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On Wikimedia Foundation projects, an Arbitration Committee (sometimes abbreviated as "ArbCom") is a small group of trusted users who serve as a means of dispute resolution that have been initiated on some individual Wikimedia Foundation projects. Rulings, policies and procedures differ between projects depending on local and cultural contexts. According to the Wikimedia Terms of Use, users are not obliged to have a dispute solved by an ArbCom.

The first Wikimedia project to use an arbitration committee was the Swedish Wikipedia.

The English Wikipedia ArbCom was created by Jimmy Wales as an extension of the decision-making power he formerly held as CEO of site-owner Bomis Inc., to take over his role in resolving complex disputes between users.

Arbitration Committees are now used on eleven Wikipedia versions.

Composition

Committees typically have five to fifteen members, who are known as Arbitrators. Terms vary in length, with some as long as three years.

Projects with Arbitration Committees

Wikipedia projects

Project	નામ	Established	E-mail	Private wiki	Notes
cs – ચેક	Arbitrážní výbor	2006	arbcom-cslistswikimediaorg	arbcom-cs.wikipedia.org
de – જર્મન	Schiedsgericht	2007	arbcomde-llistswikimediaorg	arbcom-de.wikipedia.org
en – અંગ્રેજી	Arbitration Committee	2004	arbcom-enwikimediaorg	arbcom-en.wikipedia.org
fa – ફારસી	هیئت نظارت	2010			Limited purview, mainly a supervisory council for complaints against admins
fi – ફિનિશ	Välityslautakunta	2007		arbcom-fi.wikipedia.org
fr – ફ્રેન્ચ	Comité d'arbitrage	2013	car-fr-llistswikimediaorg		No arbitrators elected in last elections. Inactive until next elections.
hu – હંગેરિયન	Wikitanács	2009
nl – ડચ	Arbitragecommissie	2007	arbcom-nllistswikimediaorg	arbcom-nl.wikipedia.org
pl – પોલીશ	Komitet Arbitrażowy	2007
ru – રશિયન	Арбитражный комитет	2005	arbcom-ruwikimediaorg	arbcom-ru.wikipedia.org	New every half-a-year
uk – યુક્રેનિયન	Арбітражний комітет	2009

Projects with inactive, trial or dissolved Arbitration Committees

Wikipedia versions

• અરબી (નિષ્ક્રિય)
• Bulgarian (there is a page on arbitration policy; an ArbCom hasn't been established yet)
• Croatian (inactive)
  • (First version) An ArbCom that was proposed (and discussed) in May 2007, never reached consensus
  • (Second version) Existed from 7 June 2009 to 23 January 2010
• Italian
  • (First version, page deleted) An ArbCom was proposed in 2006, never reached consensus.
  • (Second version) March 2024: Discussion reopened. The it.wiki community approved the charter and the ArbCom election mechanism and dates. The first election session (April 30 through May 27) is on going.
• Spanish (dissolved April 2009)
• Korean (No arbitrators elected since December 2015, arbcom function suspended as of 18 March 2017.)
• Occitan (A setting up was proposed in 2006, an election has been planned in December 2008 but was never realized)
• Portuguese (dissolved January 2012)
• Swedish (inactive)
• Slovenian (deleted, with a redirect to Wikipedija:Mediacija). The page exists only as a framework for eventual setting up. The mediation wasn't needed so far, so the rules for the election process haven't been established yet.
• Thai (term expired in January 2016, no elections held since)

Wikivoyage versions

• સ્પેનિશ વિકિયાત્રા (proposal rejected)

Wikinews versions

• અંગ્રેજી વિકિસમાચાર (established in 2006, inactive since 2021)

આ પણ જુઓ

• Arbitration Committee/Election processes
• Arbitration Committee/Cross-wiki arbitration committee
• wikt:arbitration, wikt:committee

References