{"id":1746,"date":"2011-06-06T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2011-06-07T02:33:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T06:33:01","slug":"movement-roles-0a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/06\/06\/movement-roles-0a\/","title":{"rendered":"[MR 0a] Formal Wikimedia groups and roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia movement consists primarily of hundreds of thousands of contributors, reusers,\u00a0donors, and other readers who support the movement and the projects each in its own way. \u00a0However the most complex parts of the movement, with their own legal, financial, and bureaucratic issues, are the <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Movement_roles\/Groups#Formal_groups\">incorporated groups<\/a> within the movement &#8212; the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters, each incorporated in its own jurisdiction &#8212; and the governance groups that oversee and inform the work of those groups.<\/p>\n<p>At present, chapters are the only groups formally recognized by the WMF with standard trademark agreements and a license to pursue partnerships within their jurisdiction. \u00a0Another group type &#8211; a <em>partner organization<\/em> without geographic limits &#8211; is being proposed in one of the MR recommendations. \u00a0 \u00a0There are few global governance groups\u00a0at present, only committees of the Foundation and its Board of trustees. \u00a0Two other bodies have often been discussed: \u00a0a community council with representatives from the editing communities of the projects, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/strategy.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:Task_force\/Movement_Roles#Question:_should_we_recommend_establishment_of_a_Chapters_Network_1813\">chapters network<\/a> or organizational council with representatives from all chapters and similar formal organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The initial work of the Movement Roles group has focused on the roles and responsibilities of these formal groups, which have some of the most explicit needs for coordination. \u00a0A related effort is needed to resolve these questions for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/06\/07\/movement-roles-0b\">informal groups<\/a> &#8211; the roles of the more numerous individuals, small groups, and informal organizations that sustain the movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia movement consists primarily of hundreds of thousands of contributors, reusers,\u00a0donors, and other readers who support the movement and the projects each in its own way. \u00a0However the most complex parts of the movement, with their own legal, financial, and bureaucratic issues, are the incorporated groups within the movement &#8212; the Wikimedia Foundation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,211,709],"tags":[6612,34523,27,43372,43373,34521,43374],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-international","category-wikipedia","tag-board","tag-chapters","tag-governance","tag-groups","tag-incorporation","tag-movementroles","tag-partners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-sa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}