Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something
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This is a list of times when at least 1000 Wikipedians (ideally excluding sock puppets) actually explicitly voted in support of someone or something.
> 100,000
[edit]Wikipedia for World Heritage
[edit]- 101,778 signed the petition Wikipedia:Wikipedia for World Heritage
> 10,000
[edit]Response to 2017 ban in Turkey
[edit]- Meta:Response to 2017 ban in Turkey (13,998)
Wikimedia GFDL to Creative Commons Licensing Change, 2009
[edit]- Yes - 13,242
- No - 1,829
> 1,000
[edit]Global sysops vote
[edit]1,802 eligible users voted on the creation of global sysop group, in which 1,385 was in favor.
Community open letter on renaming
[edit]This June 2020 petition passed 1000 signatures in August 2021. In the petition, community members object to the Wikimedia Foundation renaming itself as "Wikipedia".
Open letter for freedom of panorama
[edit]- 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.
2015 Board elections
[edit]- 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- (Trivia: 4,620 voted "neutral" in support of Peteforsyth who had withdrawn shortly before.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.)
2015 ArbCom election
[edit]- Opabinia regalis - 1,121
- Casliber - 1,118
- Keilana - 1,118
- GorillaWarfare - 1,111
- Drmies - 1,038
2016 ArbCom election
[edit]- Newyorkbrad 1,097
2017 ArbCom election
[edit]- KrakatoaKatie 1,072
2018 ArbCom election
[edit]- GorillaWarfare 1,064
2024 open letter on the ANI lawsuit
[edit]- More than 1,000 people signed the open letter urging the Wikimedia Foundation to protect user privacy