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electowiki is a website focused on electoral reform and describing alternative electoral systems. It uses MediaWiki (just like Wikipedia).

About

main: About

Different electoral systems have different effects on the quality of democratic elections. Many electoral activists wish to replace the choose-one and two-round systems used in most of the world's elections. Voting theorists have researched the topic and support the activists' call for a change. The editors of this wiki support a change too (see "electowiki:EPOV" to learn more).

Movements

There are activism movements for the following:

Single-winner systems, such as:
- Approval voting – a choose-many variation on the choose-one system
- Condorcet methods – systems based on majority-rule (whether most voters prefer A or B)
- Instant runoff voting – one of many ranking systems promoted under the name of "Ranked Choice Voting" (or "RCV")
- Score voting – a simple system where you can grade each candidate
- STAR voting – a variant of score with a majority-rule runoff at the end
Multi-member systems, which offer differing degrees of proportional representation while selecting multiple candidates.

There is a lot of theory behind these systems, including work on:

Criteria – how can we know whether a method behaves the way we want it to?
Strategy – how do different systems encourage different behavior?
Welfare – how well do different systems promote the public good?

To the best of our ability, the electowiki community collects the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts and works together to create a comprehensive reference for all to use.

Regions

Below are the region categories on electowiki ordered (roughly) from east to west:

Oceania
Asia
Africa
Europe
North America
South America

Other pages

Not all pages on Electowiki are neatly categorized. It is still possible to find them in one of these places:

Special:AllPages – for all pages on this wiki (including uncategorized pages)
Category:Contents – a full hierarchical category tree. Most important pages are in some category

Of course, there's always Special:Search as well.

About the project

electowiki is associated with the election-methods mailing list, but all election nerds are welcome here.

electowiki is a wiki, which means anybody can get involved, building free content. We offer a license for anybody to copy and modify the work hosted here. To learn more about us or how to edit, see the Community Portal and Frequently Asked Questions.

Some facts about electowiki:

The electoral systems wiki project began in January 2005 on Wikipedia.
electowiki was created to host to include more detailed information about less-notable methods and articles that are still under development.
electowiki currently has 776 articles in the main collection, as well as many other policy pages, talk pages, and user pages.
electowiki.org (hosted by Miraheze) was started in 2018, with content copied over from the old Electorama wiki site in late 2018.
This wiki (electowiki) has more-or-less superseded the old Electorama wiki.

To learn more about the history of this website, visit electowiki:About. To learn more about reading (and editing!) this website, see Help:Contents.

