Resolutions

1 Passed resolutions 2017
2 Passed resolutions 2016
3 Passed resolutions 2015
4 Passed resolutions 2014
5 Passed resolutions 2013
6 Passed resolutions 2012
7 Passed resolutions 2011
8 Passed resolutions 2010
9 Passed resolutions 2009
10 Passed resolutions 2008
11 Passed resolutions 2007
12 Passed resolutions 2006
13 Before 2006
14 Understanding resolutions
15 Summary of resolutions
16 Links

This page lists all resolutions approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees since 2006. You might also be interested in seeing the meeting minutes or a list of public Foundation policies. See below a brief explanation to understand resolutions.

A copy of these resolutions is available on Meta for comments and easier translation.

Passed resolutions 2017

Passed resolutions 2016

December 2016

2016-12-16: Minutes approval November 13, 2016

November 2016

2016-11-13: Delegation of policy-making authority
2016-11-13: Approval of Strategy Process Budget
2016-11-13: Minutes approval September 19, 2016

September 2016

2016-7-23: Funds Dissemination Committee Membership 2016

July 2016

2016-7-23: Appointing Stephen LaPorte as Interim Secretary
2016-7-21: Minutes approval June 29, 2016
2016-7-21: Minutes approval June 22-23, 2016

June 2016

2016-6-29: Approving the Endowment Advisory Board Operations
2016-6-26: Board officers and committee membership 2016
2016-6-23: Nataliia Tymkiv appointment 2016
2016-6-23: Christophe Henner appointment 2016
2016-6-23: Appointment of Katherine Maher as Executive Director
2016-6-22: Board approval of FDC recommendation (2015-16, Round 2)
2016-6-20: Approving the Wikimedia Foundation 2016-17 Annual Plan

May 2016

2016-5-27: Minutes approval May 16, 2016
2016-5-16: Gift Policy Amendments Increase Threshold
2016-5-16: Minutes approval April 22, 2016

April 2016

2016-4-22: Minutes approval March 21, 2016

March 2016

2016-3-30: Committee Membership 2016
2016-3-10: Appointing Katherine Maher as Interim Executive Director

January 2016

2016-1-30: Minutes approval January 30, 2016
2016-1-30: Appointing Jaime as Treasurer
2016-1-30: María Sefidari appointment 2016
2016-1-30: Audit Committee Membership 2016
2016-1-30: Minutes approval December 28, 2015
2016-1-30: Minutes approval December 9, 2015

Passed resolutions 2015

December 2015

2015-12-28: James Heilman Removal
2015-12-09: Governance Committee membership 2015
2015-12-09: Minutes approval November 6-8, 2015
2015-12-09: Appointing Arnnon Geshuri as Board Member
2015-12-09: Establishment of Endowment
2015-12-09: Appointing Kelly Battles as Board Member
2015-12-09: Board approval of FDC recommendation (2015-16, Round 1)

November 2015

2015-11-07: Minutes approval September 14, 2015
2015-11-07: Resolution to renew the Founder's seat (2015)
2015-11-07: FDC Liaison 2015
2015-11-07: Inviting visitors to a Board of Trustees meeting (2015)
2015-11-07: Appointing Interim Treasurer
2015-11-07: Amending the Scope of the Ombudsman Commission
2015-11-07: Elections Committee

September 2015

2015-09-14: Committee Chairs 2015
2015-09-14: Appointment of Interim Treasurer
2015-09-14: Minutes approval July 15-16, 2015

July 2015

2015-07-16: Board Officer and Committee Appointments 2015
2015-07-16: James Heilman appointment 2015
2015-07-16: Denny Vrandečić appointment 2015
2015-07-16: Dariusz Jemielniak appointment 2015
2015-07-15: Term Limit Proposal for Bylaws
2015-07-15: Minutes approval June 11, 2015

June 2015

2015-06-30: Minutes approval June 28, 2015
2015-06-28: Annual Plan 2015-16
2015-06-28: Board approval of FDC recommendation (2014-15, Round 2)
2015-06-11: Minutes approval May 2015

May 2015

2015-05-08: Second amendment to the Delegations of Financial and Spending Authority
2015-05-08: Updated Brokerage Account Authorizations
2015-05-08: Minutes approval April 2015

