Democracy

WikiProject Democracy

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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:

February 2021 February 19 – February 21: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 January 2021 January 15 – February 16: The submission phase for the Wikifunctions logo concept is officially announced. This will be followed by a community vote. January 15 – January 31: Wikimedia Steward elections started to accept nominations! If you are eligible, you can submit a nomination. December 2020 December 15 – January 14: Applications are open for two WikiLearn online courses. (1) Identifying & Addressing Harassment Online. (2) Partnership Building. December 11 – December 13: WikiConference North America 2020. December 10: Community Resilience & Sustainability office hour. December 8 – December 21: The voting phase on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. November 2020 November 19: Are you a content reviewer on Wikipedia? Give feedback to build trust levels for WikiLoop (second version). November 16: The open video call CEE Talk No 4: Strategy 2030 recommendations and initiatives, Round 4 will be held on 19 November at 18:00 (UTC). November 16 – November 30: The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. November 2 – November 16: Wiki of functions naming contest — second round of voting. November 15: The next Wikimedia Café meeting will be on 15 November at 19:00 UTC. The topic will be the upcoming Global Council. November 1 – November 15: Wikipedia 20 Rapid Grants applications are accepted for birthday celebration events. November 2: The open video call CEE Talk No 3: Strategy 2030 recommendations and initiatives, Round 3 will be held on 5 November at 18:00 (UTC). November 1: Start Wikipedia Asian Month 2020 contest and WikiUral 2020 subcompetition with original prizes (, etc.) until November 30, 2020. October 2020 October 15: Discussion tools has been put into beta testing environment here at MetaWiki. Also see its help page. October 15: Sandister Tei of Accra, Ghana was announced as the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year. September 2020 September 17: After a thorough assessment of large-scale errors at Malagasy Wiktionary, there is a poll and discussion about deleting the inaccurate material. August 2020 August 25: There is currently a request for comment about large scale language inaccuracies on the Scots Wikipedia.

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

• 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
• Wikimedia Foundation transparency gap‎
• Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/James Heilman removal FAQ
• Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Questions of democracy and social responsibility within the Wikimedia movement
• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• 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:Template:Centralized discussion
• c:Commons:Requests for comment
• mw:Requests for comment
• mw:SecurePoll
• 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?

Policies

• wmf:Bylaws

Participants

• .js (((☎))) 14:57, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
• 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)

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