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

Wikipedia for World Heritage

101,778 signed the petition Wikipedia:Wikipedia for World Heritage

> 10,000

Response to 2017 ban in Turkey

Meta:Response to 2017 ban in Turkey (13,998)

Wikimedia GFDL to Creative Commons Licensing Change, 2009

Yes - 13,242
No - 1,829

> 1,000

Global sysops vote

meta:Global sysops/Vote

1,802 eligible users voted on the creation of global sysop group, in which 1,385 was in favor.

Community open letter on renaming

meta:Community open letter on renaming

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

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

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(Trivia: 4,620 voted "neutral" in support of Peteforsyth who had withdrawn shortly before.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.)

2024 ArbCom election

Liz 1,103

2024 open letter on the ANI lawsuit

1,365 people signed the open letter urging the Wikimedia Foundation to protect user privacy.