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Welcome to WikiProject Democracy! This project aims at improving Wikipedia by helping the democratic structures within the Wikipedia movement by:

Goings-on:

March 2024 edit

March 21: Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees at
March 20: Wikis in read-only mode @ 14:00 UTC.
March 20: Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy: Live call #3 at
March 5–April 1: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election: Call for candidates

February 2024 edit

February 20–March 20: Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan 2024-25 Collaboration
February 28: Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy: Live call #2 at
February 14: Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy: Live call #1 at
February 7–March 20: Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy: Review period for the proposed requirements for affiliates and trial period for user groups
February 6–February 27: 2024 Steward elections voting is running until 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC)

January 2024 edit

January 31: Wikimedia Foundation publishes progress on Annual Plan goals
January 19⁠ – February 2: Voting period to ratify the charter of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (information for voters)
January 15 – January 30: Candidate submissions for the Wikimedia Steward elections are open! If you are eligible, you can submit a nomination.
January 4: Community Letter to the LAC region


The Barnstar of Democracy
  1. making them more visible
  2. making the participation in votings, elections and centralized discussions easier by providing and spreading links
  3. building a forum for and a community of contributors who like the idea of democratic Wiki cooperation.

You are very welcome to participate!

Links to current elections, votings and centralised discussions:

On Meta edit

Petitions, open letters, essays edit

English language Wikipedia edit

English sister projects edit

Policies edit

Participants edit


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