Democracy

WikiProject Democracy

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Welcome to WikiProject Democracy! This project aims at improving and maintaining the democratic structures within the Wikimedia movement by:

• making them more visible,
• making participation in voting, elections, and centralized discussion easier by providing and spreading links,
• and building a forum and community of contributors who like the concept of democratic wiki collaboration and cooperation.

You are very welcome to participate!

Goings-on:

+/− October 2026 October 17: Wikikonference in Praha, Czechia October 24: WikiConference Seoul 2026 in Seoul, South Korea October 24: Wikimedia Café discussion with lawyer Phil Bradley-Schmieg regarding legal issues on Wikimedia Commons, at 15:00 UTC October 25: Wikimedia Café discussion regarding proposed revisions to how Wikimedia Foundation Board candidates are selected, at 03:00 UTC October 28: Server switch (all wikis in read-only) at 15:00 UTC

Links to current elections, votings and centralised discussions:

On Meta

• Wikimedia Foundation elections (Board of Trustees, FDC, ArbCom, Stewards)
• Requests for comment
• Meta:Requests for comment
• Meta:Requests for adminship
• More Requests for ...

Petitions, open letters, essays

• Petitions
• Project-wide protests

English language Wikipedia

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Democracy
• en:Wikipedia:Centralized discussions
• en:Wikipedia:Elections
• en:Wikipedia:Requests for comment
• en:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
• en:Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship

English sister projects

• c:Commons:Centralized discussion
• c:Commons:Requests for comment
• mw:Requests for comment
• wikibooks:Wikibooks:Policies and guidelines/Vote
• d:Wikidata:Requests for comment
• d:User:Legoktm/RfC report
• wikiquote:Wikiquote:Voting
• wikisource:Wikisource:Requests for comment
• species:Wikispecies:Requests for Comment
• v:Questions of democracy and social responsibility within the Wikimedia movement
• wikivoyage:Wikivoyage:Requests for comment
• Wiktionary?

Tools

The Barnstar of Democracy

• wmf:Bylaws
• Proto
• mw:SecurePoll

Participants

• ElGatoSaez | Meow me 21:20, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
• Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:21, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
• Lionel Scheepmans ^{✉ Contact} _{French native speaker, désolé pour ma dysorthographie} 22:32, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
• Iazyges (talk) 19:55, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
• Viztor (talk) 00:51, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
• Sm8900 (talk) 19:42, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
• Siddikbabu|Talk
• BoldLuis (talk) 17:33, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
• ThesenatorO5-2 (talk) 09:11, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
• Daniel Mietchen (talk) 14:56, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
• Est. 2021 (talk) 02:26, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
• AnotherEditor144 ^{t - c} 11:02, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
• YourUsernames70
• Mycranthebigman (talk) 16:53, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
• Mashkawat.ahsan (talk) 09:24, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
• Chinmayee Mishra (talk) 20:05, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
• –Gluonz ^{talk contribs} 17:06, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
• Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
• Ferdinand Icatlo (User talk:Ferdinand Icatlo)
• Umarxon III (talk) 11:43, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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