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'''From''': Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa]])
'''Date-moved-from-homepage''': 04:32, 19 May 2020 (from [[User:RobLa]])
'''Updated''': 12:18, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
'''Subject''': My journal for electowiki-related editing
Welcome to my journal!
'''User:RobLa/Journal''' contains my electoral reform thoughts, and might not be specific to Electowiki. That said, it's largely been a journal of electowiki-related thoughts and ideas. I treat it sort of like a blog, but I have a blog at < https://robla.blog >, and that's where I do my "blogging". My editing in each section below has been pretty free form. See [[User:RobLa/Journal#2020-05-18|my "2020-05-18" entry]] for more of my thoughts on using a wiki as a 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)''
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====2020-06-17====
:updated: 03:01, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
{{wikipedia|yakshaving}}
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: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)
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====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....
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====2020-06-12====
:''updated: 04:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC)''
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***https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013
*[[EM list]] discussion about Score Sorted Margins and [[Sequential Monroe voting]]
**
***http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2020-June/002531.html
**The math is a little much for me to parse out right now, and I haven't read the electionscience forum thread from January that he linked to. But Ted always does really clear-headed analysis, so I kinda want to figure out the math at some point.
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...which I posted after I updated [[Instant-runoff_voting#Naming]].
====2020-05-30 ====
{{JournalUpdate|23:17, 30 May 2020 (UTC)}}
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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]].
====2020-05-26 ====
{{JournalUpdate|20:12, 26 May 2020 (UTC)}}
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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====
{{JournalUpdate|22:04, 21 May 2020 (UTC)}}
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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''")
====2020-05-19
:''v4; updated at 01:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)''
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*Build a boilerplate for welcoming new Electowiki editors (see [[User:RobLa/welcome_boilerplate]] for where I plan to put it)
* Start a discussion about image policy that isn't on someone's talk page
*Finish up the talk page discussions I was very recently involved in
*Continue the [[User:RobLa/Burlington2009]] interview where I dropped it
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We do have a few unofficial places to chat about Electowiki. See [[:Category:Forum]] for the list of forums. I should probably add one more, which is the "#electowiki" channel on the [[C4ES Discord server]]. Y'all can ping me there; I'm "robla" there, too.
====2020-05-04
[[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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#Primary liaison with Miraheze. The site doesn't host itself, and the Miraheze SRE team does an amazing job ensuring the site stays usable. See more about my Miraheze work over at [[meta:User:RobLa/TODO]].
#
See '''[[User:RobLa/TODO]]''' if you're interested in my Electowiki TODO list.
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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.
====MAF and MATT
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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*[[User:RobLa/runoff]]
== Footnotes ==
:''main article: [[User:RobLa/Links]]''
Here's a few footnotes for the journal entries above
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