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It may reflect differing levels of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#Achieving_consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">vetting</a>.</div></div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:RJW"></span><span id="WP:ROJW"></span><span id="WP:JIMBO"></span><span id="WP:JIMMY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RJW&redirect=no">WP:RJW</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ROJW&redirect=no">WP:ROJW</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JIMBO&redirect=no">WP:JIMBO</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:JIMMY&redirect=no">WP:JIMMY</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jimmy_Wales_-_August_2019_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Jimmy_Wales_-_August_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Jimmy_Wales_-_August_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Jimmy_Wales_-_August_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg/255px-Jimmy_Wales_-_August_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Jimmy_Wales_-_August_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg/340px-Jimmy_Wales_-_August_2019_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2545" data-file-height="3578"></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> in 2019</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> holds a special role in the <a href="/wiki/English_Wikipedia" title="English Wikipedia">English Wikipedia</a> community, due to the central and vital stake he had in its founding. This has in the past included a number of roles in the community's governance, including originally having sole authority to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BAN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BAN">ban</a> editors from the site. Wales's various powers were assumed over time by the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee">Arbitration Committee</a> and the community. Successively, his direct involvement in the running of the site decreased considerably. His role since May 2023 is essentially as a respected senior community member and representative, a source of institutional knowledge, and the holder of the <i><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founder%27s_seat" class="extiw" title="m:Founder's seat">Founder's seat</a></i> on the 12-seat <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees" class="extiw" title="meta:Board of Trustees">Board of Trustees</a>, the ultimate authority over all Wikimedia projects. He is the sole member of the local and global <samp>founder</samp> user groups in recognition of his status; at his request, neither group confers any advanced <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">rights</a>.<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> </p> <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="#Software_and_policy_changes"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Software and policy changes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Founder_flag"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Founder flag</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Wikimedia_Foundation"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Wikimedia Foundation</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Founder's_seat_on_the_Foundation_Board"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Founder's seat on the Foundation Board</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Committees"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Committees</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Arbitration_Committee"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Arbitration Committee</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Mediation_Committee"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Mediation Committee</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Functionary_actions"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Functionary actions</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Banning_users"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext">Banning users</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Blocking_and_unblocking_users"><span class="tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="toctext">Blocking and unblocking users</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#User_rights"><span class="tocnumber">5.3</span> <span class="toctext">User rights</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</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="Software_and_policy_changes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Software_and_policy_changes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Software_and_policy_changes"></span>Software and policy changes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Software_and_policy_changes"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Software and policy changes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p>In the past, Wales has instructed Wikimedia's <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators" class="extiw" title="m:System administrators">system administrators</a> to implement software changes that constitute <i>de facto</i> Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:POL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:POL">policy</a> changes. For instance, in <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/033880.html">December 2005</a>, in response to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_Seigenthaler_biography_incident" title="Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident">Seigenthaler incident</a>, Wales removed the ability of unregistered users to create new pages on the English-language Wikipedia. This change was proposed as an experiment, but it remains in place. