Supervisor: uNiversal <>
Announced end of poll: 31/10/2014
Actual time poll closed:
This is a public poll.
Actual votes cast: 35
Number of winning choices:  (Poll actually has 2 winners)
This poll implements proportional representation. The best-candidate criterion is used to identify each voter's preferred set of choices.
Condorcet completion rule:    (What is this?)
Minimax
Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD
CIVS Ranked Pairs
MAM
Condorcet-IRV

Poll description

Decide what XWMM should be renamed to. See http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=205507

Choices (in individual preference order)

  1. WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim)
  2. BAMM - Browser Accessible Media Manager
  3. MetaMan: 'metadata manager'
  4. REMM: Remote Enhanced (Entertainment) Media Manager
  5. Janus - (just a name no acronym)
  6. Block - (just a name no acronym)
  7. Tauri - (just a name no acronym)
  8. Furia - (just a name no acronym)

Winning set of choices

The apparent winner of this poll was the set of choices ( 1,2,3 ):

  1. WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim)
  2. BAMM - Browser Accessible Media Manager
  3. MetaMan: 'metadata manager'

Preference matrix

There are 56 possible sets of 3 choices that can be formed by selecting from the 8 choices. Of these, 4 sets were considered thoroughly, comparing against the 16 nearby (similar) sets that differ in just one choice.

This is the voting preference matrix, reporting maximal valid proportional preferences. Fractional digits indicate nonproportional preferences, which help break ties in proportional preference.

  1234
1. (1,2,3)   -0.18 10.17 20.21
2. (1,3,4)   0.08 -10.14 13.17
3. (1,2,4)   0.12 0.16 -18.2
4. (2,3,4)   0.07 0.12 0.11 -

Pairwise comparison

You can compare any two sets of choices. Just enter the numbers of the choices (from 1 to 8) in each set, with the numbers of one set's choices in the left column and the numbers of the other's in the right column.

Set 1Set 2

Nonproportional poll

The following gives the details of how the poll would have resulted if run on single choices, without proportional representation. This hypothetical poll defines the “individual preference order” used above.

Ranking of the choices

Winning choices are shown in bold.

1. WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim)  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)
2. BAMM - Browser Accessible Media Manager  loses to WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim) by 17–12
3. MetaMan: 'metadata manager'  loses to WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim) by 20–11, loses to BAMM - Browser Accessible Media Manager by 16–14
4. REMM: Remote Enhanced (Entertainment) Media Manager  loses to WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim) by 21–7, loses to MetaMan: 'metadata manager' by 17–12
5. Janus - (just a name no acronym)  loses to WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim) by 20–10, loses to REMM: Remote Enhanced (Entertainment) Media Manager by 17–10
6. Block - (just a name no acronym)  loses to WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim) by 21–9, loses to Janus - (just a name no acronym) by 13–12
7. Tauri - (just a name no acronym)  loses to WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim) by 24–5, loses to Block - (just a name no acronym) by 17–10
8. Furia - (just a name no acronym)  loses to WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim) by 24–6, loses to Tauri - (just a name no acronym) by 13–10

For simplicity, some details of the poll result are not shown.  

Result details

  12345678
1. WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim)   -17 20 21 20 21 24 24
2. BAMM - Browser Accessible Media Manager   12 -16 18 19 19 21 20
3. MetaMan: 'metadata manager'   11 14 -17 17 18 19 20
4. REMM: Remote Enhanced (Entertainment) Media Manager   7 8 12 -17 18 18 16
5. Janus - (just a name no acronym)   10 9 11 10 -13 13 13
6. Block - (just a name no acronym)   9 9 10 10 12 -17 14
7. Tauri - (just a name no acronym)   5 6 10 8 12 10 -13
8. Furia - (just a name no acronym)   6 9 8 11 12 12 10 -

Ballot reporting was not enabled for this poll.

The following matrix shows the strength of the strongest beatpath connecting each pair of choices. Choice 1 is ranked above choice 2 if there is a stronger beatpath leading from 1 to 2 than any leading from 2 to 1.

  1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.
1. WIMM - Web Interface Media Manager (whim)   -17–12 20–11 21–7 20–10 21–9 24–5 24–6
2. BAMM - Browser Accessible Media Manager   . -16–14 18–8 19–9 19–9 21–6 20–9
3. MetaMan: 'metadata manager'   . . -17–12 17–11 18–10 19–10 20–8
4. REMM: Remote Enhanced (Entertainment) Media Manager   . . . -17–10 18–10 18–8 16–11
5. Janus - (just a name no acronym)   . . . . -13–12 13–12 13–12
6. Block - (just a name no acronym)   . . . . . -17–10 14–12
7. Tauri - (just a name no acronym)   . . . . . . -13–10
8. Furia - (just a name no acronym)   . . . . . . . -

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