After a couple of days of discussion, it has been concluded that presently there is a sense to talk just about Dispute resolution committee. Thus, I've made new RfC [1]. Feel free to join discussion and add your ideas there.

[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Dispute_resolution_commi...

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''For the proposal which lead to this one, see [[Requests for comment/Global Arbitration Committee]].''

''Dispute resolution committee'' (DRC) should be the body which would serve as arbitration committee for projects without arbitration committees, not counting large communities which decided not to have their own arbitration committees. DRC should also serve as a body for dispute resolution which involves at least one whole community (or majority of its contributors).

Feel free to [[Talk:Requests for comment/Dispute resolution committee|discuss]] about it, as well as to edit this page by adding your proposals.

== Rationale == During Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk [[stewards]] had meeting. They've concluded that there are more and more issues all around Wikimedia projects in which they have to make urgent decisions, which is according to the [[Steward policy]], but the number of needed decisions is above the comfortable limits. At the other side, as stewards are not able to make any non-urgent decision, conflicts remain unsolved.

Thus, the conclusion is that we need the body which would have mandate to make decisions in conflict resolution, mostly related to the projects which don't have their own arbitration committees or if it is about a dispute which involves at least one whole community (or majority of its contributors).

== Scope == This body would have next responsibilities: * Dispute-resolution for the communities without arbitration committees, not counting large communities which decided not to have their own arbitration committees. * Dispute-resolution which involves one or more communities as whole (or as majority).

== Choosing members == Possible methods for choosing members: * Wikimedia-wide elections. * A group of stewards who are willing to volunteer for this purpose. (This is the suggestion of one of the Board members.) * Appointing the group by some other body. * Wikimedia-wide election for most of the members, and two or three stewards elected from and by the stewards (for fact-finding, etc.) * ...

== Initial set of projects and opting out == * The first task of DRC would be to define affected projects and to suggest it to the Board to approve it. * DRC would be able to reconsider the set. However, any decision which includes or excludes some project from the set affected by DRC should be sanctioned by the Board. Before any decision of that type, DRC would have to raise this issue at the relevant places for particular project and globally.

== Decision-making process == * The second task of DRC would be to gather all positive experiences from the existing arbitration committees and to define its own process of making decisions.

== Other ideas ==

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