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/38415187" title="Special:Diff/38415187">February 2006</a>, Wales created the T1 <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">criterion for speedy deletion</a> of divisive and inflammatory templates, which was <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Archive_33#Removal_of_T1_redux" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 33">repealed in February 2009</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/265584048" title="Special:Diff/265584048">January 2009</a>, in response to criticism over inaccurate information added to Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy">Ted Kennedy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Byrd" title="Robert Byrd">Robert Byrd</a> articles, Wales wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, calling for the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FLAGGED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FLAGGED">flagged revisions</a> software feature to be activated. Wales solicited community input on this issue but did not formally submit the request to the board. </p><p>In July 2010, Wales <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/371848719" title="Special:Diff/371848719">marked</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Child_protection" title="Wikipedia:Child protection">Wikipedia:Child protection</a> as policy, with the edit summary "Do not revert policy tag except on the explicit approval of me and/or the Wikimedia Foundation," seen as an invocation of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CONEXCEPT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CONEXCEPT">WP:CONEXCEPT</a>. </p><p>Wales maintains a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales">very active</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Talk_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Talk page">talk page</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&action=info#mw-pageinfo-watchers">more watched than the village pumps</a>, which he uses as a noticeboard to publish his occasional "decrees" or announcements and where he facilitates discussion on all sorts of Wikimedia projects matters that he welcomes (from the broadest to the most specific; relating to Wikipedias in all languages, Wikimedia, Commons etc.); the latter often include <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing#Appropriate_notification" title="Wikipedia:Canvassing">appropriate notification</a> of current or future discussions on the English Wikipedia or elsewhere to solicit more participation from the talk page's followers. </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="Founder_flag" data-mw-thread-id="h-Founder_flag"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Founder_flag"></span>Founder flag<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Founder_flag"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founder flag" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>On 6 February 2006, Jimmy Wales <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=Danny~metawiki&page=User%3AJimbo+Wales%40enwiki+">was granted</a> the 'steward' right on English Wikipedia by <a href="/wiki/User:Danny" title="User:Danny">Danny</a>, and <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=Sj&page=User%3AJimbo+Wales&year=2006">was granted</a> the 'steward' right on Meta by <a href="/wiki/User:Sj" title="User:Sj">Sj</a>. In 2009, a 'founder' flag was established for Wales,<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> replacing his steward rights.<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> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/founder" title="Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/founder"><i>founder</i> user group</a>, to which <a href="/wiki/Special:ListUsers/founder" title="Special:ListUsers/founder">only Jimmy Wales belongs</a>, gives him a specific set of user rights on all projects <a href="https://iw.toolforge.org/meta/globalgroups/#founder" class="extiw" title="toollabs:meta/globalgroups/">including</a>: abuse filter viewing, viewing deleted pages in the File and File talk namespace, and creating accounts. The rights associated with this flag were once much more extensive, including all administrative rights and user right editing, but were <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-05-10/Commons_deletions#Wales's_%22Founder%22_privileges_reduced" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-10/Commons deletions">dramatically reduced in May 2010</a> following an incident where <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-05-10/Commons_deletions" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-10/Commons deletions">he deleted files at Wikimedia Commons without seeking consensus</a>. In April 2023, these global permissions were again reduced at Jimmy Wales's request.<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> Jimmy Wales also agreed to the removal of his English Wikipedia administrator, CheckUser and Oversight permissions; and to modify the local Founder permission so that it was no longer able to grant permissions to himself or other users.<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> </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="Wikimedia_Foundation" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikimedia_Foundation"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikimedia_Foundation"></span>Wikimedia Foundation<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikimedia_Foundation"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Wikimedia Foundation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a>, <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation" class="extiw" title="m:Wikimedia Foundation">m:Wikimedia Foundation</a>, and <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home" class="extiw" title="wmf:Home">wmf:Home</a></div> <p>In June 2003, the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_Foundation" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation">Wikimedia Foundation</a> (WMF) was founded as "<i>Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.</i>, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, United States."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The foundation's governance is a <a href="/wiki/Board_of_trustees" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of trustees">board of trustees</a>, that in 2003 initially comprised of Jimmy Wales as <a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">Chair</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_E._Davis_(businessman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael E. Davis (businessman)">Michael Davis</a> (<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:Mdavis" class="extiw" title="m:user:Mdavis">Mdavis</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Tim_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Tim Shell">Tim Shell</a> (<a href="/wiki/User:TimShell" title="User:TimShell">TimShell</a>). Wales kept the position as Chair until October 2006, when it was changed to the role as "<i><a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">Chairman</a> <a href="/wiki/Emeritus" title="Emeritus">Emeritus</a></i>". