Minutes:2026-02-13

Location: Online

Board of Trustees present: Lorenzo Losa (Chair), Kathy Collins (Vice Chair), Raju Narisetti (Chair), Luis Bitencourt-Emilio, Michał Buczyński, Mayree Clark, Victoria Doronina, Maciej Nadzikiewicz, Bobby Shabangu, Christel Steigenberger, Jimmy Wales

Non-Board members present: Bernadette Meehan (Chief Executive Officer), Stephen LaPorte (General Counsel, Secretary), Nadee Gunasena (Chief of Staff & Director of Executive Communications), Chuck Roslof (Principal Legal Counsel), Margo Lee (Deputy Chief of Staff), Kaarel Vaidla (Lead Movement Process Architect), Mayur मयूर (Senior Director, Movement Communications), Jorge Vargas (Senior Director of Community Resources and Partnerships)

Welcome

Lorenzo Losa, Chair, welcomed everyone to the meeting and provided an overview of the agenda. Lorenzo reminded participants that this meeting is outside of the regular meeting cadence and the agenda topics are a continuation from the December 2025 meeting.

Three Pilots Updates

Kaarel Vaidla, Lead Movement Process Architect provided an overview of the most recent work of the Movement Ecosystem pilot. A small focus group has been convened comprising sixteen participants from across the movement who are working on a proposal, which will be completed in February. This will build on the paper that was already published.

Jorge Vargas, Senior Director of Community Resources and Partnerships, provided an overview of the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee, which is a high-level decision-making community-wide committee. In the first year of the pilot, the GRDC will focus on reviewing and consolidating the funding principles that will guide Wikimedia grant-making, developing the first draft of a resource allocation strategy based on the principles and community feedback and designing and implementing a plan to gather input and feedback from stakeholders. The GRDC plans to present a draft version of the Resource Distribution Strategy and strategic goals at Wikimania 2026 after a period of community feedback.

State of the Communities

Victoria Doronina and Maciej Nadzikiewicz, the Community and Affiliate Board Liaisons, with Mayur मयूर, Senior Director, Movement Communications, shared examples of community engagement since August 2025 and plans for future engagement. The Board then broke into two breakout sessions to have smaller conversations focused on the Wikimedia Foundation work with the volunteer community and Foundation’s support of volunteers encountering legal challenges.

The Board met briefly in Executive Session.