Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something

This is a list of times when at least 1000 Wikipedians (ideally excluding sock puppets) actually explicitly voted in support of someone or something.

Wikipedia for World Heritage

 * [//wke.wikimedia.de 101,778] signed the petition Wikipedia for World Heritage

Response to 2017 ban in Turkey

 * Response to 2017 ban in Turkey (13,998)

Wikimedia GFDL to Creative Commons Licensing Change, 2009

 * 1) Yes - 13,242
 * 2) No - 1,829

Global sysops vote
1,802 eligible users voted on the creation of global sysop group, in which 1,385 was in favor.
 * Global sysops/Vote

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".
 * meta:Community open letter on renaming

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 Freedom of Panorama 2015, Freedom of Panorama in Europe in 2015.

2015 Board elections

 * 1) Raystorm - 2,184
 * 2) Pundit - 2,028
 * 3) Phoebe - 1,955
 * 4) Doc James - 1,857
 * 5) Denny - 1,628
 * 6) Carrite - 1,571
 * 7) Taketa - 1,524
 * 8) Pgallert - 1,467
 * 9) CristianCantoro - 1,381
 * 10) Sj - 1,330
 * 11) Smerus - 1,192
 * 12) Ali Haidar Khan - 1,134
 * 13) Mohamed Ouda - 1,112
 * 14) EdSaperia - 1,109
 * 15) Sky Harbor - 1,069
 * 16) 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 * (Trivia: 4,620 voted "neutral" in support of Peteforsyth who had withdrawn shortly before.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

 * 1) Opabinia regalis - 1,121
 * 2) Casliber - 1,118
 * 3) Keilana - 1,118
 * 4) GorillaWarfare - 1,111
 * 5) Drmies - 1,038

2016 ArbCom election

 * 1) Newyorkbrad 1,097

2017 ArbCom election

 * 1) KrakatoaKatie 1,072

2018 ArbCom election

 * 1) GorillaWarfare 1,064