Democracy

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

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

Petitions and open letters

• Requests for comment/Vote of no confidence on Arnnon Geshuri
• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Petition to Jimbo

Essays & discussions

• Wikimedia Foundation transparency gap‎
• Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/James Heilman removal FAQ
• Democratizing the Wikimedia Foundation
• Democratic Wikipedia
• Wikipedia Democratic Party
• Linguistic democracy in a multilingual project
• Connecting knowledge to power: the future of digital democracy in the UK
• Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Questions of democracy and social responsibility within the Wikimedia movement
• Grants:PEG/Instituto BETA para Internet e Democracia/Wikitonas da diversidade 2014
• Research:Online harassment resource guide#Is Self-Governance Democratic or Oligarchic?

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)
• (click to add your name here)