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Committees For Wikimedia

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This page dey explain the different committees wey the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia community form. All the different committees get rules wey them write to direct how them go dey and wetin them go dey do.

Committees wey dey active

Committees of Board of Trustees

Committee Wetin them use form-am For wetin?
Committee for Governance Charter "make sure say the Board of Trustees ("Board") of the Wikimedia Foundation ("Foundation") do all een work wey concern legal matter and property, money or other organizations, and to improve een control, speed, and and how well een dey work with time."
Committee wey dey Audit Charter "help the Board of Trustees ("Board") of the Wikimedia Foundation ("Foundation") as e dey supervise everything for the Foundation yearly plan and plan wey concern to dey make budget, accounting and money matter reporting process, to dey audit financial statements, and internal control, and audit work."
Committee for Talent and Culture Charter "to dey make sure say workers get compensation wey make better sense, do their work for way wey make sense and follow better rules wey dey guide their work and how to dey give compensation take help the Board do een work of to dey supervise everything."
Committee for Product and Technology Charter "assess and explore current and future product development efforts to continuously improve the value that Wikipedia as a platform, as well as the other Wikimedia projects, delivers to its communities and users around the world."
Committee for Community Matter Charter "assess, explore and address current and future community-related efforts [...] work with both WMF staff and the wider Wikimedia community in order to bridge conflicts and offer guidance, with a main goal of continuously improving the relationships between the WMF and its wider community, as well as working jointly to achieve the mission and vision of the Wikimedia Movement, while considering the different needs of the WMF, our communities and users around the world."

Community people committees

This na committee wey dey "typically led by a Community member and fit include representatives from the community, advisory board, staff, board, or outside advisors" by January 2009 Board of Trustees resolution on Wikimedia committees.

Committee Wetin them use form-am For wetin?
Affiliations Committee Charter "support the overall health of the ecosystem of Wikimedia movement affiliates (Chapters, Thematic Organizations, and User Groups) and to advise the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (“Board”) on matters related to affiliate recognition and the affiliate ecosystem."
Committee for Language matter Charter "The development and maintenance of:
  • a clear step-by-step policy (based on quantitative indicators) for evaluating the feasibility of new language wikis, with an automated procedure for project development;
  • support and policy development for script and localization related problems;
  • documentation to support new language communities towards a stable growth rate;
  • support and coordination for cross-language projects, helping smaller communities share resources and maximize their results;
  • support and coordination to maintain compatibility among the different MediaWiki installations, in order to reduce the amount of development needed to upgrade the program base as far as localization is concerned; and

The processing of requests for new language subdomains of existing Wikimedia projects, providing it gives the Wikimedia Board of Trustees four days advance notice before approving a request."

Wikimania Committee Charter "oversee and guide Wikimania from year to year, supporting each conference's individual organising team and providing them with resources, experience and advice"

Staff committee

This na committee wey dey "typically led by a member of the staff and fit include representatives from the community, advisory board, staff, board, or outside advisors" by January 2009 Board of Trustees resolution on Wikimedia committees.

Committee Wetin them use form-am For wetin?
Committee for Communications Board of Trustees agreement (2006) Facilitate communication between the Wikimedia Foundation, the general public, the media, and the communities of the various Wikimedia projects

Committees for Movement governance

Committee Wetin them use form-am For wetin?
Committee for Elections Charter "assist with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected Trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (“Board”) [...] may also assist with similar community-selected positions as determined by the Board."
Ombuds Commission Board of Trustees agreement (2015) Investigate complaints about infringements of the Privacy Policy, the Access to nonpublic information policy, the CheckUser policy and the oversight policy on any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees
Committee for Temporary Case Review Charter Reviews eligible Trust & Safety investigations that are appealed either by those who originally requested the investigation or those who have been sanctioned by them.

Movement-wide preparation committees

Committee Wetin them use form-am For wetin?
Movement Charter Drafting Committee Principles Drafting the Movement Charter
U4C Building Committee Art. 4.5. of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Drafting a charter that outlines procedures and details for the UCoC Coordinating Committee (U4C)
UCoC drafting committees Board May 2020 statement Drafting the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and its Enforcement Guidelines (UCoC-EG)

Resources allocation committees

Committee For wetin?
Conference Support Committee
Regional Grants Committees

Inactive or closed committees

Organized policies, practices and priorities for Wikimedia-related research, and maintaining the Wikimedia Research Index.

Board expansion committee

Na board resolution them take form-am on January 15, 2006.

The Board was successfully expanded from 5 to 7 members in November 2006, and the committee consequently disbanded.

Executive committee

Created January 15, 2006 by board resolution, intended to hold executive authority delegated from the Board when the Board was not in session (see a common definition).

It was meant to be organized by Angela, but was never really in operation. To be considered disbanded. A sub-meeting (discussion log) of the 11 February 2006 open meeting was used to discuss the setting up of the executive committee and the possibility of an administrative director (or a similarly worded executive position).

  • Selection of and transition to a new Executive Director (2013-2014)

Na board resolution them take form-am on January 15, 2006.

First meeting took place on April 5, 2006. The initial members were Delphine Ménard, Arne Klempert, Simon Pulsifer, Frank Schulenburg. The last update indicated the committee was working on a paper about the scope of the committee. Considered disbanded.

Financial committee

Na board decide form-am on January 15, 2006.

Was to be organized by Daniel Mayer and Michael Davis. Status: disagreement between the organisers, original proposals were rejected. Now deprecated after accountant and financial director were hired (see Current staff).

Created June 7, 2006. It was active throughout its first year of operation, but was disbanded in its original description in August 2007. Previous membership list available here: wmf:Resolution:Fundraising committee/Membership. Committee's abandonment is mentioned at wmf:Resolution:Wikimedia Committees.

committee for Insurance

Na board decide form-am on January 15, 2006.

The original members were Michael Davis, Angela Beesley, Jimmy Wales, and Danny Wool. Status: work in progress to complete applications for board and officers liability insurance and cyber-insurance. Committee de facto disbanded in January after meeting about the forms. D&O active.

board decide form-am for April 2008. Them cancel-am since early 2010.

Na board decide form-am on January 15, 2006.

Na Florence Devouard, Jakob Voss, and Danny Wool first organize-am but e no dey work again since August 2007. Board meet and decide to stop the committee for January 2009.

Established in 2019, to "assist the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities through helping on special, one-off projects that temporarily require some Board member involvement and input for periods of time". It was dissolved in December 2021.

Na board decide form-am on January 15, 2006.

Was to be organized by Jens Frank, Brion Vibber and Domas Mituzas. Status: was never organized, although the core team of developers constitute a sort of de facto committee.

Committee for Trademarks

Created January 2, 2006 by board resolution, intended to oversee the legal process to secure trademarks, make timely reports on the trademark status to the board, make recommendations to the Board about the top priority concerning trademarks (categories, locations and their estimated costs), and was responsible for registering and monitoring domain names for the Foundation.

Status: was partly active for a while, but disbanded as of August 2007.

Responsible to make recommendations to the WMF Board of Trustees for funding activities and initiatives in support of the mission goals of the Wikimedia movement. Created in 2012 and dissolved by the Board of Trustees in 2022.

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