Wiktionary talk:Votes/Timeline

Voting history
I see that someone has been adding voting histories for newly appointed admins. I really don't think that this is desireable. All admins are equal no matter who supported their nominations. Eclecticology 08:33, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)


 * That was me. I put that all there for the sake of full disclosure, it has nothing to do with equality. Of course all admins are equal no matter who supported them. I think having an archive of their election to admin status is a good thing. Kevin Rector 03:15, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I've been giving this a think too. The concept of Full Disclosure is admirable, but so is the concept of a Secret Ballot.  I don't want The David to take vengence on me, a mere mortal newbie, once he becomes sysop just because I voted against him.  I believe Full Disclosure applies to voting only on proposals and prepositions. :-)


 * Just for the record, I have no fear of The David. (Perhaps I should?) :-)  But what we want to avoid is having someone being afraid (an irrational feeling) to express a negative vote.  Cheers, Stranger  --SSL69 23:25, 23 August 2005 (UTC)


 * P.S. Upon re-reading. . .  Fear can be very rational; it is feelings which are, ipso facto, irrational.  --Stranger (SSL69 02:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC))

To archive properly

 * Votes/pl-2009-08/Voting eligibility retracted, see below for Voting eligibility 2
 * Votes/pl-2009-06/Unified Serbo-Croatian does not pass
 * Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2009-07/User:Brett for admin passes
 * Votes/2009-07/Install Transliterator Extension passes
 * Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2009-08/User:Dawnraybot for bot status passes
 * Votes/pl-2009-08/Voting eligibility 2 does not pass
 * Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2009-08/User:MalafayaBot for bot status passes
 * Wiktionary:Votes/2009-08/Rename Category:US Category:American English passes
 * Votes/pl-2009-08/Clarify names of specific entities fails

Why reverse chronologically anyway? --Volants 11:57, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Code
To generate one of the lists, I have used the following regular expression replacement:
 * Search term: Votes/pl-\(.*\)/\(.*\)
 * Replacement: * \1; \2

An input for this replacement was a plain list of votes, such as this:


 * Votes/pl-2006-12/Change style standard to use new trans-top style templates
 * Votes/pl-2006-12/PIE

--Dan Polansky 09:56, 3 April 2010 (UTC)