Help:Poll

You can add polls to your wiki using a simple syntax.



How do I add poll to a page?
To add a poll, enter the following code:

Title of poll Choice 1 Choice 2 etc.

For example:

What is your favourite color? Red Green Blue Other

Which will result in this:

What is your favourite color? Red Green Blue Other



How does it work?
Votes are registered under either your username or, if you're not logged in, your IP address. This means that it is easy to manipulate the results, and the poll feature should not be used for important purposes.

After they have voted, users will be displayed their own vote and the time they gave it. It is however not possible to display this data for other users.

Users can change their vote anytime.

The poll will display the number and percentage of votes for each choice, the total number of votes given so far, and the date and time when the poll was created.



Can the votes be reset?
It is not possible to end, i.e. to 'freeze', a poll. All polls last indefinitely.

To reset all votes, change either the title or one of the poll's choices (which will, in effect, create a new poll).

Because it's so easy to change and reset polls, past poll results can easily be lost. Reverting to the version prior to the reset may allow you to reclaim the information, but you should not rely on this functionality. If historical polls are important to you, it is safest to record the results in some other form of wikitext, either one time or at intervals.