Code of conduct and conflict of interest policies

Several Wikimedia movement entities have board-level codes of conduct and conflict of interest policies. Additionally, the Wikimedia Foundation has published a Conflict of interest guide for Wikimedia movement organizations

Some of the existing policies are:

• Wikimedia Foundation:
  • Code of conduct of the Board of Trustees
  • Conflict of interest policy
  • Pledge of personal commitment
  • Conflict of Interest Questionnaire
  • Guidelines on potential conflicts of interest
  • FDC Pledge of Commitment and Conflict of Interest Questionnaire
• Wikimedia Australia: Conflict of interest policy
• Wikimedia Canada: Conflict of Interest Policy
• Wikimedia CH: Conflict of interest policy
• Wikimedia DC: Conflict of interest policy, modeled after the sample policy furnished by the Internal Revenue Service, the government agency that (among other things) grants recognition of tax exempt status to charities
• (French) Wikimedia France: Politique de gestion des conflits d'intérêts
• (Hebrew) Wikimedia Israel: ניגוד עניינים
• (Italian) Wikimedia Italia:
  • Regolamento sul conflitto d'interessi (conflict of interest policy)
  • Modello di dichiarazione d'interesse (conflict of interest questionnaire)
• (Dutch) Wikimedia Nederland: Beleid ten aanzien van belangenverstrengeling
• Wikimedia Serbia: Conflict of Interest Policy
• (Swedish) Wikimedia Sverige: Jävsriktlinjer
• Wikimedia Österreich: Good governance codex (section Conflicts of Interest)
• Wikimedia UK: (based on Charity Commission and NCVO recommendations)
  • Trustee Code of Conduct for trustees
  • Committee Member Code of Conduct for external (non-trustee) committee members
  • Trustee Conflict of Interest Policy for trustees
  • Committee Member Conflict of Interest Policy for external (non-trustee) committee members
• (German) Wikimedia Deutschland: Geschäftsordnung Interessenkonflikte

See also

• Board handbook
• Travel policies