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Line 1: :''~~main article:~~ [[~~electowiki~~Project:History]]''▼ {{TopNavCat\|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. Electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier ([[User:~~RobLa\|~~RobLa]]) as a free-content, [[~~w:MediaWiki\|~~MediaWiki]]-based wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material. It is a spinoff of [~~https://electorama.com electorama~~[Electorama.com]], which was a [[Dreamhost]]-hosted website started in 2003 by ~~[[User:RobLa\|~~Lanphier]] as a complementary site to the [[election-methods mailing list]] (started in 1996, also by ~~[[User:RobLa\|~~Lanphier]]).▼ '''electowiki''' is a website which describes a variety of different [[Voting system\|election methods]], and their effect on the quality and timbre of elections and democracy. Much of the site focuses on [[Electoral system\|electoral systems]], describes specific methods for selecting between various choices, their implementation details and features as well as the theory behind it. Additionally the site contains information for [[Activism\|activists]], articles that describe outcomes of specific [[:Category:Elections\|elections]] (both real and hypothetical), various[[:Category:Forms of government\|forms of government]] throughout the world, and the [[:Category:Voting mechanics\|mechanics of voting]], such as paper ballots and electronic voting machines. InEver ~~the~~since ~~twelve~~2005, ~~years~~the ~~between~~Electorama ~~2006 and 2018,~~wiki ~~Electowiki~~has ~~was~~been 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, Lanphier registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to electowiki.org. In December 2019, Lanphier finished the ~~site~~redirect project. The Electorama wiki is no longer available as wiki.electorama.com redirects to ~~you~~a ~~see~~default ~~today~~page.▼ 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. == ~~Editing~~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. ~~:''main article: [[Help:Contents]]''~~ === 2019-12-09 note from RobLa=== electowiki is not just for reading, it's for editing! And you can edit too. Though it's possible to edit electowiki "anonymously", when you edit, your [[Wikipedia:IP address\|IP address]] is revealed. Many privacy-focused organizations like the [[Wikipedia:Electronic Frontier Foundation\|Electronic Frontier Foundation]] and the [[Wikipedia:Freedom of the Press Foundation\|Freedom of the Press Foundation]] work to help people like journalists keep that information private. Please sign up for an account, and help us edit '''electowiki'''! :''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. [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]]=== Some way-too-detailed extra history expanding on the history above: ~~== History ==~~ <blockquote> ▲:''main article: [[electowiki:History]]'' :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, [[W:Spambots\|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, [[User:Psephomancy\|Psephomancy]] ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to [https://electowiki.miraheze.org electowiki.miraheze.org], hosted by [[m:Miraheze\|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 [https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/0-info_LNHe 0-info_LNHe article]). More aggressive moves are intended in the not-too-distant future. </blockquote> 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) ▲Electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa\|RobLa]]) as a free-content, [[w:MediaWiki\|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\|Lanphier]] as a complementary site to the [[election-methods mailing list]] (started in 1996 by [[User:RobLa\|Lanphier]]). === 2018-09-19 note from [[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, Lanphier registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to the site you see today. 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>]]=== ~~To learn more about the history of electowiki, see [[electowiki:History]]~~ <span style="color: red">'''This is a mirror of Electowiki, for trying out Miraheze hosting.'''</span> '''The original is at https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Main_Page''' ~~As of May 2020, there are two wikis that use the name "electowiki": the old wiki ("electoramawiki") and the current wiki ("electowikiwiki")~~ Status: ~~=== electoramawiki ===~~ Encoding errors have been fixed ([https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Phragm%C3%83%C6%92%C3%82%C2%A9n%27s_Method old] vs [[Phragmén's Method\|new]]) "'''electoramawiki'''" is the original electowiki, which can be found at https://wiki.electorama.com . It has largely been inactive since 2018, but as of May 2020, [[User:RobLa]] sometimes makes changes to it. Broken images [https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles have been resurrected] Some images have been switched to use Wikimedia Commons ([[:File:Approval ballot.svg\|Example]]) Some spam deleted VisualEditor enabled The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid 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 ([[2012_Occupy_Wall_Street_polls#Preliminary_pilot_study\|Example]]) Math works ([http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Instant_Runoff_Normalized_Ratings old] vs [[Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings\|new]]) Interwiki links to Wikipedia work: [[w:Election]] *Added icons to Wikipedia interwiki links (not sure if good idea): [[W:Oregon\|Oregon]] Some interwiki templates work ([https://electowiki.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=3-2-1_voting&diff=3945&oldid=74 Example]) Imported some templates and their styles from Wikipedia: [[Delegable proxy#Terminology\|Example]] YouTube videos can be embedded ([[User:Psephomancy/Sandbox#YouTube\|Example]]) * Image annotations are enabled ([[:File:Voting_system_Euler_diagram.svg\|Example]]) [https://wiki.electorama.com/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=500 Any changes to the original] after 2018-08-26 are not included here (but those edits are just redirecting to the new domain anyway). ~~=== electowikiwiki ===~~ '''"electowikiwiki'''" is the internal name that [[Miraheze]] uses to refer to the electowiki as it exists today. Almost every wiki that Miraheze hosts has "wiki" appended to the end of it, even if the name of the wiki (e.g. "electowiki") makes it redundant. This serves as a useful means to distinguish the two running copies, [[User:Psephomancy]] ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to https://electowiki.miraheze.org, hosted by [[m:Miraheze\|Miraheze]]. In response, [[User:RobLa]] registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to the site you see today. Both wikis are licensed under CC BY-SA. Edit histories imported from the old wiki contain names like <code>imported>RobLa</code> instead of <code>RobLa</code>, though user pages were imported, too. So you can take a user like <code>imported>Username</code> 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 [https://miraheze.org/ Miraheze wiki farm], which is volunteer-run and [[Meta:Donate\|funded entirely by donations]]. ===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]]. ▲~~{{TopNavCat\|~~[[Category:electowiki}}]]