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electowiki is a website focused on electoral reform and describing alternative electoral systems. It uses MediaWiki (just like Wikipedia).

About

Different electoral systems have different effects on the quality of democratic elections. Many electoral activists wish to replace the antiquated "choose-one" systems (often referred to as "first past the post") which are used in most of the world's elections with better systems. Many voting theorists have researched the topic and support the activists' call for a change. The editors of this wiki support a change too (see "electowiki:EPOV" to learn more).

Movements

There are activism movements for the following:

Single-winner systems, such as:
- Approval voting – a "choose-many" variation on the choose-one system
- Condorcet methods – systems which favor candidates who defeat all other candidates in pairwise comparisons
- Instant runoff voting – one of many ranking systems promoted under the name of "Ranked Choice Voting" (or "RCV")
- Score voting – a system where voters can rate each candidate on a numerical scale
- STAR voting – a variant of score with a majority-rule runoff at the end
Multi-member systems, which offer differing degrees of proportional representation while selecting multiple candidates.

The field of voting theory has had extensive research over the past centuries, including work on:

Criteria – how can we know whether a method behaves the way we want it to?
Strategy – how do different systems encourage different behavior?
Welfare – how well do different systems promote the public good?

To the best of our ability, the electowiki community collects the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts and works together to create a comprehensive reference for all to use.

Regions

Below are the region categories on electowiki ordered (roughly) from east to west:

Oceania
Asia
Africa
Europe
North America
South America

Other pages

Not all pages on Electowiki are neatly categorized. It is still possible to find them in one of these places:

Special:AllPages – for all pages on this wiki (including uncategorized pages)
Category:Contents – a full hierarchical category tree. Most important pages are in some category

Of course, there's always Special:Search as well.

About the project

electowiki is associated with the election-methods mailing list, but all election nerds are welcome here.

electowiki is a wiki, which means anybody can get involved, building free content. We offer a license for anybody to copy and modify the work hosted here. To learn more about us or how to edit, see the Community Portal and Frequently Asked Questions.

Some facts about electowiki:

electowiki was launched in January 2005 as the official wiki for the 2003 "Electorama!" project.
This wiki was created as a home for more detailed information about less-notable methods and articles that are still under development (for Wikipedia and elsewhere) .
electowiki currently has 776 articles in the main collection, as well as many other policy pages, talk pages, and user pages.
electowiki.org (hosted by Miraheze) was started in 2018, with content copied over from the old Electorama wiki site in late 2018.
This wiki (electowiki) has more-or-less superseded the old Electorama wiki.

To learn more about the history of this website, visit electowiki:About. To learn more about reading (and editing!) this website, see Help:Contents.

