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'''electowiki''' is a website which describes a variety of different [[Voting system|election methods]], and their effect on the quality and timbre of elections and democracy. Much of the site focuses on [[Electoral system|electoral systems]], describes specific methods for selecting between various choices, their implementation details and features as well as the theory behind it. Additionally the site contains information for [[Activism|activists]], articles that describe outcomes of specific [[:Category:Elections|elections]] (both real and hypothetical), various[[:Category:Forms of government|forms of government]] throughout the world, and the [[:Category:Voting mechanics|mechanics of voting]], such as paper ballots and electronic voting machines.
There is a vast literature on the [[:Category:Voting theory|theory]] behind these systems: What [[:Category:Voting system criteria|criteria]] can you use to judge whether a particular method works well? What [[tactical voting|strategies]] will different systems encourage voters to use? To the best of our ability, we record the collective wisdom of scholars and enthusiasts, and work together to create a comprehensive reference for all to use.
electowiki was started in 2005 by Dan Keshet and Rob Lanphier ([[User:RobLa|RobLa]]) as a free-content, [[w:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]]-based wiki dedicated to discussing election-methods related material. It is a spinoff of [https://electorama.com electorama.com], which was started in 2003 by [[User:RobLa|Lanphier]] as a complementary site to the [[election-methods mailing list]] (started in 1996 by [[User:RobLa|Lanphier]]).▼
== Editing ==
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electowiki is not just for reading, it's for editing! And you can edit too. Though it's possible to edit electowiki "anonymously", when you edit, your [[Wikipedia:IP address|IP address]] is revealed. Many privacy-focused organizations like the [[Wikipedia:Electronic Frontier Foundation|Electronic Frontier Foundation]] and the [[Wikipedia:Freedom of the Press Foundation|Freedom of the Press Foundation]] work to help people like journalists keep that information private. Please sign up for an account, and help us edit '''electowiki'''!
== History ==
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In the twelve years between 2006 and 2018, Electowiki was hosted at wiki.electorama.com. In 2018, [[User:Psephomancy|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 the site you see today.
To learn more about the history of electowiki, see [[electowiki:History]]
As of May 2020, there are two wikis that use the name "electowiki": the old wiki ("electoramawiki") and the current wiki ("electowikiwiki")
=== electoramawiki ===
"'''electoramawiki'''" is the original electowiki, which can be found at https://wiki.electorama.com . It has largely been inactive since 2018, but as of May 2020, [[User:RobLa]] sometimes makes changes to it.
=== electowikiwiki ===
'''"electowikiwiki'''" is the internal name that [[Miraheze]] uses to refer to the electowiki as it exists today. Almost every wiki that Miraheze hosts has "wiki" appended to the end of it, even if the name of the wiki (e.g. "electowiki") makes it redundant. This serves as a useful means to distinguish the two running copies, [[User:Psephomancy]] ported the wiki.electorama.com content over to https://electowiki.miraheze.org, hosted by [[m:Miraheze|Miraheze]]. In response, [[User:RobLa]] registered "electowiki.org", and began slowly redirecting traffic from wiki.electorama.com to the site you see today.
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The site is currently hosted on the [https://miraheze.org/ Miraheze wiki farm], which is volunteer-run and [[Meta:Donate|funded entirely by donations]].
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