Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-4189499-20150514235412

Hey all. As you know, we recently changed the difficulties on either side of medium from "considerably easy/hard" to "somewhat easy/hard", and that is reflected everywhere on this wiki apart from one place: polls. The problem with polls is that if you change them, even just a single word, they reset completely. So, how are we gonna handle poll pages so we can get them saying "somewhat"?

One option is to just reset all the polls and have done with it. Start again from scratch. The problem with that is, however, that discussion surrounding the poll results will no longer make any sense, and you won't have past results left there for legacy reasons. On the upside, it would be very easy to do via bot.

A second option is to move all poll pages to another subpage of each poll page called "archive" and then recreate the poll pages with a fresh poll and a link to the archive. That would leave us with a "blank canvas" if you will, allowing all polls to start agaion from scratch but preserving the previous results and comments. The downside is that not all polls on those pages are about difficulty, yet they will all have to be moved to the archive. But on the upside, poll pages can then be recreated for all levels with a poll for overall difficulty, and the 1, 2, 3 star difficulties.

The third option is to work on the current poll pages, but just put a fresh poll at the top with the new difficulties and put the rest of the polls on the page under a heading called archive. If we were going to be slightly more tricky, all the difficulty polls can be moved under a heading called archive while the rest remain at the top of the page, but testing will have to be done first to figure out if moving the polls within the page will blank their results. That would be a lot harder to do, but might be a better result overall.

Are there any other suggestions? What do people think of the above proposals?

Note: All these poll will be fixed by bot, so individuals don't have to waste their time changing these pages. The bot who will be doing the changes is my new bot, User:Imamadbot. This not only saves time, but also introduces uniformity into the system. Also, why would you waste your time doing something which could be done automatically? 