Source: this page describes and references resolutions of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, listed at https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolutions (CC BY-SA 4.0). The resolutions themselves are not migrated. Status: proposal, to be adopted. See the detailed disclaimer.

In simple words: a resolution is a formal decision taken by the board of an organization, written down and published so that everyone can read it. The organization that inspired the WikiDeal policies has published its resolutions for twenty years. This page shows a few examples and explains how WikiDeal intends to grow, step by step, its own culture of healthy and well-documented decisions.

Resolutions

What resolutions are

At the Wikimedia Foundation, resolutions are the formal decisions of the Board of Trustees. They are voted by the board members, pass with a majority of yes votes, and must be made public. The Governance Wiki lists all resolutions approved since 2006: policy adoptions, budget approvals, committee charters, appointments and public position statements. Routine matters are handled through simpler votes; resolutions are reserved for decisions that deserve a public and permanent record.

A few landmark examples

The following resolutions, taken from the official index with their real dates, illustrate what this instrument can carry:

Licensing policy (23 March 2007): required all projects to host only freely licensed content, with narrow, project-specific exemption policies for copyrighted material.
Mission and Vision statements (11 April 2007): adopted the revised mission and vision statements of the Foundation.
Resolution on Openness (8 April 2011): asked the Foundation and its communities to treat openness, and the welcome and retention of new contributors, as a top priority.
Terms of use (5 March 2012): approved updated Terms of Use, created after a wide-ranging community consultation.
New privacy policy and access policy (25 April 2014): approved a new privacy policy and a new access to nonpublic information policy, and revoked the earlier versions.
Approval of a Universal Code of Conduct (9 December 2020): adopted the Universal Code of Conduct as an enforceable policy across all projects and spaces.

Why they are not migrated

These resolutions are historical decisions of another organization, tied to votes that took place in its own board and context. Copying them to WikiDeal would make no sense. They remain available at their source for anyone who wants to study them.

A source of inspiration for WikiDeal

These resolutions should be a key source of inspiration for WikiDeal, and there will be others to learn from. WikiDeal intends to make its own culture emerge, with its own routines and its own rituals, progressively, with the goal of bringing healthy evolutions to life through resolutions.