Resolution:Main

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Full list of resolutions approved by the Board in its meetings.

Passed resolutions 2009

December 2009

• 2009-12: Reappointments of Jimmy Wales, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Stu West, and Matt Halprin

September 2009

• 2009-09: Approval of Wikimedia Finland
• 2009-09: Approval of Wikimedia Macedonia

August 2009

• 2009-08: Board appointment August 2009

July 2009

• 2009-07-03: Approval of Wikimedia Ukraine
• 2009-07-03: Approval of Wikimedia Portugal
• 2009-07-03: Approval of Wikimedia Denmark

June 2009

• 2009-06: 2009-10 Annual Plan

May 2009

• 2009-05: Board appointments May 2009
• 2009-05: Licensing update approval

April 2009

• 2009-04: Long term strategic plan
• 2009-04: Trademark statement
• 2009-04: Biographies of living people

January 2009

• 2009-01: Wikimedia Committees
• 2009-01: Approval of Wikimedia New York City
• 2009-01: Approval of Wikimedia UK
• 2009-01: Chapters commitee membership
• 2009-01: Chapters committee rules and procedures

Passed resolutions 2008

November 2008

• 2008-11: Audited financial statements 2007-2008
• 2008-11: Brokerage account authorizations
• 2008-11: Approval of Wikimedia Norway
• 2008-11: Approval of Wikimedia Hungary

October 2008

• 2008-10: Approval of Wikimedia Indonesia
• 2008-10: Approval of Wikimedia Brasil

June 2008

• 2008-06-22: Minutes approval April 2008
• 2008-06-22: Pluralism
• 2008-06-22: Duty Entertainment Guidelines Policy
• 2008-06-22: 2008-09 Budget

May 2008

• 2008-05: Approval of Wikimedia Russia

April 2008

• 2008-04: Bylaws amendments and board structure
• 2008-04: Approval of December 2007 Minutes
• 2008-04: Approval of March 2008 Minutes
• 2008-04: New Trustee Appointment April 2008
• 2008-04: Data Retention Policy
• 2008-04: Privacy policy update April 2008

March 2008

• 2008-03: Election Committee Officers - March 2008
• 2008-03: Approval of Wikimedia Hong Kong
• 2008-03: Secretary, March 2008‎
• 2008-03: Approval of Wikimedia Australia

February 2008

• 2008-02: Approval of Wikimedia Austria
• 2008-02: Approval of Wikimedia Czech Republic
• 2008-02: Financial statements June 2006-2007
• 2008-02: Board Membership - January 2008 (not public; public announcement)
• 2008-02: Credit Card Usage Policy
• 2008-02-04: Executive Director Job Description

January 2008

• 2008-01: Update of Gift Policy - January 2008
• 2008-01-04: Chapters committee membership - December 2007

Passed resolutions 2007

December 2007

• 2007-12-22: Board expansion - December 2007
• 2007-12-11: Cape Town Open Education Declaration
• 2007-12-11: Approval of Wikimedia Sverige
• 2007-12-11: Approval of Wikimedia Argentina
• 2007-12-11: Minutes approval October 2007
• 2007-12-01: License update

November 2007

• 2007-11-26: Appointment of Sue Gardner as ED

October 2007

• 2007-10-07: Annual appointment of the Board Executive Secretary, Vice Chair, and Chair
• 2007-10-07: Reappointment of Jan-Bart de Vreede and Jimmy Wales
• 2007-10-06: Budget approval 2007
• 2007-10-06: Donor privacy policy
• 2007-10-06: Code of conduct
• 2007-10-06: Travel approvals policy

September 2007

• 2007-09-12: Greenspun illustration project
• 2007-09-04: Whistleblower policy, update August 2007
• 2007-09-03: Minutes approval June 2007

July 2007

• 2007-07-12: Replacement Board member 1 2007
• 2007-07-12: Replacement Board member 2 2007
• 2007-07-12: Replacement Board member 3 2007
• 2007-07-12: Board Elections 2007
• 2007-07-05: Management Consultant
• 2007-07-05: Travel Policy
• 2007-07-04: Carolyn Doran (not public)
• 2007-07-04: Wikimedia Taiwan
• 2007-07-01: Legal Coordinator 2

June 2007

• 2007-06-12: Minutes approval March 2007
• 2007-06-12: Audit Charter 2
• 2007-06-12: Whistleblower policy
• 2007-06-02: Access to nonpublic data policy update

April 2007

• 2007-04-16: ED search committee 2
• 2007-04-16: Access to nonpublic data
• 2007-04-11: Mission and Vision statement

March 2007

• 2007-03-23: Licensing policy
• 2007-03-18: Hardware purchase March 2007
• 2007-03-18: Volunteer coordinator
• 2007-03-18: Computer technician
• 2007-03-18: Legal Coordinator
• 2007-03-09: Brad Patrick's resignation

February 2007

• 2007-02-28: Requirements and guidelines for future chapters
• 2007-02-11: Chief Research Coordinator

