timwi wrote:

Personally, I am against this, because Wikipedia should not be run entirely by
polls. If there was a feature specifically for polls, it would provide
incentive for people to use it more.

I share Timwi's fear. When we have this feature, people will want to use it, and
others will be motivated to game the system.

koneko wrote:

Against it, too

and why should a vote be anonymous ? It's not like the votants would be arrested
or something...

also, I think justification for a vote is important

jediarchives11 wrote:

I think this poll would be useful. I admit that its use would have to be limited and kept
under control, however, in response to Comments #1, 2 and 3's concerns. If it was added, what
I would use it for on my wiki would be to allow users to rate how much liked a book or
videogame. They could simply choose a quality level and vote, then have their vote added to
the total. Simple and easy. This would be in addition to user opinions, though.

robchur wrote:

Wikipedia isn't a retail web site where customers need to compare products, and
what individuals (aside from noted critics) think about a book, videogame,
album, etc. is non-encyclopedic information.

Wikipedia is not a democracy and does not follow conventional voting/polling;
pages such as Requests for Adminship, Articles for Deletion, etc. use a method
which is more complex than a straight vote, which aims to generate consensus,
not a majority verdict.

For further reading, see
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ISNOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_democracy].

jediarchives11 wrote:

All very true. Perhaps this would be better as an extension and not as an actual
part of the code.

robchur wrote:

An optional extension would probably be a good compromise.

Do feel free to make an extension for polls; on many sites these may be fun or
even on-topic. ;)

I'm closing this bug as it doesn't look likely that we'll have such on Wikimedia.
(We have had some special-purpose voting extensions however, for the Wikimedia
foundation board elections.)

I think, Magnus has programmed something. He demonstrated the system to me in
chat @ Wikimania conference.

Magnus, you are the expert, can you elaborate, please ?

jediarchives11 wrote:

If someone has made an extension for this, could they post it please?

robchur wrote:

A meta user appears to have created such an extension. See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sent/Poll for more details.