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Community Governance Support

Community Governance Support provides essential staff support for movement committees and groups to help sustain movement governance and health. The team is part of the Community Resilience and Sustainability area of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department.

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The team

Jack Glover (Xeno)

Senior Manager, Community Governance Support

Keegan Peterzell

Lead Community Governance Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation

Manavpreet Kaur

Senior Community Governance Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees committees Governance Committee Audit Committee Talent & Culture Committee Product & Technology Committee Community Affairs Committee Staff committees Communications committee Community-wide committees Affiliations Committee Language committee Wikimania Committee Movement governance committees Elections Committee Ombuds commission Case Review Committee UCoC Coordinating Committee Resources allocation committees Global Resource Distribution Committee Conference Support Committee Regional Fund Committees All Wikimedia committees Committee Support team (WMF)

How we work

The Community Governance Support team fosters collaboration between movement groups and supporting organizations to achieve shared goals. The objectives of the team are to ensure volunteers who support the Wikimedia movement through these groups can experience healthy engagements, function effectively, and maintain confidence in their ability to receive and provide necessary support.

By coordinating with other teams in the Foundation, the team provides various support to several movement groups including, but not limited to:

• Arbitration Committees
• Case Review Committee
• Elections committee
• Ombuds commission
• Stewards
• Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
• Other groups as requested:
  • Affiliations Committee (now primarily supported by Community Operations)

The team also helps coordinate support to and from movement groups and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, especially Community Affairs Committee liaisons. The team looks ahead to anticipate the needs of movement committees and groups that may exist in the future and how to help these groups coordinate with existing groups.

This team was previously known as the Committee Support Team.

Further details about how the team works with committees is in the team service plan.

Contact us

The Community Governance Support team uses a centralized mailbox to respond to support needs. You can reach anyone on the team at cstwikimedia.org.

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