Ruwiki users needs to test secret ballot through SecurePoll
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	Nov 6 2021, 2:11 AM

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Ruwiki now holds a RfC about switching its ArbCom elections to half-secret ballot (votes should not be published until voting ended, after that votes should be published to all users). Several years ago I got a sysop rights on testwiki for SecurePoll testing, and now I decided to test if SecurePoll fits our requirements. Several years ago I have successfully created test elections in SecurePoll.

Today I went to https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/create , set up settings, but can't create a vote, because I don't filled "Election administrator" field. I can't be an election administrator, because I'm not a member of group "electionadmin". I went to https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php and realized that there are electionadmins on votewiki. I filled "election administrator" field with usernames of electionadmins from https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:listusers?group=electionadmin , but the system answers me that they aren't electionadmins too. I try to create poll for votewiki with the same result.

How ruwiki can test half-secret ballot, if it can be done with SecurePoll?

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Mentioned In: T295213: https://vote.wikimedia.org/ is on the Persian language
Mentioned Here: T290856: SecurePoll's management groups were removed from testwiki [public]

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MBH created this task.Nov 6 2021, 2:11 AM

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MBH added a project: Elections.Nov 6 2021, 2:12 AM

Huji mentioned this in T295213: https://vote.wikimedia.org/ is on the Persian language.Nov 6 2021, 2:30 AM

You can try the beta cluster: https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki

You still need to be added to the electionadmin group for that beta wiki, and I'm not sure who can add you. @Niharika might know.

By the way, I don't think https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki needs to be in Persian anymore; but I'm not sure if its interface language configuration is independent from the actual votewiki (it may not be).

Please see T290856.

In T295214#7487100, @Huji wrote:

By the way, I don't think https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki needs to be in Persian anymore; but I'm not sure if its interface language configuration is independent from the actual votewiki (it may not be).

It's not, but it can be.

Just needs wgLanguageCode setting in InitialiseSettings-labs.php for votewiki, otherwise it'll use the value in InitialiseSettings.php for votewiki (ala production).

Reedy edited projects, added WMF-General-or-Unknown; removed MediaWiki-extensions-SecurePoll.Nov 6 2021, 10:04 PM

@Reedy fair; creating a separate task for it.

In T295214#7487098, @Huji wrote:

You can try the beta cluster: https://vote.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki

You still need to be added to the electionadmin group for that beta wiki, and I'm not sure who can add you. @Niharika might know.

Instructions are at the wiki's main page -- any beta votewiki admin can create an account (and any bureaucrat may grant election-related rights). Happy to put them at a more visible place though.

@Urbanecm you are an admin and bureaucrat on betavotewiki - so, please, can you create an account for me and grant me rights for creating elections?

Sure thing! I'll need your preferred username and a contact email address.
If you wish, you can submit the details privately via
martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz.

Martin helps me.

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