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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.

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.

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:
  • Institutional knowledge documentation
  • Legal documentation
  • Organization policies and guidelines
  • Security documentation
• 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.

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 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.

As of May 6, 2024, the core team of administrators primarily responsible for operations and maintenance of Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki are:

• User:GVarnum-WMF - Project lead
• User:Martin Urbanec (WMF)
• User:MLee (WMF)
• User:MMoss (WMF)
• User:Quiddity (WMF)
• User:RAdimer-WMF

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.

• Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki page on Meta-Wiki