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href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Legal/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee" title="Wikimedia Foundation/Legal/Community Resilience and Sustainability/Trust and Safety/Case Review Committee">Case Review Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee" title="Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee">UCoC Coordinating Committee</a></li></ul> <p><b>Movement-wide preparation committees</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee" title="Movement Charter/Drafting Committee">Movement Charter Drafting Committee</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Movement_Charter/Ratification/Voting#Electoral_Commission" title="Movement Charter/Ratification/Voting">Charter Electoral Commission</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/U4C_Building_Committee" title="Universal Code of Conduct/U4C Building Committee">U4C Building Committee</a></li> <li><a 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Committee</b> (“GC, Committee”) is a Wikimedia Foundation <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Handbook#Board_committees" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Board Handbook">board committee</a>, responsible for ensuring that the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees">Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees</a> (“Board”) of the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> (“Foundation”) fulfills its legal and <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Handbook#Trustees'_legal_duties_and_standard_of_conduct" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Board Handbook">fiduciary obligations</a>, and to improve its governance, efficiency, and effectiveness over time. </p><p>According to <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Governance_Committee_Charter" class="extiw" title="wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Governance Committee Charter">Governance Committee Charter</a> (“Charter”) the Committee is "responsible for the Board’s structures, policies and procedures necessary to ensure the Board’s compliance with its legal and fiduciary duties and to facilitate the improvement of Board governance, efficiency, and effectiveness. In addition to the specific responsibilities listed below, the Board may designate further responsibilities to the Committee that are needed to further the Committee’s purpose". </p><p>The Committee: </p> <ol><li>reviews and sets policies and procedures (regular evaluation of the Board, <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Bylaws" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Bylaws">Bylaws</a>, <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Conflict_of_interest_policy" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Conflict of interest policy">Conflict of Interest Policy</a>, <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Code_of_conduct_of_the_Board_of_Trustees" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Code of conduct of the Board of Trustees">the Board of Trustees Code of Conduct</a> etc);</li> <li>identifies Board needs (skills, experience), conducts trustee evaluations (via a 3rd party), administers <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Governance_Committee/Board_recruitment" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Governance Committee/Board recruitment">trustee appointment process</a> (for Board-selected trustee seats), facilitates the selection process for community- and affiliate-selected trustees (by liaising with <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation elections committee">Wikimedia Foundation elections committee</a>), and other activities relating to general Board effectiveness;</li> <li>coordinates and oversees a regular trustee performance review process to provide periodic developmental feedback to each trustee, facilitates Board education, including educational opportunities for all trustees regarding their fiduciary and legal responsibilities.</li></ol> <p>For a full explanation of the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Committee's responsibilities, please refer to its <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Governance_Committee_Charter" class="extiw" title="wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Governance Committee Charter">Charter</a>. Please refer to the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Handbook" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Board Handbook">Board Handbook</a> for more information on Foundation's Board. </p><p>The committee can be contacted privately at bgc-l<span class="mailto" style="white-space:nowrap"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><span title="(_AT_)"><img alt="(_AT_)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/16px-At_sign.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/24px-At_sign.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/At_sign.svg/32px-At_sign.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="145" data-file-height="145"/></span></span></span>wikimedia.org<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or publicly on <a href="/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Governance_Committee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Governance Committee (page does not exist)">this talk page</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Background_and_founding" data-mw-thread-id="h-Background_and_founding"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Background_and_founding"></span>Background and founding<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Background_and_founding"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_Governance_Committee&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background and founding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The committee was established on <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes/April_17,_2010#Committee_Structure_and_Development" class="extiw" title="wmf:Minutes/April 17, 2010">17 April 2010</a> with an interim committee consisting of the Foundation board members. The committee was briefly assisted by Sal Giambanco from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omidyar_Network" class="extiw" title="w:Omidyar Network">Omidyar Network</a>. It submitted a report with initial <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes/July_8,_2010#Board_Governance_Committee_Report_and_Recommendations" class="extiw" title="wmf:Minutes/July 8, 2010">recommendations</a> to the Board, which were implemented. The Board established the Committee as an official sub-committee with a charter and defined tasks<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). On September 15, 2021, the Board dissolved the Board Governance Committee, and created the Governance Committee<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and adopted its Charter<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Useful_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-Useful_links"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Useful_links"></span>Useful links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Useful_links"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_Governance_Committee&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Useful links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Current charter of the Committee is on the Foundation Governance wiki: <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Governance_Committee_Charter" class="extiw" title="wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Governance Committee Charter">Governance Committee Charter</a></li> <li>The membership of the Committee is decided through the Board's resolution, and the current membership is kept on the Foundation Governance wiki: <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Board_of_Trustees/Committees" class="extiw" title="wmf:Special:MyLanguage/Board of Trustees/Committees">Board of Trustees/Committees</a></li> <li>Historical pages are grouped here: <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Committee" title="Category:Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee">Category:Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="References" data-mw-thread-id="h-References"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-References"></span>References<span data-mw-comment-end="h-References"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_Governance_Committee&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Current members of the committee are subscribed. 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