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== 2018-09-19 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ==▼
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]]) 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 [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.
== 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. [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:
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: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.
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: 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.
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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)
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>]]
<span style="color: red">'''This is a mirror of Electowiki, for trying out Miraheze hosting.'''</span>
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Status:
*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]])
*Broken images [https://electowiki
*Some images have been switched to use Wikimedia Commons ([[:File:Approval ballot.svg|Example]])
*Some spam deleted
*VisualEditor
**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]])
▲*Added icons to Wikipedia interwiki links (not sure if good idea): [[W:Oregon|Oregon]]
* Image annotations are enabled ([[:File:Voting_system_Euler_diagram.svg|Example]])
[https://wiki.electorama.com/
Both wikis are licensed under CC BY-SA.
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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===
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]].
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