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.sidebar-content-with-subgroup{padding:0.1em 0.4em 0.2em}.mw-parser-output .sidebar-above,.mw-parser-output .sidebar-below{padding:0.3em 0.8em;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .sidebar-collapse .sidebar-above,.mw-parser-output .sidebar-collapse .sidebar-below{border-top:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .sidebar-navbar{text-align:right;font-size:115%;padding:0 0.4em 0.4em}.mw-parser-output .sidebar-list-title{padding:0 0.4em;text-align:left;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6em;font-size:105%}.mw-parser-output .sidebar-list-title-c{padding:0 0.4em;text-align:center;margin:0 3.3em}@media(max-width:720px){body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .sidebar{width:100%!important;clear:both;float:none!important;margin-left:0!important;margin-right:0!important}}</style><table class="sidebar nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About">Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Policies" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Policies"><img alt="Wikimedia Foundation mark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Wikimedia-logo_black.svg/70px-Wikimedia-logo_black.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Wikimedia-logo_black.svg/105px-Wikimedia-logo_black.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Wikimedia-logo_black.svg/140px-Wikimedia-logo_black.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_talk:Babel" title="Wikimedia talk:Babel">Babel</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents" title="Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents">Help</a></b></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <hr>Information</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About">About</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About#core" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About">Core administrators team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:History" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:History">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Roadmap" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Roadmap">Roadmap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Scope" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Scope">Scope</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Content_posting_guidelines" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Content posting guidelines">Content posting guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Manual_of_style" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Manual of style">Manual of style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Namespaces_guidelines" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Namespaces guidelines">Namespaces guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Translations_guidelines" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Translations guidelines">Translations guidelines</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <hr><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:All" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:All">Content</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Meetings" title="Special:MyLanguage/Meetings">Board minutes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Resolution:Main" title="Special:MyLanguage/Resolution:Main">Board resolutions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Legal_documentation" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Legal documentation">Legal documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policies" title="Special:MyLanguage/Policies">Organization policies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Security" title="Special:MyLanguage/Security">Security documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Endowment:Main" title="Special:MyLanguage/Endowment:Main">Wikimedia Endowment documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Enterprise">Wikimedia Enterprise documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Memory:Main" title="Special:MyLanguage/Memory:Main">Wikimedia Foundation Memory Bank</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <hr><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Policies,_guidelines,_and_procedures" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Policies, guidelines, and procedures">Policies</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Accounts_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Accounts policy">Accounts policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Conduct_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Conduct policy">Conduct policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Content_protection_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Content protection policy">Content protection policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Editing_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Editing policy">Editing policy</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <hr><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Wiki_maintenance" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Wiki maintenance">Wiki maintenance</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Administrators" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Administrators">Administrators</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia:Administrators_toolbox" title="Wikimedia:Administrators toolbox">Administrators toolbox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About#core" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:About">Core administrators team</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Editors" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Editors">Editors</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia:Editors_toolbox" title="Wikimedia:Editors toolbox">Editors toolbox</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Edit_requests" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Edit requests">Edit requests (1)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Deletion_requests" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Deletion requests">Deletion requests (1)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Proposed_deletions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Proposed deletions">Proposed deletions (0)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Nominated_for_archiving" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Nominated for archiving">Nominated for archiving (0)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Shortcuts" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Shortcuts">Shortcuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Templates" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Templates">Templates</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> Project status: <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Roadmap" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Roadmap">Soft launch</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r132375">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output 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available to the public multiple types of governance and policy related materials.</dt></dl> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Welcome"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Welcome</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Scope"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Scope</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Accounts_on_this_wiki"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Accounts on this wiki</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Administrators_on_this_wiki"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Administrators on this wiki</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Core_administrators_team"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Core administrators team</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6"><a href="#Contacting_the_core_administrators_team"><span class="tocnumber">4.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Contacting the core administrators team</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Welcome" data-mw-thread-id="h-Welcome"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Welcome"></span>Welcome<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Welcome"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <dl><dt>Thank you for being here!