Wikimedia committees/awa

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees committees Governance Committee Audit Committee Talent & Culture Committee Product & Technology Committee Community Affairs Committee Staff committees Communications committee Community-wide committees Affiliations Committee भाषा समिति Wikimania Committee Movement governance committees Elections Committee Ombuds commission Case Review Committee UCoC Coordinating Committee Movement-wide preparation committees Movement Charter Drafting Committee Charter Electoral Commission U4C Building Committee UCoC drafting committees Resources allocation committees Conference Support Committee Regional Fund Committees All Wikimedia committees Committee Support team (WMF)

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

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
Product and Technology Committee
Community Affairs Committee

Wikimedia Foundation committees

समिति	उद्देश्य
Communications committee	Facilitate communication between the Wikimedia Foundation, the general public, the media, and the communities of the various Wikimedia projects
Elections Committee	Oversees elections to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Community-/movement-wide committees

समिति	उद्देश्य
Affiliations Committee	मान्यता अउर सहयोग विकीमीडिया संचलन सहयोग
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
Interim Case Review Committee	Reviews eligible Trust & Safety investigations that are appealed either by those who originally requested the investigation or those who have been sanctioned by them.
Movement Charter Drafting Committee	Drafting the Movement Charter.

Resources allocation committees

Committee	Purpose
Conference Support Committee
Regional Grants Committees	Enable communities in each region and thematic experts to have a central role in setting priorities and allocating funds for specific types of initiatives. Seven regional committees: Middle East and Africa South Asia East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean United States and Canada Northern and Western Europe Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Central Asia

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)

Established in 2019, to "assist the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities through helping on special, one-off projects that temporarily require some Board member involvement and input for periods of time". It was dissolved in December 2021.

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.

निधीकरण समिति

• आंदोलन मिशन कय समर्थन करय बरे विकिमीडिया संगठनऽन् का धन कय वितरण

इहौ देखा

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

• विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन विभाग