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The English Wikipedia Guidance Committee is a group of community members charged with the responsibility of guiding the community to develop the encyclopedia and ultimately toward its destination—to build an encyclopedia freely accessible to every member of the human race.
In particular, the Committee aims to accomplish this through:
- advocacy—advocating for the project by word of mouth and by acting as an ambassador between the community and the public;
- assistance—encouraging non-members of the community to become members, and assisting members of the community to contribute and participate constructively and productively;
- leadership—providing an informal, active, unbureaucratic leadership body that community members can turn to for guidance and for help;
- organisation and coordination—by organising and coordinating the English Wikipedia with other free content projects, both those that are Wikimedia Foundation projects and those that are not, so that the project's mission may be reached as effectively and efficiently as possible;
- representation—representing both members and non-members of the community, and empowering everybody to have a fair and reasonable opportunity to voice their opinions and have them heard; and
- guidance—by listening to, by hearing, by upholding, by supporting the community, the Committee aims to ensure that the English Wikipedia succeeds in its mission to freely bring the sum of human knowledge to every human being.