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The '''Electorama wiki''' is the predecessor website to [[Electowiki:About electowiki|electowiki]]. As with electowiki, the goal was to describe a variety of different [[Voting system|election methods]], and their effect on the quality and timbre of elections and democracy. |
The '''Electorama wiki''' is the predecessor website to [[Electowiki:About electowiki|electowiki]]. As with electowiki, the goal was to describe a variety of different [[Voting system|election methods]], and their effect on the quality and timbre of elections and democracy. |
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Electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier ([[User: |
Electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa]]) as a free-content, [[MediaWiki]]-based wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material. It is a spinoff of [[Electorama.com]], which was started in 2003 by Lanphier as a complementary site to the [[election-methods mailing list]] (started in 1996, also by Lanphier). |
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Ever since 2005, the Electorama wiki has been hosted at wiki.electorama.com. In 2018, [[User:Psephomancy]] ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to [https://electowiki.miraheze.org electowiki.miraheze.org], hosted by [[m:Miraheze|Miraheze]]. In response, Lanphier registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to electowiki.org. In December 2019, |
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== Journal == |
== Journal == |
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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. |
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. |
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=== 2019-12-09 note from |
=== 2019-12-09 note from RobLa=== |
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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. |
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. |
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=== 2019-12-01 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]]=== |
=== 2019-12-01 note from [[User:RobLa|RobLa]]=== |