User:Roux/Constitution/Governance/WMF


 * 1) The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is an educational charitable body registered in Florida, USA. Its mission is to provide free educational information worldwide, in a variety of languages, through a variety of projects including the flagship English Wikipedia.
 * 2) In terms of day-to-day governance, WMF has no impact on content or policy decisions made on English Wikipedia, apart from:
 * a) Requiring actions (known as office actions) to be taken with regards to on-wiki content due to legal communications with the Foundation
 * b) Requiring actions to be taken with regards to on-wiki content due to communication via the OTRS queue
 * c) Occasional policy decrees, usually aimed at reducing legal liability, such as the policy on Biographies of Living Persons
 * d) Selection of, and amendments to, copyright and privacy policies.