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Project:Categories (also linked to as Electowiki:Categories) is the top level of Electowiki's category system. A summary of this wiki's categories can be found below:

The "top level" of categories can be found at Category:Contents

Main Page

Below was copied from the Main Page of this wiki, in this oldid: https://electowiki.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=11772

Everything below was copied from there.

This site gives you a guide to what these things are, on pages in the following categorized as follows:

Voting methods (i.e. electoral systems) are the main focus of this wiki. Articles in this category describe specific methods for selecting between various choices, their implementation details and features.
- Voting theory deals with the properties of voting methods and the criteria they can meet, scenarios in which they fail, etc.
Advocacy is for descriptions about real-world reform: organizations, legislation, lobbying, and arguments for choosing one reform over another.
Elections is for articles that analyze real or hypothetical elections under different methods, and examine their properties and outcomes.
Forms of government is the level "above" election methods: Representative vs direct democracy, government structure and formation, etc.
Voting mechanics deals with real-world implementation details, such as paper ballots and electronic voting machines.

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-This is the '''top level''' of [[Electowiki:About|Electowiki]]'s category system.  A summary of this wiki's categories can be found on this wiki's main page: '''[[electowiki:Main_Page]]'''
+[[Project:Categories]] (also linked to as [[Electowiki:Categories]]) is the top level of [[Electowiki:About|Electowiki]]'s category system.  A summary of this wiki's categories can be found below:
 The "top level" of categories can be found at '''[[:Category:Contents]]'''
+== Main Page ==
+Below was copied from the [[Main Page]] of this wiki, in this oldid: https://electowiki.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=11772
+Everything below was copied from there.
+This site gives you a guide to what these things are, on pages in the following categorized as follows:
+*[[:Category:Voting methods|'''Voting methods''']] (i.e. [[Electoral system|electoral systems]]) are the main focus of this wiki. Articles in this category describe 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.