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Board of Trustees

The first announcement of the corporate structure of Wikimedia Foundation is that it is composed of five trustees according to Wikimedia Foundation bylaws, (article IV).

The initial trustees (article IV, sec. 2.2.) include the following individuals, three partners and two (other) Wikipedians:

, Founder of Wikipedia and designated life member
Michael Davis, trustee
, trustee
, trustee, contributing user representative
, trustee, volunteer user representative

The two elected positions, were selected from volunteer and contributing members of Wikimedia (article IV, sec. 2.3). They were elected by held in June 2004. The election was open to all active members of the foundation who had made their first edit at least 90 days ago. The election was to be supervised by two Inspectors of Elections ( and ) who were appointed to determine the election, issue ballots and to certify the results of the elections within thirty days of the completion of elections.

From among these trustees, the following officers (with unspecified roles?) are to be elected by vote of the trustees: Chair, Vice Chair, Executive Secretary, and Treasurer (article V).

The Board of Trustees are the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (article IV, sec. 1). The Board has the power to direct the activities of the foundation. It also has the authority to set membership dues, discipline and suspend members (article III), and to amend the corporate bylaws (article VI).

The Board is also empowered to set up committees to delegate its powers (art. 4 sec. 3). There is currently a proposal for individual Wikimedia Project Governing Committees that delegate the issues relating to issues such as policy and member disputes on each individual Wikimedia project.

Table of contents

1 Discussion

1.1 Early conversations
1.2 Live conversations

Discussion

Wikimedians discussed and continue to discuss and the Board and, in typical fashion, the conversation sprawls over many pages.