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Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something

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

> 100,000

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Wikipedia for World Heritage

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> 10,000

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Response to 2017 ban in Turkey

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Wikimedia GFDL to Creative Commons Licensing Change, 2009

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

> 1,000

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Global sysops vote

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

Community open letter on renaming

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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

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2015 Board elections

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  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(Trivia: 4,620 voted "neutral" in support of Peteforsyth who had withdrawn shortly before.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

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

2016 ArbCom election

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  1. Newyorkbrad 1,097

2017 ArbCom election

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  1. KrakatoaKatie 1,072

2018 ArbCom election

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  1. GorillaWarfare 1,064

2024 open letter on the ANI lawsuit

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  • More than 1,000 people signed the open letter urging the Wikimedia Foundation to protect user privacy.

See also

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