Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-29433180-20160821052702/@comment-29433180-20160823073620

TheShadowAssassin wrote: Herr keplers wrote:

LordWeirdo wrote:

Alemas2005 wrote: Um, yes, this vote would make perfect sense...

...if only we could actually know how big the active community is.

Using Special:ListUsers, even after deselecting all the irrelevant groups, we get over 900 records, including dupes and blocked users. While I would be voting A), I'll hold back until we can sort this out. We'd need a census.

While yes, we usually have around 40 active members at any one time, it often happens that inactive users pop back in for a vote. It's definitely not as straightforward as you think. My concerns exactly with this vote. Ironically, in attempting to bypass a bureaucratic hiccup, we find ourselves looking at a bureaucratic mess. I look to Roddy's comment. If it's that awful, all we need is a blog with a poll on it with one option: "I am active here." Users are directed there and the poll's results are the official number of active people on the wiki. Users without an account can also vote, and also, who's to say that everyone is going to vote anyway? I could just choose not to. Then you would be discounted from census. I heavily, heavilydoubt that users without accounts will vote, and even if they did it would not add nearly enough to change the average.