This is a list of times when at least 1000 Wikipedians (ideally excluding sock puppets) actually explicitly voted in support of someone or something.
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Wikimedia GFDL to Creative Commons Licensing Change
Main article: m:Licensing update/Result
- Yes - 13,242
- No - 1,829
Open letter for freedom of panorama
- 4,247 people signed an open letter to the European Parliament on German Wikipedia within 6 days (23 – 29 June 2015) following a central notice banner campaign. See also Wikipedia:Freedom of Panorama 2015, m:Freedom of Panorama in Europe in 2015.
Board elections 2015
- Raystorm - 2,184
- Pundit - 2,028
- Phoebe - 1,955
- Doc James - 1,857
- Denny - 1,628
- Carrite - 1,571
- Taketa - 1,524
- Pgallert - 1,467
- CristianCantoro - 1,381
- Sj - 1,330
- Smerus - 1,192
- Ali Haidar Khan - 1,134
- Mohamed Ouda - 1,112
- EdSaperia - 1,109
- Sky Harbor - 1,069
- Saileshpat - 1,010
- (Trivia: 4,620 voted "neutral" in support of Peteforsyth who had withdrawn shortly before. This is the highest number of votes reached overall elections.)
ArbCom 2015 election
The top 5 of the final voting round are:
- Opabinia regalis - 1,121
- Casliber - 1,118
- Keilana - 1,118
- GorillaWarfare - 1,111
- Drmies - 1,038
Soon reaching 1000
974 people (as of December 2015) signed a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation in support of:
- Removal of WP:Superprotect (A new level of page protection denying even Admins the ability to edit a page)
- Allowing the Community to implement Consensus to set WP:Media Viewer to opt-in.