January 2007

• 2007-01-31: Legal tasks February March 2007 (not public)
• 2007-01-27: Chapters coordinator - Delphine Ménard
• 2007-01-24: COO - Carolyn Doran
• 2007-01-24: ED Search Firm
• 2007-01-14: Officer elections - January 2007
• 2007-01-12/14: Gift Policy
• 2007-01-12/14: Audit Committee Jan07

Passed resolutions 2006

December 2006

• 2006-12: RBC
• 2006-12-07: Bylaws revision
• 2006-12-07: Board expansion
• 2006-12-07: Agreement between chapters and Wikimedia Foundation

November 2006

• 2006-12-08: Redo events committee
• 2006-12-08: ED Search committee
• 2006-12-08: Retreat 2006 Board actions and outcomes
• 2006-12-08: Domain names workgroup

October 2006

• 2006-10-21: Officers election 2006
• 2006-10-07: Freenode Donation

September 2006

• 2006-09-28: Hardware Sept-06
• 2006-09-25: Replacement Board member 2006
• 2006-09-25: Conflict of interest
• 2006-09-21: Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
• 2006-09-02: Election officials2

August 2006

A meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was held in person at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on August 5, 2006. In attendance were Angela Beesley, Michael Davis, Florence Devouard, Tim Shell, Jimmy Wales, and Brad Patrick. Minutes of decisions will apparently not be reported. It was decided to organise a board retreat in October 2006.

• 2006-08-20: Fundraising committee/Membership

July 2006

• 2006-07-31: Advisory board
• 2006-07-30: Wikiversity
• 2006-07-24: Hardware Purchase Jul-06
• 2006-07-23: Ombudsperson checkuser
• 2006-07-23: WiktionaryZ
• 2006-07-20: Election officials

June 2006

• 2006-06-26: Board election
• 2006-06-21: Danish Wikipedia and DR
• 2006-06-20: Privacy policy update, June 2006
• 2006-06-07: Fundraising committee
• 2006-06-04: Special Project committee/Scope
• 2006-06-02: CEO
• 2006-06-02: Hardware Jun-06

May 2006

• 2006-05-26: OTRS
• 2006-05-24: Chapters committee/Access to internal
• 2006-05-21: Special Project committee/Members
• 2006-05-20: Communications committee/Scope
• 2006-05-20: Communications committee/Members
• 2006-05-17: Foundation wiki accounts
• 2006-05-16: MarkMonitor

April 2006

• 2006-04-21: IDPF Conference
• 2006-04-19: Auditor selection (full resolution not public)
• 2006-04-14: CH Chapter
• 2006-04-04: Chapters committee/Rules of procedure
• 2006-04-04: Chapters committee/Scope
• 2006-04-04: Chapters committee/Delegations

March 2006

• 2006-03-22: Spending Authorization Colo Space (full resolution not public)
• 2006-03-21: Travel costs for chapter meetups Q2 2006
• 2006-03-15: Domain names responsibility
• 2006-03-14: MobilED partnership

February 2006

• 2006-02   : Hardware purchase February 2006
• 2006-02-27: Consent resolutions
• 2006-02-27: Additional developer
• 2006-02-21: Communications committee creation
• 2006-02-15: Spending authorization PowerMedium (not public)
• 2006-02-15: Special projects committee creation
• 2006-02-15: Securities account (not public)
• 2006-02-04: MySQL Conference 2006
• 2006-02-04: Chapters committee creation

January 2006

• 2006-01-23: Spending authorization
• 2006-01-23: Office space
• 2006-01-15: Financial committee
• 2006-01-15: Technical committee
• 2006-01-15: Events committee
• 2006-01-15: Executive committee
• 2006-01-15: Communications committee
• 2006-01-15: Special projects committee
• 2006-01-15: Board expansion committee
• 2006-01-15: Search committee (not public)
• 2006-01-15: Chapters committee
• 2006-01-14: Insurance committee
• 2006-01-14: Audit committee
• 2006-01-14: Nondiscrimination
• 2006-01-14: Trademarks (amended 14 January 2006)

Understanding resolutions

• Approve means the board member voted and this vote was YES.
• Oppose means the board member voted and this vote was NO.
• Abstain means the board member voted and this vote was "no opinion". An abstentions count as a vote.
• Missing means the board member was not present at the board meeting, or did not come to vote on the wiki page. Like abstentions, this counts as a vote.
• Recuse means the board member was present, but did not vote because of a declared conflict-of-interest. A recusal does not count as a vote.

As of July 2008, there were 8 voting members. When no board members recuse themselves, a resolution passed with 5 YES votes. When there is a recusal, a resolution passed with 4 YES votes, as the number of voting members was reduced to 7.

As of August 2009, there are 9 voting members. A resolution passes with 5 YES votes.

See also

• Corporate Actions
• How Resolutions Work

Links

• Resolutions/Archives failed (only some older failed resolutions are posted. as of 2009 there is no policy about posting unpassed resolutions)

See also

• Meetings
• Messages