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The Electorama wiki (also known as "Electowiki" with an uppercase "E") is the predecessor website to electowiki ("electowiki" with a lowercase "e", served by Miraheze). "Electowiki" and "electowiki" share the same goal: to describe a variety of different election methods, and their effect on the quality and timbre of elections and democracy.

Electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier (User:RobLa) as a free-content, MediaWiki-based wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material. It is a spinoff of Electorama.com, which was a Dreamhost-hosted website started in 2003 by Lanphier as a complementary site to the election-methods mailing list (started in 1996, also by Lanphier).

Ever since 2005, the Electorama wiki has been hosted at wiki.electorama.com. In 2018, User:Psephomancy ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to electowiki.miraheze.org, hosted by Miraheze. In response, Lanphier registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to electowiki.org. In December 2019, Lanphier finished the redirect project. The Electorama wiki is no longer available as wiki.electorama.com redirects to a default page.

Journal

Below is a reverse chronological set of site notices, which also serve as a slightly-more detailed history of this wiki. than the paragraphs above.

2019-12-09 note from RobLa

posted by User:RobLa

Last night, I set up redirects from almost all of the main namespace content on wiki.electorama.com to point here (e.g. almost all of the main namespace pages on wiki.electorama.com). As of right now, the pages are explicitly listed, so new pages created on wiki.electorama.com won't automatically redirect, and the page histories for everything should be intact.

2019-12-01 note from RobLa

Some way-too-detailed extra history expanding on the history above:

In the twelve years between 2006 and 2018, Electowiki was hosted at wiki.electorama.com (and as of this writing in December 2019, the 2005-2018 content is still there). However, spambots made it increasingly difficult to offer users access to open wiki. Anti-spam plugins were added, and RobLa eventually gave up on getting the cocktail of web-of-trust MediaWiki plugins on wiki.electorama.com to work the way he'd envisioned them working.

While RobLa was (slowly) working on plans to migrate the site away from MediaWiki, he encouraged others to set up static sites elsewhere, and use hosts that allowed for static-site hosting. Nevertheless, Psephomancy ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to electowiki.miraheze.org, hosted by Miraheze. In summer of 2018, RobLa registered "electowiki.org", and worked with Psephomancy and the Miraheze staff+community to make electowiki.org work, and designed the 2018-2019 electowiki.org logo. Over the next few months, RobLa started redirecting pages at wiki.electorama.com over to electowiki (e.g. the 0-info_LNHe article). More aggressive moves are intended in the not-too-distant future.

What I've added to the top of the page is a much shorter version. -- RobLa (talk) 06:39, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

2018-09-19 note from RobLa

I've set up https://electowiki.org as a domain that points here. https://wiki.electorama.com still exists, but we'll gradually deprecate it as the content settles in over here. Elements of wiki.electorama.com will remain over at a static site at electorama.com.

2018-09-01 note from Psephomancy

This is a mirror of Electowiki, for trying out Miraheze hosting.

The original is at https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Main_Page

Status:

Encoding errors have been fixed (old vs new)
Broken images have been resurrected
Some images have been switched to use Wikimedia Commons (Example)
Some spam deleted
VisualEditor enabled
- The Wikipedia feature that automatically generates references from URL/ISBN/DOI does not exist here, but you can use Wikipedia's VisualEditor to generate it, and then copy and paste the reference to this VisualEditor.
Graph extension enabled (Example)
Math works (old vs new)
Interwiki links to Wikipedia work: w:Election
- Added icons to Wikipedia interwiki links (not sure if good idea): Oregon
Some interwiki templates work (Example)
Imported some templates and their styles from Wikipedia: Example
YouTube videos can be embedded (Example)
Image annotations are enabled (Example)

Any changes to the original after 2018-08-26 are not included here (but those edits are just redirecting to the new domain anyway).

Both wikis are licensed under CC BY-SA.

Edit histories imported from the old wiki contain names like imported>RobLa instead of RobLa, though user pages were imported, too. So you can take a user like imported>Username and visit that user's page at https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:Username . Hopefully this meets the criteria for attribution required by the CC BY license.

We will modify the edit histories to link directly to user pages if that becomes possible in the future. See https://phabricator.miraheze.org/T3624

The site is currently hosted on the Miraheze wiki farm, which is volunteer-run and funded entirely by donations.

2005 original "About" page

Electowiki was launched by Dan Keshet on January 26, 2005, as a new free-content wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material. This wiki is intended first and foremost for the election-methods@electorama.com and Electorama community. The site is administered by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier. For more information about why this resource was created (i.e. why not just use Wikipedia?) as well as other information, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list.