</dt></dl> <p>This wiki does not exactly follow the same rules as the other Wikimedia projects, since it is <i>not open to all</i> for editing, and in case of disagreement, the mechanism for making decisions will be handled by the Wikimedia Foundation staff or Board of Trustees. </p><p>It is managed by <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/" class="extiw" title="foundationsite:role/staff-contractors/">Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors</a>, primarily within the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Communications" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Communications">Communications</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Legal" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Legal">Legal</a> departments. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Scope" data-mw-thread-id="h-Scope"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Scope"></span>Scope<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Scope"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <dl><dd><i>Main page: <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Scope" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Scope">Wikimedia:Scope</a></i></dd></dl> <p>This wiki makes publicly available multiple governance and policy related materials from the Wikimedia Foundation, such as: </p> <ul><li>Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees documentation, such as: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Meetings" title="Special:MyLanguage/Meetings">Minutes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Resolutions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Resolutions">Resolutions</a></li></ul></li> <li>Official Wikimedia Foundation documentation, such as: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Institutional_knowledge" title="Special:MyLanguage/Institutional knowledge">Institutional knowledge documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Category:Legal_documentation" title="Special:MyLanguage/Category:Legal documentation">Legal documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policies" title="Special:MyLanguage/Policies">Organization policies and guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Security" title="Special:MyLanguage/Security">Security documentation</a></li></ul></li> <li>Official Wikimedia Endowment documentation, such as: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Endowment#charters" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Endowment">Charters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Endowment#policies" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Endowment">Policies</a></li></ul></li> <li>Official Wikimedia Enterprise documentation, such as: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise#general" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Enterprise">General cost sharing and operating agreements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise#license" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Enterprise">Specific license agreements</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p>It also stores the <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Archive:Main" title="Special:MyLanguage/Archive:Main">archives</a> of the no longer actively used or maintained Foundation Wiki content. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Accounts_on_this_wiki" data-mw-thread-id="h-Accounts_on_this_wiki"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Accounts_on_this_wiki"></span>Accounts on this wiki<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Accounts_on_this_wiki"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <div style="margin-left:1em; float:right; font-size:150%;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r345634">.mw-parser-output .blue-button{background-color:#36c;border:1px solid #36c;border-radius:.125em;color:white;cursor:pointer;display:inline-block;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.143em;font-style:normal;font-weight:700;line-height:normal;margin:0;overflow-y:visible;padding:.5625em .875em;text-decoration:none;width:auto}.mw-parser-output .blue-button:hover{background-color:#447ff5;border-color:#447ff5}.mw-parser-output .blue-button a,.mw-parser-output .blue-button a:visited,.mw-parser-output .blue-button a.external,.mw-parser-output .blue-button a.external:visited,.mw-parser-output .blue-button a.extiw,.mw-parser-output .blue-button a.extiw:visited{color:inherit;text-decoration:none}</style><span class="plainlinks"><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount" class="extiw" title="meta:Special:CreateAccount"><span class="blue-button" style="text-rendering: optimizelegibility; transition: all 100ms;">Register account</span></a></span></div> <dl><dd><i>Main page: <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Accounts_policy" title="Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia:Accounts policy">Wikimedia:Accounts policy</a></i></dd></dl> <p>In October 2021, all registered accounts on other Wikimedia project wikis got edit access to the talk and user pages of this wiki and became able to support translation of this wiki's content into languages other than English. </p><p>Editing on regular content pages is restricted to approved editor accounts. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Administrators_on_this_wiki" data-mw-thread-id="h-Administrators_on_this_wiki"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Administrators_on_this_wiki"></span>Administrators on this wiki<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Administrators_on_this_wiki"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <p><span class="plainlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:ListAdmins" title="Special:ListAdmins">Administrators</a> previously included a variety of Foundation staff and non-Foundation volunteers. <a class="external text" href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gyoung&diff=91857&oldid=91855">From May 2013</a>, only Foundation board and staff members may be administrators on this site (though temporary adminship for non-Foundation personnel may be possible in certain cases).</span> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Stewards" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Stewards">Stewards</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_sysops" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Global sysops">global sysops</a> also have administrator rights on this wiki. <span id="core"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Core_administrators_team" data-mw-thread-id="h-Core_administrators_team-Administrators_on_this_wiki"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Core_administrators_team-Administrators_on_this_wiki"></span>Core administrators team<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Core_administrators_team-Administrators_on_this_wiki"></span></h3></div> <p>As of May 6, 2024, the core team of administrators primarily responsible for operations and maintenance of Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:GVarnum-WMF" title="User:GVarnum-WMF">User:GVarnum-WMF</a> - Project lead</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Martin_Urbanec_(WMF)" title="User:Martin Urbanec (WMF)">User:Martin Urbanec (WMF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:MLee_(WMF)" title="User:MLee (WMF)">User:MLee (WMF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:MMoss_(WMF)" title="User:MMoss (WMF)">User:MMoss (WMF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Quiddity_(WMF)" title="User:Quiddity (WMF)">User:Quiddity (WMF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:RAdimer-WMF" title="User:RAdimer-WMF">User:RAdimer-WMF</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Contacting_the_core_administrators_team" data-mw-thread-id="h-Contacting_the_core_administrators_team-Core_administrators_team"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Contacting_the_core_administrators_team-Core_administrators_team"></span>Contacting the core administrators team<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Contacting_the_core_administrators_team-Core_administrators_team"></span></h4></div> <p>Anyone with a <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Registered_user" class="extiw" title="m:Special:MyLanguage/Registered user">registered account</a> can post on this wiki's <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_talk:Babel" title="Wikimedia talk:Babel">Babel noticeboard</a>, which is regularly monitored by the core administrators team. 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