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founder's_seat_on_the_Foundation_Board" data-mw-thread-id="h-Founder's_seat_on_the_Foundation_Board-Wikimedia_Foundation"><span id="Founder.27s_seat_on_the_Foundation_Board"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Founder's_seat_on_the_Foundation_Board-Wikimedia_Foundation"></span>Founder's seat on the Foundation Board<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Founder's_seat_on_the_Foundation_Board-Wikimedia_Foundation"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Founder's seat on the Foundation Board" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founder%27s_seat" class="extiw" title="meta:Founder's seat">meta:Founder's seat</a></div><p><span class="anchor" id="Founder's_seat"></span> </p><p>Since 2008, Jimmy Wales is (additionally to the <i>Chairman Emeritus</i>) granted the "<a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founder%27s_seat" class="extiw" title="meta:Founder's seat">Founder's seat</a>" on the <a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees">Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees</a>, the ultimate corporate authority of the Wikimedia Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Wales founded Wikipedia together with <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sanger" title="Larry Sanger">Larry Sanger</a>, there is only one Founder's seat on the board.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The creation of the founder seat position came among controversies over the appropriate representation of volunteers and chapters within the WMF governance.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </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="Committees" data-mw-thread-id="h-Committees"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Committees"></span>Committees<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Committees"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Committees" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arbitration_Committee" data-mw-thread-id="h-Arbitration_Committee-Committees"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Arbitration_Committee-Committees"></span>Arbitration Committee<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Arbitration_Committee-Committees"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Arbitration Committee" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The members of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee">Arbitration Committee</a> were originally appointed by Wales, and he at one time asserted the right to overrule or even dissolve the Committee. When it was founded in 2004, he said that he expected to exercise this right <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-January/009636.html">"basically never"</a>. In <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee&diff=next&oldid=222466775">June 2008</a></span>, Wales once again asserted the power to overrule the Committee if he deemed it necessary, but added that he did not expect that would ever come about. This was in apparent contradiction to a previous statement by Wales made in <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-April/069100.html">April 2007</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>Here, let me by decree in this very instant make the following binding pledge upon myself:<br> In the event that the ArbCom makes a ruling against me, overturning any decision I have made in my traditional capacity within Wikipedia, the ArbCom's decision shall be final.</p></blockquote> <p>In <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents/Bishonen-FT2&diff=263943379&oldid=263942504">January 2009</a>, Wales stated that he did have the authority to remove sitting arbitrator <a href="/wiki/User:FT2" title="User:FT2">FT2</a>. Upon the arbitrator's resignation, the Committee <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard/Archive_1#FT2_steps_down_from_ArbCom" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 1">declared</a> that whether or not FT2 was to be replaced was a decision for Wales. That same month, the Committee <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard/Archive_1#New_mailing_list_structure" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 1">restricted</a> its official mailing list to "sitting arbitrators, the designated mailing list coordinator, and Jimbo Wales"; the position of designated mailing list coordinator was subsequently discarded, making Wales the only non-arbitrator privy to the list. </p><p>In July 2009, the Committee <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard/Archive_4#Advisory_Council_on_Project_Development_convened" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 4">announced</a> that it had convened with Wales's endorsement an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Advisory_Council_on_Project_Development" title="Wikipedia:Advisory Council on Project Development">Advisory Council on Project Development</a>. A <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Advisory_Council_on_Project_Development" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Advisory Council on Project Development">storm of protest</a> from the editing community over the initiative led to its abandonment and the resignation of the arbitrator primarily responsible. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:BLOCKABDICATE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BLOCKABDICATE&redirect=no">WP:BLOCKABDICATE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>In August 2009, the Committee <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard/Archive_5#Arbitration_motion_regarding_Jimbo_Wales_and_Bishonen" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 5">found</a> Wales to be in breach of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">blocking policy</a> in his block of <a href="/wiki/User:Bishonen" title="User:Bishonen">Bishonen</a>, and acknowledged his "permanent abdication of the use of the blocking tool". </p><p>In <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=312599543&oldid=312595160">September 2009</a>, Wales declared that he wanted his role to appoint Committee members following the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ACE2009" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ACE2009">December 2009 elections</a> to be "purely ceremonial". </p><p>The English Wikipedia community ratified a rewritten <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ARBPOL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ARBPOL">Arbitration policy</a> in June 2011. In <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/434243703" title="Special:PermanentLink/434243703">this policy</a>, the only role Jimmy Wales held in relation to the Arbitration Committee was to act as an appeal body. He was able to hear appeals of remedies, and amend remedies. </p><p>Wales continued to assert implied reserve powers over the Arbitration Committee, including the hypothetical power to disband it. In December 2013, arbitrator-elect <a href="/wiki/User:28bytes" title="User:28bytes">28bytes</a> resigned amidst a controversy over his status as a <a href="/wiki/Wikipediocracy" title="Wikipediocracy">Wikipediocracy</a> admin. Citing 