Thanks,
P
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Christel
Steigenberger
Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:50
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee - Call for
participation
Hi Peter,
Thank you for coming back to me with this clarifying question and comment.
And sorry for having broken the threading with my previous mail.
The community feedback will be mainly gathered on Meta, but we will try and
reach out to communities on different channels on- and off-wiki to
encourage them to take part in the process. We will also accept comments
that come in through other channels and post them in aggregate form on
Meta, if users are not comfortable going there themselves. While we are
already spending time and energy to prepare for outreach in different
languages, we are also aware of the fact that we cannot do this alone. We
appreciate every bit of help from you and others on the mailing list, to
spread the word that the community comment period will be between August 24
and September 23 and to help us translate the content in more languages
than we alone might be able to do. If you know of good channels to spread
the word, or know about people willing and able to translate the content
into lesser known languages, please let us know!
Within the drafting committee we have people speaking 12 different
languages that I am aware of - and possibly more. Besides English and
Arabic, those are five European, three African and two Indic languages. In
addition we have hired facilitators from the community who speak Arabic,
Georgian, Persian, Russian and Swahili and we will be getting help from the
translator’s pool in our communications department.
Please always feel free to let us know of other ideas to improve the
process for community feedback gathering!
Best regards,
Christel
Christel Steigenberger (she/her)
Trust and Safety Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:44 PM Peter Southwood <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
wrote:
Hi Christel
I am glad to hear that, and I hope that proper consultation will occur
with all potentially affected parties, in places where they can comment and
point out problems on user friendly or at least familiar software, over at
least a reasonably representative range of languages, and with sufficient
time to discuss issues without an excessively tight deadline.
Speaking of which, what is the language spread of the drafting committee?
Cheers,
Peter
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Sent: 31 July 2020 17:48
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee -
Call for participation
Hi Peter,
I hear and understand your worries. I’d like to reassure you that we are
very aware of the fact that no single person and no selected group of
people can speak for the community as a whole. This is one of the big
challenges all such efforts have to tackle. Representation here is not
meant in the sense of legal or political representation. But by speaking
for themselves, we hope that volunteers and staff coming from different
language communities, holding different roles within the movement and
bringing different experiences of engagement with the movement into the
process will at least bring diverse valuable perspectives to the creation
of the draft for the Universal Code of Conduct.
Before they start drafting, they are already now working their way through
a reading kit which will make them familiar with the input from the
movement strategy process as well as prior community consultations our team
has done at regional Wikimedia conferences and Wikimania as well as through
facilitated conversations with 19 different language communities. The data
is published on Meta here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Community_feedbac…
and here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Initial_2020_Cons…
.
This community feedback will inform the drafting process.
This draft will then be brought to the communities for review starting
August 24, as outlined in the timeline here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct#Timeline. We are
still looking for ways to make more people aware of this important part of
the process. Please spread the word of this upcoming community comment
period, to help us get wider participation!
I hope the above makes sense to you, looking forward to your engagement
with the draft end of August and in September,
Christel Steigenberger (she/her)
Trust and Safety Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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