RobLaWiki]].
====2020-06-15====
:updated: 06:21, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
1/ I'm going to letting [[VisualEditor]] completely maul the section headings. (meh!) Though I'm not sure what it tried to do to my 2020-06-12 entry....
:updated: 06:33, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
2/ I spent a big chunk of today working on [[electowiki]]. I've been having insights regarding the complexity with templates and categories. I also see that I'm going to need to stop using [[VisualEditor]]<nowiki> if I want to keep using the "~~~~~" trick (the </nowiki>[[Help:5 tilde trick|5 tilde trick]]). I'll probably need to create a [[Help:Subst template|subst template]] to insert the current [[UTC]] time.
And [[VisualEditor]] ''still'' wants to maul [[User:RobLa/Journal#2020-06-12|my June 12 entry]]. This time, I'm going to let it maul it.
====2020-06-14====
:''updated: 02:15, 15 June 2020 (UTC)''
1/ well, I ended up doing more today on [[electowiki]] than I was planning to. I actually followed through on the hardest part of the [[:Category:Voting methods]] rename. It's now [[:Category:Electoral systems]]. I think. I sure hope I did it right....
:''updated: 03:34, 15 June 2020 (UTC)''
2/ whoops.... looks like I botched my last journal entry. Lots more editing has been happening....
:''updated: 07:19, 15 June 2020 (UTC)''
3/ I made the big rename of [[:Category:Voting methods]] to [[:Category:Electoral systems]]. This aligns us with [[English Wikipedia]] (see: [[wikipedia:Electoral systems]]). I haven't ''yet'' done the bulk rename, but I think it's better to wait until the morning before making a massive change like that. There are a lot of articles in [[:Category:Voting methods]], and it's not clear that a bulk rename is the wisest option.
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:''updated: 04:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC)''
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====2020-06-07====
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1/ Some editing inspired by discussion on the [[C4ES Discord server]]. See [[Special:Contributions/RobLa]] in the past few hours.
====2020-06-05====
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1/ I'm going to use the bulleted list to break things up today:
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I have more thoughts, and things to put on my [[User:RobLa/TODO]], but first, I should go have dinner.
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====2020-06-04====
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1/ Much to talk about today. I added a "fauxheader" template to the top of my journal page. I think I like that format, so that it's really unambiguously clear that each page in my subpage namespace is from me ([[User:RobLa]]), so that I don't have to keep referring to myself in the third person. I also just added an "updated" field, so that I can use the "<code><nowiki>~~~~~</nowiki></code>" to insert today's date. It's going to add it in UTC, but ... well... we may all have to get used to UTC.
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Anyway, I'm adding this journal entry because I wanted to highlight a conversation I've been having over at the [[C4ES Discord server]]. One of the people there was promoting "[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P6v5275NnWzRMswBKMzga4uy1-7b7zz7q3PiJ4-iNaA/edit Approval scored voting]". It's interesting (to me) how [[wikipedia:Google Docs|Google Docs]] is starting to become competitive with wikis as a technology. I still prefer using [[MediaWiki]] though, and it seems that the person promoting "approval score voting" may be as well. So we might see them over here.... (?)
2/ I've created [[
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Also, [https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/gurath/reforming_fptp/fsknnlj/?context=3 a couple comments over on reddit about "ranked-choice" vs "instant-runoff"] (in [[EndFPTP]]) inspired me to reply:
:'' I generally call it IRV/RCV, just to acknowledge the fact that FairVote has successfully co-opted the "ranked choice" name, but also to clarify that I'm specifically referring to the single-winner STV variant known as "Instant runoff-voting" on Wikipedia. I've attempted to document the change in name over on electowiki: ''<code>https://electowiki.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting#Naming</code>
...which I posted after I updated [[Instant-runoff_voting#Naming]].
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1/ This is my first update using [[Help:VisualEditor|VisualEditor]]. It looks like I need to add "templatedata" to [[Template:JournalUpdate]], so that I can make the UI a little easier to use. That reminds me; I really want to work on porting [[User:RobLa/Electowidget|Electowidget]] to [[Wikipedia:Lua (programming language)|Lua]] at some point. So much to do.
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I think I want to host a debate or two about things like important election method criteria ([[User:RobLa/criteria]]) or many other debatable topics. I want to describe my thoughts on debates at [[User:RobLa/debates]], but not right now.
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I also want to add some local namespaces over here. I'll describe more about what I want at [[User:RobLa/LocalNamespaces]].
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2/ I started [[User:RobLa/Events]], and started a section [[[User:RobLa/Events#2019 Electoral Reform Symposium]], which may become [[User:RobLa/2019 Electoral Reform Symposium]] and then [[2019 Electoral Reform Symposium]]. We'll see. I also created [[User:RobLa/ActiveUsers]] as a means for me to track the folks that have been active in the past 30 days. I may also just make a static copy that I continually update for my own purposes. TBD....
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1/ This will probably be my only update from today. I've made a ''lot'' of edits today. [https://electowiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/RobLa&offset=20200526070000&target=RobLa RobLa's contributions before end-of-day 2020-05-25]. I'm not sure where to begin, but I'm really happy that we have a new contributor: [[Special:Contributions/Michael P Shannon]]. See [[User talk:Michael P Shannon#Welcome]] for my welcome message.