28bytes's overwhelming support in the just-concluded election, Wales <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/588292974" title="Special:Diff/588292974">offered</a> to exercise his reserve powers over ArbCom for the first time ever and call a special election to reconfirm 28bytes to his post. 28bytes, however, <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/588397963" title="Special:Diff/588397963">declined</a> the offer, and no election was held. As a result, no determination was made as to whether Wales had the power to call a special election. </p><p>In December 2017, upon the conclusion of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ACE2017" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ACE2017">2017 Arbitration Committee Election</a>, Wales <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/816449709#Question_on_action_needed" title="Special:Diff/816449709">confirmed</a> that he no longer needed to appoint members of the Arbitration Committee and that the established community process is sufficient for their election. Appeals from committee decisions to Wales ended in May 2023, following <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy/Proposed_amendment_(May_2023)" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy/Proposed amendment (May 2023)">a community-initiated referendum</a> amending arbitration policy to remove a reference to such appeals. Wales <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_250#Arbitration_Committee_appeals" title="User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 250">had said</a> prior to the referendum that he viewed his reserve powers as tied to his appellate role, and he did not argue during or after the referendum that these powers would survive a loss of that role. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mediation_Committee" data-mw-thread-id="h-Mediation_Committee-Committees"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Mediation_Committee-Committees"></span>Mediation Committee<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Mediation_Committee-Committees"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Mediation Committee" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The original members of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Mediation Committee">Mediation Committee</a> were <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-December/008801.html">appointed</a> by Wales in December 2003, at the same time as the original Arbitrators were selected. All new mediator nominations were subject to the final approval of Wales, although he rarely commented on nominations and has never overturned a consensus of the Committee. Jimbo held a subscription to the private mailing list of the Mediation Committee, <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/Mediation-en-l.lists.wikimedia.org/" class="extiw" title="mail:Mediation-en-l">Mediation-en-l</a>. The Mediation Committee was <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/868523636#RFC:Close_MedCom?" title="Special:PermanentLink/868523636">disbanded</a> by the community in 2018. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Functionary_actions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Functionary_actions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Functionary_actions"></span>Functionary actions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Functionary_actions"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Functionary actions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Banning_users" data-mw-thread-id="h-Banning_users-Functionary_actions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Banning_users-Functionary_actions"></span>Banning users<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Banning_users-Functionary_actions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Banning users" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Historically, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Banning_policy#Authority_to_ban" title="Wikipedia:Banning policy">Wikipedia:Banning policy § Authority to ban</a> included a line that stated: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248585704">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{color:#00B785}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{color:#00B785}}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{font-family:Georgia,"DejaVu Serif",serif;color:#008560;quotes:none}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk-italic{font-family:inherit;font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk-marks{quotes:"\"""\""}</style><q class="inline-quote-talk"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Jimbo Wales</a> retains the authority to ban editors.</q> In April 2022, Jimbo Wales <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Banning_policy&diff=1082284358&oldid=1082163616">removed</a> this line from the policy at his own volition, <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)&diff=1082284580&oldid=1082255964">stating</a> in a village pump discussion regarding that line: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">In order to prevent any further controversy on the immediate question, though, I have personally removed the line in question from the policy and assert affirmatively that I do not have the right to ban users unilaterally.</q> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blocking_and_unblocking_users" data-mw-thread-id="h-Blocking_and_unblocking_users-Functionary_actions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Blocking_and_unblocking_users-Functionary_actions"></span>Blocking and unblocking users<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Blocking_and_unblocking_users-Functionary_actions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Blocking and unblocking users" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>When he was an administrator on the English Wikipedia, Wales had the technical ability to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BLOCK">block</a> editors. However, in August 2009 he decided to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&&diff=prev&oldid=303604839">permanently renounce</a> these powers. In May 2010, he <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User:196.212.0.35&type=block">used them again</a>. </p><p>On 21 September 2011, he <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User%3A82.35.193.46">unblocked an IP</a> "Limited unblock for purpose of participating on my talk page only". