feature:
provide a voting application doing ranked pairs, or similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_pairs. the input is a list of URLs. the voting can be presented at any entry point, like wikipedia main page. a window would pop up and display 2 options where a user can choose one, or skip the comparison. an optional comment why the comparison was skipped can be given.
use cases:
arbitrary events where simple voting on many entries should order a list, like:
- vote for entries in community wishlist surveys and comparable.
- vote for entries in wiki loves monuments.
benefits:
lets take the use case of voting for entires in the community wishlist survey to describe the benefit: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey . voting on such proposals is heavyweight. there is no easy link out of the wikipedia main page which attracts users to participate. a user needs to wade through a lot of text and the chances to give up are high. while presenting a pair and preference is easy, and sorting the preference is easy and quick. we might get only one click per user, but it is good enough. a "i do not care / i do not understand" should just ignore the comparison, and store it like this as information for the ones who made the proposal and statistics.
the entries can be url's, like wiki pages, wikidata entries, phabricator tickets where information can be extracted like when hovering over a link in wikipedia and a small pop up appears as a summary.
multiple ordered lists can be produced as well. as log in is possible to vote, we know if the person reads, or edits, and how many edits the person makes, etc. like "long term contributors with less than 10 edits a year prefer, while anonymous voters prefer ..."