Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-14443911-20160209192756/@comment-1757994-20160210182604

Polls are identified by the MD5 hash of everything between  and. Spaces and carriage returns matter. Any change, no matter how small and insignificant you think it is, results in the system considering it a different poll.

It's possible just to copy the text from one page to another. The page on which the poll appears is irrelevant. Probably a simpler way would be to create the poll on one page just for the poll and then transclude it to places where you want it to appear. Stop transcluding it when you want it not to appear.

Polls never close. If you want to take a snapshot in time, you need to copy down the results and post them somewhere.

As for automating taking a snapshot, it's probably possible. Anyone who looks through the API code in git should be able to figure something out. I'm not sure anyone has, however.