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 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]].
-If tallied using [[Score voting]] rules ("[[w:combined approval voting|combined approval voting]]", where O=−1, N=0, S=+1), the 2015 Wikimedia Board election would have had a different winner, with the candidate in 4th place moving up to 2nd.  The 2017 Board and 2015 FDC elections would have had a different top-3 order, but the same 3 candidates would have won.
+If tallied using [[score voting]] rules (i.e. using "[[combined approval voting]]", where oppose equals "−1", neutral equals "0", and support equals "+1"), the 2015 Wikimedia Board election would have had a different winner, with the candidate in 4th place moving up to 2nd.  The 2017 Board and 2015 FDC elections would have had a different top-3 order, but the same 3 candidates would have won.
 In all 8 elections from 2013-2017, the most common vote was ''Neutral'', which was cast about twice as often as ''Support'', which in turn was cast about twice as often as ''Oppose''.  Winners typically receive 70–85% support.