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Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, where the Wikimedia Foundation makes available to the public multiple types of governance and policy related materials.

Welcome

Thanks for being here!

This wiki does not exactly follow the same rules as the other Wikimedia projects, since it is not open to all for editing, and in case of disagreement, the mechanism for making decisions will be handled by the Wikimedia Foundation staff or Board of Trustees.

It is managed by Wikimedia Foundation staff, primarily within the Communications and Legal departments.

Scope

This wiki makes publicly availably multiple governance and policy related materials from the Wikimedia Foundation, such as:

Board of Trustees documentation
- Minutes
- Resolutions
Legal documentation
Organization policies
Security documentation

It also stores the archives of the no longer actively used or maintained Foundation Wiki content.

Accounts on this wiki

It is planned that by the end of 2021, all registered accounts on other Wikimedia project wikis will have edit access to the talk pages of this wiki and be able to support translation of this wiki's content into languages other than English.

Administrators on this wiki

Administrators previously included a variety of Foundation staff and non-Foundation volunteers. From May 2013, 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).

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+;Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, where the Wikimedia Foundation makes available to the public multiple types of governance and policy related materials.
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-This wiki does not exactly follow the same rules as the other Wikimedia projects, since it is ''not open to all'' for editing, and in case of disagreement, the organ of decision will be the Board or Wikimedia Foundation staff. A rule of thumb, however, is if we gave you access, that means ''we trust you''. So please, do not be shy in editing this site. There is ample work for everyone :-).
+This wiki does not exactly follow the same rules as the other Wikimedia projects, since it is ''not open to all'' for editing, and in case of disagreement, the mechanism for making decisions will be handled by the Wikimedia Foundation staff or Board of Trustees.
+It is managed by Wikimedia Foundation staff, primarily within the Communications and Legal departments.
-==How to obtain an account on this site==
+==Scope==
-Please request an account on [[m:Request for an account on the Foundation wiki|Request for an account on the Foundation wiki]]. Please give your username, email address and reasons you need an account. To ensure users are already familiar with the policies of at least one Wikimedia project, we do ask that only administrators of at least one project apply for an account. If you are not already an administrator, please see the request for adminship page on your local wiki (this should be linked from [[m:Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia projects]]).
+This wiki makes publicly availably multiple governance and policy related materials from the Wikimedia Foundation, such as:
-==Administrators on this wiki==
+* Board of Trustees documentation
+** [[Meetings|Minutes]]
+** [[Resolutions|Resolutions]]
+* [[:Category:Legal documentation|Legal documentation]]
+* [[Policies|Organization policies]]
+* [[Security|Security documentation]]
+It also stores the [[Archive:Main|archives]] of the no longer actively used or maintained Foundation Wiki content.
-[[Special:Listadmins|Administrators]] previously included a variety of Foundation staff and non-Foundation volunteers. [{{fullurl:User talk:Gyoung|diff=91857&oldid=91855}} From May 2013], only Foundation [[board]] and [[Staff and contractors|staff]] members may be administrators on this site (though temporary adminship for non-Foundation personnel may be possible in certain cases, and in any event there is plenty one can do on this site with only editing rights!).
+==Accounts on this wiki==
-Since the users here have been approved to edit this site, vandalism is not an issue here and very few pages are protected. The user rights of account holders (registered users) on this site is different from the rights of account holders on other Foundation wikis; because users on here are vetted, they have the [[Special:ListGroupRights#user|following user rights]]:
+It is planned that by the end of 2021, all registered accounts on other Wikimedia project wikis will have edit access to the talk pages of this wiki and be able to support translation of this wiki's content into languages other than English.
-{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
-!style="width:50%"|Ability (user right name)
-!style="width:50%"|Ability (user right name)
-|-
-|Create discussion pages (createtalk)
-|Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
-|-
-|Edit pages (edit)
-|Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
-|-
-|Edit the user interface (editinterface)
-|Mark edits as minor (minoredit)
-|-
-|Move pages (move)
-|Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
-|-
-|Overwrite existing files (reupload)
-|Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
-|-
-|Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
-|Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation (purge)
-|-
-|Read pages (read)
-|Save books as community page (collectionsaveascommunitypage)
-|-
-|Save books as user page (collectionsaveasuserpage)
-|Send email to other users (sendemail)
-|-
-|Upload files (upload)
-|Use of the write API (writeapi)
-|}
+==Administrators on this wiki==
-To request deletion or (un)protection of pages, make a request on the user talk page of an active administrator (or try [[m:FWF]]). Categories, templates, subpages of your userpage or any other trivial deletions could be requested by placing {{tl|delete}} on the page.
-== Other points ==
-If your page has translations in multiple languages, please don't forget to add the other languages bar to your page.
-To aid in communication, please authenticate your email address. Then other editors can mail you directly. Thanks!
-For those willing to help with translations, please see [[meta:Translation requests/WMF]].
-All organisational pages may be found in the [[:Category:Foundation wiki|Foundation wiki organisation category]].
+[[Special:Listadmins|Administrators]] previously included a variety of Foundation staff and non-Foundation volunteers. [{{fullurl:User talk:Gyoung|diff=91857&oldid=91855}} From May 2013], only Foundation [[board]] and [[Staff and contractors|staff]] members may be administrators on this site (though temporary adminship for non-Foundation personnel may be possible in certain cases).
-If you made any major edit which you feel could be controversial or incorrect, please list the page at [[m:Foundation wiki feedback|Foundation wiki feedback]] or make a post to [[mail:wikimedia-l|wikimedia-l]] for further discussion.
 [[Category:Foundation wiki|*]]