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:

+/− July 2021 July 29: Programs & Events Dashboard 2021 user survey launched (preview). July 29: Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program Information Session - I (Education). July 17: Universal Code of Conduct enforcement & Movement Strategy roundtable discussions. July 13: Wikimedia Foundation FY21-22 Annual Plan published July 10 - July 11: Universal Code of Conduct consultation sessions with members of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team and administrators from emerging communities. July 3 - August 1: 2021 Wikimedia Foundation elections campaign activities and meetings. July 2: Confirmed candidates for the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation elections announced June 2021 June 29: Community Resilience & Sustainability Office Hour with Amanda Keton, Jaime Villagomez, and Maggie Dennis. June 29 : All traffic from all wikis will be switched to the secondary data center. All wikis will be in read-only mode around 14:00 UTC. June 27 : Movement Charter Global Conversation June 26 - June 27: Universal Code of Conduct consultation sessions with Stewards, Global sysops, CheckUsers, Oversighters, and members of the Arbitration Committees. June 21 : Small updates to privacy policies; see Diff post for more information. June 19 : ESEAP Virtual General Meeting #10 June 16 - June 25: Movement Charter discussion: three questions needing answers June 12: Universal Code of Conduct enforcement roundtable discussions. June 9: Candidate Resources for Board of Trustees candidates published June 6: Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meetings at 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC. June 6: The AffCom is seeking new members! Applications are accepted from June 1 to June 30. Also, everyone can share endorsement and comments for the June 2021 candidates. June 5 – June 24: The deadline to apply for Wikimedia grants Regional Committee has been extended till 24 June 2021. May 2021 May 21 – June 21: Wikimedia users are notified that the IRC coordinating group is moving our IRC presence to libera.chat. IRC users will need to create new user accounts. Detail about migration and account creation at Special:MyLanguage/IRC/Migrating to Libera Chat. 15 & May 29: Universal Code of Conduct enforcement roundtable discussions. May 13: WMF Board of Trustee's Community Affairs Committee Office Hour. May 3: Call for Board Election Volunteers.

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)
• AnotherEditor144 ^{t - c} 11:02, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
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