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_rights" data-mw-thread-id="h-User_rights-Functionary_actions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-User_rights-Functionary_actions"></span>User rights<span data-mw-comment-end="h-User_rights-Functionary_actions"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: User rights" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Until April 2023, Wales had the technical ability, through the unique permissions flag of "<a href="/wiki/Special:ListUsers/founder" title="Special:ListUsers/founder">founder</a>", to add and remove all <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UAL">user rights</a>. Wales has not invoked this power often, and his most recent for-cause removals of admin rights, in 2008, provoked varying amounts of controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The question of whether the English Wikipedia community could revoke advanced permissions from User:Jimbo Wales arose during a Request for Arbitration in April 2023; Wales voluntarily arranged to have his advanced permissions removed by WMF staff, and to have both the Global Founder and English Wikipedia Founder group permissions limited.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/Statement_of_principles" title="User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles">User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee">Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Argumentum_ad_Jimbonem" title="Wikipedia:Argumentum ad Jimbonem">Wikipedia:Argumentum ad Jimbonem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Appeals_to_Jimbo" title="Wikipedia:Appeals to Jimbo">Wikipedia:Appeals to Jimbo</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founder" class="extiw" title="meta:Founder">Meta:Founder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_holidays" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays">Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedian_of_the_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedian of the Year">Wikipedian of the Year</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notes"></span>Notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notes"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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and the ability to enable <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:2FA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:2FA">2FA</a>. <a href="/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/founder" title="Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/founder">Global <samp>founder</samp></a> grants <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Rollback" title="Wikipedia:Rollback">rollback</a>, the ability to view deleted files, some permissions associated with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed">autoconfirmed</a>, and permissions similar to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exempt" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:IP block exempt">IP block exempt exemption</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output 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.id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=gblrights&user=&page=User%3AJimbo+Wales&year=2009&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_review_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1">"Archived copy"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210827200556/https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=gblrights&user=&page=User%3AJimbo+Wales&year=2009&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_review_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-08-27<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2014-10-06</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Archived+copy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DSpecial%253ALog%26type%3Dgblrights%26user%3D%26page%3DUser%253AJimbo%2BWales%26year%3D2009%26month%3D-1%26tagfilter%3D%26hide_review_log%3D1%26hide_thanks_log%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3ARole+of+Jimmy+Wales" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title" title="Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/?oldid=1629819#Stewards_who_aren.27t_really_stewards">"Archived copy"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171014072228/https://meta.wikimedia.org/?oldid=1629819#Stewards_who_aren.27t_really_stewards">Archived</a> from the original on 2017-10-14<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2014-10-06</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Archived+copy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2F%3Foldid%3D1629819%23Stewards_who_aren.27t_really_stewards&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3ARole+of+Jimmy+Wales" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title" title="Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See April 2023 <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&oldid=1149736750#Statement_by_Jimbo_Wales">Statement by Jimbo Wales</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230426133316/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&oldid=1149736750#Statement_by_Jimbo_Wales">Archived</a> 2023-04-26 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, made in the context of an English Wikipedia arbitration case request</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334692">Phabricator task</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230414060903/https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334692">Archived</a> 2023-04-14 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/founder">Global Founder rights log</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230426143039/http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalGroupPermissions/founder">Archived</a> 2023-04-26 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=User%3AJimbo+Wales%40enwiki&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters%5B%5D=newusers&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist">English Wikipedia log</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230426144737/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=User%3AJimbo+Wales%40enwiki&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters%5B%5D=newusers&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist">Archived</a> 2023-04-26 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html">"Archived copy"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130330033331/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-June/010743.html">Archived</a> from the original on 2013-03-30<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2017-02-27</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Archived+copy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fpipermail%2Fwikipedia-l%2F2003-June%2F010743.