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:

May 2019 May 6: There is a discussion to remove all administrators and bureaucrats on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia for alleged misuse of admin rights. April-June: Please participate in the Movement Strategy Community Conversations. April 01 - June 01: The Billboards Initiative: It focuses on installation of static and digital billboards around two different cities of Nepal, and sharing the project via social media sites. Basically, we are engaging new readers. April 2019 April 17 - TBA: A proposal to modify the Language proposal policy has been published at Language proposal policy/4-2019 proposed revision. Please join the discussion at Talk:Language proposal policy/4-2019 proposed revision. April 15 - April 30: Nominations for Affiliate Selected Board Seats, see Affiliate-selected Board seats/Resolution 2019 April 11: You will not be able to edit most Wikimedia wikis for up to 30 minutes on 11 April 05:00 UTC. This is because of a hardware problem. You can still read the wikis. You can see which wikis are affected. The time you can not edit might be shorter than 30 minutes. March 2019 March 21 – April 17: Wikimedia Foundation is seeking volunteers to join a revised Communications committee. March 29-31: Wikimedia Summit 2019 took place in Berlin. February 2019 February 26 – May: Wikimedia Foundation explores a proposal on Wikimedia brand research and strategy. For public feedback, please go to Talk:Communications/Wikimedia brands/2030 research and planning/community review. For private, please email to brandprojectwikimedia.org. There are other ways to share feedback, like scheduling a meeting. February 25 – March 23: A video tutorial regarding how to create references with VisualEditor is in development, and depending on funding might be made available in English and Spanish. Additional video tutorials may be produced in the future. You can subscribe to the project newsletter. Feb 17 – Mar 3: Final choice for the logo of WikiClassics user group. We value your feedback. voting is running until 3 March 2019, 00:00 (UTC) Feb 8 – Feb 28: 2019 Steward elections voting is running until 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC) January 2019 January: It is possible to share endorsement and comments for the December 2018 candidates to the Affiliations Committee. Jan 15–28: Candidate submissions for the 2019 Steward elections will begin on January 15 and will end on January 28. Eligible candidates can nominate themselves. December 2018 December 3: The Community Wishlist Survey 2019 has concluded, and the results have been posted. November 2018 November 16–30: You can vote on proposals in Community Wishlist Survey 2019. Voting phase lasts until November 30. November 27–29: WikiCite 2018—the 3rd annual event of the initiative aiming to build a centralized database of sources in Wikidata—will take place in Berkeley, CA, USA. The program is available. November 22–24: The first large Wikipedia gathering in Nepal, Wikicamp Nepal 2018 will take place in Lahan, Nepal.

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)
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