Talk:Quadratic voting

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2019 and 4 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Melissawwang. Peer reviewers: Jameswang323, Shrino, Berkeleynicholas, Oliviadey, Adamng926, Mervitan.

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2020 and 2 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Ryanliou, Sid900. Peer reviewers: Esk00, Ethanpak, H.Susanna, Lucaskim7, Candreaangulo, Jeshgus, Thenihalsingh, Lindseyjli3.

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Penrose method
Quadratic voting reminds me of the Penrose method. Markus Schulze 15:12, 18 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I've added that in a new "See also" section. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:18, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Additional source

 * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/a-new-way-of-voting-that-makes-zealotry-expensive -- John Broughton (♫♫) 02:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Potential Articles to Include
"Wayback Machine" (PDF). web.archive.org. 2017-03-01. Retrieved 2019-09-16. Bilton, Nick (2010-07-06). "Changing Government and Tech With Geeks". Bits Blog. Retrieved 2019-09-16. "Code for America Announces 2019 Fellowship Program". www.govtech.com. Retrieved 2019-09-16. America, Code for. "Code for America Summit 2019". Code for America. Retrieved 2019-09-16. Lee, Sherman. "Quadratic Voting: A New Way to Govern Blockchains for Enterprises". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-10-01. Posner, Eric (2017). "Quadratic Voting and the Public Good: Introduction". Public Choice.

Melissawwang (talk) 21:50, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Proposed augmentation/Heads-up about a re-write
I am working to re-write this page to augment Melissawwang's stalwart contributions with some more references from the QV and economics literature. My first stab will be in the History section, and then I will move on to the other sections. My edits will aim to better align the QV page with current academic understanding and emerging consensus about artificial currency QV, and to dive a bit deeper on what is being done with QV. Mgibby5 (talk) 18:19, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

I have done a relatively deep re-write of the history section and a reasonable re-write of the introduction. Next, I will do a re-write of the mechanism section. Mgibby5 (talk) 00:32, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Upcoming Edits
I will be adding and doing edits to this article. Here are some ideas I am planning on implementing:

I'm also super open to any suggestions! Ryanliou (talk) 00:37, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Reformatting the structure of the document
 * History of Quadratic Voting and Applications both contain the same paragraph about Colorado so I'll be deleting the 'History of Quadratic Voting' section and consolidating everything into the Applications section.
 * I'll be separating the Applications section into two subsections: Origination of Idea and Applications throughout the world
 * Within the origination of idea, there will be 2 sections: 'Development in Public Good' and 'Development in Corporate Governance'
 * Within the Applications throughout the World, there will be 2 sections 'United States' and 'Taiwan'
 * Adding more information on E. Glen Weyl and his specific developments to the original idea and its use in Corporate Governance (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2264245)
 * Adding a section under History of Quadratic Voting for Taiwan's use quadratic voting (https://medium.com/@yahsinhuangtw/highlights-from-first-radicalxchange-taipei-meetup-f2a9c3b797ab)
 * Adding a section for criticisms about the issues with individual security of Quadratic Voting (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.05300.pdf)
 * Adding a section for businesses that are responsible for developing Quadratic Voting like Democracy Earth, Collective Design Engineers, and RadicalxChange with a short bio detailing each of their missions involving quadratic voting
 * Fixing grammar mistakes

Peer Review from Civic Tech
I thought the introduction to quadratic voting is really well written because it explains an overview of the definition and origin. The article complies with informing the reader and complies with academic neutral language. I'd suggest including more citations, fixing grammar mistakes, add a more detailed analysis and include external links. There are missing citations and statements that weren't cited and include original work. this needs to be fixed.Candreaangulo (talk) 03:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Peer Review:
I think the topic sentences give a great concise definition of what Quadratic Voting is and overall the lead gives an overview of what the rest of the article will discuss. Overall, I think the article contains a lot of information that often is un-cited, and needs to be re-organized to make the article more concise. Lastly, I agree that the wiki article is missing a section about business today such as Democracy Earth to give more context about the subject of Quadratic voting. Esk00 (talk) 06:46, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Duplicate sources?
There are two different footnotes to "Quadratic voting as efficient corporate governance" (can't tell if it's the same work), and two different footnotes with the same link to "The new voting system that could save our democracies. nesta." -- AnonMoos (talk) 00:18, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Democracy Earth page doesn't exist
There's a link to Democracy Earth but that just redirects to the Sybil attack page. I don't know what normal policies are here, but it was very confusing to me as a reader (I thought it was a broken link). Perhaps the link should be removed if there isn't at least a stub page? Phoenix00017 (talk) 18:34, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Source for the simplified formula?
Where does the formula "cost to the voter = (number of votes)2" come from? I don't have access to the paywalled WSJ source for this formula. But e.g. this Vitalik Buterin essay, when talking about the original paper by Weyl, says: "Now, you might ask, where does the quadratic come from? Well, the marginal cost of the n'th vote is $n (or $0.01 * n), but the total cost of n votes is n²/2.".

So on the Wiki page, what happened to the factor 1/2? MondSemmel2 (talk) 23:04, 7 December 2023 (UTC)