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

Welcome

Thank you 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 and contractors, primarily within the Communications and Legal departments.

Scope

Main page: Wikimedia:Scope

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

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees documentation, such as:
- Minutes
- Resolutions
Official Wikimedia Foundation documentation, such as:
Official Wikimedia Endowment documentation, such as:
- Charters
- Policies
Official Wikimedia Enterprise documentation, such as:
- General cost sharing and operating agreements
- Specific license agreements

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

Accounts on this wiki

Register account

Main page: Wikimedia:Accounts policy

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.

Editing on regular content pages is restricted to approved editor accounts.

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). Stewards and global sysops also have administrator rights on this wiki.

Core administrators team

As of October 11, 2023, the core team of administrators primarily responsible for operations and maintenance of Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki are:

Contacting the core administrators team

Anyone with a registered account can post on this wiki's Babel noticeboard, which is regularly monitored by the core administrators team. You can also use the {{Edit request}} template to make a request for an edit on a specific page. If needed, you can contact the wiki's coordinating Wikimedia Foundation department, Communications, via email: talktocommswikimediaorg

Wikimedia Foundation staff can contact the core administrators team via the internal #governance-wiki Slack channel.

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+; Welcome to the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki, where the Wikimedia Foundation and its related entities make available to the public multiple types of governance and policy related materials.
-==Welcome==
+== Welcome == <!--T:2-->
+<!--T:3-->
-;Thanks for being here!
+; Thank you for being here!
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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. 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.
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-==How to obtain an account on this site==
+It is managed by [[<tvar name="link1">foundationsite:role/staff-contractors/</tvar>|Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors]], primarily within the [[<tvar name="link2">:m:Special:MyLanguage/Communications</tvar>|Communications]] and [[<tvar name="link3">:m:Special:MyLanguage/Legal</tvar>|Legal]] departments.
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+== {{int string|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 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]]).
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+== Accounts on this wiki == <!--T:12-->
-[[Special:Listadmins|Administrators]] include some [[board]] and [[Staff and contractors|staff]] members, plus other users involved with the Foundation, usually through membership of the [[m:Communications committee|Communications committee]]. There are no current plans to have any other sysops.
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+{{Register account button}}
+{{main|Wikimedia:Accounts policy}}
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+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.
+<!--T:15-->
-Since the users here have been approved to edit this site, vandalism is not an issue here and we will try to have as few pages protected as possible.
+Editing on regular content pages is restricted to approved editor accounts.
+== Administrators on this wiki == <!--T:16-->
-To request deletion or (un)protection of pages, make a request on [[m:Foundation wiki feedback]]. Categories, templates, subpages of your userpage or any other trivial deletions could be requested by placing {{tl|delete}} on the page.
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+[[<tvar name="link1">Special:Listadmins</tvar>|Administrators]] previously included a variety of Foundation staff and non-Foundation volunteers. [<tvar name="url1">{{fullurl:User talk:Gyoung|diff=91857&oldid=91855}}</tvar> 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).</translate></span><translate>
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+[[<tvar name="link1">:m:Special:MyLanguage/Stewards</tvar>|Stewards]] and [[<tvar name="link2">:m:Special:MyLanguage/Global sysops</tvar>|global sysops]] also have administrator rights on this wiki.</translate>
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+=== Core administrators team === <!--T:21-->
-If your page has translations in multiple languages, please don't forget to add the other languages bar to your page.
+<!--T:22-->
-To aid in communication, please authenticate your email address. Then other editors can mail you directly. Thanks!
+As of <tvar name="1">{{dateT|1=2023|2=10|3=11}}</tvar>, the core team of administrators primarily responsible for operations and maintenance of Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki are:</translate>
+* [[User:GVarnum-WMF]] - <translate><!--T:23--> Project lead</translate>
-For those willing to help with translations, please see [[meta:Translation requests/WMF]].
+* [[User:MLee (WMF)]]
+* [[User:MMoss (WMF)]]
+* [[User:Quiddity (WMF)]]
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+==== Contacting the core administrators team ==== <!--T:24-->
-All organisational pages may be found in the [[:Category:Foundation wiki|Foundation wiki organisation category]].
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-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.
+Anyone with a [[<tvar name="1">:m:Special:MyLanguage/Registered user</tvar>|registered account]] can post on this wiki's [[<tvar name="2">Wikimedia talk:Babel</tvar>|Babel noticeboard]], which is regularly monitored by the core administrators team. You can also use the <tvar name="3">{{tl|Edit request}}</tvar> template to make a request for an edit on a specific page. If needed, you can contact the wiki's coordinating Wikimedia Foundation department, [[<tvar name="4">:m:Special:MyLanguage/Communications</tvar>|Communications]], via email: <tvar name="5">{{email|talktocomms|wikimedia.org}}</tvar>
+<!--T:26-->
-[[Category:English]]
+Wikimedia Foundation staff can contact the core administrators team via the internal <tvar name="1">{{Wiki Slack channel link}}</tvar> Slack channel.
-[[Category:Foundation wiki|*]]
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+== {{int string|See also}} ==
+* [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki|<translate><!--T:20--> Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki page on Meta-Wiki</translate>]]
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