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Wikipedia uses Mediawiki for managing the site. Wikipedia also has hierarchy of volunteers.

Volunteer Role Hierarchy :

Board of Trustees

The Wikimedia Board of Trustees manage the nonprofit and supervise the disposition and solicitation of nonprofit donations.
The Board of Trustees are the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the Wikimedia Foundation bylaws).
The Board has the power to direct the activities of the foundation. It also has the authority to amend the corporate bylaws (article VI).
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_board_manual
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings

Source : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees

Stewards

Stewards are users with complete access to the wiki interface on all Wikimedia wikis, including the ability to change any and all user rights and groups. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards
Connect o Steward talk page or irc channel to discuss issues
Steward Policies http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards_policy

Don't make decisions on user promotions.
Don't promote users on projects with existing bureaucrats
Avoid conflict of interests
Transparency
Check local policies

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_handbook

Bureaucrats

promote other users to administrator or bureaucrat status;
grant and revoke an account's bot status; and
rename user accounts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CRAT
Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard to discuss issues or talk page.

Administrators

are Wikipedia editors who have been trusted with access to restricted technical features ("tools").
administrators can protect and delete pages, and block other editors.
The English Wikipedia has 1,708 administrators as of January 21, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators/Tools
Can edit protected pages
Can view , restore and delete pages or history
Can block IP Addresses, IP Ranges and user accounts.
Grant and remove rollback
Grant account creator permission

Signed Users

Unsigned Users

Important Committees & Formal Teams

Ombudsman Commission

The ombudsman commission is tasked with investigating complaints about violations of the privacy policy (in particular concerning the use of CheckUser tools) on any Wikimedia project for the board of trustees in an official manner.
Source : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission

Founder

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founder

Elections Site

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Elections

Bot

A bot is a robot designed for performing certain repetitive tasks on a Wiki.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot#Java

News

Wiki Toolserver

https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Main_Page

Wikipedia Strategy

Penetration

China and India are major penetration targets of Wikipedia
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Expand_reach_within_large,_well-connected_populations#China_and_India_will_drive_future_global_Internet_growth
Indian Task Force : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Task_Force
Chinese Task Force : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/China_Task_Force

Task Forces

Alliance & Partnerships : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alliances_and_partnerships
Community Health : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health
Expanding Content : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Expanding_content
Local Languages : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_languages
Technology : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology
Strategy and Quality : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_quality
Financial Sustainability : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Financial_sustainability

Regional

East Asia : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/East_Asia

South Asia : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/South_Asia

South- East Asia : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia

Middle East and North Africa [MENA] : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_and_North_Africa

Africa : http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa

Europe : https://sites.google.com/a/skjworld.com/library/home/content-management-system/wikipedia

India

Wikipedia Academy in Banglore
A proposal for wikipedia promotion in India
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Proposal_for_indian_market
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/strategy/b/b7/WMF_Advisory_Board_Prabhala.pdf

Quality

Research and Analysis on Content Topics
Research and Analysis on Quality Topics
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quality

Strategic Plan

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan_2010-2015
Ensure wikimedia runs high quality website and operation.
Grow the contributor community via rewards, affiliation and social relationship tools.
Accelerate growth in high potential countries
Explore possibilities on global growth of mobile internet
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Planning:Process

Presentations

http://leuksman.com/pages/presentations
http://leuksman.com/images/c/c9/Scaling-the-Wiki-21C3-BrionVibber.pdf : Scaling Wikipedia to 1 M Users
http://leuksman.com/images/0/07/Extending_and_Embedding_the_MediaWiki_Framework.pdf
http://leuksman.com/images/b/b6/HD-Brion-File_storage.pdf : Media Wiki File Storage
http://leuksman.com/images/6/62/HD-Brion-State_of_MediaWiki.pdf : State of Media Wiki
http://leuksman.com/images/4/47/BV1_-_MediaWiki_Goodies.pdf : What's cooking in media wiki

Wikipedia Outreach

This area is for people who have never edited wiki before. It acts a knowledge base and point to develop next generation of wikipedia.
Bookshelf project [ Important] : create a core set of public outreach materials designed to recruit new Wikipedia editors by increasing their awareness and interest, fostering excitement, and providing the training tools new editors need to get started. http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project
Best Practices [Important] : collection of articles describing experiences in winning new volunteers, partners, content, and audiences. http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Best_practices

Wikipedia Usablity

The goal of this initiative is to measurably increase the usability of Wikipedia for new contributors by improving the underlying software on the basis of user behavioral studies, thereby reducing barriers to public participation.
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Usability_Initiative
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multimedia:Hub

Wikipedia Stats

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Saurabh Jain - Jan 16, 2010 10:20 AM

Vinneet you can add text from Wikipedia directly also since the text there is using Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. You have to give URL of the page if you copy the text.

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Volunteer Role Hierarchy :

Board of Trustees

The Wikimedia Board of Trustees manage the nonprofit and supervise the disposition and solicitation of nonprofit donations.

The Board of Trustees are the ultimate corporate authority in the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. (article IV, sec. 1 of the Wikimedia Foundation bylaws).

The Board has the power to direct the activities of the foundation. It also has the authority to amend the corporate bylaws (article VI).

Source : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees

Stewards

Bureaucrats

Administrators

Signed Users

Important Committees & Formal Teams

Ombudsman Commission

The ombudsman commission is tasked with investigating complaints about violations of the privacy policy (in particular concerning the use of CheckUser tools) on any Wikimedia project for the board of trustees in an official manner.

Elections Site

Bot

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