Arbitration Committee/vi

On Wikimedia Foundation projects, an Arbitration Committee (sometimes abbreviated as "ArbCom") is a small group of trusted users who serve as a means of dispute resolution that have been initiated on some individual Wikimedia Foundation projects. Rulings, policies and procedures differ between projects depending on local and cultural contexts. According to the Wikimedia Terms of Use, users are not obliged to have a dispute solved by an ArbCom.

The first Wikimedia project to use an arbitration committee was the Swedish Wikipedia.

The English Wikipedia ArbCom was created by Jimmy Wales as an extension of the decision-making power he formerly held as CEO of site-owner Bomis Inc., to take over his role in resolving complex disputes between users.

Arbitration Committees are now used on 12 Wikipedia versions.

Composition

Committees typically have five to fifteen members, who are known as Arbitrators. Terms vary in length, with some as long as three years.

Projects with Arbitration Committees

Wikipedia projects

Project	Native name	Established	E-mail	Private wiki	Notes
cs – Tiếng Séc	Arbitrážní výbor	năm 2006	arbcom-cslistswikimediaorg	arbcom-cs.wikipedia.org
de – Tiếng Đức	Schiedsgericht	năm 2007	arbcomde-llistswikimediaorg	arbcom-de.wikipedia.org
en – Tiếng Anh	Arbitration Committee	năm 2004	arbcom-enwikimediaorg	arbcom-en.wikipedia.org
fa – Tiếng Ba Tư	هیئت نظارت	năm 2010			Limited purview, mainly a supervisory council for complaints against admins
fi – Tiếng Phần Lan	Välityslautakunta	năm 2007		arbcom-fi.wikipedia.org
hu – Tiếng Hungary	Wikitanács	năm 2009
it – Tiếng Italy	Commissione arbitrale	năm 2024	wikipedia-it-arbcomlistswikimediaorg	wikipedia-it-arbcom.wikimedia.org	Deals with complaints regarding the UCoC enforcement and appeals to block following a community procedure for problematic users (note: this procedure applies also to admins and could lead to deflag by community)
nl – Tiếng Hà Lan	Arbitragecommissie	năm 2007	arbcom-nllistswikimediaorg	arbcom-nl.wikipedia.org
pl – Tiếng Ba Lan	Komitet Arbitrażowy	năm 2007	wikipedia-pl-arbcomlistswikimediaorg
ru – Tiếng Nga	Арбитражный комитет	năm 2005	arbcom-ruwikimediaorg	arbcom-ru.wikipedia.org	New every half-a-year
uk – Tiếng Ukraina	Арбітражний комітет	năm 2009
zh – Tiếng Trung	仲裁委员会/仲裁委員會	năm 2025	wikipedia-zh-arbcomlistswikimediaorg		The idea was rejected for several times, until the recent discussion in 2024 which reached a consensus to establish it, and the first election of its members was held in November 2024

Projects with inactive, trial or dissolved Arbitration Committees

Wikipedia versions

• Arabic (inactive)
• Bulgarian (there is a page on arbitration policy; an ArbCom hasn't been established yet)
• Croatian (inactive)
  • (First version) An ArbCom that was proposed (and discussed) in May 2007, never reached consensus
  • (Second version) Existed from 7 June 2009 to 23 January 2010
• Spanish (dissolved April 2009)
• Korean (No arbitrators elected since December 2015, arbcom function suspended as of 18 March 2017.)
• Occitan (A setting up was proposed in 2006, an election has been planned in December 2008 but was never realized)
• Portuguese (dissolved January 2012)
• Swedish (inactive)
• Slovenian (deleted, with a redirect to Wikipedija:Mediacija). The page exists only as a framework for eventual setting up. The mediation wasn't needed so far, so the rules for the election process haven't been established yet.
• Thai (term expired in January 2016, no elections held since)
• Tiếng Pháp (No arbitrators elected since September 2021)

Wikivoyage versions

• Wikivoyage tiếng Tây Ban Nha (proposal rejected)

Wikinews versions

• Wikinews tiếng Anh (established in 2006, inactive since 2021)

Ghi chú

• Arbitration Committee/Election processes
• Arbitration Committee/Cross-wiki arbitration committee
• wikt:arbitration, wikt:committee