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
Can't sleep, clown will eat me – 303 (not appointed, as 100 opposed)
Newyorkbrad – 552
Raul654 – 317 (not appointed)
Giano II – 312 (not appointed)
Casliber – 377
Rlevse – 306
Risker – 302
Kirill Lokshin – 507
Coren – 444
Mailer diablo – 365
SirFozzie – 364
Hersfold – 351
Fritzpoll – 351
Steve Smith – 338
Shell Kinney – 309
AGK – 308
Newyorkbrad – 591
Casliber – 459
SirFozzie – 455
Iridescent – 425
Elen of the Roads – 381
Xeno – 385
Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry – 320
Courcelles – 433
Risker – 401
Roger Davies – 374
Kirill Lokshin – 372
Herfold – 347
AGK – 342
Jclemens – 313
SilkTork – 309
Newyorkbrad – 584
NuclearWarfare – 454
Worm That Turned – 446
Elen of the Roads – 375
Carcharoth – 361
Timotheus Canens – 347
Coren – 341
Salvio giuliano – 302
28bytes – 475 (resigned before appointment)
GorillaWarfare – 458
AGK – 415
Roger Davies – 389
Floquenbeam – 350
Seraphimblade – 339
Beeblebrox – 314
DGG – 359
Dougweller – 345
Courcelles – 327
Salvio giuliano – 323
All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were: Opabinia regalis 1,121
Casliber 1,118
Keilana 1,118
GorillaWarfare 1,111
Drmies 1,038
Kirill Lokshin 965
Gamaliel 902
Callanecc 848
Kelapstick 738
All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were: Newyorkbrad 1,097
DeltaQuad 987
Doug Weller 961
DGG 851
Euryalus 819
Ks0stm 720
Mkdw 677
Board elections
Pundit – 2,028
Doc James – 1,857
Denny – 1,628
Funds Dissemination Committee elections
Laurentius – 536
Wittylama – 365
Aegis Maelstrom – 336
Itzike – 309
FDC Ombudsperson elections
Kirill Lokshin – 370
NickK – 333None yet
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