安全投票/本地选举

维基媒体基金会希望安全投票扩展可以在本地社群有更广泛的应用，本地可以将其用于选举、公投等其他场合。这是一项社群期待已久的功能，同时贴合基金会加强社群自治的目标。

本地站点需要先启用electionadmin用户组来开启这一功能。这一权限在过去用于理事会选举，目前在除votewiki外的所有站点上被禁用。Votewiki目前也用于一些本地社群的选举活动，但这需要基金会的信任与安全团队的批准。

启用electionadmin用户组会让本地社群有能力在本地使用安全投票扩展创建并举办选举。然而，这一权限会让人可以接触到用户查核员才能接触到的数据。信任与安全团队鼓励本地社群，对是否要启用这一用户组在本地进行讨论。

常见问题

什么是安全投票？

SecurePoll is a Wikimedia-created MediaWiki extension that allows for votes to be held using a structured ballot. Votes cast with SecurePoll are anonymous and, if desired, encrypted using OpenSSL. You can find more technical information about the SecurePoll extension itself on MediaWiki.org or on Wikitech.

安全投票有什么优点和不足？

The primary solution offered by SecurePoll is private voting. Private voting through SecurePoll has a few benefits:

• Others will not know how a user voted
• Voters are less likely to be influenced by votes already cast by others
• Voting is more structured (for example, it is usually not possible to "strongly" support or oppose someone)
• Votes can be set up with a free text "comments" field, allowing voters to express a more detailed opinion
• Votes can make use of more complicated voting methods, like 舒爾茨法 or 可轉移單票制
• Duplicate votes (i.e. votes with sockpuppet accounts) are easier to spot
• Communities can define voter eligibility criteria as needed

There are however also some downsides:

• Voting using a binary system may go against a consensus-first model as it essentially eliminates the nuance of a vote-with-comment
• Creating a voter list is potentially difficult without some technical knowledge
• In encrypted elections, someone must hold the decryption key. Identifying who this should be may be complicated or difficult

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electionadmin权限的作用是什么？

electionadmin is a right that allows users to set up elections with SecurePoll. However, crucially, it allows these users to view voter data, which includes CheckUser-level IP and user agent information for all voters. This is to allow detection of duplicate votes. Its sensitive nature means it should be handed out with extreme caution and only to trusted users (for instance, those who already possess the CheckUser right).

希望讨论的问题

Since this right allows those who hold the right to view sensitive information, we would like to encourage potentially interested communities to hold discussions through Requests for Comment or similar mechanisms. In particular, some things to think about:

1. Is this right something your community could benefit from?
2. If enabled, how would your community distribute the right?
3. Is there anything specific to your community that is not currently considered in this proposal?

为什么不进行一场全域的征求意见？

All issues are local. Many wikis are unlikely to need something as intensive as SecurePoll for elections. Those that do want to use it may have different reasons for doing so. It is not our intention to force the right onto wikis who may not actually want it.