Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Chair
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[edit] Who is the chair?
The current Chairman of the Mediation Committee is ^demon.
The role of the chair is one of coordination, facilitation, and administration, rather than oversight or supervision. The role does not involve a hierarchy or authority within the Committee; instead, it provides a recognized spokesperson for the Committee's decisions and a designated individual to maintain Committee processes. Election of the chairperson is held every few months, as needed; frequently, the chair holds his or her position until they choose to step down or become inactive. Member of the committee apply to be chair when an election is called, and candidates are discussed and approved by the Committee as a whole. Election discussions are often held on the Committee's internal mailing list.
Committee tasks are not limited to the chair, however: all mediators participate in committee-related tasks, and decisions are made through consensus. Cases are not currently assigned to mediators by the chair; rather, mediators are independent in their choice of which cases they mediate, and how they conduct their mediations.
The typical tasks of the chair include (these tasks are not limited to the Chair):
- Administration of Wikipedia:Requests for mediation: Accepting and rejecting requests on the Committee's behalf, ensuring Committee policies and procedures are carried out, notifying parties of case status, closing and archiving cases, alerting Committee members of unassigned cases, etc.
- Administration of Wikipedia:Mediation Committee: Ensure proper formatting of new member nominations, maintain archives of past nominations, promote or deny nominations (as the Committee directs), maintain the lists of active and emeritus members.
- Requests for arbitration: Monitor arbitration requests and represent the Mediation Committee's interests where necessary, making referrals of failed mediations, protecting the integrity of the Mediation Committee's proceedings (for example, confidentiality of mediation proceedings).
- Internal: Ensuring that mediators are trained, that the Committee's standards are upheld, maintain the internal mailing list and internal process pages.
- Spokesperson: Act as the official voice of the Committee for formal announcements (for example, the results of mediations, transferal of cases to arbitration, new Committee projects, etc.)
Former chairs have been Essjay, Redwolf24, MacGyverMagic, Jwrosenzweig, Bcorr, Danny, TUF-KAT and Sannse.
