This is a list of times when at least 1000 Wikipedians (ideally excluding sock puppets) actually explicitly voted in support of someone or something.

Wikipedia for World Heritage

• 101,778 signed the petition Wikipedia:Wikipedia for World Heritage

Response to 2017 ban in Turkey

• Meta:Response to 2017 ban in Turkey (13,998)

Wikimedia GFDL to Creative Commons Licensing Change, 2009

1. Yes - 13,242
2. No - 1,829

Global sysops vote

• meta:Global sysops/Vote

1,802 eligible users voted on the creation of global sysop group, in which 1,385 was in favor.

Community open letter on renaming

• meta:Community open letter on renaming

This June 2020 petition passed 1000 signatures in August 2021. In the petition, community members object to the Wikimedia Foundation renaming itself as "Wikipedia".

Open letter for freedom of panorama

• 4,247 people signed an open letter to the European Parliament on German Wikipedia within 6 days (23 – 29 June 2015) following a central notice banner campaign. See also Wikipedia:Freedom of Panorama 2015, m:Freedom of Panorama in Europe in 2015.

2015 Board elections

1. Raystorm - 2,184
2. Pundit - 2,028
3. Phoebe - 1,955
4. Doc James - 1,857
5. Denny - 1,628
6. Carrite - 1,571
7. Taketa - 1,524
8. Pgallert - 1,467
9. CristianCantoro - 1,381
10. Sj - 1,330
11. Smerus - 1,192
12. Ali Haidar Khan - 1,134
13. Mohamed Ouda - 1,112
14. EdSaperia - 1,109
15. Sky Harbor - 1,069
16. Saileshpat - 1,010

(Trivia: 4,620 voted "neutral" in support of Peteforsyth who had withdrawn shortly before. This is the highest number of votes reached overall elections.)

2015 ArbCom election

1. Opabinia regalis - 1,121
2. Casliber - 1,118
3. Keilana - 1,118
4. GorillaWarfare - 1,111
5. Drmies - 1,038

2016 ArbCom election

1. Newyorkbrad 1,097

2017 ArbCom election

1. KrakatoaKatie 1,072

2018 ArbCom election

1. GorillaWarfare 1,064

• WP:100, WP:200 and WP:300+
• WP:WikiProject Democracy
• WP:Million
• User:NoSeptember/RfA voting records