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3ARole+of+Jimmy+Wales" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title" title="Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bylaws#Section_3._Selection">"Bylaws - Wikimedia Foundation"</a>. <i>wikimediafoundation.org</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170225172741/https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bylaws#Section_3._Selection">Archived</a> from the original on 2017-02-25<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2017-02-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=meta.wikimedia.org&rft.atitle=Wikimedia+Foundation+Board+Handbook+-+Meta&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWikimedia_Foundation_Board_Handbook%23Number_of_Board_members.3B_election_to_the_Board.3B_new_Board_members&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3ARole+of+Jimmy+Wales" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-05-02/Board_restructuring&oldid=670851261">"Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-05-02/Board restructuring"</a>. <i>Wikipedia</i>. 2015-07-10. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211022070015/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2008-05-02%2FBoard_restructuring&oldid=670851261">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-10-22<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2017-02-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Wikipedia&rft.atitle=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2F2008-05-02%2FBoard+restructuring&rft.date=2015-07-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DWikipedia%3AWikipedia_Signpost%2F2008-05-02%2FBoard_restructuring%26oldid%3D670851261&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3ARole+of+Jimmy+Wales" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chair_Jimmy_Wales_steps_down">"Wikimedia chair Jimmy Wales steps down - Wikinews, the free news source"</a>. <i>en.wikinews.org</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170814165141/https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chair_Jimmy_Wales_steps_down">Archived</a> from the original on 2017-08-14<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2017-02-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=en.wikinews.org&rft.atitle=Wikimedia+chair+Jimmy+Wales+steps+down+-+Wikinews%2C+the+free+news+source&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FWikimedia_chair_Jimmy_Wales_steps_down&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWikipedia%3ARole+of+Jimmy+Wales" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See past Administrators' Noticeboard discussions concerning Wales's removal of administrator privileges from individuals: the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=228117666#Bedford_and_misogyny">Bedford case</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211005214148/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=228117666#Bedford_and_misogyny">Archived</a> 2021-10-05 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (July 2008) and the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=252377094#Possible_compromised_account.3F">Scarian case</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211022034848/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&oldid=252377094#Possible_compromised_account.3F">Archived</a> 2021-10-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (November 2008). <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Jasonr_(reconfirmation)" title="Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Jasonr (reconfirmation)">His desysop</a> of <a href="/wiki/User:Jasonr" title="User:Jasonr">Jasonr</a> in November 2009, reversing his own unilateral action from the project's early years, was less controversial, as Jasonr had only 4 edits.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">However, Wales has had his <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ADMIN">administrator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CRAT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CRAT">bureaucrat</a> status revoked by the <a class="external text" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel/Archives/2009-02#Jimbo_Wales_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_email_.E2.80.A2_contributions_.E2.80.A2_deleted_contributions_.E2.80.A2_blocks_.E2.80.A2_deletions_.E2.80.A2_protections_.E2.80.A2_count.29">meta.wikimedia.org</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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title="Wikipedia:Administration">governance</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Unregistered_users" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">Unregistered (IP) users</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why create an account?">Why create an account?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:CreateAccount" title="Special:CreateAccount">Create an account</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_an_account" title="Wikipedia:Request an account">Request an account</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_editors_are_human_too" title="Wikipedia:IP editors are human too">IPs are human too</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_addresses_are_not_people" title="Wikipedia:IP addresses are not people">IP addresses are not people</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Unified_login" title="Wikipedia:Unified login">Unified login or SUL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Legit" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry">Alternate account</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Account security</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Password_strength_requirements" title="Wikipedia:Password strength requirements">Password strength requirements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_account_security" title="Wikipedia:User account security">User account security</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Personal_security_practices" title="Wikipedia:Personal security practices">Personal security practices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Two-factor_authentication" title="Help:Two-factor authentication">Two-factor authentication</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Using_AWB_with_2FA" title="Wikipedia:Using AWB with 2FA">2FA for AWB</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Committed_identity" title="Template:Committed identity">Committed identity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:On_privacy,_confidentiality_and_discretion" title="Wikipedia:On privacy, confidentiality and discretion">On privacy, confidentiality and discretion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Compromised_accounts" title="Wikipedia:Compromised accounts">Compromised accounts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_not_get_outed_on_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:How