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Wikimedia and Wikipedia elections are held using a [[Ratings ballot|rated voting system]] in which voters must choose ''Support'', ''Oppose'', or ''Neutral'', for every candidate. The winner is the candidate with the highest support percentage: the highest proportion of ''Support'' votes out of combined ''Support'' and ''Oppose'' votes = <math>S \over S+O</math>.
 
ThisApproval voting is somewhatgenerally similarequivalent to 2-level [[Score voting]] with(where averaging,the thoughlevels theare "0" and "1"). Wikimedia's variant is equivalent to 2-level Score voting where voters may explicitly abstain, votesand arethe explicitdefault ratherchoice thanis implicitto abstain. The levels in Wikimedia's system imply (−1, +1) rather than (0, 1), so they may be affected by the psychological consequences of [[disapproval voting]].<ref>See also [[W:Combined approval voting#Properties|Wikipedia:Combined approval voting#Properties]], in particular [[W:Combined approval voting#cite%20ref-7|the Baujard citation]]</ref>
 
The Wikimedia Foundation has used this method for Board of Trustees and Funds Dissemination Committee elections in [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Results 2013], [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results 2015], and [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Results 2017], after previously using [[Approval voting]] and [[Schulze method]]. Wikipedia uses this in a non-binding way for Administrator nominations,<ref>[[W:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#Decision%20process|w:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#Decision process]]</ref> etc.
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