I'm still considering what I hope to see out of a [[conflict of interest]] policy, and have taken the liberty to write up some guidelines. But I also have a lot more thinking and writing to do about the topic, which I'll make findable from [[User:RobLa/COI]] -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 06:14, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
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1/ I think I want to use [[
And there are some promising developments over on the [[C4ES Discord server]] regarding [[PLACE FAQ]] and other articles of that ilk. Come join us to see what we're talking about.
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2/ Well, I've fallen down the rabbithole of editing again. This time, I've fallen down the rabbithole of editing [[
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3/ Now I'm mucking with [[User:RobLa/sandbox]] and [[User:RobLa/Ambox]]. But it's time for me to get back to editing [[
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2/ I have some thoughts on "[[User:RobLa/proof by intimidation]]". I think I want to make this part of [[User:RobLa/BResp|the "Bill of responsibilities"]] that I'm working on for [[code of conduct]] conversations. Hopefully more later....
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[https://electowiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/RobLa&offset=20200523070000&target=RobLa RobLa's contributions before end-of-day 2020-05-22]. <- That's a [[User:RobLa/template|template]] just begging to be written in [[User:RobLa/Lua|Lua]].
==== 2020-05-21
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1/ I've made a couple fixes today, but I've been getting off to a late start (and a late end) every day. I think I'd like to come up with a way of adding "<code><nowiki>{{contribs|RobLa|before=2020-05-21|tz=PDT}}</nowiki></code>" to my journal, and having that show up as [https://electowiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/RobLa&offset=20200521070000&target=RobLa RobLa's contributions before end-of-day 2020-05-20]
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More thoughts here later (today, hopefully...)
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4/ Much editing about identity, and [[User:RobLa/identity]]. There might be a good discussion about identity over at [[User_talk:RobLa/identity]]
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5/ I keep adding more redlinks, and not removing things. For example, we have [[Electowiki:MediaWiki]] and [[Help:VisualEditor]], but we don't yet have [[Help:MediaWiki]]. I'll make that tomorrow, though. In the meantime, it's time to create a TODO item for myself over on [[User:RobLa/TODO]] ("''fill in redlinks on User:RobLa/Journal''")
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:''v4; updated at 01:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)''
(v1) - Here's a few things I'd like to do today
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* Start a discussion about image policy that isn't on someone's talk page
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Since "today" is still 2020-05-19 for me in PDT, I still have a few hours left. <code>:-D</code> That is, I observe [[wikipedia:Pacific Time|Pacific Time]], which means that it's only 5:11pm or so here, and it's not even dark yet.
(v2) - Also, I'd like to add a thing or two above to [[User:RobLa/TODO]]. And I'd like to create a template for generating the "updated at" thing just below the [[#2020-05-19]] caption. I think I know how I want to do it; I'll probably put it at [[
(v3) - It's been taking me longer than I hoped to create [[
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So I should fix that. And fix "<code><nowiki>{{JournalUpdate}}</nowiki></code>" (with no default parameter 1) while I'm at it....
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One key difference between a wiki journal like this one and a blog is that the author can edit the content of the day at any point during the day. And that's what I reserve the right to do. "2020-05-18" doesn't end in this journal until 11:59pm Pacific time. And I may keep editing until 11:59pm Hawaii time (or later). Consider yourselves warned.
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It's pretty clear that we need to better establish [[Electowiki:Policy|policy]] on this wiki, so that the [[Electowiki:Editorial board]] knows when to step in. And the editorial board is probably going to need to establish a place and a time for private meetings. That hasn't happened yet.
We do have a few unofficial places to chat about Electowiki. See [[:
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[[Wikipedia:May the 4th|May the 4th]] be with you! I have some thoughts about how we should talk about [[Burlington 2009]]. I plan to capture them at [[User:RobLa/Burlington2009]].
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In 2020, I've had a few things that I'd like to do with Electowiki. My main role so far has been:
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See '''[[User:RobLa/TODO]]''' if you're interested in my Electowiki TODO list.
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During most of 2019, I was focused on my role as Director of Core Infrastructure at [[Wikipedia:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]] (IA). When I left IA in November, I wrote my "[https://robla.blog/2019/11/05/end-of-a-chapter/ End of a Chapter]" blog post on November 5.
In November and December, [[Special:Contributions/RobLa|my activity here]] on Electowiki really picked up. Additionally, I started speaking with the folks at Miraheze, and by the end of the year, it became clear that I was joining the Miraheze board. See my blog post about the history of Electowiki and my involvement with Miraheze (titled "[https://robla.blog/2019/12/23/why-donate-to-a-non-profit-with-a-hard-to-pronounce-name/ Why donate to a non-profit with a hard-to-pronounce name?]") for a detailed history of why I got into electoral reform and found myself working with [[Electowiki:Miraheze|Miraheze]].
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2018 was the year that [[User:Psephomancy]] did 90% of the work migrating Electowiki over to Miraheze, and I puttered around for the next year or so doing the last 10%. When it was mostly moved over, I started using Miraheze as a place for drafting up my ideas for MAF and MATT.
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A couple of new voting systems I worked on in late 2018 as possible alternatives to California's [[W:Jungle primary|jungle primary]]:
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...and a draft thing:
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== Footnotes ==
:''main article: [[User:RobLa/Links]]''
Here's a few footnotes for the journal entries above
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