Wikimedia committees/awa

This page describes committees created by the Wikimedia Foundation and by the Wikimedia community. Each committee has a charter describing its structure and function.

• For a review of committees at the time, see the January 2009 resolution on Wikimedia Committees.

• For recommended committee stuctures and processes, see the July 2010 minutes of the WMF Board.

सक्रिय विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन समितियाँ

मंडल

समिति	उद्देश्य
WMF मंडल शासन समिति	Ensuring the Board fulfills legal and fiduciary obligations Improve its governance, efficiency and effectiveness over time
WMF लेखाजोखा समिति	Oversight of financial and accounting issues Oversight of the relationship with the independent auditor
WMF मंडल HR समिति	Oversight of compensation and personnel policies and practices Review of executive compensation and of the performance of the Executive Director
WMF Product Committee

WMF कर्मचारी समिति

समिति	उद्देश्य
Communications committee	Facilitate communication between the Wikimedia Foundation, the general public, the media, and the communities of the various Wikimedia projects

Community-wide committees

समिति	उद्देश्य
Affiliations Committee	मान्यता अउर सहयोग विकीमीडिया संचलन सहयोग
निधीकरण समिति	आंदोलन मिशन कय समर्थन करय बरे विकिमीडिया संगठनऽन् का धन कय वितरण
भाषा समिति	Proposing, processing, supporting and coordinating new language projects
Ombuds commission	Investigate complaints about infringements of the Privacy Policy, the Access to nonpublic information policy, the CheckUser policy and the oversight policy on any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees
Project Grants Committee
Conference Support Committee

Movement-wide committees

• Movement Charter Drafting Committee

सक्रिय स्वतंत्र समिति

These don't seek explicit/formal recognition by the Wikimedia Foundation or others.

• Wikimania Committee

असक्रिय या बंद होय चुकी समिति

अनुसंधान समिति

Organized policies, practices and priorities for Wikimedia-related research, and maintaining the Wikimedia Research Index.

मंडल विस्तार समिति

Created January 15, 2006 by board resolution.

The Board was successfully expanded from 5 to 7 members in November 2006, and the committee consequently disbanded.

संपादन समिति

Created January 15, 2006 by board resolution, intended to hold executive authority delegated from the Board when the Board was not in session (see a common definition).

It was meant to be organized by Angela, but was never really in operation. To be considered disbanded. A sub-meeting (discussion log) of the 11 February 2006 open meeting was used to discuss the setting up of the executive committee and the possibility of an administrative director (or a similarly worded executive position).

कार्यकारी निदेशक संक्रमण टीम

• Selection of and transition to a new Executive Director (2013-2014)

आयोजन समिति

Created January 15, 2006 by board resolution.

First meeting took place on April 5, 2006. The initial members were Delphine Ménard, Arne Klempert, Simon Pulsifer, Frank Schulenburg. The last update indicated the committee was working on a paper about the scope of the committee. Considered disbanded.

वित्तीय समिति

मंडल संकल्प 15 जनवरी 2006 का बना।

Was to be organized by Daniel Mayer and Michael Davis. Status: disagreement between the organisers, original proposals were rejected. Now deprecated after accountant and financial director were hired (see Current staff).

धन उगाही समिति

Created June 7, 2006. It was active throughout its first year of operation, but was disbanded in its original description in August 2007. Previous membership list available here: wmf:Resolution:Fundraising committee/Membership. Committee's abandonment is mentioned at wmf:Resolution:Wikimedia Committees.

बीमा समिति

Created January 15, 2006 by board resolution.

The original members were Michael Davis, Angela Beesley, Jimmy Wales, and Danny Wool. Status: work in progress to complete applications for board and officers liability insurance and cyber-insurance. Committee de facto disbanded in January after meeting about the forms. D&O active.

नियुक्ति समिति

Created April 2008 by board resolution. Deprecated since early 2010.

खास प्रोजेक्ट समिति

मंडल संकल्प 15 जनवरी 2006 का बना।

Was originally organized by Florence Devouard, Jakob Voss, and Danny Wool. No longer active as of August 2007. It was dissolved in January 2009 per board resolution.

Special projects committee (2019)

See also: Special projects committee

तकनीकी समिति

मंडल संकल्प 15 जनवरी 2006 का बना।

Was to be organized by Jens Frank, Brion Vibber and Domas Mituzas. Status: was never organized, although the core team of developers constitute a sort of de facto committee.

व्यापार-चिन्ह समिति

Created January 2, 2006 by board resolution, intended to oversee the legal process to secure trademarks, make timely reports on the trademark status to the board, make recommendations to the Board about the top priority concerning trademarks (categories, locations and their estimated costs), and was responsible for registering and monitoring domain names for the Foundation.

Status: was partly active for a while, but disbanded as of August 2007.

इहौ देखा

• Wikimedia:Resolutions – for details and transcripts of meetings about the setting up of these committees

• विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन विभाग