User:Steven Crossin/MedCom/Chair

The current Chair of the Mediation Committee is.

The role of the Chair of the Mediation Committee is not one of leadership or oversight of the other members of the Committee, but rather of co-ordination and representation. Broadly speaking, the Chair maintains the mediation processes (especially requests for mediation) and represents the Committee's interests and consensus where needed (such as determining the consensus of the MedCom with regards to the nominations process). Election of the Chair is held as needed on the Committee's internal mailing list.

The duties of the Chair can also be carried out by other members of the Committee when the Chair is unavailable. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:


 * Requests for mediation: Accepting and rejecting requests on the Committee's behalf, ensuring required details are provided in requests, ensuring Committee policies and procedures are carried out, notifying parties of case status, alerting Committee members of unassigned cases, etc.
 * Wikipedia:Mediation Committee: Ensure proper formatting of new membership nominations, maintain archives of past nominations, promote or deny nominations (as the Committee directs), maintain the lists of active and emeritus members
 * Requests for arbitration: Monitor arbitration requests and represent the Mediation Committee's interests where necessary, making referrals of failed mediations where decided by the Committee as a whole, and protecting the integrity of the Mediation Committee's proceedings (for example, the privileged nature of mediation)
 * Internal: Maintain the internal mailing list and internal process pages
 * As spokesperson: Act as the official voice of the Committee for formal announcements (for example, the results of mediations, transferal of cases to arbitration, new Committee projects, etc.).

The Chair will often initiate discussion on the mailing list in the event of an important or controversial decision, rather than immediately acting as the representative of the Committee as he or she does normally. The Chair does not have any authority to direct or control other members of the Committee, and cases are not assigned to mediators by the Chair. A guide to the procedural side to the role of the Chair exists at Mediation Committee/Chair/Guide for chairman.

The previous Chairs of the Committee, from the one who most recently to least recently served, were: AGK, Xavexgoem, Seddon, Ryan Postlethwaite, WJBscribe, Daniel, ^demon, Essjay, Redwolf24, MacGyverMagic, Jwrosenzweig, Danny, Bcorr, Sannse, and TUF-KAT.