Comité d'arbitrage

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

Les comités ont en général de cinq à quinze membres appelés arbitres. La longueur des mandats est variée, certains durant jusqu'à trois ans.

Projets avec les comités d'arbitrage

Projets Wikipédia

Projet	Nom natif	Established	Adresse mail	Wiki privé	Notes
cs – tchèque	Arbitrážní výbor	2006	arbcom-cslistswikimediaorg	arbcom-cs.wikipedia.org
de – allemand	Schiedsgericht	2007	arbcomde-llistswikimediaorg	arbcom-de.wikipedia.org
en – anglais	Arbitration Committee	2004	arbcom-enwikimediaorg	arbcom-en.wikipedia.org
fa – persan	هیئت نظارت	2010			Compétences limitées, principalement un conseil de surveillance pour les plaintes contre les administrateurs.
fi – finnois	Välityslautakunta	2007		arbcom-fi.wikipedia.org
hu – hongrois	Wikitanács	2009
it – italien	Commissione arbitrale	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 – néerlandais	Arbitragecommissie	2007	arbcom-nllistswikimediaorg	arbcom-nl.wikipedia.org
pl – polonais	Komitet Arbitrażowy	2007	wikipedia-pl-arbcomlistswikimediaorg
ru – russe	Арбитражный комитет	2005	arbcom-ruwikimediaorg	arbcom-ru.wikipedia.org	Nouveau tous les six mois
uk – ukrainien	Арбітражний комітет	2009
zh – chinois	仲裁委员会/仲裁委員會	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

Projets avec des comités d'arbitrage inactifs, expérimentaux ou dissous

Versions de Wikipédia

• Arabe (inactif)
• Bulgarian (there is a page on arbitration policy; an ArbCom hasn't been established yet)
• Croate (inactif)
  • (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)
• français (No arbitrators elected since September 2021)

Versions de Wikivoyage

• Wikivoyage en espagnol (proposition rejetée)

Wikinews versions

• Wikinews en anglais (established in 2006, inactive since 2021)

Voir aussi

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