edo - Open architecture for e-democracy

    ( sync'd → ~/project/_/_autoindex-summary.html

    - layering as way to view architecture:
      http://groups.google.com/group/votorola/t/ac317abfed721768
    - obsolete, from previous design attempt (aborted):
        / http://reluk.ca/wiki/User:Mike-ZeleaCom/Architecture
        - interfaces
             - example of example showing results, if ever needed
               ====Example====
               {{User:Mike-ZeleaCom/ApiEx
                | p1=method=qstreetwiki
                | result=<source lang='xml'><?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
               <edo>
                   <quser>
                       <id streetwiki='http://okidoke.referata.com/wiki' username='JoeSmith'/>
                       </quser>
                   </edo></source
        = move blurb about openess into the requirements

        = fix my subpages listing
        + issue naming
            |
                = WIK/ISS
                    - wiki has identifier WIK, reserved in the mapping interface
                    - issue has local identifier ISS
                    - position pages named p/WIK/ISS
        + user id
            | streetwiki WIK + username
            | streetwiki URL + username
                -! painful to escape from referata.com
                    - vote-servers can port user IDs, but user's votes are scattered across multiple
                      vote-servers
                    - can't be helped
          / | email address
          / | OpenID
          // overcomplicated
        + preference routing (part of voting interface)
            = default vote-server does this
                - if it does it unfairly, the wiki admins will use a different default vote-server
                - till something better found
                    | browser extension that recognizes poll/issue pages,
                      and gives you voting controls
            = mapping interface
                - in mapwiki
                [ posting the URL of the route script, for every vote-server network
                    - URL changes must stand for a week, before being accepted
                    - user chooses vote-server network by reference to its routerwiki URL,
                      and posts it in streetwiki (preference posting interface)
                [ register of names (WIK) for issue posting wikis (pollwikis and streetwikis)
                  and local voter registries (streetwikis)
                    - purposes
                        - simplify geographic routing based on name patterns
                        - reduce size of position page URL, which is namespaced by issue posters
                        - allow wiki URL to change independently
                            - especially crucial because voter ID incorporates registry ID,
                              and should not change if the registry URL changes

        = rough out content, section by section
            = add preference routing method: redirpos
                - so issue pages can redirect to user's own postition
        - user authentication in remote client, such as vote-server
            | http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Meta#userinfo_.2F_ui
                - e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo
                       http://okidoke.referata.com/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo
                - falling back to OpenID
            | request Special:Mypage, and read the redirect you get in reply
            | OpenID
                - correlated to user ID by callback to wiki, exactly as Votorola
                  currently correlates with email address
        - user ID
            | streetwiki URL + wiki username
                - this is preferred, because it is universally recognized
                - if the ID changes, the user must regather trust, and autocast her votes
                  over from the old name - no problem
          / | email address, as verified by streetwiki
          /     - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Meta#userinfo_.2F_ui
          /       e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=email
          /     - potentially stable across wikis, including streetwiki forks
          / | streetwiki URL + wiki user ID
          /     - more stable per wiki, because extension Renameuser does not affect ID,
          /       so I gather from its talk page

    preference routing`
    - per email to Thomas, 2010-3-21