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+:''[[Project:History]]''
-Welcome to Electowiki!
+The '''Electorama wiki''' (also known as "Electowiki" with an uppercase "E") is the predecessor website to [[electowiki]] ("electowiki" with a lowercase "e", served by [[Miraheze]]).  "Electowiki" and "electowiki" share the same goal: to describe a variety of different [[Voting system|election methods]], and their effect on the quality and timbre of elections and democracy.
-=== Election Methods ===
+Electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa]]) as a free-content, [[MediaWiki]]-based wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material.  It is a spinoff of [[Electorama.com]], which was a [[Dreamhost]]-hosted website started in 2003 by Lanphier as a complementary site to the [[election-methods mailing list]] (started in 1996, also by Lanphier).
-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.  For example, 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, on pages categorized as follows:
+Ever since 2005, the Electorama wiki has been hosted at wiki.electorama.com. In 2018, [[User:Psephomancy]] ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to [https://electowiki.miraheze.org electowiki.miraheze.org], hosted by [[m:Miraheze|Miraheze]]. In response, Lanphier registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to electowiki.org.  In December 2019, Lanphier finished the redirect project. The Electorama wiki is no longer available as wiki.electorama.com redirects to a default page.
-*[[:Category:Voting methods|'''Voting methods''']], the main focus of this wiki, describes specific methods for selecting between various choices, their implementation details and features.
-**[[:Category:Voting theory|'''Voting theory''']] deals with the properties of voting methods and the criteria they can meet, scenarios in which they fail, etc.
-*[[:Category:Advocacy|'''Advocacy''']] is for descriptions about real-world reform: organizations, legislation, lobbying, and arguments for choosing one reform over another.
-*[[:Category:Elections|'''Elections''']] is for articles that analyze real or hypothetical elections under different methods, and examine their properties and outcomes.
-*[[:Category:Forms of government|'''Forms of government''']] is the level "above" election methods: Representative vs direct democracy, government structure and [[government formation|formation]], etc.
-*[[:Category:Voting mechanics|'''Voting mechanics''']] deals with real-world implementation details, such as paper ballots and electronic voting machines.
+== Journal ==
-Electowiki ties all of these together. 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?  To the best of our ability, we record the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts, and work together to create a comprehensive reference for all to use.
+Below is a reverse chronological set of site notices, which also serve as a slightly-more detailed history of this wiki. than the paragraphs above.
+=== 2019-12-09 note from RobLa===
-== History ==
+:''posted by [[User:RobLa]]''
-Electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa|RobLa]]) as a free-content, [[w:MediaWiki]]-based wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material.  It is a spinoff of [https://electorama.com electorama.com], which was started in 2003 by [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] as a complementary site to the [[election-methods mailing list]] (started in 1996 by [[User:RobLa|RobLa]]).
-In the twelve years between 2006 and 2018, Electowiki was hosted at wiki.electorama.com. In 2018, [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to [https://electowiki.miraheze.org electowiki.miraheze.org], hosted by [[m:Miraheze|Miraheze]]. In response, RobLa registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to the site you see today.
-== 2019-12-09 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ==
 Last night, I set up redirects from almost all of the main namespace content on wiki.electorama.com to point here (e.g. [https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 almost all of the main namespace pages on wiki.electorama.com]).  As of right now, the pages are explicitly listed, so new pages created on wiki.electorama.com won't automatically redirect, and the page histories for everything should be intact.
+=== 2019-12-01 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]]===
-== 2019-12-01 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ==
 Some way-too-detailed extra history expanding on the history above:
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 What I've added to the top of the page is a much shorter version. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 06:39, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
-== 2018-09-19 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ==
+=== 2018-09-19 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]]===
 I've set up https://electowiki.org as a domain that points here.  https://wiki.electorama.com still exists, but we'll gradually deprecate it as the content settles in over here.  Elements of wiki.electorama.com will remain over at a static site at electorama.com.
-== 2018-09-01 note from [[User:Psephomancy|<bdi>Psephomancy</bdi>]] ==
+=== 2018-09-01 note from [[User:Psephomancy|<bdi>Psephomancy</bdi>]]===
 <span style="color: red">'''This is a mirror of Electowiki, for trying out Miraheze hosting.'''</span>
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 The site is currently hosted on the [https://miraheze.org/ Miraheze wiki farm], which is volunteer-run and [[Meta:Donate|funded entirely by donations]].
-==2005 original "About" page==
+===2005 original "About" page===
 Electowiki was launched by [[User:DanKeshet|Dan Keshet]] on January 26, 2005, as a new free-content wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material. This wiki is intended first and foremost for the election-methods@electorama.com and Electorama community.  The site is administered by [[User:DanKeshet|Dan Keshet]] and [[User:RobLa|Rob Lanphier]].  For more information about why this resource was created (i.e. why not just use Wikipedia?) as well as other information, see [[Project:FAQ|the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list]].
+[[Category:electowiki]]