Wikipedia:WikiProject Democracy

Welcome to WikiProject Democracy! This project aims at improving Wikipedia by helping the democratic structures within the Wikipedia movement by:

• making them more visible
• making the participation in votings, elections and centralized discussions easier by providing and spreading links
• building a forum for and community of contributors who like the idea of democratic Wiki collaboration/cooperation.

You are very welcome to participate!

Elections, votings and centralised discussions

• Wikipedia:Elections
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/All
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
• Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship
• Wikipedia:Good article nominations
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates
  • Wikipedia:Featured article review
• Wikipedia:Featured list candidates
  • Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates
• Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates
• Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates
  • Wikipedia:Featured portal review
• Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates
  • Wikipedia:Featured topic removal candidates
• Wikipedia:Peer review
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (aka Articles for deletion)
  • Wikipedia:XfD today
• Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
• Wikipedia:Third opinion
• Wikipedia:List of petitions
• Category:Wikipedia proposals
• Wikipedia:Voting

See also

• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a democracy – an often misunderstood and misused policy developed from the initial thoughts by David Gerard and Jimmy Wales that Wikipedia was not primarily an experiment in Internet democracy.

In sister projects

• m:Wikimedia Foundation elections (Board of Trustees, FDC, ArbCom, Stewards, …)
• m:Requests for comment
• m:Meta:Requests for comment
• mw:Requests for comment
• 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
• wikivoyage:Wikivoyage:Requests for comment

Petitions, essays, open letters

• m:Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• meta:Wikimedia Foundation transparency gap
• meta:Wikimedia Foundation membership controversy
• v:Questions of democracy and social responsibility within the Wikimedia movement

Tools

The Barnstar of Democracy

• wmf:Bylaws
• mw:SecurePoll
• List of on-topic Wikipedia articles: Portal:Politics/Topics#Democracy

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)} 23:29, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
• Adamw (talk) 08:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
• Claudia Paine22 (talk) 00:23, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Claudia Paine22
• Joymenezes (talk) 8:36, 28 March 2016 (IST)
• Firstclass306 (talk) 19:25, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
• pwxyz (talk) 10:49, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
• Jeferson (talk) 13:52, 13 July 2019 (BRL)
• Sm8900 (talk) 19:42, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
• [Imanuelfandafentura](click here to add your name)

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Regina Obilo