April 2015

2015-04-13: Minutes approval March 2015

March 2015

2015-03-16: Minutes approval February 2015
2015-03-16: Appointing Guy Kawasaki

February 2015

2015-02-07: Minutes approval January 2015
2015-02-07: Minutes approval December 2014

January 2015

2015-01-14: Minutes approval November 2014

Passed resolutions 2014

December 2014

2014-12-22: Board approval of FDC recommendation (2014-15, Round 1)

September 2014

2014-09-08: Minutes approval August 2014

August 2014

2014-08-07: Board Officer and Committee Appointments 2014
2014-08-07: Completion of Jan-Bart's term
2014-08-07: Alice Wiegand Reappointment for 2015
2014-08-07: Alice Wiegand Appointment 2014
2014-08-07: Frieda Brioschi appointment 2014
2014-08-07: Patricio Lorente appointment 2014
2014-08-06: Recognition of Wikimedia Belgium

July 2014

2014-07-09: Funds Dissemination Committee Membership 2014

June 2014

2014-06-29: 2014-2015 Annual Plan
2014-06-28: Board approval of FDC recommendation (2013-14, Round 2)
2014-06-09: Minutes approval April 2014

April 2014

2014-04-25: TOU Amendment - Disclosure of Paid Editing
2014-04-25: New privacy policy and access policy
2014-04-14: Minutes approval January 2014
2014-04-10: Appointment of Lila Tretikov as Executive Director

February 2014

2014-02-01: New trademark policy
2014-02-01: Advisory Board appointments 2014
2014-02-01: Amended Bylaws for Trustees selected by Chapters and Thematic Organizations
2014-02-01: Community logo trademark
2014-02-01: Approval of Automattic contract

January 2014

2014-01-19: Minutes approval November 24-25, 2013

Passed resolutions 2013

December 2013

2013-12-30: Board approval of FDC recommendation (2013-14, Round 1)

November 2013

2013-11-25: FDC recognition for the Centre for the Internet and Society
2013-11-25: Jimmy Wales Reappointment 2014
2013-11-25: ED Transition Committee Appointment
2013-11-24: Media about living people (amendment of 2009 BLP resolution)

September 2013

2013-09-14: Minutes approval August 7-8, 2013

August 2013

2013-08-08: Board visitor - Doron Weber (2013)
2013-08-08: Amendment to the Delegations of Financial and Spending Authority
2013-08-08: Board Officer and Committee Appointments 2013
2013-08-08: Board appointments August 2013
2013-08-08: Jan-Bart de Vreede reappointment 2013
2013-08-08: Stu West reappointment 2013

July 2013

2013-07-12: Recognition of Wikimedia Uruguay

June 2013

2013-06-28: 2013-2014 Annual Plan
2013-06-19: Ana Toni Appointment 2013
2013-06-05: Recognition of Amical Wikimedia

May 2013

2013-05-31: Board approval of FDC recommendation (2012-13, Round 2)
2013-05-30: Wikimedia Foundation Guiding Principles
2013-05-30: Minutes approval April 18-19, 2013
2013-05-04: Amended Bylaws, Article IV, Section 6

April 2013

2013-04-19: Approving the revised Board Governance Committee Charter
2013-04-18: Guidelines on potential conflicts of interest

March 2013

2013-03-26: Recognition of Wikimedia Armenia
2013-03-25: Appointing and authorizing a transition committee in the search of a new Executive Director
2013-03-06: Minutes approval February 1-2, 2013

February 2013

2013-02-02: Advisory Board appointments 2013
2013-02-02: Amending the Term of Advisory Board Members
2013-02-01: Amendment of Affiliations Committee Charter

January 2013

2013-01-07: Minutes approval December 1, 2012

Passed resolutions 2012

December 2012

2012-12-27: Bishakha Datta Reappointment 2012
2012-12-01: FDC Approval Fall 2012

October 2012

2012-10-26: Appointment of Foundation Staff Officers
2012-10-26: Amended Bylaws
2012-10-26: Vote:Narrowing Focus
2012-10-26: Legal Fees Assistance Program
2012-10-26: Committee appointments
2012-10-26: Audit Committee Charter
2012-10-26: Human Resources Committee Charter
2012-10-16: Language Committee Charter

