VirusWiki - Virian Voting

Virian Voting

This document is fundamental and requires a vote to be accepted.

Franchise

All members of the congregation which is comprised of Virians who have elected to join Meridion (Refer "Reputation rating system") have a voice in the affairs of the Church of Virus, in that all members of the congregation are able to vote in any Virian Vote to which they have access.

Members of the Virian congregation may lose access to vote if they are silenced, but only for the period of silencing.

Call For Vote

All VirianLuminaries and above, i.e. those members of the congregation with a sufficiently high reputation as determined by Meridion, have the ability to establish votes.

DavidLucifer: Mermaid was confused by the terminilogy. What exactly does "establish" mean here? A flow chart of the different phases would be very helpful.

All proposed votes must first be posted on the Wiki

The exact wording of the proposed Vote must be provided as follows:

Category: What are the possible categories?
Title:
Question:
Selection: select either single or multiple
Option 1:
Option 2:
...
Option n:

In addition the proposal must also complete the following:

Class: select compulsory or informational
Closes: Description of when it is proposed the vote be closed if not at a 60% or greater of equity polled.
Adjudication: If not on a 60% support level for a two option vote, or "winner takes all" on a multi-choice vote.
Restricted: Indicate if restricted to a certain group, e.g. VirianCouncil, VirianVectors

Suggestions for category:

Policy:Wiki
Policy:Virian
Doctrine
Doctrine:Illumination
Doctrine:Best Of Virus
Conference (or Infection)
Poll

All proposals for a vote must be signified by adding VoteCalledFor to the page describing the vote.

Any VirianVector may edit the wording of the proposal for a vote until a wording agreeable to all is reached.

When changing the wording, all other Vector's names that may be present should be removed from the VoteCalledFor tag.

Acceptance is signified by suffixing the assenting VirianVector names to the proposal e.g. VoteCalledFor VectorHermit

As soon as 4 VirianVectors signify assent, a vote may be posted to the Virian Voting Page.

Mermaid suggested that this level of qualification should only be necessary for votes on policy.

Notice that the full address of the article being posted, including version number must be provided. e.g. http://virus.lucifer.com/wiki/WikiVote?version=10

If no changes to a page having a VoteCalledFor tag have been made within 3 days, a vote may be posted without further approval by removing the VoteCalledFor tag and changing it to a WorkInVoting tag.

A call for a Vote may be cancelled by replacing the VoteCalledFor tag by a WorkInProgress Tag.

The numbers and periods on this page may be altered as required by the Virian Council.

Voting Procedures

All members of the congregation are expected to vote on all issues put to the vote.

Some types of votes may require a minimum reputation in order to participate.

All votes have an abstain button. A vote for abstention is classed as a vote for the purposes of this rule.

Votes to accept or reject a wiki page becoming an official document must be carried out under the conditions established in terms of the WikiVote rules.