Nice to hear about the excitement.
It looks like reading the policy and checking links in the supplied
document would take around 45 minutes to do thoroughly, plus joining the
meeting with the two WMF teams would take another hour. It is unfortunate
that the invitation is with less than 1 days notice, given a single
one-hour meeting which will be in the middle of the working day for most
volunteers, and as the document is already approved by the board, it seems
that anything a volunteer might say regardless how interesting, will have
no realistic chance of resulting in any changes being agreed.
Could the management responsible for this extremely short timeline and lack
of any previous consultation before approval (the document being made
public for the first time only hours before this email today, and only
after board approval in secret), explain why this is happening this way,
which will put off volunteer comments, and ensure that there will be very
little volunteer feedback?
Please ensure it is understood that a lack of volunteers turning up to the
meeting tomorrow, is a sign of exclusion by the WMF, not agreement, nor a
lack of interest in the issues that may arise from this publication.
Thank you.
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 15:25, Richard Gaines <rgaines(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce the
approval of the Human Rights Policy
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Policy#Frequently_Asked_Questions>
by the Board of Trustees on 8 December 2021. Please read our blog post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/09/what-the-wikimedia-foundations-new-human-rights-policy-means-for-our-movement/>
about the policy and what it means for the Wikimedia Foundation’s work in
the coming years on Diff. We invite you to join representatives of the
Foundation’s Global Advocacy and Human Rights teams here
<http://meet.google.com/wio-vdkw-phd> for a conversation hour tomorrow,
10 December, at 10:00 AM ET (15:00 UTC) to address any immediate concerns,
questions, or suggestions regarding this policy or how it will be
implemented. The session will be recorded for later viewing and you may
submit questions by email to myself (rgaines(a)wikimedia.org) and Ziski
Putz (zputz(a)wikimedia.org) ahead of or following the conversation hour.
Additional conversation hours on this policy will be made available in the
coming weeks.
Best regards,
--
*Ricky Gaines *(he/him/his)
Senior Manager, Advocacy Audiences
Wikimedia Foundation
rgaines(a)wikimedia.org
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