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-'''electowiki''' is a website focused [[electoral reform]] and describing alternative [[electoral system]]s. It uses [[MediaWiki]] (just like [[Wikipedia]]).
+'''electowiki''' is a website focused on [[electoral reform]] and describing alternative [[electoral system]]s. It uses [[MediaWiki]] (just like [[Wikipedia]]).
 [[File:Electowiki-rectangle.svg|thumb|200px|right|the electowiki logo since 2018]]
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 == About ==
 :''main: [[About]]''
-Different [[Electoral system|electoral systems]] have different effects on the quality and timbre of democratic elections. Many[[Advocacy | electoral activists]] wish to replace the "choose-one" system used in many jurisdictions. Many[[Voting theorist | voting theorists]] have researched the topic, and support the activists' call for a change. The editors of this wiki support a change too (see "[[electowiki:EPOV]]" to learn more).
+Different [[Electoral system|electoral systems]] have different effects on the quality of democratic elections. Many [[Advocacy |electoral activists]] wish to replace the [[First Past the Post electoral system|choose-one]] and [[Two-round system|two-round]] systems used in most of the world's elections. [[Voting theorist |Voting theorists]] have researched the topic and support the activists' call for a change. The editors of this wiki support a change too (see "[[electowiki:EPOV]]" to learn more).
 === Movements ===
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 * [[Single-member district|Single-winner systems]], such as:
-** [[Approval voting]] – A simple "choose-many" variation of "choose-one" systems
+** [[Approval voting]] – a choose-many variation on the choose-one system
-** [[Condorcet method|Condorcet methods]] – systems which ensure that the pairwise winner of voters' aggregate preference rankings wins the election
+** [[Condorcet method|Condorcet methods]] – systems based on majority-rule (whether most voters prefer A or B)
-** [[Instant-runoff voting]] (or "IRV"), one of many [[Ranked voting systems|ranking systems]] which is frequently promoted as "[[Ranked Choice Voting]]" (or "RCV")
+** [[Instant-runoff voting|Instant runoff voting]] – one of many [[Ranked voting systems|ranking systems]] promoted under the name of "[[Ranked Choice Voting]]" (or "RCV")
-** [[Score voting]] and other [[cardinal voting systems]]
+** [[Score voting]] – a simple system where you can grade each candidate
-** [[STAR voting]] – a variation on score voting which treats each voter's preferences as a ranking in the final elimination round of the election
+** [[STAR voting]] – a variant of score with a majority-rule runoff at the end
 * [[Multi-member system]]s, which offer differing degrees of [[proportional representation]] while selecting multiple candidates.
-There is a vast literature on the [[:Category:Voting theory|theory]] behind these systems, and this raises questions:
+There is a lot of [[:Category:Voting theory|theory]] behind these systems, including work on:
-* [[:Category:Voting system criteria|'''Criteria''']] – what criteria can you use to judge whether a particular method works well?
+* [[:Category:Voting system criteria|'''Criteria''']] – how can we know whether a method behaves the way we want it to?
-* [[Strategy|'''Strategies''']] – will different systems encourage voters to use different voting strategies?
+* '''[[Strategy]]''' – how do different systems encourage different behavior?
+* [[Social utility efficiency|'''Welfare''']] – how well do different systems promote the public good?
-To the best of our ability, the '''[[electowiki]]''' community collects the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts, and works together to create a comprehensive reference for all to use.
+To the best of our ability, the '''[[electowiki]]''' community collects the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts and works together to create a comprehensive reference for all to use.
 === Categories ===
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 This site gives you a guide to what these things are, on pages in the following categorized as follows:
-'''[[Electoral system]]s''' are the main focus of this wiki. Articles in [[:Category:Electoral systems|the "Electoral systems" category]] describe specific methods for selecting between various choices, their implementation details and features.
+This wiki focuses on '''[[electoral system]]s''' (a.k.a. social choice functions). Articles in the [[:Category:Electoral systems|electoral systems category]] describe specific systems together with their implementation details and features.
-Other categories
+Other categories:
 *[[: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:Elections|'''Elections''']] – analyzing real or hypothetical elections using different methods.
-*[[:Category:Forms of government|'''Forms of government''']] is the level "above" election methods: Representative vs direct democracy, government structure, [[parliamentary government formation]], and even [[anarchy]].
+*[[:Category:Forms of government|'''Forms of government''']] – representative vs direct democracy, government structure, [[parliamentary government formation]], and even [[anarchy]].
-*[[:Category:Voting mechanics|'''Voting mechanics''']] deals with real-world implementation details, such as paper ballots and electronic voting machines.
+*[[:Category:Voting mechanics|'''Voting mechanics''']] – real-world implementation details like paper ballots or electronic voting machines.
-*[[: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:Voting theory|'''Voting theory''']] – properties of voting methods and the criteria they meet or scenarios in which they fail. The bulk of this wiki.
 === Regions ===
-Below are the [[:Category:Regions|region categories on electowiki]], ordered (roughly) from east to west:
+Below are the [[:Category:Regions|region categories on electowiki]] ordered (roughly) from east to west:
 * '''[[:Category:Oceania|Oceania]]'''
 * '''[[:Category:Asia|Asia]]'''
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 Not all pages on Electowiki are neatly categorized. It is still possible to find them in one of these places:
-*'''[https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 Special:AllPages]''' – this is a tool to find all of the pages on this wiki.
+*'''[https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1 Special:AllPages]''' – for all pages on this wiki (including uncategorized pages)
-*'''[[:Category:Contents|Category:Contents]]''' – this is a full hierarchical category tree. Most important pages have been added to a category of some sort
+*'''[[:Category:Contents|Category:Contents]]''' – a full hierarchical category tree. Most important pages are in some category
 Of course, there's always [[Special:Search]] as well.
 ===About the project ===
-'''electowiki''' is closely associated with the [[Election-methods mailing list]], but is more broadly for communities of election-minded people.
+'''electowiki''' is associated with the [[Election-methods mailing list|'''election-methods mailing list''']], but all election nerds are welcome here.
 electowiki is a [[wiki]], which means anybody can get involved, building free content. We offer a license for anybody to copy and modify the work hosted here. To learn more about us or how to edit, see the [[Project:Community Portal|Community Portal]] and [[Project:FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]].
 Some facts about ''electowiki'':
+*The electoral systems wiki project began in January 2005 on Wikipedia.
-*This project began in January 2005, with an article started on Wikipedia, but has since expanded to include more detailed information about election methods which are still under development and may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines.
+*electowiki was created to host  to include more detailed information about less-notable methods and articles that are still under development.
 *electowiki currently has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles in the main collection, as well as many other policy pages, talk pages, and user pages.
-*electowiki.org (hosted by [[meta:Miraheze|Miraheze]]) was started in 2018 with content copied over from the old [[Electorama wiki]] site in late 2018, and became a much more active [[wiki]].
+*electowiki.org (hosted by [[meta:Miraheze|Miraheze]]) was started in 2018, with content copied over from the old [[Electorama wiki]] site in late 2018.
+*This wiki ([[electowiki]]) has more-or-less superseded the old [[Electorama wiki]].
-* The original home (at [https://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki.electorama.com]) has a more accurate view of page edit histories of prior to September 2018 (with proper links to authors), and (as of this writing in November 2020) may show up in search engines for some searches.
-*Since wiki.electorama.com is more-or-less decommissioned, this wiki ([[electowiki]]) has more-or-less superseded the old [[Electorama wiki]].
-To learn more about the history of this website, visit [[electowiki:About]]. To learn about more about reading (and editing!) this website, see [[Help:Contents]].
+To learn more about the history of this website, visit [[electowiki:About]]. To learn more about reading (and editing!) this website, see [[Help:Contents]].
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