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:

January 2020 20 January – 21 February: The last facilitated round of movement discussions on the Wikimedia 2030 recommendations is taking place. 19 January: Requests for comment/Should the Foundation call itself Wikipedia - a motion to clarify the 2030 branding movement community consultation as to whether the WMF should rename itself. 15 January – 28 January: Candidate submissions for the 2020 Steward elections will begin on January 15 and will end on January 28. Eligible candidates can nominate themselves. January: It is possible to share endorsement and comments for the December 2019 candidates to the Affiliations Committee. 5 January: RfC: Update "Admin activity review policy"—a procedural motion to include the Interface administrator within existing review process. 25 January: The monthly Wikimedia Café online meeting will occur. The Café will be on a Saturday and will be earlier in the day than in previous months. The agenda is here, and you are welcome to add items to the agenda. November 2019 November 2019 – March 2020: Members of the nine thematic Working Groups concluded their task of drafting recommendations for the movement 2030 strategy. Three new groups with new tasks have been composed. October 2019 22 October: There is a discussion to remove all administrators, bureaucrats, and CheckUsers and set up an Arbitration Committee on the Croatian Wikipedia for alleged misuse of admin rights to promote biased content.

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

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)
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