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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]]).▼
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:
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.▼
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== 2019-12-01 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ==▼
== 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.
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]]
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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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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