These are all official policies of the Wikimedia Foundation.

These policies or legal guidelines apply to all Wikimedia projects.

• Access to nonpublic personal data policy (adopted April 2014; updated 2018)
  • Underage exemptions (adopted November 2017)
• Access to temporary account IP addresses (adopted March 2023)
• API usage guidelines (adopted August 2024)
• Code of conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces, including events (adopted March 2017; updated 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2023)
• Combating online child exploitation (adopted January 2024; updated 2025)
• Commercial sales and contracts (adopted July 2025)
• Cookie statement (adopted July 2015)
• Data collection guidelines (adopted May 2024)
• Data publication guidelines (adopted August 2023)
• Data retention guidelines (adopted January 2014)
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") policy (posted January 2014)
• Donor privacy policy (adopted October 2007; updated 2021)
  • SMS supplementary terms (adopted August 2024)
• General disclaimer
• Human rights policy (adopted December 2021)
• IP Information Tool (adopted May 2022; updated 2023, and 2024)
• Licensing policy (adopted March 2007)
• Modifying CheckUser logs guidelines (adopted April 2014)
• Office actions policy (adopted February 2016; updated 2024)
  • Procedures (adopted June 2017)
• Privacy policy (adopted April 2005; updated 2006, 2008, 2014, 2018, 2021, and 2025)
  • Non-wiki privacy policy (adopted August 2018)
• Terms of use (adopted 2009; updated 2012, 2014, and 2023)
  • Wikimedia Maps terms of use (adopted December 2016; updated 2021)
  • Wikimedia Phabricator terms of use (adopted September 2014; updated 2014 and 2015)
• Terrorist and violent extremist content procedures and guidelines (adopted June 2022)
• Trademark policy (last revised February 2014)
• Universal code of conduct (adopted December 2020)
  • Enforcement guidelines (adopted March 2023)
• Use of Wikimedia sites for advocacy purposes (adopted February 2026)

These policies apply to Board and staff members and are maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation Board and staff. They usually regulate activities of the whole staff itself in its autonomy, or are logical or necessary consequence of other norms.

• Board of Trustees Candidate Review Process (adopted October 2025)
• Code of conduct policy (adopted October 2007)
  • Board of Trustees (adopted April 2016; updated 2021)
• Conflict of interest policy (adopted September 2006; updated 2016)
• Confidentiality agreement of the Board of Trustees (adopted April 2016)
• Credit card usage policy (adopted February 2008)
• Delegation of authority policy (adopted July 2012; updated 2016 and 2017)
• Duty entertainment guidelines (adopted June 2008)
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) policy (adopted March 2016)
• Gift policy (adopted in 2007; updated 2008, 2016, 2021, and 2025)
• Non-discrimination policy (adopted January 2006; updated 2017)
• Policy and political association guideline (adopted August 2012)
• Staff test account policy (adopted November 2022)
• Staff userrights policy (adopted June 2016; updated 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025)
• Travel and expense policy (adopted September 2022; updated 2025)
• Whistleblower policy (adopted June 2007)

Other documents provide more information on how some Wikimedia Foundation activities are conducted and are usually maintained by the staff who conduct those activities.

• Expense reimbursement guidelines (posted September 2015)
• Feedback privacy statement (adopted October 2011)
• Friendly space policy (adopted January 2012)
• Investment policy (adopted September 2025)
• Legal policies
• Open access policy (adopted March 2015)
• Peering policy (adopted December 2007)
• Purchasing and disbursement process (adopted November 2010)
• Requests for user information procedures and guidelines (adopted April 2014)
• Scholarship travel policy (adopted May 2024; updated 2025)
• Service provider travel guidance (adopted January 2023)
• Visual identity guidelines (adopted January 2006; updated 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2023, and 2025)

• Audit Committee (adopted September 2021)
• Executive Committee (adopted September 2021)
• Governance Committee (adopted September 2021)
• Product & Technology Committee (adopted September 2021)
• Talent & Culture Committee (adopted September 2021)

• Legal documentation
• Resolutions