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.