Resolution:Main
This page lists all resolutions approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. You might also be interested in seeing the meeting minutes or a list list of public Foundation policies.
Passed resolutions 2010
August 2010
- 2010-08-31: Approval of Wikimedia Estonia
July 2010
- 2010-07: Board appointments July 2010
- 2010-07-08: Board deliberations
June 2010
- 2010-06: 2010-11 Annual Plan
- 2010-06: Commissioning Recommendations from the Executive Director
- 2010-06: Approval of Wikimedia India
March 2010
- 2010-03-17: Board appointment March 2010
- 2010-03-13: Approval of Wikimedia Philippines
February 2010
- 2010-02: Bylaws amendment February 2010
Passed resolutions 2009
December 2009
- 2009-12: Reappointments of Jimmy Wales, Jan-Bart de Vreede, Stu West, and Matt Halprin
November 2009
- 2009-11-13: Bylaws amendment November 2009
- 2009-11-13: Audit charter amendment November 2009
- 2009-11-13: Audited financial statements 2008-2009
September 2009
- 2009-09: Approval of Wikimedia Finland
- 2009-09: Approval of Wikimedia Macedonia
August 2009
- 2009-08: Board appointment August 2009
July 2009
- 2009-07-03: Approval of Wikimedia Ukraine
- 2009-07-03: Approval of Wikimedia Portugal
- 2009-07-03: Approval of Wikimedia Denmark
June 2009
- 2009-06: 2009-10 Annual Plan
May 2009
- 2009-05: Board appointments May 2009
- 2009-05: Licensing update approval
April 2009
- 2009-04: Long term strategic plan
- 2009-04: Trademark statement
- 2009-04: Biographies of living people
January 2009
- 2009-01: Wikimedia Committees
- 2009-01: Approval of Wikimedia New York City
- 2009-01: Approval of Wikimedia UK
- 2009-01: Chapters committee membership
- 2009-01: Chapters committee rules and procedures
Passed resolutions 2008
November 2008
- 2008-11: Audited financial statements 2007-2008
- 2008-11: Brokerage account authorizations
- 2008-11: Approval of Wikimedia Norway
- 2008-11: Approval of Wikimedia Hungary
October 2008
- 2008-10: Approval of Wikimedia Indonesia
- 2008-10: Approval of Wikimedia Brasil
June 2008
- 2008-06-22: Minutes approval April 2008
- 2008-06-22: Pluralism
- 2008-06-22: Duty Entertainment Guidelines Policy
- 2008-06-22: 2008-09 Budget
May 2008
- 2008-05: Approval of Wikimedia Russia
April 2008
- 2008-04: Bylaws amendments and board structure
- 2008-04: Approval of December 2007 Minutes
- 2008-04: Approval of March 2008 Minutes
- 2008-04: New Trustee Appointment April 2008
- 2008-04: Data Retention Policy
- 2008-04: Privacy policy update April 2008
March 2008
- 2008-03: Election Committee Officers - March 2008
- 2008-03: Approval of Wikimedia Hong Kong
- 2008-03: Secretary, March 2008
- 2008-03: Approval of Wikimedia Australia
February 2008
- 2008-02: Approval of Wikimedia Austria
- 2008-02: Approval of Wikimedia Czech Republic
- 2008-02: Financial statements June 2006-2007
- 2008-02: Board Membership - January 2008 (not public; public announcement)
- 2008-02: Credit Card Usage Policy
- 2008-02-04: Executive Director Job Description
January 2008
- 2008-01: Update of Gift Policy - January 2008
- 2008-01-04: Chapters committee membership - December 2007
Passed resolutions 2007
December 2007
- 2007-12-22: Board expansion - December 2007
- 2007-12-11: Cape Town Open Education Declaration
- 2007-12-11: Approval of Wikimedia Sverige
- 2007-12-11: Approval of Wikimedia Argentina
- 2007-12-11: Minutes approval October 2007
- 2007-12-01: License update
November 2007
- 2007-11-26: Appointment of Sue Gardner as ED
October 2007
- 2007-10-07: Annual appointment of the Board Executive Secretary, Vice Chair, and Chair
- 2007-10-07: Reappointment of Jan-Bart de Vreede and Jimmy Wales
- 2007-10-06: Budget approval 2007
- 2007-10-06: Donor privacy policy
- 2007-10-06: Code of conduct
- 2007-10-06: Travel approvals policy
September 2007
- 2007-09-12: Greenspun illustration project
- 2007-09-04: Whistleblower policy, update August 2007
- 2007-09-03: Minutes approval June 2007
July 2007
- 2007-07-12: Replacement Board member 1 2007
- 2007-07-12: Replacement Board member 2 2007
- 2007-07-12: Replacement Board member 3 2007
- 2007-07-12: Board Elections 2007
- 2007-07-05: Management Consultant
- 2007-07-05: Travel Policy
- 2007-07-04: Carolyn Doran (not public)
- 2007-07-04: Wikimedia Taiwan
- 2007-07-01: Legal Coordinator 2
June 2007
- 2007-06-12: Minutes approval March 2007
- 2007-06-12: Audit Charter 2
- 2007-06-12: Whistleblower policy
- 2007-06-02: Access to nonpublic data policy update
April 2007
- 2007-04-16: ED search committee 2
- 2007-04-16: Access to nonpublic data
- 2007-04-11: Mission and Vision statement
March 2007
- 2007-03-23: Licensing policy
- 2007-03-18: Hardware purchase March 2007
- 2007-03-18: Volunteer coordinator
- 2007-03-18: Computer technician
- 2007-03-18: Legal Coordinator
- 2007-03-09: Brad Patrick's resignation
February 2007
- 2007-02-28: Requirements and guidelines for future chapters
- 2007-02-11: Chief Research Coordinator
January 2007
- 2007-01-31: Legal tasks February March 2007 (not public)
- 2007-01-27: Chapters coordinator - Delphine Ménard
- 2007-01-24: COO - Carolyn Doran
- 2007-01-24: ED Search Firm
- 2007-01-14: Officer elections - January 2007
- 2007-01-12/14: Gift Policy
- 2007-01-12/14: Audit Committee Jan07
Passed resolutions 2006
December 2006
- 2006-12: RBC
- 2006-12-07: Bylaws revision
- 2006-12-07: Board expansion
- 2006-12-07: Agreement between chapters and Wikimedia Foundation
November 2006
- 2006-12-08: Redo events committee
- 2006-12-08: ED Search committee
- 2006-12-08: Retreat 2006 Board actions and outcomes
- 2006-12-08: Domain names workgroup
October 2006
- 2006-10-21: Officers election 2006
- 2006-10-07: Freenode Donation
September 2006
- 2006-09-28: Hardware Sept-06
- 2006-09-25: Replacement Board member 2006
- 2006-09-25: Conflict of interest
- 2006-09-21: Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
- 2006-09-02: Election officials2
August 2006
A meeting of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was held in person at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on August 5, 2006. In attendance were Angela Beesley, Michael Davis, Florence Devouard, Tim Shell, Jimmy Wales, and Brad Patrick. Minutes of decisions will apparently not be reported. It was decided to organise a board retreat in October 2006.
