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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 ====
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