Discussion on IRC [1] has brought up the following idea to help improve the situation of the voting drought:

Create a small display on any entity page which would allow a user to quickly/easily vote on edits relevant to that entity.

This would be something similar to ocharles' scheduling game [2], but it would be small and appear either as a javascript popup, or iframe, or the like. One possibility is to indicate pending edits first [3,4] before displaying the actual voting interface. It should display edits for entities in the following priority:

Release/RG:

• Direct release/RG edits
• Recordings on current release
• Direct edits to current release's artist
• Direct edits to artist appearing on the release (for various artists tracks)

Artist:

• Direct artist edits
• Artist's release/RG edits
• Artist's recordings

Work:

• Direct work edits
• Edits to related entities
• Direct edits to artists of artist credits on related entities (e.g. a rename of an artist on an AC for a recording of a work)

"Skip" / abstain should be a big easy-to-hit button in order to reduce unconsidered voting. Once the user has voted or skipped all edits related to the current entity, it should display a big thank you, and go away.

1. http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2012/2012-01/2012-01-11.html#T21-17-14-578768
2. http://scheduling.ocharles.org.uk/
3. See attached file: pendingedits.png
4. http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/temp/mbmockups/bs-rg.html