September 2012

2012-09-25: Funds Dissemination Committee initial membership

August 2012

2012-08-31: Advisory Board - Barry Newstead
2012-08-20: Affiliations Committee Charter

July 2012

2012-07-11: Delegations of financial and spending authority
2012-07-11: Delegation of banking authority
2012-07-11: Board visitor - Doron Weber (2012)
2012-07-11: Board appointments July 2012
2012-07-11: Personal Image Hiding Feature
2012-07-11: Funds Dissemination Committee framework and initial operation
2012-07-11: 2012-2013 Annual Plan

June 2012

2012-06-25: Board Visitors (2012)

March 2012

2012-03-31: Revision of open-ended Chapter approvals
2012-03-31: Recognizing Models of Affiliations
2012-03-31: Affiliations Committee
2012-03-31: Organizational best practices
2012-03-30: Committee Standards
2012-03-30: Board Governance Committee Charter
2012-03-30: Amendment to Chapter Committee Rules of Procedure
2012-03-30: Funds Dissemination Committee
2012-03-30: Fundraising 2012
2012-03-30: Board of Trustees Voting Transparency
2012-03-05: Terms of use

February 2012

2012-02-13: Vote:Committee standards
2012-02-09: Vote:Movement accountability standards
2012-02-08: Movement roles letter
2012-02-08: Fundraising letter
2012-02-06: Recognition of Wikimedia Kenya

January 2012

2012-01-27: Reappointment of Stu West, 2012
2012-01-27: Reappointment of Jan-Bart de Vreede, 2012
2012-01-27: Reappointment of Jimmy Wales, 2012
2012-01-06: Developing Scenarios for future of fundraising

Passed resolutions 2011

October 2011

2011-10-28: Recognition of Wikimedia Venezuela
2011-10-03: Recognition of Wikimedia Bangladesh
2011-10-03: Donor Privacy Policy Amendment 2011

September 2011

2011-09-12: Recognition of Wikimedia District of Columbia

August 2011

2011-08-03: Board appointments - Community Trustees, 2011
2011-08-03: Recognition of Wikimedia México

July 2011

2011-07-18: Donor privacy policy update 2011
2011-07-18: Advisory Board reappointments

June 2011

2011-06-28: Approval of the 2011-2012 Annual Plan
2011-06-20: Board Visitor - Doron Weber
2011-06-20: Advisory Board - Veronique Kessler
2011-06-20: Advisory Board - Jessamyn West
2011-06-13: Recognition of Wikimedia Chile

May 2011

2011-05-29: Controversial content
2011-05-29: Images of identifiable people
2011-05: Recognition of Wikimedia Canada
2011-05: Board visitors

April 2011

2011-04-08: Resolution on Openness
2011-04-24: Recognition of Wikimedia Macau

March 2011

2011-03-26: Recognition of Wikimedia South Africa

February 2011

2011-02-28: Bylaws amendment - Founder term
2011-02-07: Recognition of Wikimedia España

Passed resolutions 2010

December 2010

2010-12-29: Board appointments December 2010
2010-12-19: Bylaws amendment - appointed terms

October 2010

2010-10-15: Strategy project
2010-10-09: Five-year targets
2010-10-09: Wikimedia fundraising principles
2010-10-09: Trustee terms and evaluation
2010-10-09: Movement Roles October 2010

September 2010

2010-09-08: Advisory Board - Nhlanhla Mabaso

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

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)

Before 2006

Decisions were made by the Board in 2003, 2004, and 2005. However a formal list of resolutions was not kept. For meetings and decisions made after the first two community trustees were elected in mid-2004, see the meeting minutes from 2004-5.

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 abstention counts 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

Vote:Board deliberations (July 2010), Resolution:Consent resolutions (February 2006)
Corporate Actions
How Resolutions Work

Summary of resolutions

For a brief history of WMF governance, including these resolutions through 2012, see History of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Links

Resolutions/Archives failed (only some older failed resolutions are posted, see above; as of 2013 there is no policy about posting unpassed resolutions)