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:

+/− December 2022 December 6⁠ – December 19: Voting for the Wikimedia sound logo December 10: Second office hour for the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team's Event Registration Tool. (ar, en, fr, sw) December 9⁠: Community consultation on the Movement Charter drafts: Regional conversation hour for East Asia, South East Asia, and the Pacific; with interpretation for , + December 7⁠: Community consultation on the Movement Charter drafts: Regional conversation hour for Latin America and the Caribbean; with interpretation for + December 5⁠: Community consultation on the Movement Charter drafts: Regional conversation hour for United States and Canada December 5: First office hour for the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team's Event Registration Tool. (ar, en, fr, sw) December 3⁠: Community consultation on the Movement Charter drafts: Regional conversation hour for Middle East and North Africa; session conducted in with interpretation for December 2⁠: Community consultation on the Movement Charter drafts: Regional conversation hour for South Asia October 3⁠ – December 31: Opportunities open for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee

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
• 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)
• YourUsernames70
• Mycranthebigman (talk) 16:53, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
• Mashkawat.ahsan (talk) 09:24, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

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