- 2006-08-20: Fundraising committee/Membership
July 2006
- 2006-07-31: Advisory board
- 2006-07-30: Wikiversity
- 2006-07-24: Hardware Purchase Jul-06
- 2006-07-23: Ombudsperson checkuser
- 2006-07-23: WiktionaryZ
- 2006-07-20: Election officials
June 2006
- 2006-06-26: Board election
- 2006-06-21: Danish Wikipedia and DR
- 2006-06-20: Privacy policy update, June 2006
- 2006-06-07: Fundraising committee
- 2006-06-04: Special Project committee/Scope
- 2006-06-02: CEO
- 2006-06-02: Hardware Jun-06
May 2006
- 2006-05-26: OTRS
- 2006-05-24: Chapters committee/Access to internal
- 2006-05-21: Special Project committee/Members
- 2006-05-20: Communications committee/Scope
- 2006-05-20: Communications committee/Members
- 2006-05-17: Foundation wiki accounts
- 2006-05-16: MarkMonitor
April 2006
- 2006-04-21: IDPF Conference
- 2006-04-19: Auditor selection (full resolution not public)
- 2006-04-14: CH Chapter
- 2006-04-04: Chapters committee/Rules of procedure
- 2006-04-04: Chapters committee/Scope
- 2006-04-04: Chapters committee/Delegations
March 2006
- 2006-03-22: Spending Authorization Colo Space (full resolution not public)
- 2006-03-21: Travel costs for chapter meetups Q2 2006
- 2006-03-15: Domain names responsibility
- 2006-03-14: MobilED partnership
February 2006
- 2006-02 : Hardware purchase February 2006
- 2006-02-27: Consent resolutions
- 2006-02-27: Additional developer
- 2006-02-21: Communications committee creation
- 2006-02-15: Spending authorization PowerMedium (not public)
- 2006-02-15: Special projects committee creation
- 2006-02-15: Securities account (not public)
- 2006-02-04: MySQL Conference 2006
- 2006-02-04: Chapters committee creation
January 2006
- 2006-01-23: Spending authorization
- 2006-01-23: Office space
- 2006-01-15: Financial committee
- 2006-01-15: Technical committee
- 2006-01-15: Events committee
- 2006-01-15: Executive committee
- 2006-01-15: Communications committee
- 2006-01-15: Special projects committee
- 2006-01-15: Board expansion committee
- 2006-01-15: Search committee (not public)
- 2006-01-15: Chapters committee
- 2006-01-14: Insurance committee
- 2006-01-14: Audit committee
- 2006-01-14: Nondiscrimination
- 2006-01-14: Trademarks (amended 14 January 2006)
Understanding resolutions
- Approve means the board member voted and this vote was YES.
- Oppose means the board member voted and this vote was NO.
- Abstain means the board member voted and this vote was "no opinion". An abstentions count as a vote.
- Missing means the board member was not present at the board meeting, or did not come to vote on the wiki page. Like abstentions, this counts as a vote.
- Recuse means the board member was present, but did not vote because of a declared conflict-of-interest. A recusal does not count as a vote.
As of July 2008, there were 8 voting members. A resolution normally passes with 5 YES votes. When there is a recusal, a resolution can pass with 4 YES votes, as the number of voting members was reduced to 7.
As of August 2009, there were 9 voting members. A resolution passes with 5 YES votes.
As of March 2010, there are 10 voting members. A resolution passes with 6 YES votes. When there is a recusal, a resolution can pass with 5 YES votes.
The Board passes Resolutions and Votes; the former are formal decisions that must be made public; the latter are routine decisions such as advisory board appointments, approval of minutes for publication, or changes to internal Board processes. Passed Resolutions are published unless otherwise requested by the Chair; failed Resolutions are generally not published. Votes are often not published as such, but the result of the Votes is usually made public -- for instance, minutes are published once a Vote to approve them has concluded; and minutes always list any Votes taken during a meeting.
See also
Links
- Resolutions/Archives failed (only some older failed resolutions are posted. as of 2009 there is no policy about posting unpassed resolutions)
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