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+'''electowiki''' is a website focused on [[electoral reform]] and describing alternative [[electoral system]]s. It uses [[MediaWiki]] (just like [[Wikipedia]]).
-Welcome to Electowiki! {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles and counting.
+[[File:Electowiki-rectangle.svg|thumb|200px|right|the electowiki logo since 2018]]
-This wiki is closely associated with the [[Election-methods mailing list]], but is more broadly for communities of election-minded people.
+== About ==
-To learn more, visit [[Electowiki:About]].
+{{Main|About}}
-=== Election Methods ===
+Different [[Electoral system|electoral systems]] have different effects on the quality of democratic elections. Many [[Advocacy |electoral activists]] wish to replace the antiquated "[[First Past the Post electoral system|choose-one]]" systems (often referred to as "[[First Past the Post electoral system|first past the post]]") which are used in most of the world's elections with better systems. Many [[Voting theorist |voting theorists]] have researched the topic and support the activists' call for a change. The editors of this wiki support a change too (see "[[electowiki:EPOV]]" to learn more).
+=== Movements ===
-There has been an increasing awareness in many parts of the world of the effect that different [[Voting system|election methods]] (voting systems, voting methods, etc; this site uses these words interchangeably) have on the quality and timbre of elections and democracy.  There are movements for [[proportional representation]], [[Approval voting]], [[Score voting]], [[instant-runoff voting]], and [[Condorcet method|Condorcet methods]].  This site gives you a guide to what these things are.
+There are activism movements for the following:
+* [[Single-member district|Single-winner systems]], such as:
-But it also goes one step further: There is a vast literature on the [[:Category:Voting theory|theory]] behind these systems: What [[:Category:Voting system criteria|criteria]] can you use to judge whether a particular method works well?  What [[tactical voting|strategies]] will different systems encourage voters to use?  We record the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts, and, by working together, hope to create a canonical reference for all to use.
+** [[Approval voting]] – a "choose-many" variation on the choose-one system
+** [[Condorcet method|Condorcet methods]] – systems which favor candidates who defeat all other candidates in pairwise comparisons
+** [[Instant-runoff voting|Instant runoff voting]] – one of many [[Ranked voting systems|ranking systems]] promoted under the name of "[[Ranked Choice Voting]]" (or "RCV")
+** [[Score voting]] – a system where voters can rate each candidate on a numerical scale
+** [[STAR voting]] – a variant of score with a majority-rule runoff at the end
+* [[Multi-member system]]s, which offer differing degrees of [[proportional representation]] while selecting multiple candidates.
+The field of [[:Category:Voting theory|voting theory]] has had extensive research over the past centuries, including work on:
-=== About the project ===
+* [[:Category:Voting system criteria|'''Criteria''']] – how can we know whether a method behaves the way we want it to?
-This is a wiki!  That means, anybody can get involved, building free content.  We offer a license for anybody to copy and modify our works.  To learn more about us or how to edit, see the [[Project:Community Portal|Community Portal]] and [[Project:FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]].  This project began in January 2005, with an article started on Wikipedia, but has since expanded to include more detailed information about election methods which are still under development and may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
+* '''[[Strategy]]''' – how do different systems encourage different behavior?
+* [[Social utility efficiency|'''Welfare''']] – how well do different systems promote the public good?
+To the best of our ability, the '''[[electowiki]]''' community collects the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts and works together to create a comprehensive reference for all to use.
-electowiki.org (hosted by [https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze Miraheze]) became the new home for Electowiki in late 2018.  The original home (at [https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki.electorama.com]) has a more accurate view of page edit histories of prior to September 2018 (with proper links to authors), and as of this writing in November 2019, still shows up in search engines for many searches.  As wiki.electorama.com is decommissioned, this wiki is expected to supersede the old version.
+=== Categories ===
-'''See [https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 the list of all pages on Electowiki] or the [[:Category:Contents|hierarchical category tree]].'''
+{{Main|Categories}}
+This wiki focuses on '''[[electoral system]]s''' (a.k.a. social choice functions). Articles in the [[:Category:Electoral systems|electoral systems category]] describe specific systems together with their implementation details and features.
+Other categories:
+*[[:Category:Advocacy|'''Advocacy''']] – real-world reforms. Organizations, legislation, and support for voting reform.
+*[[:Category:Elections|'''Elections''']] – analyzing real or hypothetical elections using different methods.
+*[[Electoral system|'''Electoral systems''']] – different rules for selecting representatives.
+*[[:Category:Forms of government|'''Forms of government''']] – representative vs direct democracy, government structure, [[parliamentary government formation]], and even [[anarchy]].
+*[[:Category:Voting mechanics|'''Voting mechanics''']] – real-world implementation details like paper ballots or electronic voting machines.
+*[[:Category:Voting theory|'''Voting theory''']] – criteria and properties of voting methods.
+=== Regions ===
+Below are the [[:Category:Regions|region categories on electowiki]] ordered (roughly) from east to west:
+* '''[[:Category:Oceania|Oceania]]'''
+* '''[[:Category:Asia|Asia]]'''
+* '''[[:Category:Africa|Africa]]'''
+* '''[[:Category:Europe|Europe]]'''
+* '''[[:Category:North America|North America]]'''
+* '''[[:Category:South America|South America]]'''
+===Other pages ===
+Not all pages on Electowiki are neatly categorized. It is still possible to find them in one of these places:
+*'''[https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 Special:AllPages]''' – for all pages on this wiki (including uncategorized pages)
+*'''[[:Category:Contents|Category:Contents]]''' – a full hierarchical category tree. Most important pages are in some category
+Of course, there's always [[Special:Search]] as well.
+===About the project ===
+'''electowiki''' is associated with the [[Election-methods mailing list|'''election-methods mailing list''']], but all election nerds are welcome here.
+electowiki is a [[wiki]], which means anybody can get involved, building free content. We offer a license for anybody to copy and modify the work hosted here. To learn more about us or how to edit, see the [[Project:Community Portal|Community Portal]] and [[Project:FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]].
+Some facts about ''electowiki'':
+*electowiki was launched in January 2005 as the official wiki for the 2003 "[[Electowiki:Electorama!|Electorama!]]" project.
+*This wiki was created as a home for more detailed information about less-notable methods and articles that are still under development (for Wikipedia and elsewhere) .
+*electowiki currently has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles in the main collection, as well as many other policy pages, talk pages, and user pages.
+*electowiki.org (hosted by [[meta:Miraheze|Miraheze]]) was started in 2018, with content copied over from the old [[Electorama wiki]] site in late 2018.
+*This wiki ([[electowiki]]) has more-or-less superseded the old [[Electorama wiki]].
+To learn more about the history of this website, visit [[electowiki:About]]. To learn more about reading (and editing!) this website, see [[Help:Contents]].
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