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:

September 2019 September 6–8: WikiConvention francophone 2019 takes place in Brussels. August 2019 Aug–Nov: Please read the Wikimedia 2030 draft recommendations by the working groups. Aug 16 – Aug 18: Wikimania May 2019 April–July: 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.

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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