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This is a list of times when at least 300 Wikipedians (ideally excluding sock puppets) actually explicitly voted in support of something.

This is an extension of WP:100 and WP:200. The next step is at: Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something.

Wikimedia Foundation elections

Arbitration Committee Elections

  1. Can't sleep, clown will eat me – 303 (not appointed, as 100 opposed)
  1. Newyorkbrad – 552
  2. Raul654 – 317 (not appointed)
  3. Giano II – 312 (not appointed)
  1. Casliber – 377
  2. Rlevse – 306
  3. Risker – 302
  1. Kirill Lokshin – 507
  2. Coren – 444
  3. Mailer diablo – 365
  4. SirFozzie – 364
  5. Hersfold – 351
  6. Fritzpoll – 351
  7. Steve Smith – 338
  8. Shell Kinney – 309
  9. AGK – 308
  1. Newyorkbrad – 591
  2. Casliber – 459
  3. SirFozzie – 455
  4. Iridescent – 425
  5. Elen of the Roads – 381
  6. Xeno – 385
  7. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry – 320
  1. Courcelles – 433
  2. Risker – 401
  3. Roger Davies – 374
  4. Kirill Lokshin – 372
  5. Herfold – 347
  6. AGK – 342
  7. Jclemens – 313
  8. SilkTork – 309
  1. Newyorkbrad – 584
  2. NuclearWarfare – 454
  3. Worm That Turned – 446
  4. Elen of the Roads – 375
  5. Carcharoth – 361
  6. Timotheus Canens – 347
  7. Coren – 341
  8. Salvio giuliano – 302
  1. 28bytes – 475 (resigned before appointment)
  2. GorillaWarfare – 458
  3. AGK – 415
  4. Roger Davies – 389
  5. Floquenbeam – 350
  6. Seraphimblade – 339
  7. Beeblebrox – 314
  1. DGG – 359
  2. Dougweller – 345
  3. Courcelles – 327
  4. Salvio giuliano – 323
  • All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
  1. Opabinia regalis 1,121
  2. Casliber 1,118
  3. Keilana 1,118
  4. GorillaWarfare 1,111
  5. Drmies 1,038
  6. Kirill Lokshin 965
  7. Gamaliel 902
  8. Callanecc 848
  9. Kelapstick 738
  • All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
  1. Newyorkbrad 1,097
  2. DeltaQuad 987
  3. Doug Weller 961
  4. DGG 851
  5. Euryalus 819
  6. Ks0stm 720
  7. Mkdw 677

Board elections

  1. Pundit – 2,028
  2. Doc James – 1,857
  3. Denny – 1,628

Funds Dissemination Committee elections

  1. Laurentius – 536
  2. Wittylama – 365
  3. Aegis Maelstrom – 336
  4. Itzike – 309

FDC Ombudsperson elections

  1. Kirill Lokshin – 370
  2. NickK – 333

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Regarding Policy

  • 407 in favour of implementation in some form, and 217 opposed, with 44 other responses.
  • 424 in support (354 opposed; 102 neutral)
  • 312 supported, 33 opposed.
  • 304 supported, 151 opposed.

Miscellaneous

Petition to Jimbo

  • 687 supported changing the main page. 213 opposed it, making the Main Page change the first issue opposed by over 200 Wikipedians.
  • More than 1,800 participated; consensus led to the decision for a 24-hour shutdown on January 18 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. Note that all three numbers decrease significantly if accounts created solely to participate in the discussion are excluded.
    • 591 supported making it a global blackout (vs. 479 for U.S.-only).
    • 763 supported a full blackout with no editing (vs. a "soft" blackout).
  • In a poll, which ran from 4 August 2013 until 2 September, on the presentation of the VisualEditor Wikipedia editing tool,
    • 472 people indicated support for making its use an opt-in choice during its beta software stage of development
    • 117 people indicated support for an opt-out choice
    • 257 people indicated support for not presenting the tool to anonymous users
    • 181 people indicated support for disabling VisualEditor on all existing accounts and requiring explicit re-opt-in
    • 168 people indicated support for displaying a warning about using beta software when pressing "edit".
  • 973 people (as of December 2015) signed a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation in support of:

See also