to not get outed on Wikipedia">How to not get outed</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Blocks, bans, sanctions,<br>global actions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy" title="Wikipedia:Blocking 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addresses</a> <ul><li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Range_blocks" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Range blocks">Range blocks</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Range_blocks/IPv6" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Range blocks/IPv6">IPv6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies" title="Wikipedia:Open proxies">Open proxies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Banning_policy" title="Wikipedia:Banning policy">Banning policy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Ban_appeals" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Ban appeals">ArbCom appeals</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sanctions" title="Wikipedia:Sanctions">Sanctions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_restrictions" title="Wikipedia:Editing restrictions">Personal sanctions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions" title="Wikipedia:General sanctions">General sanctions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contentious_topics" title="Wikipedia:Contentious topics">Contentious topics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_enforcement_log" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log">Log</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sanctions_(essay)" title="Wikipedia:Sanctions (essay)">Essay</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Indefinite_is_not_infinite" title="Wikipedia:Indefinite is not infinite">Indef ≠ infinite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse" title="Wikipedia:Long-term abuse">Long-term abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Standard_offer" title="Wikipedia:Standard offer">Standard offer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Global_actions" title="Wikipedia:Global actions">Global actions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related to accounts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry" 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href="/wiki/User:Worm_That_Turned/Quiet_return" title="User:Worm That Turned/Quiet return">Quiet return</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">User groups</a><br> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_groups#Global_user_groups" class="extiw" title="m:User groups">global user groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions">Requests for permissions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Administrator_instructions" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Administrator instructions">Admin instructions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_guide/Granting_and_revoking_user_rights" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Granting and revoking user rights">Admin guide</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Account_creator" title="Wikipedia:Account creator">Account creator</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_creator" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Confirmed_users" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">(Auto) confirmed</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Confirmed" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autopatrolled" title="Wikipedia:Autopatrolled">Autopatrolled</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Autopatrolled" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser" title="Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser">AutoWikiBrowser</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/AutoWikiBrowser" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/AutoWikiBrowser">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy" title="Wikipedia:Bot policy">Bot</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval" title="Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval">Request</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter_helper" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter helper">Edit filter helper</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter_noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard">Request</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Event_coordinator" title="Wikipedia:Event coordinator">Event coordinator</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Event_coordinator" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Event coordinator">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels#Extendedconfirmed" title="Wikipedia:User access levels">Extended confirmed</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Extended_confirmed" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Extended confirmed">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_mover" title="Wikipedia:File mover">File mover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/File_mover" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/File mover">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption" title="Wikipedia:IP block exemption">IP block exempt</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Unblock_Ticket_Request_System" title="Wikipedia:Unblock Ticket Request System">Request</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Mass_message_senders" title="Wikipedia:Mass message senders">Mass message sender</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Mass_message_sender" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Mass message sender">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Reviewers" title="Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers">New page reviewer</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/New_page_reviewer" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_mover" title="Wikipedia:Page mover">Page mover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Page_mover" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Page mover">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reviewing_pending_changes" title="Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes">Pending changes reviewer</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Pending_changes_reviewer" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Pending changes reviewer">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Rollback" title="Wikipedia:Rollback">Rollback</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Rollback" title="Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback">PERM</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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